Foundation - Year 2
From the strange and mysterious land of the little people…
We spent the first half of term studying under our major theme of Our Senses. Lots of activities and discussions provoked much learning.Our second theme was put on hold until term 2 as there were quite a lot of changes in the last half of the term that proved to be very time consuming. For the last 3 weeks we have continued to work hard without a theme, but with work connected in different way such as activities based on a picture book, around direct speech, scaffolding recount writing to aid more comprehensive texts to be written…and much more. In one of the included images you can see our speech bubble activity. Once the children have the idea that only spoken words are in the speech bubbles we can introduce direct speech in the body of texts. So exciting!
You can also see an example of the scaffolding I have introduced for our recount writing. First we have our Big Talk about the weekend, then we put one or two words next to each question word, and finally we get out our writing books and write our recounts. It is working very well. One of my students was heard to say, “But I’m writing too much! Look at all of those words Mrs Hilder. Oh my goodness!” They surprised themselves I think.
You will see an image showing a table sorting ‘Diggers’ into the catagories of Old and New. This History activity was related to the Design and Technology unit and based on the picture book, Better Buy a Bigger Digger! I have included a photo of Mr O’Neill’s Vinny Vocab board also just to highlight the ease of using the VCOP Gang across any subject area.
We have covered many areas of Maths this term. Two of those were analogue time and two dimensional shapes. You can see the shape monster that we made. Each child had to choose a shape that they did not know the name of, trace, cut and decorate for display.
I will finish with a learning experience designed to show the students how germs react to good hand washing techniques. Or course it is technically incorret but a great way of getting the children to remember how important it is to keep germs at bay.
Water sprinkled with pepper. Hand soap on finger then dipped into water.
Thanks for all the support you have once again shown your children and staff in our classroom. Best of luck for the upcoming holidays. My family and I have many home based plans for this holidays but my favourites are; daily golf skills, bread making and gardening. I hope you have some great plans too.