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.
