In Year 2 we have been enjoying our Superhero topic. We have been busy designing our own masks by carefully thinking about what super powers we may have and representing those in our designs. We got out lots of craft and art materials to make our masks, which we loved! We also designed our own Superhero logs and used the technique of relief printing to make amazing capes.
We have also been learning about real life Superheroes such as Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi and we even got to meet a real solider who told us all about his work during his time in the army and about the peace keeping missions he went on. We have thought a lot about the Key Workers and how they have supported our community during this pandemic. We also have been thinking about how we can support and help people through the Christian value of compassion that we have been studying this half term.
We have also been busy learning about coding through using algorithms. We made our own maps in maths using lots of directional and positional language and then were able to incorporate this learning with our ICT lessons by using the BeeBots – it was a fun and engaging challenge to move the BeeBots around our maps. We have also been using a Scratch program to make some super interactive name logos!
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Our topic this half term is China. In Year 2 we have learnt all about the Great Wall of China. We found out lots of interesting facts and then we worked in teams to build our own Great Wall. At the end of the lesson we joined the walls together to make one very long wall! We also loved learning about the discovery of The Terracotta Army. During an art project we made careful observations of the soldiers and then modelled them using terracotta clay. We added features to them by making marks in the clay with different objects.
We loved exploring our local environment by looking at maps and going out for a treasure hunt to find some key geographical features. We also made our own maps of China which included key geographical features such as the Great Wall of China, mountains, cities, forest and rivers.
We have all loved learning the Stickman story by Julia Donaldson. We have become story tellers and can retell the story with actions. We went on a story trail walk and searched for Stickman clues. We stopped along the way and retold the story. We also collected lots of sticks so that we could make our own Stickman. We all agreed it was great to be out in nature. We made some Stick people from the sticks we collected on our story trail. This week we will be describing Stick man using fantastic adjectives in our English work.
