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Sending Post to Characters in Our Class Story

Today Year 2 finished the instructions to help Anna and Crocodile. The class worked out that the map the characters had drawn in the story wasn’t clear enough to help them to find gold. As we have been learning about human dignity, we know that it is okay if someone needs a little bit of help and it is our job to help them. The children have written instructions to go with new maps they gave drawn. Hopefully their instructions will be clear enough to help Anna and Crocodile.

Thank you to Mrs Caines who is sending the packet in the post tonight!

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Prayer Service to ask for Our Lady’s Intercession

In RE the last few weeks, Year 2 have been learning about the important people in Jesus’s life. We recognise how important Mary, his mother, was in his life. We know that we can pray to Mary to ask for her help and guidance by talking to Jesus. The Rosary is a special, long prayer that Mary gave to everyone to help them to focus their prayers. They practiced by saying a decade of the Rosary together.

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Role on the Wall

Year 2 are loving exploring characters through Role on the Wall. The children write about a character in a story on a post it note and then decided whether they have written about the personality or what the character looks like. They stick the post it note on the inside if it is about their personality and on the outside if it is about what they look like.

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Dip Dip Dipper!

After deciding what type of dips we liked last week, we tasted different things to dip with today! The children have been amazing at using vocabulary such as: salty, dry and crunchy to describe them.

Which dipper did you choose as your favourite?

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Dip Dip Dippy!

This half term, we are doing our first Design Technology (D.T.) unit. We are focusing on food and dips in particular. We are planning to invite the parents in to taste are homemade dips whilst see our showcase of learning. Before we can make the dips, we need to work out what we like.

We tried: salsa, guacamole, cheese and chive dip, thousand island and hummus.

Which was your favourite dip and why?

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Detecting wind direction

Now that the class have moved on to learning about weather in Science, they discovered how farmers, pilots and captains of boats work out the direction of the wind. They use a tool called Wind Socks. They children then made their own windsocks and took them outside to see if they could work out the direction of the wind. Unfortunately, the wind wasn’t very strong but it was just strong enough to work out the direction for about 2 minutes.

 

How does a wind sock show you the direction of the wind?

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How well do you clean your teeth?

Another great test of hygiene is seeing how well you can clean your teeth.

Year 2 were all given a toothbrush and toothpaste and asked to clean their teeth. Afterwards, they chewed a disclosure tablet that clings to the plaque in their mouth. They soon realised that they were not very good at cleaning their teeth! Off they went back to the sinks to clean them again…properly this time!

How long should it take to clean your teeth?

How often should you clean your teeth a day?

Here is the video we used in class to help us the second time around:

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How do germs spread?

In science, Year 2 have been looking at human beings and what their needs are. They have also looked at how humans need to be hygienic to survive. This involved a fantastic experiment involving bread. We had 2 bags. One bag of bread we emptied and touched the pieces of bread, the other we didn’t. Can you see how much more mould is on the bread that was touched, after only a week.

What we learn about  hygiene in this experiment?