Spring 2 

Multicultural Week

To begin our new half term, we spent the entire first week learning about the country India. Throughout the whole week, we completed lots of different activities. 

The first activity we completed was a fact-finder. We had a selection of questions which could only be answered through us reading the information. From the information we learnt many things, including: India is the 6th largest country in the world. It is found in South East Asia. People speak mainly Hindi and English.

  

  

We also created our own paper peacocks through folding. We created peacocks because we discovered that the peacock is the national bird of India.

  

  

The following day we were really lucky to learn an Indian dance from Louise. She began by teaching us key Indian moves such as: the crab, the dove, the swan, the light bulb and the fish. 

  

  

  

  

  

After learning an Indian dance, we then learnt an Indian folk tale called 'The Tiger Child'. After reading the story, we then created a comic strip to tell the story. 

  

  

Our favourite day was Wednesday as we got to make a traditional Indian curry. 

We began by peeling and chopping our onions, potatoes and carrots. 

 

 

 

 

 

  

We then fried the onions in a pan and waited until they were brown. Once they had browned, we added our chopped vegetables and tomatoes. 

 

 

 

After it was cooked, we were SUPER excited to try it!

 

 

Alongside the vegetable curry, we also had a couple of pieces of naanbread which Indians used to scoop up their curry and rice. 

  

We were also very lucky as some of our year group parents kindly gave us lots of Indian materials to look at.

 

 

Diya Lamps. 

In India, Diwali (the festival of light) is celebrated for the New Year. Traditionally, they leave their doors open and light diyalamps to light the way for the goddess of wealth Lakshmi to enter their home. They welcome her because they believe she brings good luck.

 

  

   

 

Spring 1 

Habitats

This half term we have been learning about different habitats that animals can live in and how they are adapted to living there because of special features they have. To conclude our learning in groups we created our own habitat using a shoe box. 

  

  

  

  

  

Different Combinations

As money has been our focus this half term, we have been finding different ways to make a certain amount. In groups we had to find 3 ways to make 10p, 20p and 50p. We used the coins to help us with this. 

  

  

 

Trunk Theatre

This half term we had a visit from the 'Trunk Theatre' who retold us the story of 'The Great Fire of London'. They dressed up in costumes that related to that time and also brought lots of things for us to see. We learnt a new dance and all sang London's Burning too. Some of us even got the chance to take part in a game and the waving of the sea. Afterwards as a whole year group, we then re designed London which was a lot of fun!

  

  

  

 

All in the past.

As part of our English lessons this half term, we have been learning about regular verbs. This means that when they are written in the past tense they end in the suffix 'ed'. Firstly we learnt what a verb was and then the difference between the present and past tense. Once we had completed all of this we were then given a word. Someone of us were given a verb in the present tense such as jump, skip, scamper and some of us were given it in the past tense jumped, skipped, scampered. We had to go around the classroom and find our matching partner. 

  

  

  

 

 

Adding Amounts

This half term we have been learning about money. We firstly identified all of the different coins and notes and identified there values. We then added coins together and then we added amounts. We used the tens and ones to help us with this. 

  

  

  

 

 

Throwing 

As part of our PE coaching sessions this half term, we have been developing in our skills to throw accurately. 

  

  

Baking Bread 

To begin our new topic ' The Great Fire of London' we baked some bread as we discovered that the fire started because the baker at the time Thomas Farriner had left an ember burning. 

    

    

Autumn  Term 

Christmas! 

We had a fantastic last couple of weeks before the holidays! We all worked really hard on our concert, we all loved wearing our Christmas jumper and to end the term had a brilliant party and toy day!

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Reindeers

For our Christmas Fayre craft, we have created reindeers. We began by painting lots of toilet rolls brown to reflect their head and body. We then created the faces of the reindeers by adding googly eyes, a red nose and brown pipe cleaners for ears. 

Thank you to everyone who purchased one of our lovely reindeers this year!

  

  

 

Adding 

This week we have been using counters to help us to solve addition and subtraction equations using the part part whole method. We learnt how to partition the second number to help us get to 20 and then added the remaining part to find the sum.

  

  

  

 

Germs 

Today we looked at the importance of washing our hands. In class we have carried out an investigation which involved us having dirt hands, hands that are only washed with water and hands that have been washed with soap. We began by passing a piece of bread around the circle when our hands are were covered in germs from the floor and our shoes. Then after some of us washed our hands with water, we then touched another bread roll. Finally some of us then touched another bread roll once our hands had been washed with soap. We are watching the bread daily to see which has the most mould on it.

   

        

   

Healthy or Unhealthy 

In Science we have been exploring a healthy diet. As well as creating a healthy eating plate, as the beginning of our lesson we had to decide in groups which foods were healthy and which were unhealthy - even if they are very tasty!

  

  

 

PE

In PE we have been working really hard with Positive Impact to develop our PE skills. This week we have been focusing on our throwing and jumping skills.  We had 3 activities in throwing. We had to throw accurately into the domes, another activity was to throw them on to the rocket and the final one was to throw them into the small hoops. 

 

 

 

Greater than or Less Than. 

Today in Maths we have been comparing numbers. We have been using the < > symbols to compare numbers. We began by looking at the 2-digit number to help us. If the tens numbers were the same on both numbers, then we looked at the ones. However if they were the same then we added the = symbol as we have learnt that this means the same as. 

 

 

How do we survive?

In Science we have been busy learning about what we need to survive. We began our lesson by having a selection of images. As a group we had to decide whether it was something that we needed to survive or whether it was something nice to have. 

 

 

Art 

At the beginning of Year 2 one of our very first lessons was to develop in our understanding of primary and secondary colours. We began by colouring half of our page with the primary colours which are red, yellow and blue. The other half, we mixed red and yellow together to create orange, blue and red together to create purple and blue and yellow together to create green.