This week we have begun our London topic. We have thought of lots of interesting questions that we would like to find the answers to. We have read ‘Katie in London’ and ‘A Walk in London’, looking at all the different landmarks in the city. We have been focussing, in particular, on non-fiction writing and we have started to create our own fact files about different London landmarks. We learnt that London was the capital of England and had a go at labelling a map of the British Isles with the different countries and their capital cities.
In maths we have been focussing on working out the amount of tens and ones in a 2-digit number. We have been making 2-digit numbers. We have also practised partitioning numbers into tens and ones using the part-whole model.
Please can you give us some numbers so that we can practise partitioning them?
In science we are finding out about different materials. We are focussing on why certain materials are used for particular objects. We thought about what might happen if some everyday objects were made of different materials; a window made of wool, for example. We had to think of positive and negative points. We looked at a range of objects, decided what they were made from and then thought about why they were made of that material.
In art we have produced some wonderful pictures of the London skyline. We then decided if it was day or night and made the colour of the sky match the time of day.
We look forward to seeing you all at our curriculum talk next Wednesday, where we will give you some more information about the different things we will be covering this term.
Have a lovely weekend
Class 2, Mrs Marsh, Mrs Lucas and Mrs Scott
