Hello!
It has been such a great week back in Year 1/2. We were all very happy to be back in school and I was so happy to be reunited with the students 🙂
In IPC, we have started a new unit “Green Fingers” and are having a ball exploring the area and looking at all the flowers and plants around the school. We began the unit by making our very own ‘herb heads’. We used grass seeds and we are hoping they are going to grow lots of ‘hair’ through their sock heads.
We went for a lovely walk on Tuesday to look at the beautiful flowers around the school. We used an application to take pictures of the flowers that we didn’t know the names of. We made sketches of them and really enjoyed exploring. We discussed the colours and leaves. Our favourite was the Japanese Blossom tree.
We then began our Knowledge Harvest part of the unit where we wrote down everything we knew about plants. We cut out large leaves and put all our knowledge on them. We then used them to make a beautiful display and we will continue adding to it.
Today we looked at evergreen and deciduous trees and the difference between them. We also completed a sorting activity, looking at the different shapes of leaves there are. The students have really enjoyed the first week of our IPC unit and I can’t wait for lots more fun learning to come.
In English, we started our unit on Stories from well known authors and have been reading the book “The Night Gardener”. We took a look at the animal topiary in the story and chose an animal to write about. We explained why we liked it, what the animal is like and what they can do. The students produced some great work and used lots of great adjectives in their writing. Just fantastic! We also completed some comprehension questions after reading the story with Mrs Leah.
In PSHE, we started our unit on Emotions and looked at the various emotions we can experience and how to manage them. This is a really nice unit that will help the students to find ways to deal with situations that may be difficult due to how they feel.
In PE, we started our unit on ‘My Body, My Health’. We discussed how our bodies need lots of nutritional food and exercise to stay healthy. We then tried to check our hearts rates and see how they changed before, during and after exercise. We did moderate and intense exercises and found that our little heart beats went super duper fast after a lot of intense exercise! We were all very tired after Tuesday’s P.E. lesson.
We finished off this week with some games this afternoon and what fun we all had!
Enjoy the lovely weather and have a great weekend! See you all on Monday!
Mrs Sim 🙂