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Our topic work this week

This week we have been continuing with our Ice Age topic.

The children have been predicting what might happen to food items when they are heated and cooled.

The children looked at 4 items -
Bread
Chocolate
Water
Jelly.

We will post the results next week!

We have been planning a trip to the North Pole and have used a spider diagram to record what we may need.
Can you think of anything else?

We have also started looking at festivals and celebrations from different religions.
Today we created our own Sukkah, which is a special hut set up outside and used by Jewish people. They remember the time when people were led through the desert by Moses to safety.

Homework Menu week 3 23/11/12

Draw or create your own Sukkah.
Research the equipment used for travelling in the snow.
Work out different ways of making totals, eg: 36p, 45p.
Investigate what happens when certain items are heated or cooled, eg: butter, eggs, juice.

Happy home working!

Music with a difference.

This week we were investigating which instruments made long and short notes.

The children recorded the sounds on an app called Garage Band and I created a QR code so you can hear too!

Can you work out if these are long or short notes?

Scan these codes using an app called RedLaser and it will take you to a link which allows you to play what was recorded.

International Week homework

We have had lots of homework brought in on the international theme this week. Here are some flags that have been created. Can you tell which country they represent?

Pati has created a fact file about the country of Poland, which is where she is from.

Homework Menu 16/11/12

Hi everyone, sorry I didn't get this on our blog at the weekend. Here is the menu.... remember you don't have to do all options, just choose 1!

Create a list of things that we can recycle at home or at school.
Write what activities you can do at certain times of the day.
Choose a different country and write some facts about it.
Keep a diary of what you did at the weekend.
Make a flag for a different country.

Happy home working!

Living and non-living science work

The children have been photographing items around the classroom that are living and non-living. They then sorted the pictures into the 2 groups, wrote the titles for each and their name.

Creative Homework

Last week our homework has been based on fireworks. Here are some creative examples.

International Week 12/11/12

This week has been International Week!
In Year 2 we decided to combine our topic this term with this special week.
Our children have been starting to learn about what it is like at the North Pole and the effects global warming have on our world.

We have decided to try to save our world and tell others about how we can stop global warming.

The children have been describing what they might see at the North Pole.

In pairs, they have used Espresso to find information about Global Warming. The children have also been on a Newsround website that gives lots of interesting facts.

Each child had to create a list with ways in which we could stop global warming.

The children also used an app called Garage Band to record their thoughts about global warming.
Download the app called RedLaser on your phone and then scan the bar-code below to hear what the children said!

We have an ice-cream parlour set up in our role-play area which is linked to our topic this term. Brandon and Ellie-Mai enjoyed playing in it!

Excavation Experience at Lincoln Castle.

20 children were chosen to visit Lincoln Castle for an exciting day!
The castle has been excavating the prison exercise yard and they have found some exciting things!

The archeologists have dug 1 metre down but have got 3 more metres to go.

The children were split into 2 groups. One activity had the chance to dig a skeleton using a trowel and a shovel.

You can see the skeleton's leg starting to show. The children had paintbrushes which they could use to carefully remove the sand.

There was another activity which involved the children digging up a rubbish hole to see what artefacts they could find.

This is what they found!

The other group of children were washing items that had been dug up from the ground. They had to use a toothbrush and carefully remove the mud by brushing downwards. They were not allowed to put the item in the water!

This is how much of the skeleton was dug up at the end!

Here are some items that have been found by archeologists.