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'.

Features of instruction texts

Today we have started to think about the features of instruction texts. Firstly we acted out the features, saying what they were as we went. Then we labelled the features on a set of instructions.

Reptile visitors!

In Science we have been finding out about different animal groups, including reptiles. Reptiles are cold-blooded, have scaly skin, and lay eggs.

Ruby's Dad brought in a panther chameleon called George to see us! These chameleons live in trees in Madagascar. They eat insects. They can change colour to hide themselves as protection; this is called camouflage.

We all hid to try to pretend we weren't there, hoping that George might feed, but he couldn't be tempted...

Ruby's Dad also brought in Issy the bearded dragon, who lives in the desert in Australia. We were able to stroke her because her skin is not so delicate as the chameleon's. She has more protection because she lives on the ground so has to protect herself against attack.

A big thank you from us all to Ruby's Dad for bringing in these wonderful animals.

Culture Week

This week we have been finding out about Sri Lanka in Class 2.

Today we have made tea because they grow tea leaves in Sri Lanka.

 

We have found out about Sri Lanka from photographs taken in Sri Lanka, then drawn pictures and written words or sentences to show what we have found out, inside an outline map of the island.

Limes grow on trees in Sri Lanka. We have used some limes to make a Sri Lankan lime drink.

Sometimes in Sri Lanka, large groups of people sit down to eat together, using banana tree leaves as plates.

We ate samosas and drank the lime drink we had made.

Joseph's parents came to talk to us about Sri Lanka and we enjoyed finding out by asking questions. They brought the banana leaves and samosas for us to enjoy. Thank you to you both!

We had a great week finding out about Sri Lanka...

Making a castle hanging!

We have started to make a castle hanging. The children have chosen which item they would like to create for the hanging, drawn it and chosen their fabrics. Then the children pinned their patterns to their fabrics!

 

Some of us have even cut our fabric to the shape of the pattern!

Today we have been adding stitching to bring our designs to life.

What great concentration!

Finding out about houses in the past

Class 2 have been finding out about houses 110 years ago and 70 years ago. The BBC website has both Dynamo History about Victorian Times and also World War 2 Children information. 

We have written notes to help us to write some information texts.

World Book Day

We have been sharing favourite books with children from other classes.

Chilling out with a book...

We wrote fact files about our favourite books so that we can see which are similar to others and then we drew and painted our front covers. We will put them on display to remind us of other books we may like to read.