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With happy smiles from Amazon Class :)
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/
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.
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.
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;
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.
