Team Brun-Cialis (Yr2)

World Book Day is coming! Thursday 5th March...

This week, Yr 2 are learning about balanced diets in Topic. We have learnt about all the different food groups and what they help our bodies to do. We have also looked at the Eat Well Plate which shows us the different foods we should be eating and the proportions we should eat them in. Over the week the children will be using the eat well plates they have created to plan a healthy lunch box meal.

In art, we made botanical sketches on acetate inspired by botanist and biologist Maria Sybilla Merian. These will form part of a display in the art room.

In the afternoon, we tested our vehicles. We built a ramp using crates and a whiteboard to launch our cars from. We tested how far our vehicles travelled. We then made the ramp steeper and predicted how this might affect our cars' movement. We were surprised by some of the results.

Today was Number Day at RAPS! We had great fun with mathematical problems. We also got to meet some other great teachers. With Miss Bullard the children explored making patterns with triangles, with Miss Hayzelden they used cubes to help them count and worked what happened when they added double or 4 times the number of cubes. Then with Mr Brun-Cialis the children used their methodical thinking to work out the problem of the chicken, fox and corn. While finally they added the amounts on dice with Ms McCurry.

In Team Brun-Cialis, we also wrote counting songs which we sang with backing from Mr Brun-Cialis and his mandolin.

For each of the activities, we had to show our creativity, collaboration, and resilience!

Last week, we recapped the value of diversity! We know humans can look, talk, think and act in different ways and that our differences make us unique and special. Regardless of our appearance, beliefs, preferences, religion, financial situation, background etc, we are all important and should be celebrated. All living things have rights and we all have the responsibility to protect those rights, especially by protecting others’ bodies and feelings. After playing some games to show our differences and to generate conversations about diversity, we worked hard to create a class piece of art showing our personal responses to our learning! Take a look just outside our classroom doors at our lovely artwork!