Category: Year 2
Year 2
Year 2’s have been hard at work learning to tell the time. This is normally very challenging so we encourage ongoing practice at home using both analogue and digital time. This week the children have started compiling their own non-fiction booklets on a polar animal of their choice. This has involved doing research and identifying…
Year 2
We have begun our plans for writing diaries as our 1915s Shackleton crew. Lots of fun was had discovering the role we were assigned on board the Endurance from Shackleton himself! After working on constructing our own shelters, we understood just what a challenge Ernest Shackleton had in making sure everyone worked as a team!…
Year 2
Ernest Shackleton sent us an advert that he published in the newspaper, asking for volunteers to travel aboard the ‘Endurance’ ship to Antarctica. Most of us were eager despite finding out about the gruelling conditions and low wages. After chiselling away at the advert frozen in a lump of ice, we wrote letters to Ernest…
Year 2
Year 2 The children were intrigued when they returned to school and their classrooms looked like they had been frozen with icicles and even some snow flakes. A lost, lonely penguin was found by each class so we wrote a ‘Found’ poster describing where we thought the penguin lived. They have been captivated by our…