Welcome to Chestnut Class
We are back and ready for year 2!
Miss Lloyd is ready and raring, with some exciting new learning planned!
Mrs Truman will be helping us in the mornings with our learning. (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Miss Sherwood will be helping us in the afternoons with specific activities.
Week 3 and 4
Last Thursday we were surprised with a snow morning! We absolutely loved exploring and playing in the snow!
In Science we have been looking at different materials, seeing how their properties determine the shapes that can be made.
Christmas fun! (it's never too early!)
Last week in forest school we made our Christmas decorations for our tree! We then put together our class tree and started to decorate it!
This week we started to decorate the classroom, ready for the Christmas fayre on Friday!
Forest School Week 3
This week we had forest school at school. We made our Christmas decorations, lit our own fires and all had hot chocolate together with the chickens!
Week 2
A fun week had by all, with a first look at our nativity! Very excited!
This week in English we are starting to get ready to write our setting narrative. We have been looking at a WAGOLL example (what a good one looks like), identifying what different structural and language features there are.
In Math's we have been looking a different methods when adding, seeing how many ways you can work out addition sentences.
In PE we are doing gymnastics, and this week we were looking at different balances, thinking about where we could do them! We started off with a 'tension activity', testing out if our partners can hold a strong balance by trying to push their arms down.
Our computing focus this half term is take photos and how to take photos on different medias. This week we played photo bingo where we needed to take different types of pictures. Some of the best were our selfies and action shot pictures!
In Geography this week we learnt about physical features of a place. We added to our maps from last week, where we now have physical and human features in our villages!
In Music this week we have been listening to some of the movements from 'Carnival of the Animals'. We listened to the movement 'fossils' and 'the swan', two very different types of music and we mark made on paper based on the sounds we heard. It was very interesting listening to the different pieces and creating the different marks for each.
This week in DT we explored some of Miss Lloyd's creations of sliders and levers and then created our own as practice for our big project in a few weeks|!
Forest School Week 2!
Week 1 Autumn 2
A great first week back, with an excellent end to it! Looking forward to a jam packed half term with lots of fun and excitement.
In English we started our new book: 'The Night Gardener'. We have shown great interest in the plot and the journey of the story! We wrote predictions and simile poems about what we know so far!
In Maths we have been continuing to look at addition and subtraction but looked at how we can use our number bonds to 10 to help with other addition problems! On Friday we did some problem solving and reasoning!
For our new topic in Geography, we are comparing a village to a city. Before we can compare, we need to understand the features. This week we looked at what human features were and created our own lego maps with some human features on. In our maps we had, houses, shops, parks, airports, factories, farms! Next week we will look at including physical features to our maps! In a few weeks we will be comparing a village and a city in the UK!
In RE we are learning about how Christians feel a sense of belonging within the church so we spoke about how we belong in the class. We spoke about how at school we are a school family and when you go to church you are in a church family. To show this, together we created a lego version of our classroom and put ourselves inside it. We spoke about how even when we leave the classroom we are still part of the family.
In DT we are looking at 'sliders and levers' with the end goal to create our own sliders or lever! Today we explored some sliders and levers in books and looked at the key words- 'slider' 'lever' and 'pivot', understanding what they mean.
Forest School Week 1
An amazing first week! (Miss Lloyd has major FOMO!)
Week 5 and 6
Apologies for missing last week, it has been a jam packed 2 weeks!
Over the past 2 weeks in English, we have finished our circular narratives and have started the next piece of writing. Next week we will be writing a letter to the main character to warn him of the dangers of the river! This week we have been exploring and thinking about the different dangers of each setting , ready for our letter writing.
In Math's we have started to look at addition and subtraction, with the idea of counting on. We are using base 10 and other resources to help!
