Children assembled and joined materials to make a Italian/Indian/Chinese/Jamaican restaurant in groups using the art and DT resources. They also organised jobs within their teams and used different learning powers.
Children in Y2 used their 5 senses to describe a range of food from different countries.
Hot Questions:
Children tasted:
Year 2 have started their work on poetry and have been looking at a range of poems to get them started. Here are some of their opinions.
In Y2 the children were plant detectives investigating:
What do plants need to grow?
What type of plants can we eat?
Children used different resources to investigate like:
There was a lot of group discussion and we used our learning powers.
2S had a jam-packed Inspire Workshop. A huge THANK YOU to all parents that came. We had great fun exploring Mathletics, Purple Mash and the Bearwood Blog to support our learning at home and school. Please remember to use your “pack” to help with the homework set on a weekly basis. Again, many thanks Miss Steventon.
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The groups are working very hard and the children are progressing well. Please ensure that you are reading with your children at home and working on their phonics sheet with them. Literacy This week we have created explanations for our inventions- watch out we might be the next Wallace and Grommit! Next week we will be moving onto a new unit- we will be looking at poetry. We have some very exciting news which will be revealed on Monday. Literacy Homework (For literacy children only) What is poetry? What poems do you know? Do you have a favourite poet? Write down your favourite poem so we can share on Monday, if you don’t know any poems have a go at writing your own about something at home.
Numeracy Next week we will be warming out brains up finding out the missing symbols. We will be looking at all four symbols and trying to work out which one it could be. We will then be moving onto 2D and 3D shapes- How many shapes can you name? What are their properties? Numeracy Homework Write and draw 8 different shapes that you see around your house or around the park. Topic |
We are well under way with our new topic ‘Come Dine With Me’. Next week we will be looking at food that restaurants serve and we will be making our own restaurant! You will need all of your creativity power next week!
Please remember that 2S inspire is on Wednesday 18th at 9.00. Please ensure that someone can attend with your child. Thank you
Children made flags of chosen countries that are researching about. In year 2 the children have been researching about different countries, they have made flags based on thier chosen countries, which are –
Jamaica, Italy,India and China. They used non-fiction books and internet to find what the flag looks like? What colours and patterns are on it?
They used collage-tissue paper, felt pens to decorate the flags.
Role play area in year 2 is set up as a restaurant this half term.
Today children took part in different carousel of activities related to our topic.
Activity 1: Children used Atlases,maps and Globes to explore and find different countries.
Activity 2: Children looked at different menus to create a tally chart of their favourite food.
Activity 3:Laptops were used for children to explore powerpoint and to think about why people eat different food.
Activity 4: Children used large world map with a selection of foods, to locate where it came from.
“Come Dine With Me”
What would you like to find out?