Author: Chloe Spicer

Today we traveled on the train to the Royal Festival Hall.

“I saw all of London on the train. It was big and I saw towers” – Siddiq

“I saw my mum’s work next to The Shard” – Dominic

We walked over the river.

“I saw a Swan” – Gustavo

“I saw the boats” – Ivy

Then we arrived at the Royal Festival Hall and had an inside picnic!

Finally it was time for the show to start. We heard the instruments being tuned, sang some songs and watched ‘The Highway Rat’ with a live soundtrack thanks to the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The music was incredible!

“My favourite instrument was the violin and it was the first instrument on the left” – Izzy

“My favourite instruments were the flutes in the middle” – Eva

“My favourite was the drums because it sounds really loud” – Adrian

“My favourite part of the Highway Rat was the party” – Obi

“I liked watching the movie and we were really quiet and we watched it” – Ariana

A big Thank You to all the adults that accompanied us on the trip!

We have started learning the story of ‘The Teddy Robber’. We read the story and thought about the characters. Then we wrote some questions to ask the characters in the story.

Luckily, the characters came to visit us so we could ask our questions…

 Tom’s fluffy Teddy.

 The Giant striding into the classroom.

 Tom answering our questions.

What question would you ask one of your teddies? What do you think their answer would be?

Today we were investigating how far cars can travel on different surfaces. We did this to test how much friction each material had.

We had to collaborate with our group to set up each fair test, measure the distance and record the results in our table.

The materials we tested were:

• Bubble Wrap
• Carpet
• Paper
• Wooden Floor
• Cork
• Shiny Material
• Felt
• Corrugated Card

We found out:

• “The corrugated cardboard made the car go a shorter distance because it gave more friction” – Danny
• “The floor had less friction so it was slippier and the car drove faster so it went a further distance” – Izzy
• “The carpet had quite a lot of friction which made the car go slower so it went a shorter distance” – Edgar
• “The paper made the car go a little faster, after it went halfway it slowed down” – Taiwo
• “When we used the purple material was a little bit faster than the cork” – Ivy
• “We were using paper and we let go of the car and it rolled. The car went a little bit fast a long distance” – Samson

Can you tell someone at home what you discovered about friction today? When do you think friction is useful?

Today we went on an exciting Educational Visit to the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green.

Thank You so much to all the adults that helped, the day was brilliant! Below you can see lots of pictures from our day. Can you tell someone at home what you saw? Which toys were your favourite? Why ?

As part of our Science learning this week we have been looking closely at a range of toys. First we looked at and used the toy. Then we discussed with our partner whether we had to push or pull the toy. We recorded our findings in a Venn Diagram.

Can you explain to someone at home what a Venn diagram is? Which toys did you push and which ones did you pull?

Welcome back 2S. I hope you all had a lovely summer. We have had a busy start to the term. Below you can see some of the learning that has taken place in the last 2 weeks.

During our first week at school we were lucky enough to receive a mysterious parcel. Inside was a copy of the story ‘The Gruffalo’ as well as a gruffalo puppet and a letter from the author Julia Donaldson. We have read the story,  acted out the story, made our own story maps and even written extra verses for the Gruffalo song to include some of the other characters.

We have also been focusing on our topic of ‘Toys’ bringing in our favourite toys to share and looking at the movements of toys. In P.E today we looked at how different equipment moves when different forces and strength of forces is exerted on them.

 

Thank You 2S for a brilliant start to Year 2!