December in 2B
Throughout the last month we have been learning a lot of new skills. Planning and rehearsing for the Nativity has been a huge focus for us and an excellent opportunity for new learning experiences across RME, Expressive Arts, Talking and Listening, and Health & Wellbeing.
Expressive Arts
We all experienced the energy and excitement of performing and being part of an audience. We were not just an audience in the Nativity but we also enjoyed being part of the audience for the Wizard of Oz pantomime. Zaynah said, “It was very funny”. Megan and Jude, as well as all the children, enjoyed taking on their roles and working on expression and using their voice. We also learned more about performing in our Rainforest Documentary, which demonstrated our learning across the curriculum. In Term 2 our focus will shift to Dance and Music.
Health & Wellbeing
The confidence and perseverance we showed during the rehearsal and performance is just one example of our Growth Mindset. Lara said, “It’s important to keep trying when you practise anything because that’s how to get better”. We all experienced contributing to a communal school performance.
Science
Beyond the Nativity we have learnt more about Materials, we have explored waterproof and absorbent materials to make an umbrella for Chester. Lawson said, “I learnt about reversible and irreversible changes by making pizza dough and reindeer food”. Next term we will learn more about Forces.
Writing
As part of Literacy across the curriculum we used our exploration in Science to write instructions for different purposes, a recipe for pizza dough, and instructions for reindeer food and play dough. Christopher and Ava produced particularly good instructions. They both said that doing the process first helped them write the recipe. In Term 2 we will focus on poetry, letters and leaflets.
ICT
“Hour of Code was awesome” (Harrison). After learning a variety of programming skills and computational thinking we had the chance to make our own flappy bird game. We are learning to be creative and to debug our code.
Social Studies
Next term, across the curriculum and Social Studies, we will learn more about transport today and in the past, as well as significant individuals such as the Wright Brothers and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Literacy and Numeracy
Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class / group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.
