All About Safety

In Geography, we have looked at the roads right around our school.
We have surveyed the traffic by standing on each corner for 15 minutes.
We have tallied the traffic and then had a debate of why our area is safe or unsafe.

Now here are some ideas to use in your safety poster.
1. Walking About Safely - Tales of the Road website.
2. The Green Cross Code - from Think Education.
3. Green Cross Code video - Your parents will know this one from 1976!

Now, think about your safety poster. Can you include other safety features you know of? (eg. sleeping policemen?)

All About Habitats

What is an envirnonment? What is a habitat? Why do animals, plants and all living things live in different areas?

In Science, we will find out...

1. Garden Explorer -
Look at the day and night creatures in the garden.
2. Human & Animal Habitats -
Different things live in different places.
3. Nature Explorers -
Look at the grassland, pondland and woodland links. Which will you see at Wandsworth Common? 

All About Numbers

We are always learning our Times Tables and doing different sums for adding, subtracting, multiplication and division. Look here for the topics and games that we have used in lessons.

1. 4x Tables Target Game - and all other tables too!
2. Doubling Numbers - using partitioning.


Challenge Yourself!
1. Saving Squad - double, halve and round money at the restaurant.

All About Insects

Summer 2 topics in ICT and Science will be about different insects and animal habitats.

ICT

• We will use webquests to search a topic following the instructions.
• We will work in teams to make a presentation about our insect.
• We will choose our presentation tool - PPoint or Google Sites?

1. Perfectly Penguins - Lsn 1 Webquest Introduction
    Do sections 1, 2 and 3 with your team.
2. Penguins Are Cool - Lsn 1 Webquest
    Is it better than the Perfectly Penguins webquest?
3. Fairy Penguins - Lsn 1 Website
    A webpage by children from Australia.
 4.  Google Sites: Lsn 2
    A test webpage about Fairy Penguins.

 
5. Butterfly Video - Lsn 2 Is this a good way to present information?

6. Butterfly Webpage - Lsn 2 Is this webpage a better way to present?

7. Butterfly PPoint - Lsn 2 Or is this the best way to present information?

Are you ready for an Animal Webquest?

• Work in groups
• Choose an animal
• Decide how you will present your learning.

All About Shapes

It's the last part of the Summer Term. We are revising lots of shapes we know but adding new ideas too!

Right now we are working with shapes.
1. 2D shapes - Do you know their properties?
2. Right angles - in 2D shapes. You need a FLASH player for this game.
3. 3D shapes - A BRILLIANT site to help you learn shape properties!
4. 3D shapes from nets - nrich Maths video

5. Symmetry - see if you can make your own patterns and reflections. Use the coloured polygons.

Can you remember how to share out fractions?
1. Kids & Cookies - choose your friends, cookies and eat them!

Test Section - Poster

Ourselves Poster

All About Famous People

In History, we are learning about English Explorers (and one famous American explorer!)

• Who are they?
• Why are they famous?
• What can we learn from them for our future?

1. Sir Francis Drake Video
    A pirate or the queen's hero? Watch the video.
2. Captain Robert Scott
    Who was he? What was his goal? Did he achieve it? Look at the pictures.
    Scott's Last Expedition
    In 2012, there will be an exhibition at The British Museum.
3. Neil Armstrong
    With Buzz Aldrin, they were the first people to land on the moon.

All About Animals

Animals are fantastic - all of them - great and small! That's why we are learning about them this half term in English, ICT and in part of our Science lessons.

English and ICT

• We will hear a story of a chameleon who struggles to change colour.
• We will write our story about an animal who solves his/her similar problem.
• We will write and make an informational poster about an animal of our own choice.

1. Facts about Chameleons

    This website has 20 different facts to read - sorry there are no pictures.
2. Meller's Chameleon
    Where it is found and how it is different to other chameleons. National Geographic.
3. Chameleons
    Lots of good facts and an easy read.
4. National Geographic Kids - Chameleon video
    Watch the baby hatch and get food on it's own.

For more animals, National Geographic Kids and The London Zoo have good pages to read. 

Click the links below.

5. All About Animals - A FANTASTIC website for Yr 2 readers! From Northumberland Learning. Click the bird to go back to the start.
6. National Geographic Kids 1 - lots of mammals to click on!
7. National Geographic Kids - type the animal name in the Search Bar.

8. The London Zoo - click on the Meet the Mammals or other Meet the titles.

All About Plants

Our Summer 1 Term topic: Plants, Animals and Humans

In our Science groups, we will investigate how seeds grow best over 3 weeks. Click on the group's links to see the progress in photos and text.

Watching Seeds Grow - Brainy Bears
Watching Seeds Grow - Learn-ed Lions
Watching Seeds Grow - Terrific Tigers
Watching Seeds Grow - Perfect Penquins
Watching Seeds Grow - Clever Cockatoos

Here are some fantastic sites and videos to help you learn about the way plants grow and change.

1. Speeding Up Life - BBC Video Collection
    Watch how these plants grow (but not so fast in real life!)
2. Parts of a Plant
    Match the labels to each part of the plant.
3. Seed Dispersal
    See what happens to the seeds after a plant loses leaves or petals.
4. A Plant Story - from YouTube
    How plants grow, how they make food. It's the whole story for curious minds.

The Royal Wedding

April 29th 2011 is fast approaching. Londoners and the world are getting excited!!

Who is Kate Middleton?
Look at the photos of her as 3yr old to today.
A Wedding Service
Click on the different pictures to see what happens at weddings.

All About London

LONDON LANDMARKS

ICT work:

• We will see some of the popular sites on our trip
• We will find images of them on the internet

English work:

• We will research information about them
• We will make Top Trumps cards for them

1. Woodlands Junior Project Britain
   Read and find information about many popular landmarks in London.      
2. St. Mary's Axe (or Gherkin)
   One of the new buildings in London. Some people like it. Others don't.     
3. The Shard
   What new building is this? The tallest building in London, Europe or the world?
4. The Shard in the news
   Why was a fox on top of it? Read on Newsround.     
   

Geography work:

• We will read maps and  symbols of central London
• We will learn to read maps with grid references
• We will learn about London's transport
• We will get excited about the London 2012 Countdown!

All About Forces

FORCES & MOVEMENT

• We will learn that most forces are made of pushes and pulls. 
• We will learn the name of different forces. 
• We will look at ways to investigate how forces work with vehicles and how to make a fair test.

These websites can help you find out about our lessons:

1. NGfL Changing the shape of materials
   Click the activity. Sometimes there is more than 1 answer.
2. Pushes and Pulls Quiz
   See which forces you use everyday and how much you have learnt!
3. Changing Movement by Force
   Talk to someone about the forces used.
4. Test the toy cars (BBC Science clips)
   Test the red and blue cars. Change how you push them.