A spoooooooky, spine curling week exploring Halloween and Dias de los muertos! 👻🎃💀 – Class 2; 2020

In PE we continued with our Athletics block. The weather was lovely so we went to the MUGA.

Kit – We were throwing beanbags into hoops to improve our accuracy and underarm throw technique.

Bilal – We were running and having fun! We ran up to touch the fence and ran back as fast as we could. It was so cool.

Drama – we played ‘The otter and the heron’ 🦦🦩game. Miss Cohen also told the story of the Awongalema tree 🌳 and we acted it out, giving pupils in Class 2 the role of the different animals in the story. It’s a beautiful story – all about appreciating nature and not taking too much from Earth’s natural resources (without considering the consequences and planning for recovery/repopulating with living things etc).

Subhan – It was fun! I liked being the otter and the heron. It was great and awesome.

Maths –

We have been partitioning 4 digit numbers. We have also been learning how to use symbols like =, > and < to compare numbers and quantities.

Some of us were working on the number before and the number after! We were also looking at ordering events on a timetable and ordering the days of the week.

Literacy

Khadija – I made a potion! We put in all of the h words.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we worked on creating spooky Halloween stories using prompt cards and keywords. The story mountains we made using notes, and then the final stories that were created were so imaginative! I was very impressed by the creativity in the room!

IDL – We were learning about the tradition of Dias de los muertos in Mexico. We watched the Disney movie ‘Coco’ which featured many of the aspects of this event that we had discussed in class this week; papel de picado (paper bunting), skeleton skulls, candles, marigold flowers, decorated altars etc.

We made our own skeleton masks with floral hats – they looked really effective!💐🌸🌼