This week the children were set the challenge of building their own Anderson Shelter out of cardboard boxes. Their team work was put to the test but they all managed to construct an area of safety ready for the siren. After hiding away in their shelters, the children tried spam sandwiches and condensed milk.
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Year 2 have enjoyed using concrete apparatus and creating human number lines when focusing on addition and subtraction over the past few weeks. Today we played detective and read word problems, deciding whether the question was asking you to + or -.
Year 2 went on a ‘word’ scavenger hunt last week. We enjoyed finding words and deciding if they were: adjectives, nouns or verbs.
The School Nurses visited Reception today. We watched a DVD and learned about germs! We practised washing our hands and did some experiments to learn how germs can quickly spread. The balloon popped (sneeze) and the glittery stars (germs) flew everywhere!
We read the story ‘Enemy Pie’ by Derek Munson. The children then had to sort ‘friend’ words, such as sharing, caring, kind and ‘enemy’ words such as mean, bully, hurtful.
The children had fun playing with Jelly Babies. They had to demonstrate how good friends can play nicely together.
We’ve had a busy half term in forest school! Children have created homes for dinosaurs, made journey sticks, looked for mini beasts, picked blackberries, had a fire, and even made their own blackberry drink… which was delicious!
In science the children have been naming parts of a stegosaurus. They used their phonetic knowledge to label the dinosaur.
Over the last couple of weeks Year 1 children have been looking at addition, subtraction, doubling and estimating. We have used lots of practical resources to engage the children in their learning.
Year 1 have been getting creative! Children have been learning to recite poems and make puppets. They also learnt about fossils and the great fossil hunter Mary Anning.