This week in our PE lessons, we began learning and practising the skills needed to play football. To start with, we practised passing the ball to our partner and stopping it by placing our foot on top. We then discussed what dribbling means and practised this by dribbling the ball around the cones.
This week, Year 2 have been learning about 2D shapes. We can name and identify 2D shapes and can now identify quadrilaterals and regular and irregular polygons. Take a look at us creating own own regular and irregular polygons below.
This half term, Year 2 have been developing their football skills. Over the past two weeks we have been learning how to stop a ball with control and then use this skill to help us learn how to attack and defend!
On Friday, it was Acer Tree's turn to take part in 'Mini Chef'. As a class we decided to make vegetarian fajitas. We all had a go at chopping various vegetables and even took part in bagging up our delicious wraps ready to sell after school!
In Science this half term, Year 2 are learning about plants! As part of our learning this week, Year 2 have learnt about how plants pollinate.
In groups, we created flowers and bees and then role-played the process of pollination. We leant about key vocabulary such as, pollen, nectar, dispersal and pollinate. Here is some of our learning below.
Day 5
Day 5 was the final day and the day we made and evaluated our wraps!
We followed our designs, made sure we used the correct cutting grip when chopping our ingredients and then created our final product.
Once we had finished making our group wraps, we then tasted our product and evaluated it. We considered whether it met the brief, if it could be improved by adding different ingredients or textures and then gave it a score out of 5!
Day 3
Day 3 was design day!
Now that we've taste tested a variety of combinations we decided on our final design for our group wraps.
We checked that they met the design brief and then enjoyed making up a name for our product.
Some of names include:
'Tunalicious'
'Chicken Star Wrap'
'Turkey Crunch Surprise'
Day 4
Day 4 was a day for us to develop our cutting skills. In order for us to chop our proteins, fruits and vegetables carefully we had to learn the 'claw' and 'bridge' grip.
We learnt that the 'claw' grip is best used for long, rigid foods like cucumbers and carrots, whilst the 'bridge' grip is best for spherical foods such as, tomatoes and onions.
