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?

Viking Day

Monday 16th December we had a Viking immersion day.  We took part in a number of different crafts and activities to learn about how the vikings lived.  Unfortunately it was too wet and windy to have a Viking Fire to cook.

We tried some Viking wire weaving.

 It was very tricky and you had to really concentrate.  The Vikings must have been very clever!

Even though it was tricky we didn't give up.  We were very proud of what we made.

The Vikings also liked to weave their own clothes on a loom.  We made our own looms and wove ribbon on them.  We are going to add these to are garden when they are finished. 

 

One of our favourite activities was making Viking pendents. We used real saws and then drilled holes in them using a hand drill. Then we wrote out names on them using viking letters.

 

 

 We made our own versions of a lucet which the Vikings used to make cords for their pendants or to tie round their waists. A lucet has two prongs and a hole in the middle. 

 

Finally we made Viking Helmets.

 

Did you enjoy Viking Day?

What was your favourite part?

 What did you learn about the Vikings?

Viking play

We took a break from the garden and decided to put on a Viking puppet show.  We have learnt a lot about Vikings this term. We talked about the characters we would include in the show.  Then we started to make them.

Can you guess what Viking Characters we made? 

 

 

Completing the beds

After a lot of digging we finally got the last beds in place.

We found some big roots and worked as a team to remove them.

 

 

These big roots gave us an idea!

We decided to start a beetle hotel. We worked as a team and discussed our ideas.  It was tricky getting the roots to stand up.

 

These pupils found some bricks and decided to develop the beetle hotel already started under the tree. How big do you think they are planning to build it?

 

The girls decided the fence needed to be brightened up so they started weaving a beautiful rainbow.

Can you see the black bin bags in this picture?  They are not for rubbish.  What do you think is in them and why?