Powerdown Day and end of the week .....

We had a great day on friday with no electricity and the children loved the little tealights that we used to see what we were doing! That morning we designed our own flower garden for one of the veg trugs, as part of a competition. We read stories about gardens: one about a little boy's garden, set in this country and one about a little Indian girl's garden. We looked at pictures of plants and looked at real flowers, then set about our own designs in a variety of ways. The results were delightful and so varied - Mr Wainwright will have a very hard job to judge the winning garden! Well done to ALL of Class 2 for being so creative!

We have also been learning about different explorers in Class 2. This week we compared the times of Christopher Columbus to those of Neil Armstrong. The children were fascinated to know that when computers were first invented, they took up a whole room!!!!

Some children also used numicon and puzzles in their maths work, other children did some different Thinking Things Through  maths activities, for example finding out how old a grandma was from a series of clues, and finding all the possible ways of sharing 20 baby birds between 3 nests - but they could only use even numbers! Very tricky, but well tried, that group.

Our Nativity Play is also coming along and it's 26 Sleeps till Christmas!