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!
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Week 5
This week in English, we finished planning and writing our letters to the king, choosing wisely which reasons to present to him! We worked extra hard to ensure our sentences were as interesting as possible, with the year 2s including a variety of conjunctions, commas in a list, similes etc, as well as all of us ensuring to use a variety of sentence types, including a question and exclamation sentence.
We then put our letters into envelopes with Kings address on and will send them off to him, hoping for a reply stating that he has changed his mind on the ban!
In Maths, we have really got stuck in with our dividing, with this week practicing the sharing method. We used plates to share out 'sweets' equally and then applied this to written methods by drawing the groups ('plates') and sharing out the amounts. We then had a go with trying both the grouping and sharing method for the same questions to practice working them out differently, as well as looking at the number line method!
To continue our learning on the continents of the world in Geography (which we are loving by the way!), we this week focused on the maps and location of each continent, thinking about their sizes etc. Many children have done an excellent job of finding out at home which continents family and friends have been to (please do keep all these coming!), so we have created pins to mark on the map which continents and countries we have all been to.
We also learnt about the Equator line, understanding that any continent near the Equator meant it was a hot climate and further away from it it was a cold climate. We made a large world map on the roundhouse and had a go at placing on the map a variety of hot and cold climate places based on the Equator line.
In Art this week, we have taken our 2D bird drawing knowledge to 3D making! Next week we will be creating our own bird sculptures so this week had a go at practicing some of the techniques to ensure out birds have full detail. We had a go at doing some paper rubbings, to add detail and textures, as well as different ways to manipulate paper, for example, cutting, sticking, scrunching and tearing.
Week 4
Busy busy week, with lots of new learning!
In English this week, we began to plan and started to write our letters to the king. We set out which reasons we wanted use on why the dark shouldn't be banned, setting out the key points for each, thinking about our persuasive language!
In Maths we began to look at dividing sentences and what it means to divide. We looked at the grouping method, dividing by putting in to groups of.....? For example, 10 divided by 2, we would put the 10 counters into groups of 2. How many groups do we have? We used lots of practical resources to help us with this as well as drawing it out too.
In our Science we have been looking at planting and how things grow. This week we had a go at planting some potatoes, to hopefully grow some potato plants. We last week planned out how we would need to grow them, ensuring they were chitted first (begin to start sprouting roots) and then plant them into soil. Luckily the potatoes we planted were already chitted but we prepped for the process the week before, incase we needed to chit them. We would place them on the windowsill in an egg box, absorbing water slowly through a cotton pad.
We watched a timelapse of a potato plant growing over 100 days, observing that the potatoes would grow from the roots under the soil instead of from the leaves above.
In Geography we have now moved on from the UK and are going bigger! We started this week by looking at the whole world! We learnt the names of the 7 continents and viewed them in an atlas! We had a big class discussion on which continents we may have been too, identifying some members of our class who have family in other continents! We looked at the continent we live in- Europe and what other countries we share the continent with! We plan on having a large map with pins on showing which continents we might have been too!
Bunny Run!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.