Class 2
30.09.22 Week in Review
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Well, there goes September!
It has flown by and I must report that the class are becoming great role models in Key Stage One!
This week, we have found out that Shackleton encountered some trouble in Antarctica and enjoyed doing some drama to act out some of the tasks the crew had to do to move through the Weddell Sea! The class also wrote amazing diary entries from the perspective of Shackleton himself!
During maths, the class had a go at making fact families and explored how numbers can create common patterns. Keep practising those number bonds!
Today, we joined the NFU Harvest Live 2022 online lesson and came away with lots of new knowledge about farming and harvesting and enjoyed learning about what part of plants different foods come from! Thank you to the NFU for another super Harvest event!
In our outdoor learning afternoon this week, we read a lovely story about a lady who really wants to bake an apple cake. We are so lucky at Netherthong as we have our own apples growing on the trees. We used some of the windfall apples to make interesting feeders for the birds. There were some that looked like aliens and some were like kebabs! The birds are very lucky as the apples taste delicious!
23.9.22 Week in Review
admin on: Class 2
Good afternoon everyone,
Another brilliant week has come to a close here in class two and I must pass on how well the group are settling into year two. Well done everyone!
We have become number bonds experts during maths this week and can recall handy number facts quickly and accurately!
In English, the class have worked hard on describing Shackleton's famous boat - The Endurance!
You should see the Moana dance that we are working on during dance lessons! It is going to be amazing when we bring it all together. Today, the class wowed me with their football skills. The passing on show was superb and they were excellent at passing under pressure too! Very impressive!
Outdoor Learning was all about apples this week. The blossom that we saw in Spring has grown into beautiful red apples which are ripe and ready for harvesting. We collected the windfall apples from the grass and found lots of interesting things to do with them in our wild area. We made apple cakes, animal habitats, rolled them down the slope and made apple prints and bird feeders. At snack time we tried the fresh apples that we picked from the tree. They were delicious! It was extra special for class 2 as they actually planted the apple tree when they were in Reception class.
16.09.22 A Week In Review
admin on: Class 2
Good afternoon everyone,
This week here in class two, we have been getting stuck into our explorers topic! Ernest Shackleton has been a figure that we are learning about and his 1914 Antarctic expedition. The class have put their wordsmith skills to the test and created adverts for people to join them on an Antarctic adventure. I must say, the weather didn't sound too appealing!
During maths this week, the class have been using money. They have added money together to find totals and used coins to create amounts.
What a great morning we had back in the wild area this week. The sun was shining and we spotted lots of unusually coloured ladybirds and rescued some enormous caterpillars! We noticed that some leaves are beginning to change colour and fall from the trees and enjoyed getting creative with blackberries and acorns in our mud kitchen.
9.9.22 Welcome to Year 2!
admin on: Class 2
Good afternoon all,
We have all had a brilliant first week here in class two!
The children have loved starting off our explorers topic by singing sea shanties in music and looking at Christopher Columbus in history!
During our PE lessons, the class have enjoyed some football skills and getting active in dance too!
During science this week, the class got out and about and explored the school ground hunting for different types of plants and worked brilliantly together!
Thanks for reading and have a brilliant weekend!
Mr. H.
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15.7.22 Week in Review
admin on: Class 2
We went to Magna for our school trip and we started with a workshop about night and day. Then, we went to the fire pavilion and saw this cool fire tornado, the steam engine and an electron microscope.
We had our packed lunches in the great hall.
Next, we headed to the water pavilion and there was some floating balls suspended by air! In the splash area, there were lots of canal locks to change the water levels. It was really fun! We saw a frozen handrail and we held onto it! Brrrr! There was a special machine that you could stand on and it showed you how many litres of water you had in your body!
At the air pavilion, we saw a mini tornado that you could make bigger and change with your breath. We saw some pinball balls that go down the tornado hole. We used air cannons to blow powerful breezes into our faces! We had fun in the wind tunnel! When the fans started blowing the air pushed around in all directions. Outside the pavilion, there was an amazing air pump that when pushed, it created steam rings in the air. There was also some air pianos that you could play and create tunes.
Lastly, in the earth pavilion there was some diggers that we had to control using some instructions on the left and right sides and when we moved the joysticks the digger did what the instructions said it would do. Down in earth, the was an eye to look through and we could see lots of critters crawling! There was lots of passageways to explore and a few confusing mirrors around too! In a glass rest hut, the was Bob the builder singing his famous tune!
We also enjoyed our coach ride there and back and all had a lovely scientific adventure! Goodbye readers! (by class two)
I hope you have a good weekend!
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