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ART – How can maps inspire our artwork?  

This term class 2 have been developing as amazing artist! The children began by completing a homework activity to reflect on their journey to school. They then shared this in school and used it to help them complete a 2d map of their route to school. 

  

 

In the next lesson children used the skills or tearing, cutting, trimming, and layering to create a 3D relief map.            

  

 

The children then used a viewfinder to select a small section of their 2d map drawing and explored a stained glass technique to create artwork inspired by maps. They also looked at the work of artist Emma Johnson and discussed how they could tell she was inspired by maps.  

  

 

The next skill they explored was printing. Children created their own printing tile and printed this using different colours and orientations. In the next lesson, children decided how they could use their printing to create a piece of artwork. Some cut out their printing and made a hanging mobile and others made fans as well as lots of other ideas.  

  

  

 

Finally, the children were given the opportunity to become curators and create an art gallery for parents and family members. They made decisions in their house teams about how to display their work and set this up in the hall. The children also decided that they wanted to use this opportunity to support a charity and, after a class vote, the Salvation Army was chosen.  

  

  

 

Geography – How is the country where I live different to other countries?

Class 2 have been learning all about the UK, and how its human and physical Geography can be similar or different to other parts of the world.

At the beginning of the unit the children brought in lots of maps and globes. They learnt about the 5 continents then used their globes and maps to find these.

The next task was to find the North Pole, South Pole and equator on a globe. The children found out that hot countries are located near the equator, and countries with a colder climate are further away. In the next lesson, Class 2 began to find out about Ecuador. They used their knowledge about the equator to work out whether it was a hot or cold country, and compared human and physical Geography features to the U.K.

  Everyone enjoyed taking part in a scavenger hunt, to find the facts and compare the capital of Ecuador (Quito) to London. Finally, the class used digital maps to identify human and physical Geography features. They particularly enjoyed being able to find their own houses using the maps.

  

  

Art - Colour Splash

We have been looking at mixing colours our Art lessons. We had great fun letting 2 primary colours run into each other to see which secondary colour it would make. We also explored what happens when we mix 2 secondary colours, and when we add black or white to a colour. Next we thought about texture and tried out different tools to create a variety of textures.

  

  

 

Science - Why Are Things Made From Different Materials?

We have been exploring the materials that different objects are made out of and why. We found lots of different materials were used to make things in our classroom and in the buildings around us. We identified the materials used to make different objects and then sorted those materials to feed the box monsters the correct material that they liked to eat.

 

Maths - Place Value

Year 2 have been looking at the value of numbers. We used equipment to split up numbers into tens and ones. We also took our lesson outside and used our equipment to create number lines counting in tens.