World Cup

To close our topic work we are linking it to the world cup. Each group has chosen a team and made a flag and a football strip for their team. The teams are going to design healthy meals and some exercises and we will do the workouts in our teams next week.

Organs

We have been learning about the different organs in our body. To show knowledge and understanding of where the organs are in the body, the challenge was to use information books to find diagrams of the human body that show where each organ is, and use these to help create our own diagrams.

Relay race

We worked with the ladybirds to practise our relay race for Sports Day. The children worked well together and followed all the instructions exactly.

Problem Solving

We are learning to draw pictures to help us solve a problem. The problem was to find out how many combinations of 2 cubes we could make from 4 different coloured cubes.

We worked out that it was best to do it in organised way and do all the combinations with blue first, then all the combinations with green first and so on.

 

Lungs

For our topic we are learning about the different organs in our body. To show what we have learned about lungs we worked in groups to make a poster that had to give at least 3 facts about the lungs.

Capacity and volume

In maths we are learning about capacity and volume. We worked together to order different containers from low capacity to high capacity. We have also been estimating how many cups of water, or how many cubes it will take to fill different containers.

We had lots of estimates to guess how many cups of
 water it would take to fill the tub. One person estimated
20 cups and guessed correctly!

We estimated how many cups of water it would take to fill
 the basin. It took 45 cups and the closest guess
was 50 cups - not far off!

We estimated how many cups of water it would take
to fill the jug. It took 5 cups and the closest guess was 7.

Bring Me

In maths this week we have been doing repeated addition. We played 'bring me' to help us collect groups of equal amounts of objects and added them together to make a total.

3 lots of 5 = 15

4 lots of 10 = 40

7 lots of 2 = 14

Painting Fun

After making our rockets we painted them. Those who were waiting to paint were able to choose to do an activity in either of the primary 2 classrooms, or in the shared area. It was good to get to work with the ladybirds and to have a go at some different activities.

Painting table

Looking for crystals underwater 

Jumping counters

Enjoying the big books

Construction area

Counting in tens

Problem solving

Playing with the dolls house

3D objects hunt

We worked in groups to go on a 3D object hunt around the school. Some of the objects were more tricky than others to find. One of the items the cylinder group found was the battery recycling tube, the spheres found a ball of wool, the cubes found a dice, the cuboids found the soap dispenser, the cones found some outdoor PE cones and the pyramids found the top of a pencil which is quite like a pyramid!

Shape pictures

We are learning about shape in maths. We worked in groups to create different pictures using shapes and we had to explain to the rest of the class what shapes we used, using the right vocabulary.

A robot

A house 

A tree 

A car - can you spot the driver?

A clown

Challenge time

In our classroom, we have challenges set up around the room at different learning areas. The children work at these areas when they have finished an activity. One challenge at the construction area was to build a stable for the nativity animals and a challenge at the writing table was to write a story book. The children work at these areas very well and use what we have been learning in class to help them complete the challenge. I hope you like these photos of the challenges in action, and some completed challenges.