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Term 2- week 3: January 16th- 20th 2017

What a fun week we have had! In continuing our Forces Unit, students got to create a magnetic maze, discover how to use air pressure to move a toy car and use elastic potential energy to shoot objects across the playground.  (the record was more than 7 meters!)

To further students’ learning about nonfiction texts, each child has taken home a nonfiction book from our classroom library to enjoy for the weekend.

Our final project will have the students creating their own invention; if you could please send any recyclable materials to use for their creations it would be appreciated.  (Thanks to the parents who have already donated!)

This week we continued to learn about non-fiction texts and their features so we have been spending more time in the class library.

  

 Time is always a tricky concept for year two students. We are learning half past= 30 minute, quarter after=15 minutes and quarter to= 45 minutes. If your child is still struggling a little, keep working on it with them, but don't worry; we will be revisiting this topic throughout the year.

After an introduction on air pressure and wind force, students were given a car, a balloon and some sticky tack to try and use this force to move the car. Everyone succeeded after time, and everyone had a lot of fun.

The highlight of the week was certainly the Great Year Y2R Elastic Force contest! Students again were given an introduction on elastic bands and the potential energy that they contain. They then were given a cup, a balloon and a cube to try and use the force to move the cube. Once they discoered how this can be done- we had a contest outside to see who could shoot their cube the farthest. 

   

  (After some student questions about elastic bands we also did research to watch a video about where elastic bands come from)

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Y2 Weekly Update: Week 3 2017

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week we looked at explanation texts to do with forces and using these as a reference for answering some questions. We also worked on writing lists and writing a glossary for a non-fiction book.	·         We will begin to create our own explanation texts.
Math	This week we looked at time and 3D shapes. With 3D shapes, we looked at the properties of the shapes and how 3D shapes can be constructed from 2D shapes. With time, we were looking at both analogue and digital clocks and how to read times including “half past” ‘quarter past’ and ‘quarter to’.	·         Order 2-digit numbers and revise the < and > signs; ·         locate 2-digit numbers on a landmarked line and grid; ·         round 2-digit numbers to nearest 10; ·         estimate a quantity <100 within a range
Inquiry	We continued with more finding out as there is so much to learn about forces - this included experiments with elastics, magnets and balloons to develop our understanding of forces further. (air pressure, potential forces and magnetic force)	·         We will spend some time sorting out what we have learn as well as making plans for going further and creating our own simple machines.
Notices and Events	Tuesday 24th January - KS1 sports day 8:00 - 10:00. Students will need their PE kit and house colours shirts.