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 :)
Week 4
A busy and exciting week this week!
In our English this week we began writing and planning our instructions on building a Bog Baby habitat! We first each planned and then wrote what we would need and then the instructions. To plan the instructions part, the class needed to guide and instruct Miss Lloyd on how to make an actual habitat. Any time words (First, next, finally etc) and command words said (put, pour, spread, place etc) were included on our whole class plan. Year 2s were also thinking about what grammar and punctuation they would need in each section.
When we came in Friday morning, a visitor had come by our habitat..... :)
This week in Maths we were focusing on number lines. We were looking at different types of number lines with different number starters and understanding how to know what goes on them. We used number lines 0-10 to help us with other types, for example 20-30 or 60-70. We even began to explore the connections with number lines from 0-100 but counting up in 10s. When we secured this knowledge we were ale to then push ourselves further and find missing numbers on number lines. On Thursday we went outside and used chalk on the playground to make number lines and find missing numbers.
In Computing this week, we were learning about how we group objects into attribute groups. These are ways in which we can group objects to get different data. The class had a variety of objects to put into different attributes and then next week we will create the data for this in out tally charts and pictograms.
In History this week, we learnt about our second significant individual- Mae Jemison. We explored her life and why she wanted to become an astronaut and discovered why she was so important and made a significant change. We learnt that she was the first black woman to go to space who did not give up this dream even though she was told to on multiple occasions. We were able to link this learning to book we had read few times called 'Look Up' where a black little girl called Rocket's dream was to go to space because Mae Jemison had inspired her too. Through this connection, we were able to understand why she made such a big change- inspiring girls and girls of colour to believe they can go to space!
We discussed the main reasons why we thought she wanted to go to space and did a card sort with most likely reasons at the top and less likely at the bottom.
Week 3
This week in English, we spent the week looking at the example instruction text, ready for writing our own instructions. We became wise owls and looked at the different language and structural features. One new language feature learnt by the year 2s this week was contractions- words that use apostrophes to replace missing letters (eg can't). Next week we will be planning and beginning to write our instructions, ensuring that what we have identified this week, is included within our plans.
This week in Maths, we were looking at partitioning numbers with a part whole model and a place value chart. Identifying the tens and the ones and putting them in the correct place. We looked at numbers up to 100, understanding where the numbers go on a 100 square and why. Specifically, some children were focusing on the tens and showing this on a 100 square and through different representations that can be used on the part whole model. We had a go with some problems where children needed to use different parts of their brain to understand and answer it.
This week in Science we were focusing on the material metal, but specially metals that were magnetic. We were exploring what magnets can do and what they can stick to. During this explore opportunity, lots of questions came up because we discovered , they didn't stick to all metals. Why? We discussed that lots of materials can be fake or look like metal, which are painted to look shiny (as we know this is one of the properties of metal) or a different type of metal/material that doesn't have magnetic properties, for example Miss Lloyds rings because they are silver not metal. Using our magnets we made a different games, as we discovered that through other materials magnets will still attract one another.
In History this week, now we know about the big change Neil Armstrong made , we discussed the impact it would've had on people. We thought about what people would've thought about space travel before the moon landing (not very bothered, too scared, too hard etc) and then after. The word 'inspired' came up a lot in our discussions because people were inspired by Neil to want to go to space or even the moon!
In Art, we continued with exploring the different watercolour techniques, and started our main piece. Once it was dry, we looked at it from different angles, looking at what different things we could see within our paintings. Next lesson we will bring these different things to life!
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.