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 5
This week in English, we continued writing our Bog Baby habitat instructions and edited where necessary, adding to our sentences if needed. We also this week excitingly have designed our own Bog Baby creature, naming it and giving it their own personality. We wrote a character description on it, including adverbs and expanded noun phrases as well as ensuring to remember we include a capital letter for their name!
In Maths, we looked at comparing and ordering numbers, using the 'crocodile' symbols to show greater than and less than. We made some sentences ourself and chose which symbol we needed to use. We also looked at 1 more and 1 less on larger numbers, using base 10 and number lines to help us work it out.
In History this week, we learnt about what a timeline was and began to input important dates on Neil Armstrong and Mae Jemison onto our own timeline. We focused on looking at the years and how we can look at these to help understand what order they go in. We learnt that Mae Jemison was born in the same year that Neil Armstrong first flew a plane!
In Art this week, we really started to look at what we could see on our water colour painting and have now started to create something our of it. Using other art materials like ink pens, oil pastels, crayons, pencils and collaging, we added to our painting and developed it further! What can you see?
This week, we very excitingly had a hedgehog come to visit! We got to see him run around and asked different questions about where he lives, what he eats etc!
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.
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.