Year 2    Learning Update

Central idea:  Natural disasters impact living things and their environments

It has been a busy and exciting start to the new year! The children continue to demonstrate what fantastic learners they all are and engage well with our PYP inquiry based learning using their skills to shape their ideas and thoughts.

We began our inquiry by delving into natural disasters and emergencies, thinking about how these affect the world around us, this is particularly topical with recent flooding in areas like Yalding and the wildfires further afield in LA. The children have researched floods, wildfires, earthquakes and tsunamis. In music we linked our central idea by thinking about and experimenting into how music can represent sounds of elements around us creating a whole class display. Here the children listened to a piece of music using a free flow art technique where their artistic expressions are created spontaneously without strict adherence to the usual art conventions. 

Then we moved onto Line 2 of inquiry where we started looking at the impact of floods. We began this by understanding the Water Cycle. The children produced some fantastic labelled diagrams!

In maths we have been continuing our strategy of multiplication and division, focusing on our 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

In writing, the children have been exploring the genre of poetry, linking into the theme of water and the construction of poetry.