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We love learning and growing together and would like to share that with you here on our blog.

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  • Who's been visiting Amazon Class?

    Published 12/11/23

    This week, Amazon Class have launched into their topic, ‘We’re Off to London’ whilst in English, meeting a very special and lovable character who is rather familiar with our capital city.

    The children arrived at school to find sticky paw prints, and after close inspection using our eyes and noses, we deduced that the classroom visitor must have had marmalade covered paws! 

    A little later on, we discovered a ‘London Station Lost Property’ box had been sent to our classroom. We had been asked by the station master to help return the contents to its rightful owner- a pesky character who kept losing his belongings.

    Excitably delving into the box, we identified; a London map, wellington boots, stamps from around the world (including Peru), a Union Jack flag and a jar of the finest marmalade.

    In groups, we used our talk sentence stems, together with our Class Talk Rules, to discuss our predictions for who the mystery character might be.

    Our talk focus this week has been ‘taking turns’ by using a visual talking stick to help us. 

    After sharing lots of interesting predictions, we explored our new book. The final piece to our mystery puzzle- Paddington by Michael Bond.

    We are very excited to be using this wonderful story to inspire our reading and writing this term and can’t wait to share this with you over the coming weeks.

     

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  • A Tiny Burning Flame poem

    Published 18/10/23

    This week, Amazon Class have enjoyed learning the poem ‘A Tiny Burning Flame’, practising their performance, articulation, rhythm and volume.

    We were inspired to then write our own Great Fire of London poetry.

    We hope you enjoy our performance, which can be found here: https://fb.watch/nLZjFX-QT2/ 

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  • Great Fire of London artwork

    Published 18/10/23

    Our art focus this term has been linked to our topic; The Great Fire of London. First we explored various pieces of artwork that depicted the blaze; discussing what we could see, the colour, tones and shades. We explored how to change the shade of colours, making them lighter and darker.

    We experimented with watercolours, pastels, chalks and other materials to create our fiery backgrounds. We used charcoal, wax and string printing to create our rows of Tudor homes. The final stage of our art project was to collate our works of art, creating our 1666 London streets.

    We hope you enjoy our gallery.

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  • Marvellous maths!

    Published 15/10/23

    This week in Year 2, we have been learning about the different ways to add together two-digit numbers. To solve our Maths No Problem challenge, we worked in groups to find different methods to solve a number equation. We explored using dienes, partitioning and the column method, before sharing and explaining our methods with our friends.

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  • Using our voices!

    Published 09/10/23

    In small groups we discussed the question, ‘Did more good or more bad things come from The Great Fire of London?’              

    We practised using the talk skills that we have been learning this term;

    • using sentence stems
    • showing others that we are listening

    After sharing our ideas and opinions with our group, we then voted with our feet to show whether we thought more good things or more bad things came from the fire. We then gave reasons for our decisions, trying to persuade people on the other side to change their mind.

    Some of our ideas:

    “I think there were more good things that came from the fire because they had a new sewage system and this got rid of the rats and the plague, and they built better houses.”

    “In my opinion, the houses were better because they were made out of brick, and they were safer from the fire.”

    “Perhaps lots of animals would have died, which is a bad thing because birds are good for the environment.”

    “I think they would have planted more trees though, which is good for the birds.”

    “In my opinion, it was more bad things because the people of London had to live in tents for 8 years and that’s a long time.”

    After our debate we then reflected on our talk skills and what makes ‘good talk’. We shared the problems we had when talking in our groups; everyone talking at the same time and people not talking about the question. We used these problems to write our new Talk Rules for the class.

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  • Fire Safety Visit

    Published 26/09/23

    Today Amazon Class welcomed Davina from Wiltshire Fire Service to tell us all about fire safety and how very different the fire brigade is today, compared to 1666 when the Great Fire of London broke out. 

    We had lots of fun trying on the special clothing worn by firefighters, testing the heavy helmet and learning about how this clothing protects firefighters when fighting fires or helping people in need. 

    We shared the story, ‘The Dragon Who Came to Tea’ and identified all of the important messages within this book. 
    The children learnt about what to do in the event of a fire; learning actions to help us remember to ‘get out, stay out and call 999’ and ‘stop, drop and roll’ 

    We also learnt how to keep our own homes fire safe, including testing smoke alarms once a week. The children then made their very own ‘Noisy’ to take home to remind us to test our smoke alarms weekly. 

    We also learnt about the importance of knowing our home address which I have challenged the children to learn with their grown-ups.

    The children had lots of sensible ideas about keeping their homes safe which I’m sure they would love to share with you at home. 

     

     

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