Class 2 visit the London CLC

Class 2 had a wonderful time at the London CLC. They had an adventure just getting there by riding on the tube. Once they arrived, they were shown how to use digital microscopes. They used the microscopes to observe different materials as well as their own bodies and even some plants!

Also, they took photos of themselves and used them to create geometric patterns. How much learning and fun can you have in one afternoon? Well, the answer is in the photos below.

Class 2 the illustrators

Class 2 have been learning about the work of famous illustrators. They’ve researched the work of Beatrix Potter, Aaron Becker and Quentin Blake and learnt how these illustrators make their illustrations jump off the page.

Quentin Blake is most famous for illustrating the books of Roald Dahl. You can view some of Class 2’s Quentin-Blake-inspired designs by looking through the photographs below. You will see some famous characters as well as some completely original ones. Which is your favourite? Why?

 

Watch these videos to learn how to become a better illustrator:

 

Mission to Jupiter

 

 

Recently, it has been a very exciting time in astronomy as the Juno space-probe has finally arrived at Jupiter to start its observations. Jupiter is the Solar System’s largest planet and it’s never been studied in this much detail before.

Watch the video below to learn five amazing facts about Juno’s mission to Jupiter.

You can learn more about the mission by watching this video:

You can read more about Jupiter, and the rest of the Solar System, here.

You can visit Nasa’s official website here and read even more about the mission.

Su2Wk5 homework

Weekly Spellings – soft c

Below are the spellings for this week’s Spelling Test in Class 2. To prepare for Year 3, we will be focusing more closely on spellings over the coming weeks. As there will be more spellings to learn each week in the Extension Challenge we will complete less SPaG work.

The theme for this week’s spellings is – words with a soft c sound

  1. circle
  2. circus
  3. cell
  4. space
  5. slice
  6. pace
  7. grace
  8. centre
  9. notice
  10. peace

Extension Challenge

  1. celebrate
  2. citrus
  3. celery
  4. cylinder
  5. cellar
  6. certain
  7. cycle
  8. bicycle
  9. success
  10. sentence

Additional writing challenge

Write the spellings in joined-up handwriting.

Arithmetic – making money totals

Below is an outline of how to develop skills in making money totals.

  1. Find objects around the house to ‘buy’ and give them a price that is less than £1.
  2. Write down the smallest number of coins you can use to make that total, e.g. the book costs 72p and the smallest number of coins is three – 50p, 20p and 2p
  3. Try and make that same money total using four coins and five coins, e.g. 72p in four coins could be 50p, 10p, 10p, 2p.

Extension

  1. Calculate the change that you would receive if you bought the item using £1, e.g. the book costs 72p so the change would be 28p
  2. Make the change total using coins, e.g. 28p could be made with a 20p, 5p, 2p and 1p.

The tests will be on Friday 8th July.