This week, the children worked together to be able to make some 3D wave art based on their upcoming story “The Further Adventures of The Owl and The Pussycat”.

The children also this week had a go of a novel computing lesson. They were looking at the idea of robotic algorithms. The idea that robots take very specific instructions and any lack of clarity can make them do something unintentional. They then directed myself as the robot and made Mr Arnett navigate around the classroom. After that they had a go themselves and directed each other around to specific spots in the class.

This month, we looked at the lunar space dome that came into school to understand the planets and the stars, we became ACE Scientists by using pipette straws to test the absorbency of materials, we drew our wonderful Saturn V rocket launch in space, made our lunar rovers out of egg boxes and tested them. Finally, closer to this month in March we had some visitors come in to show the children some owls to help them with their cold write.

In January, we managed to do a little more ACE Geography where we looked at a class map of our classroom and navigated around our classroom using it to find some little red bears. Finally, we used a map of the school to spot some landmarks around the site and find some hidden treasure in golden capsules.

This month was our Arts Fortnight, with the theme of Animals and Habitats we went for a Tarzan style jungle flair. The pictures show the progression from making silhouettes, to making our habitat boxes, sketching and collaging our gorillas, making our plasticine animals and of course, our large Kerchak gorilla mural.

This month, we managed to accomplish an array of tasks. Among which were drawing our poppies as part of our Remembrance display in class, using maths manipulatives to understand crossing above and below tens, bringing in our odd socks for Anti-Bullying week, making bug hotels for our habitats topic and finally we used mirrors to understand and draw symmetry in our books.

Hi all, as the blog has not been updated in a while, I am going to back date the photos – so you will still get to see all of the fantastic things the kids have done and can binge it all at once!

In October was our big Geography unit on Kolkata, India. The children were ACE Geographers by finding features on a map and participating in Country of the Month. They were master manipulators in maths by using manipulatives to help their addition and place value. They were expert weavers by sketching and making their Spider Weaver art and then they ended October with a visit from a parent who taught them about Kolkata and brought in some Indian items and food for them to eat.

This week, we were looking at the difference of temperature and weather patterns between India and England – namely looking at the monsoon season. The aim of the lesson was for the children to use graphs to compare data. Now I must admit, as class teacher I thought that this would be a rather difficult task for the children to complete. However, we practiced a bit first and then set the children off. In the end, they were fantastic! They were reading them rather well and were able to spot patterns in the geographical data. I had a proud geography teacher moment.

Good Afternoon Families of 2A!

Happy Friday and its a pleasure to get the first blog post of the year up and running. This last week in science lessons we have been looking at animals and their habitats. Now, while we were looking for minibeasts and their habitats, I couldn’t help but notice some fascinating butterfly chrysalises around the site near our building and I would be remiss not to get the children to hunt them down in one of our afternoons.

So we went on a hunt for these butterfly cocoons and frankly found rather a large amount of them! (Credit to the children). Take a look at the photos and see for yourself.