Autumn 1
Our first week in Year 2!
We started with our expectations and understanding what it looks like to be in Year 2. We discussed our school rules of ready, respectful and safe and what we would need to do to show this.
Art
We then focussed on producing our self portraits for our whole school art project where we explored the artist Quentin Blake. We observed his art work and then had a go at recreating our own pieces using his strategy to create eyes, noses and mouths. We then used the skills to draw our self portrait in the style of Quentin Blake. Take a look at the results!
We have continued our art looking at different materials. The second we have looked at is charcoal. We practiced using the charcoal techniques to create texture and shape. We used our observational drawing to then put our techniques into practice and draw objects around the classroom.
History
In our history we will be exploring Florence Nightingale and her impact on the nursing world. During the first week we explored what we already knew about nursing and what we would see in a hospital today. We had a go at using some equipment and discussing new vocabulary.
The hospitals are hygienic because the cleaners clean them. - Rosie
Equipment is new and clean - Stanley
Nurses look after people who are sick and broken their arm. - Piper
They have lots of equipment to look after people. - Charlie
Florence immesion day
We had a day learning all about Florence and who she is and her impact. We spent the day acting out her role in healthcare and her influence in the Crimean War. We also made our own lamps as we found out Florence used to walk round the hospitals at night and earned the name 'The Lady with the lamp'.
Maths
In our maths we have been exploring place value of number. We have been looking at how many tens and ones are in each number and making this using different manipulatives. We have used place value charts and part-whole models with base 10 to make and partition numbers.
I know that 32 has 3 tens and 2 ones. - Piper
74 has 7 lots of 10 and 4 ones. - Isaac
The tens are on the left and the ones are on the right. - Henry
56 is bigger that 23 because it has 5 tens and 23 has 2 tens. - Rosie
