Our first week back in Class 2 – and what a joy it’s been! – Class 2; 2020

A summary of our first week of learning in Class 2:

Here we are doing a Science experiment investigating how germs spread. We used pepper, soap and water to show how important it is to wash our hands thoroughly with soap! Soap is even better than hand sanitizer – and we need to remember to do this whenever we enter the classroom from being outside.

We were talking about having a Growth mindset (GM) or a fixed mindset. We went on a scavenger hunt to find clues about how to have a superhero growth mindset! We even made our own superhero characters with GM sayings – they are on display in our classroom!

Class 2 were discussing Class rules and how to keep ourselves safe and happy inside and outside of the classroom. We also agreed on more verbally. They were;

Try your very best when learning. Mistakes are good because we learn from them!
When you are finished your work, put it in the correct learning tray.
Be considerate of how other members of the class learn. We are all different and have different strategies and ways to keep us on task.

We played a Finnish game called Molkky with Miss Bull. Molkky is a fun throwing game where you have to aim for wooden poles with numbers on them. If the wooden pole has a 11 on the top, for example, you get 11 points. If the wooden pole has a 12 on the top, you get 12 points. If you knock down more than one pole, then you score yourself the number of poles that were knocked over. For example, if I knocked over three poles, that would equate to three points. The person with the highest score in the end will be the winner!

If you’d like to try making this game or playing this game at home – have a watch of this video tutorial to learn the rules!;

We have been learning about Place Value in Maths. We have been practicing reading a number in words, and then changing it into digits. We have also been practicing counting on and back in our 2s, 5s and 10s.

Learning for Sustainability – We brainstormed what LfS meant to us. The responses were fabulous! We voted to do a mini-topic on our local libraries potentially closing down…stay tuned for our future actions to save these community spaces!

We were using the I-pads to carry out some ICT challenges. Miss Cohen asked us to do many things; take a screenshot, take a selfie, record a Slo-Mo video of a friend, insert a postcode into Google Maps etc. Here are some pictures of what we got upto…

In the playground, we played a new game called ‘Flip UP’ with Duncan. We had to turn the cones around so that they were facing up and work as a team to do so. When we got really quick at this, Duncan timed us to see if we could improve our speed! The wind wasn’t our friend haha!

Hector celebrated his 10th birthday party on Thursday 20th August. We had a class party on Friday which was super fun! We enjoyed two cakes – a lemon drizzle and a chocolate cake that Mr Stewart and Miss Cohen had baked. We played Musical bumps, Musical statues and Murder Mystery.