Week beginning - Monday 13th June 2022

 Last week in science we were identifying the parts of a plant. The child have been able to recall the names of the parts of a plant well. The children used different materials to represent the different parts of a plant. On completion of their model, the children labelled their creations!

This week the children have been learning about the functions of the parts of a plant, they recorded these in a table. 

We have begun our athletics learning and preparation for sports day. This week the children recalled and added to their knowledge of long jump. We discussed the technique in detail and it was modelled to the children before having a go themselves. The children measured their own jumps using the metre sticks. The children are showing a greater understanding and confidence of measuring length this year. 

Pancake making - Group 2

Our maths learning has been focused around measuring this week (frustratingly Miss Blake forgot to take any pictures earlier this week!). We began by recapping balancing and the children used the pan balance scales and unifix cubes. Year 2 also weighed a variety of objects using a set of weighing scales and recorded these in a table. The following day the children weighed themselves, reading off a set of scales. Finally, the children have been ordering different weights from lightest to heaviest. 

Following on from our work about Significant People, today the children used a variety of sources of information to find out about Ernest Shackleton. Before they started their research, they only knew that Shackleton was a significant person, now, following the research, the children know everything written in black. The children fed back their findings to the working wall.