Hello Class 2 Parents,
We've had a bit of a science focus this week. In our story, the children discovered last week that there were a lot of Nile crocodiles in the Maasai Mara, and that those crocodiles were not sticking to their habitats. They'd also found a lot of eggs, left unattended.
They talked to the Maasai chief they met, and he wondered if they could investigate as they have a lot of expertise in Nile crocodiles. First, the children learnt about the life cycle of a Nile crocodile. They discovered that, normally, female crocodiles guard their nests... so why were all those eggs abandoned? Next, they learnt about crocodile food chains and played a food chain game, with different numbers of crocodiles, hippos, and river grasses, to show what happens when there are too many hippos or too many crocodiles. They decided that the reason the crocodiles are abandoning their habitats is because they've run out of food. The children have yet to decide what to do about this - that's next week's job!
We also, of course, going to see Zog at the theatre today - the children have been talking about it all week! In literacy this week, we read the story of Zog and then the children created their own dragon (we had popcorn dragons, space dragons and horrifying dragons among others) and wrote some non-fiction texts about them. This was their half-termly independent writing task and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all of their different ideas!
Maths:
We have started a whole-class unit on measurement - starting with measuring mass this week. Homework is a little different. Find a recipe to follow, and bake something. Measure the ingredients in grams or, if you don't have scales, in cups Please send me photos of anything you make!
Spellings and Phonics:
The phonics group has been looking at plurals this week. Their spellings are here
The spellings group has been learning to write numbers to 100 in words. Their spellings are here.
I hope you have a lovely weekend!
From Mrs Simpson
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