Shoo Rayner's visit

The children really enjoyed meeting Shoo and learnt how to draw Super Cat and Bad Dog. Shoo gave step by step instructions on how to draw them which the children followed carefully as they drew. What super artists we have in class 2!

Happy harvest!

The children picked a bumper crop of parsnips to make our carrot and parsnip soup this week. First they counted them and added sets of veg. Then they washed, peeled, chopped and finally ate the soup. They did the washing up too! The children used fruit and veg to print a pattern on their healthy eating place mats.

Fair trade week

Dressed as super heroes the children used fruit and veg to make models. They worked really well together to produce some fantastic pieces.
The following day the children helped to make chocolate milk shake and banana and chocolate smoothie. The milk shake was the popular choice.

World Cup International Day!

We had a really fun day on Thursday to celebrate the beginning of the World Cup. We coloured and made the Brazilian flag, dressed up from countries taking part in the cup, located some of the countries on a globe, had a game of football and did some salsa/samba dancing too!! Thank you all for your kind donations for the Brazilian rainforest.

This week we completed our mini-beast models and they look fantastic! 

More Mini-beast fun!

In the last couple of weeks we have had lots of fun researching and experiencing a range of mini-beast related lessons. We made worms from play-dough and compared their length, created a mini-beast dance in PE and we gave directions to a friend moving on a map that was based on the story 'The hungry caterpillar'. 

In DT we have chosen which mini-beast we would like to make from reclaimed materials and have made a plan with labels. Some of us have started to make our mini-beast too.We will continue with this task next week.

Also this week we watched 'Mary's garden' puppet show and thought carefully about what we might need to set up our class role-play area into a garden centre.

A mini-beast week!

We have had another exciting week in Class 2! 

We coloured, cut out and made mini-beast masks and we played with giant plastic mini-beasts in our pretend indoor garden. 

We went on a mini-beast adventure where we collected mini-beasts and looked at them very closely. We found so many different types of mini-beasts and then we put them all back safely where we had found them. 

On Thursday we found a baby caterpillar on our carpet! We all had a good look at how it moved and then put him back safely on a leaf in our nature reserve. 

We have also been reading 'The hungry caterpillar' and have been writing and re-telling the story.

What a busy week!

Our new topic!

We have been learning about about 'Teeny Tiny Mini-Beasts'. We went on a hunt around the school and we used a mini iPad to take photographs and to zoom in on they mini-beasts. We could see so much detail! Back in class we used magnifiers and the pictures of the mini-beasts to try and draw them. The pictures were great! 

Also this week we have crawled and scurried around to mini-beast music and we programmed our  fantastic Beebots with directional instructions!