Welcome to Chestnut Class!
Miss Lloyd & Mrs Jones
I am so excited to get started and stuck in with lots of new learning, develop new skills and work with a variety of new children! Chestnut will have many opportunities for new friendship building, teamwork, independent opportunities and sharing their voice! So let's have an incredible year together! :)
Website will be updated weekly, every Friday, with pictures of our learning and any other exciting stuff we get up to!
Please Note: I will be deleting all updates every 2 weeks. This is to help ensure that accessing the website isn't too slow due to the amount of photos uploaded. So make sure you've caught up each week :)
Learning Conversations:
For the rest of the half term, instead of a learning conversation, spend this time with your child practicing their lines for the nativity :)
Character speakers- ideally these need to be learnt off by heart
Narrators- these don't need to be learnt, they will have them to read, but practicing so they get familiar with what their lines are will still be helpful.
Thank you! :)
Week 3
Another busy and jam packed week, with Nativity rehearsals fully underway!
In English this week we took a pause on our story- 'The Night Gardener', due to some children doing some reading question papers, so focused on sentence writing practice in lots of different fun ways! We wrote some silly sentences, story sentences and were even sentence detectives, spotting any mistakes in sentences!
In Maths we have been looking at part whole models and number lines to help us to add and subtract. The part whole model has helped us to see in subtracting number sentences we start with the whole and then subtract a part.
In Science we were thinking about our different body parts and were focusing on our senses. Particularly our sense of smell. We were blindfolded and had to smell different things guessing what each one was! We described how each one smelt!
In Geography this week, we were looking at maps of Edinburgh as this will be our city that we will look at. We looked on google maps at the satellite view, seeing if we could see more human features (lots of buildings) or physical features (lots of green). We noticed that there were more human features. When we looked at Harting's satellite view, there were more physical features. We then explored a basic map of Edinburgh and labeled the human and physical features. We noticed some big landmarks like Edinburgh castle, Arthur's Seat and the Royal Mile. We will learn more on these next week!
In PSHE this week our starter activity was to make a robot using our bodies in groups. The aim of this activity was so the children felt like they were part of a team and contributing to the robot whether it was something small or big!
In DT this week, we were practicing our cutting skills, thinking about the different techniques for cutting depending on the object. We had a go at cutting an orange using the bridge technique and the grab. The orange slices we cut we will then be using for a Christmas decoration craft in a few weeks!
Snow!
Week 2
Another packed week of learning! This week we have begun practicing for our Nativity (*squeals in excitement*) so more information on that will come soon!
This week in English were revealed the our story for this half term- 'The Night Gardner'. We looked at key vocabulary from the story and came up with some actions for each word. Some of the words include- silent, shadow, discovered, masterpiece, dashed and sculpture. We wrote some vocabulary sentences, with the year 2s including some new learnt grammar- Adverbs (ly). We also then used some of these words to write a short poem about the story. Year 2s included similes.
Some of our actions for the vocabulary!
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Some of our actions for the vocabulary!
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Some of our actions for the vocabulary!
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Some of our actions for the vocabulary!
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Some of our actions for the vocabulary!
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In Maths this week we have been continuing with addition and looking at using number sentences to write our number problems when adding more. We have practiced the skill of being able to count on from a number when trying to add more. The year 2s have been looking at related facts when it comes to adding using basic number sentences to work our larger number sentences. For example we know that 2+2=4 so 20+20=40.
This week in Geography, we looked at physical features of a place. We understood that physical features and things from the environment/ made by nature. We came up with, beaches, mountains, trees, valleys, forest etc. We then added to our villages from last week, with only human features on them, now including all the physical features and labeling them.
This week in Computing we were using cameras to practice taking photos as our topic this half term is all on photography. We learnt the correct way to take photos and hold a camera, and learnt the importance of asking people if they would like their photos taken. We then in groups took different types of photos. We needed to take a picture of something far away, something close up, a person, an action shot, a selfie and a building. Here are some of the best photos!
Children In Need- Pajama Day!
Knowledge Organisers
Please find below the knowledge organisers linked to your child's learning this term. This document provides details of the key knowledge the children are expected to learn across the sequence of learning. We would encourage parents and carers to look at these with their children and regularly spend time discussing the facts on the sheets.