Class 2 have been working as a team, in pairs, to create an animal that will fit into a certain habitat. We have discussed the the habitats and the attributes that each animal would need and how they have adapted to their environment. We then made our animals out of playdough! Here’s some of our adaptations!
Come in and see the food chains that we have created too!
Today we talked about Darwin’s theories of Evolution and the different beliefs that others have. We have talked about how we have adapted to our climate and surroundings and discussed how plants adapt to their habitats.
We have had fun testing ourselves with a quiz on these websites….
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/climate/adaptations/index.cfm
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/adaptation.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/interdependence.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/variation.shtml
Tomorrow we will be making our own animals that adapt to a certain habitat…Playdough will be involved somewhere down the line!! 
We have split into 2 groups for this one and are collecting seeds on sticky tape around our wrist to make a ’seed bracelet’ …then we are planting the seeds in our newspaper pots to see if they will grow!
Some of us looked at the Darwin website and played the Year 2 games and learnt how to look after virtual sunflowers!
We have been walking around the different habitats in our school grounds…being discoverers and asking lots of questions! We have written and drawn in our Darwin Notebook and have found some plants and tree that we didn’t know we had! The tree by our vegetable garden is an English Walnut tree!
Class 2 are the ‘Discoverers‘, hunting for the amazing plants that grow in their part of the world. They will see the similarities and differences between plants in different habitats, collect specimens and study them in simple experiments.
Here’s the link to The Great Plant hunt website organised by Kew Gardens.
http://www.greatplanthunt.org/home
Click on the Year 2 link to find out what the Discoverers are learning about.
Check our blog each day to see what we’ve done!
Thanks for your continued support
Miss Pennington and Mrs Brierley
This week in Literacy we will be reading, learning and having lots of fun with our favourite poems! Please encourage your child to tell you all about our poem of the day! By the end of the week we will have written some of our own poems and will email them off to Pie Corbett (Miss Pennington’s famous author friend).
We have a special Poet’s Chair too!
Here’s some weblinks we will look at in school this week!
http://www.magneticpoetry.com/poetgame/create.cfm?k=5
A good website for chn to explore different types of poems, themes and learn about poets. Unfortunately – unable to print poems from this website.
http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do
A good website for chn – includes funny poems, poetry games, about different poets and links to other websites. Poems can be printed from this website.
http://www.poetry4kids.com/index.php
A great website for chn’s poetry – many, many poems on different themes. The chn can even rate the poems they have read. Poems can be printed from this website.
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poemcategories.aspx
In maths this week we will be finding out about right angles! Here’s a problem to try! Let me know if you have had a go! (and can solve it!)
Welcome back Class 2! I hope you have all had a lovely holiday!
Don’t forget the weather is really hot and sunny at the moment But don’t forget to Slip, Slap, Slop!…everyone needs to wear their sunhat at playtime!
