Empty classroom day!

 Year 2 had a wonderful and enchanting morning making their own fairy and elf village. I witnessed such wonderful learning and teamwork this morning, it was fantastic! The children planned their village and thought carefully about the size that everything would need to be. The village has its own gated entrance along with many intricate fairy and elf homes. The village even has its own well for a water supply, a fairy hospital (for broken wings of course) and a power station! This led to some wonderful story telling, knot tying, digging in mud as well as excellent collaboration and creativity. We used maths to estimate and measure sticks for house structures as well as lots of negotiation over which leaves might provide the most suitable canopy. I am sure this will inspire some wonderful writing next week.

    Before we started we shared the book 'Just Imagine' discussing what it would be like to be small!

Pirate Day!

This term we have been finding out about 'Pirates and Islands'. Today we are rounding off our topic with a pirate day.

Here are some pirate islands we made earlier...

Today the children made pirate cakes and then wrote instructions about how to make them!

This afternoon we made sandwiches, taking it in turns to give instructions, then groups shared pirate books together.

After that we played some party games that we chose by collecting data!

First was 'Captain of the Treasure'.

Class 2 make soup!

Today Class 2 have made soups in groups, to warm them up on this cold day!

Earlier in the week they prepared and tasted different vegetables to decide which ones they wanted to put in their soups. They also tried a smooth soup and a chunky soup to decide which style of soup they wanted.

Finishing the recipes...

Then we prepared our vegetables. This was the first time that many of the children had peeled and chopped onions!

Stirring time...

More chopping!

Some groups decided that they needed to add more water before they liquidised their soups.

After that we blended the soups...

It was wonderful soup! Yum! Yum!

Now we are thinking about how we could improve our soups if we made them another time...

We had great fun!