In Art we joined forces with Willow Class for our wax resist leaf piece after completing our pen leaf pictures last lesson . We collected autumnal leaves which we then drew in crayon. Then we thought carefully about which colour inks we'd need to apply and explored which order would produced the best results. The children created stunning wax resist leaf paintings - Definitely worth a visit to see this in our Art Exhibition next week!
We had our parents and grandparents visit with old toys for our History which was lots of fun and very interesting because we were able to explore all the different types! We were able to ask questions and even play with some!
In our reading we have been exploring all the skills to read. One skill is looking at the types of vocabulary, and to do this we used dictionaries for the first time. The children worked in pairs and got really stuck in!
Week 4
We've had a busy but fun filled week! :)
In English we have continued to write and plan our circular narratives, ensuring to include our grammar and punctuation in the plans! It has been helpful to practice planning and learning how to plan with just words and phrases instead of full sentences.
In Math's we have been continuing to look at place value, understanding the value of each digit. We have looked at the numbers on a number line, understanding where numbers are placed and why.
On Thursday we joined with Willow class to watch a Harvest Assembly LIVE! WE learnt the origins of different ingredients to go in a Caribbean soup. We saw wheat and celery being harvested as well as answering lots of different questions. We wrote and drew pictures on the different ingredients included!
In Art we kept our explorer and collector hats on and drew leaves. We used pens to do this so we took our time and were able to add details to the leaf. This meant we couldn't rub anything out and were able to have lots of tries at it.
Week 3
In English, we began to plan our circular narrative and write an opening to our story. We thought about what grammar and punctuation to include and this into our plans. We are starting to gain an understanding of why we plan before we write and will continue to embed this.
In Math's we have continued to look at tens but are now looking at the "extra bit" in numbers (eg, 23, 45 instead of 20, 40). To show this, we put the numbers into a place value chart, to show the tens and the ones. We used a range of resources to show this.
We have started a new topic in Music and this week we were looking at beats. We learned a song called "Tony's Chestnut" which helped us with understanding the beats. See if you can guess why!
In Art we continued to be explorers but this week we used just our touch! We had a mystery object behind our backs and needed to feel it and draw what we could feel, no looking! This was fun and really got us thinking about textures and shapes of objects.
Week 2
In English we are daily learning new grammar and punctuation techniques, which is helping to broaden our writing! We have learnt expanded noun phrases by including commas and apostrophes to show possession and belonging "Tom's boat was old".
In Math's we have been developing our knowledge of 10, understanding '1 group of 10' or 'a multiple of 10'. One way to understand this was measuring different things in the classroom seeing how many 'multiples of 10' tall they were. This was to help grasp how big a multiple of 10 is.
In Science we were learning about vertebrates and invertebrates, and created our very own. We used pipe cleaners as these helped us to see or not to see the bones in the animals or insects.
In Art, we are looking at how we can make artwork with not just pencils and paints but things collected from anywhere! This week we were explorers and collectors, and collected anything we could find outside, including rubbish found on the floor. The children had creative freedom with what to create! Here are the results! Some found it easier than others!
Week 1
We are back and raring to go, with a full on week of new learning!
In English we started our new book 'A River' and have began different types of writing for it, including a character description and an alliteration poem! We have also been learning some new punctuation and grammar techniques, including , coordinating and subordinating conjunctions (when, because, but) and using an expanding noun phrase with the introduction of a comma.
In our Maths we have been working hard on our problem solving and reasoning. We have been able to practice the skills of "why" and "how". These will be developed everyday in our maths lessons as we practice them further.
We have been introduced to our new topic in History this half term, Toys from the Past. Last week spoke about our toys from home and thought about how we would sort them. We have been able to play in our toy shop role play area, with a variety of modern toys in!
BUT on Wednesday the toy shop had been mysteriously changed!? It was suddenly full of old toys from the past! We had the opportunity to play with these and we compared them to modern toys, think about their looks, size and material.
This week the children had the opportunity to run for the year 2 school councilor! There were some brilliant speeches, with lots of children very passionate about why they wanted to be school councilor!