YEAR 2 – HAND SKILLS
The children worked in teams, applying their understanding of underarm throwing and the basic principles of attack vs defence to win a game.
Ball skills- Applying underarm throwing to win a game
Year 2 Goodall today focused on working in a team and applying their understanding of underarm throwing to an attack vs defence scenario to win a game
Grouping objects
Today we used our knowledge of arrays and division to group our counters. Are the groups equal or unequal? Which groups are possible?
Designing our diet
This week Y2 Goodall have been investigating healthy and unhealthy foods to help them design their own healthy meals.
Water- Improvisation and intentions
Year 2 have focused their learning on improvising and exploring various dynamics and various movement qualities. Can we use descriptive language to discuss these movements?
Equal and unequal
Year 2 have explored equal and unequal groups linked with division.
Healthy living
Year 2 have been learning about healthy living. Today, they carried out a scientific enquiry into foods, comparing nutritional information and deciding which foods were most healthy. They looked at the amounts of salt, fats and sugars in foods such as rice, pasta,...
After lots of careful considerations about food, Year 2 created their own healthy meal designs.
Making comparisons
Year 2 have been learning about Bisbee in Arizona and to their local community.
Similes…
Year 2 worked together to create a range of similes before recording them on their boards and reading them out loud.
Halving…
Year 2 explored halving two-digit numbers today. They were quick to identify that odd numbers cannot be halved.
Water : developing whole group movement
UNDERARM THROWING
Today year 2 Kahlo focused on consolidating their execution of an underarm throw and to further extend their understanding of why accuracy is needed when throwing.
Ball Skills- Applying and understanding underarm throwing
Today Year 2 Goodall consolidated their execution of an underarm throw and experienced a competition against other pupils. This allowed the class to further develop their ability to collaborate.
RE – Special Celebrations: Buddhism
We learnt about the Buddhism celebration Vesak also known as Buddha Day. We thought about what offerings we would give to the Buddha and recorded these using words and pictures.
SCIENCE – HEALTHY LIVING
Year 2 explored food groups today. They worked together to sort a range of foods into the correct food groups.
Water- Developing whole group movement
Year 2 Goodall focused on intimating whole group movement in today's lesson. We know how to work safely in a dance space and can respond to music through movement.
Food groups
Year 2 Goodall have explored the 5 main food groups today in Science, did we find any foods that are not healthy for us?