Recently in Numeracy G2 have been completing some tricky challenges! Today’s challenge was a puzzle involving time. We had to find the quickest route for Amy’s mum to drop Amy’s friends home after a party. We then had to explain to our groups which route we had found to be the quickest. Why don’t you have a go yourself? Just click on the link below.
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Today in Key Stage 2 we had a visit from an Explorer Dome which was a blow up planetarium! It was amazing! We had to crawl through a tunnel to get into the dome but when we were inside and our eyes adjusted to the light we saw amazing pictures of our solar system! We learned about the planets, the stars and about the milky way. It was absolutely incredible! Lots of us really enjoyed it when they showed how it appears the stars move at night time (although it made some of us feel a bit giddy!) We’re really excited about our new topic ‘Infinity and Beyond’. Keep checking back to hear about the things we learn during this topic!
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Today we had our hat fashion show, everyone has worked so hard on their Olympic hats! It was great to see so many parents watching! Sadly the large spotlight has meant that the photos didn’t come out well at all so…tomorrow we’ll take some photos of you in your hats to post on here…watch this space!
Well done to the children who were golden this half term! No warnings for half a term! Well done!
Hi G2!
Here are some useful links to click on to help you with your research for your Olympic report.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/greece/sports.htm
http://www.london2012.com/games/olympic-sports/index.php
http://www.london2012.com/games/
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0771580.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/the_olympic_games/
Our new topic is ‘Sewing for Gold’. We’ve been set the challenge of designing and making hats that could be worn to the opening ceremony at the London 2012 Olympics. We’re currently researching hats and spent some time this afternoon looking at different hat types. We looked at the fabrics they were made from as well as details and design. We then spent some time sketching them. We’re VERY excited about the next stage…designing our own hats!
Every few weeks in G2, we do something called ‘Big Write’. We really enjoy doing big write, we have a literacy challenge each time sometimes we write things that are ‘hot’ (which means we’ve been learning about that text type recently) and sometimes we write things that are ‘cold’ (things that we haven’t learnt about for a while). During Big Write Mrs. Pallot puts calm music on, we turn out the lights and we have a candle flickering on the board. We use special pens and have special books to write in. We really enjoy big write as it’s a chance to show off our literacy skills!
Look at all these stats about our blog!
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,200 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
Have a look at L3 having a go at following our instructions!
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In G2 for the past 2 weeks we have been thinking about instructional writing. We thought it would be fun to write instructions of how to make a playdough model for L3 to follow (pictures to follow).
We even made the playdough ourselves (which was easy peasy!) – Why not have a go at home?
Playdough
1 cup of salt
2 cups of water
2 tbsp cream of tartar
food colouring
1/2 – 1 cup of water
Method
Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
Add the food colouring to the water.
Slowly add the water to the dry ingredients until a soft ball is formed
Knead for a few minutes
Voila! Playdough!
