2Maple Learning Update

Central idea: Natural Disasters impact living things and their environment.

Maths: over the last two weeks, children have made excellent progress learning how to make equal groups, using this knowledge to support the application of arrays to multiplication and division facts.  

Inquiry: children have really enjoyed publishing their lift-the-flap information booklets all about natural disasters.  We have now begun our third line of inquiry this week focusing on the impact of natural disasters on living things. First the children researched and wrote about the journey of a river, then we researched a real life natural disaster that impacted Yalding. We saw the devastation the floods caused to many people local to us and are now in the process of writing a news article about the impact it had.

Science: our investigations into habitats have continued in the outdoor environment, where we have studied a micro habitat and considered the living and non-living things that we have found there and how they are dependent on each other.  We have now begun to inquire into how living things are well-suited to their environment.

Walk to the Lesser River Teise, Marden, Monday 20th February: Please make a note of this date in your diary!  This will be the first day back after half term, Mr Townsend will be joining year 2 as we walk across footpaths for our first expedition.  This will be a lovely opportunity for us to reflect on our learning from this term.  If anyone is available to volunteer and help us, please contact the office.