Month: January 2017

Today Year 2 watched this BBC Live Lesson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04pkxkw

The programme introduces the 500 Words competition run by BBC Radio 2. The boys planned some ideas for their story and will bring their planning sheet home today. We would like to encourage all boys to write their story and submit their entries online. There are some great prizes and they might even get published!

Please can you use the link below to find out more and to submit your entry. If you decide to take part please do send a copy into school so we can see it. We are also happy for all Year 2 boys not to complete their Story Spelling Challenge homework next week in order to take part in this competition.

The stories should be as creative and imaginative as possible.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1

When a liquid is heated, the particles are given more energy. They start to move faster and further apart. At a certain temperature, the particles break free of one another and the liquid turns to gas. This is the boiling point. The boiling point of a substance is always the same; it does not vary.

We are challenging ourselves to subtract numbers from each other.

In our lesson today, some boys selected very large numbers e.g 4007 to subtract from.

Can you comment with some challenge questions for your friends to answer? Write the answers to your questions at the bottom of the post.

Thank you!

Yesterday night your son should have hopefully come home with a list of materials on a post it note.

These are the materials they have selected to make their recycle-o-bot models from next Thursday afternoon.

Please can you ensure they have the materials in school before next Thursday.

Many thanks for your continued support

Mrs Alton

Do you know the answers to the following time problems?

1. Martin took the dog for a walk at 5.00 p.m. He came back at 7.00 p.m. How long was he out?
2. Mrs Dingle’s cake was in the oven from 3.00 until ¼ to 4. How long was it in the oven altogether?
3. Charlie went to see his friend. He left there at 6 o’clock after staying for 2 hours. What time had he arrived?
4. The postman started delivering letters at half past 5 in the morning. He took 1 ½ hours to finish his round. What time did he finish?
5. Carol and Joe went running every morning. They left the house at half past 6 and returned at 8 o’clock. How long were they running for?
6. A man took 6 hours to build a wall. If he finished at 3 p.m., what time did he start?
7. A train leaves London at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. It arrives in Manchester at 6.30. How long was the journey?
8. Gordon always takes ½ an hour to read the newspaper in the evening.He starts at a quarter past 7. What time does he finish?
9. Mr. Evans wanted to chop down a tree in his garden. He started at 10.30 a.m. and didn’t finish until 12 midday. How long did it take him?
10. Auntie Flo sat and did her knitting every evening for 1 hour and then went to bed. If she started knitting at 10 p.m., what time did she go to bed?

We are composting as our ‘Sustainability Pledge’ as part of a whole school project.

The boys enjoy their fruit and compost the remains in our compost bin, rather than putting the food waste into the bin.

Please support out pledge by recycling food waste at home.

Composting is the decomposition of materials that originated from animals and plants. These organic materials can be things such as plant trimmings, vegetable cuttings, eggshells and teabags. The composting process produces a dark, crumbly matter that can be used as fertiliser in garden soil.

We were lucky enough to visit the science laboratory again this afternoon.

We used a bunsen burner to heat five different materials to see how they changed when heated.

Here are photos from our visit,

Mrs Barry, who is Head of Science, burnt pieces of magnesium to show us how it reacts vigorously with oxygen to produce magnesium oxide. We learnt that fireworks contain magnesium.

Please comment to tell us which materials changed and how.

Here is a link to a fantastic materials activity on the BBC website,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/grouping_materials.shtml

 

Today we have been revising time. We have been looking at o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past on analogue and digital clocks. Later on this week we will be solving simple time problems such as,

I left my house at 4 o’clock and walked for 45 minutes. What time did I stop walking?

If you would like to continue to practise at home here are some games to help. The ‘quarter to’ and ‘quarter past’ times were particular tricky today!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/telling_the_time/play/popup.shtml

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/on_time_game1.swf

http://www.ictgames.com/clockDemonstrator/index.html

http://www.ictgames.com/hickory4.html

Have fun!

Please comment to let us know how you get on. Thank you.