Our finished bird feeders!

We are so please with our finished bird feeders.  We are going to be keeping an eye out of our window to see if we get many birds coming to visit us.

Can you describe the properties of Omar's bird feeder?

Today we finished a few more bird feeders.  They are looking really good. We checked our bird feeders against our success criteria.

At lunch time however I had a bit of a shock when a bird got stuck inside Poppy and Simi's bird feeder.  We had to make the whole in the bottle bigger to let the bird out.  It is good news that the birds are enjoying our bird feeders already.  The bird that was trapped was a greenfinch which is quite rare.  Keep a look out the classroom window and you may see it again. 

How can we make sure the birds dont get trapped in the bottles?

What birds have you spotted so far?

Building our bird feeders!

To build our bird feeders we had to work together.  We followed our plans and talked to each other to share our ideas.  At times it was tricky to work together but when we listened to each other we could decide on the best idea. 

When we started making the bird feeders we used diffrent tools such as scissors, saws and wire-cutters.   We had to be carefull using the tools and watch what we were doing. The sawing was our favourite part!

 

We worked as a team to stick all the parts together.  It had to match the success criteria we wrote.

 

What success criteria did you write for your bird feeder? 

Did your bird feeder achieve your success criteria?

What was the best part about your bird feeders? What could you improve?

Year 2 Investigating bird feeders

To encourage more birds to school we are planning to make our own bird feeders.  We investigated bird feeders around school to give us some ideas. We looked carefully at what the were made of and their properties. 

 

This gave us some ideas of our own.

 

 

 

How will you make your bird feeder? What will you bring to school to help you make it? 

Year 2 Bird spotting

As part of the 'RSPB Big School Bird Watch' year 2 have been spotting birds around school.  We collected and recorded the data we found. We had to look carefully at the birds as some were very similar.

 

While we were bird spotting we were very excited to see a double rainbow.

 

 

How many colours can you see in the rainbow?  How did it feel to see the rainbow?  Do you know how the rainbow is made?

Year 2 Describing materials

Using the materials around us we had a great game of bingo.  We matched objects we found to the scientific words we have been learning about.  for example opaque, translucent and synthetic.

 

1. Can you name a transparent material?

2. Can you name a synthetic material?

3. Can you name a natural material?

Year 2 Marvellous medicines

This term we started developing our descriptive vocabulary by creating and describing our own marvellous medicines inspired by Roald Dahl. we had lots of fun inventing disgusting potions and using creative and scientific words to describe them. 

If you made another marvellous medicine what would you put in it?  Can you describe it using the excellent vocabulary we discussed?