F2—  Young Entomologists and Taxonomists!

We have loved being scientists this week! On Tuesday, we worked with Rick and Kevin from The Notts Wildlife Trust.  We learnt soooo much about invertebrates (creatures without a backbone) when we went on our mini beast hunt on the school meadow. We used nets to  ‘sweep’  for creatures, then we carefully put the creatures in a specimen jar so that we could observe them close-up and count the number of legs they had; we also tried to identify what we had caught. We used all this data to see which creatures were the most popular in our sample; we classified our creatures by ‘Number Of Legs’.  The largest group was the  insects— creatures with 6  legs. Our sample also contained arachnids (spiders—8 legs), a harlequin  ladybird (beetle), an ermine moth, annelids (worms) and arthropods (centipedes and millipedes).  We were very good  at learning all the new words to describe what we found. We put our mini beast knowledge into practice when we used clay to make our own mini beasts - we loved working with clay.

Not only did we hunt mini beasts, but we were on the look out for our very special orchids—the Tway Blade Orchid and the Bee Orchid — we learnt that orchids have a plant cycle of 7 years. We were very lucky to find so many orchids in our meadow. Very importantly, we learnt  that we do not pick our wild flowers!

When we were not being scientists,  we wrote some lovely literacy based on The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, which we have been reading this week. We loved writing in the speech bubbles imagining what  the pesky, cheeky seagulls would say and creating a story board. Miss Frisby made us a secret writing den by putting a blanket over a table and leaving writing equipment in it.

Last week we played lots of parachute games to encourage team work- such as 'cat and mouse', 'the shark game' and 'fruit salad’. We had so much fun. In PE we put our dance skills to the test when we attempted to dance to Zorba the Greek. We also found time this week to go the library (Giraffes), tackle lots of numeracy problems and fit in some playtime! What will we be doing next week?

F1 - We Love the Sunshine!

This week in F1 we have enjoyed being out in the sun. We need to remember to wear our sunhats and play in the shade if we get too hot. We have paddled in the little pool and bathed the babies in the water trough. The outside shed has been transformed Into an ice cream parlour—we loved buying ice creams and ice lollies while we rode the bikes.                                    

Inside we are really enjoying dressing up; the girls are beautiful princesses and Ollie loves dressing as a clown. We are continuing with the story of The Little Mermaid and have done some writing/mark making about Ariel.                                                          

In number we are counting and recognising numbers. We have looked at 5 bricks and we know that however we move them, we still have 5 bricks. We have also been sorting and threading different shapes and colours.

Year 2/2A - Victorian School Rules

This week both year 2 classes have delved into the Victorian world, learning about the characters in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. We have also been learning about some of the rules that children in the Victorian times had to live by - just have a look at these.

How do you think they compare to our school rules?                                                         

Which school rules do you prefer?