Welcome to Chestnut Class
Miss Lloyd & Mrs Truman
I aim to do weekly Friday updates on our learning & all the other fun bits and bobs we get up to during the week! So keep those eyes peeled each Friday!
Miss L :)
Summer 1
Well, we have reached the final term of year 2, let's go out with a blast!
Week 3 & 4
Last week in Geography we learnt about the 'Equator' and why some countries are really hot and some really cold. We looked at different places and their climates and placed them where we though they would go in relation the equator.
In RE we have continued to explore the Torah and with Willow class last week explored some real Torahs and other Jewish items of worship.
We have create dour own class Torah and learnt the story of Moses last week and added this to our Torah. This week we learnt about where the Torah is kept in the synagogue and have created our own in the classroom for a role play area! (watch this space for seeing this in use next week!)
In PE we have be learning about striking and fielding, playing different games. One game was a fielding practice where they were the fielders and Miss Lloyd was striker. Here they were having a team talk on tactics on how they were going to get Miss Lloyd out (and they did!)
In Art, to continue our stick work, we began in pairs to make a tree house which we designed last week. Next week we will be finishing these off!
Week 2
Apologies, failed on the pictures this week! Didn't take many!
In English this week we explored the story further and read a letter from King, persuading us to ban the dark. We will over the next 2 weeks write our own persuasive letter, explaining why we shouldn't ban the dark! We looked at the structural and language features, creating a checklist for our letters.
In Math's we finished our measuring topic, continuing with volume, looking at problem solving questions with the 4 operations (-, +, x , divide). We also, very fittingly on one of the hottest days of the year, looked at how we measure temperature. We learnt that we measure it in degrees Celsius.
In PSHE this week we talked about 'physical touch' and the importance of appropriate touches. We spoke about what types of touches we like and touches we don't. This lesson highlighted that not everyone likes to be touched and that we need to respect that. We started the lesson with a game where we needed to draw on each others backs and guess what they were drawing. We ensured that we asked our partners permission first and discussed 'was this an okay touch for friends to do?.
In RE we continued to look at Torahs and explored further what might be in a Torah. We spoke about how it is the Jewish bible and how Jews believe that Hashem (name for the Jewish god) created the world. With this information we spoke about how we knew the start of the bible was about the creation of the world so the Torah would be too. We created our own large Torah, wring in it our own creation story.
Week 1
A fun filled first week back!
In English we started our new book 'The King who Banned the Dark', we looked at predicting through looking at clues, for example a crown, robe, torch, dark is banned sign etc.
In Maths we continued looking at measures and this week we looked at measuring volume. We learnt the word 'capacity' and looked at different containers to see which one might hold more capacity. We tested this out by putting water in the containers, which at this point we also measured the volume with milliliters.
In PSHE we were learning about different families. We created a 'happy home cake' thinking about what is needed for a happy home. Some we came up with were love, laughter, kindness, respect, manners, helpful etc. We mixed up our cake and will now put it in the 'oven'.
In RE we are looking at the religion Judaism . This week we were focusing on the 'Torah' (the Jewish bible) and learnt about 'Simchat Torah' which is a celebration had once finishing the reading of the Torah. Our 'Jewish friend' Zoe tasked us to make some flags and mini torah for our our own Simchat Torah!
Art- Seed & Roots Playful Making
Take a look at the photo dump below of what we got up to on the last week of school before Easter! It was filled with lots of cooking (Shortbread, Soda Bread, Scotch Eggs & Welsh Cakes) , Easter crafts & hunts, and big picnic to eat our delicious creations! Lots of fun was had!
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Soda Bread
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Our Flags!
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Picnic Time!
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