Year 2 have been weeding and preparing our planters so that we can plant some new sunflowers and watch them grow.

It was a lot of hard work to pull up all the old weeds that had over grown. 

Everyday in Year 2, we practise our PE skills during PE break. We love using a variety of equipment. We have used the hoops, bat and balls, skipping, obstacle course and we have also focused on our balancing when climbing the tyres. We even think of our own games when using the resources. 

In Year 2 we have been learning about fractions. We learnt that a fraction is a way to show equal parts of a whole and looked at how to split shapes/amounts fairly. We know that two quarters make one half and that fractions are everywhere - in food, shapes and even in time!

Fir class really enjoyed learning about fractions in our maths lessons this week.

Today, we have been learning about coasts in England. We now know that coast is a piece of land along the sea or the ocean. We have also learnt that the coastline is where the land meets the sea. We then identified the different oceans and enjoyed looking at different locations such as the Jurassic Coast. 

Today we enjoyed learning about habitats. We now know that a habitat is where an animal or plant lives. We went on a woodland adventure around the school and found many insects. We found a spider, ant, worm and even a little frog. The frog then jumped on one of our feet! We then had to draw the habitats which we had seen and label them. We had so much fun in the sunshine!

In Geography this week, we went outside to our school field and carried out some fieldwork to investigate the question – Why are natural habitats special?

Whilst we were there, we looked for insects, animals, plants and trees. The children enjoyed seeing the different types of plants and animals that live in the woodland.

This week is Neurodiversity week. In Elder Class we watched a video that explained what it feels like to be Neurodiverse.

We found out that some famous people like Daniel Radcliffe, Billie Eilsh are neurodiverse. Daniel has Dyspraxia and Billie has Tourette's Syndrome.  We discussed how this has helped them in their careers. 

We enjoyed learning about how animals can become camouflage by changing colours. We investigated this and learnt that some animals do this to hunt and other animals do this to defend themselves. We then created our own butterflies and made them camouflage which our classroom! We loved doing this!

As part of Science week Elder class have been thinking about how and why animals camouflage in their enviroments.

We found out the difference between change and adapting was that if something changes it becomes a different form or replaces what it was before where as adapting means it changes to become more suitable for a new situation or enviroment. 

The children made butterflies and then hid them around the classroom for everyone to find.

In Year 2 we have been looking at 'Animals including humans' and during 'Science Week' this week, we looked at the theme ‘adapt and change’ by focusing on animals that can camouflage.

We now know that camouflage is where an animal has a certain colour or pattern on their fur/skin that helps them to blend into their environment. Animals use camouflage to help protect them from predators or to be able to sneak up on their prey without being seen.

A good example of camouflaging is the leaf butterfly as it resembles a dead leaf. Other colourful butterflies advertise the fact that they are poisonous or taste bad to their enemies by their vivid colours.

We then had a go at making our own butterflies and hid them around our classroom for our friends to find!