Times Table Trophies!

Swifts, Skylarks, Nightingales and Rooks are rising to the challenge of collecting their Times Table Trophies!

Across the classes children are challenging themselves to focus on their times tables. It's fantastic to see such enthusiasm from the children towards progressing through the trophies! They will be frequently practicing their tables in class before completing a times table sheet.

Children are delighted when they complete a times table to get a gold star on their Times Table Trophy card and a certificate to take home!

Kingfishers having fun with numbers!

This week Kingfishers are thinking about counting objects correctly, recognising numbers and ordering numbers.  Some of our Kingfishers have been using the language '1 more' and '1 less' when working out missing numbers.

 
In the Mud Kitchen some children have been following recipes for Stone Soup, Leaf Salad, Fir Cone Stew, and other delicious meals.  When following these recipes the children have had to put in correct quantities into the mixing bowls.

During the night a number monster had visited our classroom and eaten some of our numbers. He left us a note saying that some of our friends had tried to stop him so he had tide them up (number monsters have to eat you know).  The number monster said he would give us the keys to let our friends go if we could work out the numbers he had eaten (the missing numbers). The children worked well together and managed to win the key and save their friends.

Another activity the children have enjoyed was giving their friends some hair!  The children had pictures of their classmates, but with their hair missing.  They needed to identify the number next to the photo, and add that amount of 'pasta hair' to the picture.

Super work Kingfishes!

EPIC End to SWIFT'S SUPER Science week!

Super Swifts had an epic end to Science week! We finished with the best experiment yet...which liquids would EXPLODE when popping in a packet of mentos! Children predicted which liquid they thought would react the most, least and created questions that they wanted to answer. It was FANTASTIC! Poor Mrs Carey though, she got soaked!

The Cola reacted the best and made a MASSIVE fountain, exploding everywhere! It was...SCIENCE-TASTIC! I wonder what we could change for next year to make it even bigger...

Super Swifts LOVE blowing BUBBLES!

Day 3: Bubble Bobble
So, today we thought we'd test which 2D Shapes created the best bubbles.  Each Swift was given a piece of wire to bend to their desired shape, this was the perfect opportunity to apply their maths skills. To make it even more challenging, we tested the bubbles with three different liquids - washing up liquid,  shampoo and shower gel! Can you guess which one performed the best bubbles? It's not what you think...it was the shower gel! Swifts will be writing up their results and explaining why! Take a look below at the fab fun that Swifts had earlier. 

BEWARE... bubbles = some very EXCITED Swifts...

Super Swifts get MESSY!

Day 2: Gloop Mess!
Well, Swifts truly got the chance to get really messy today as they created their very own...GLOOP MESS! Using their measuring skills linked to their Maths this week, Swifts used a range of ingredients to create the gloop. They carefully worked together in creating the  mess but most importantly had fun doing it.  Watching the liquid turn into the solid helped them to then write a set of instructions for others to use. Now, that's what I call super fun Science! Go Swifts!
Take a peak at some of the highlights caught on camera from earlier, be warned though as this may make you want to try this at home...

I wonder what fantastic fun we'll get up to tomorrow...stay tuned for some more 'Science-tastic' shenanigans! 

Super Swifts create an Ocean!

That's right, SUPER Swifts created an Ocean...in a bottle!  Linked to our `Titanic` topic the class applied their capacity skills to create this unique thing.  Children thought carefully about how much water, oil and glitter was needed and measured it out working as a team. Great communication skills were shown and Mrs Carey and I were utterly impressed :) This amazing opportunity then allowed Swifts to create some wonderful writing about what was created. Lots of `EX` awards were given out because they were wonderful to read!
Look how cool they look...

Super Swifts are...SCIENCE-TASTIC!

Wow! What a great start to the week it has been in the SUPER Swift class! As you know this is `Science week` and in year 2 we LOVE being creative! So... in true Swift style we are taking part in  practical (and fun) experiments each day to apply all of our amazing skills (Science, writing and of course Maths!) Take a sneak peak below at yesterdays experiments, it was... SCIENCE-TASTIC! That's my class`s words, not mine :)

Day 1: White flower vs Celery stick
The first experiment allowed children to test which would change colour first, white flowers or a celery stick.  strange right? Children used a coloured dye and added it to some water. They made sensible predictions and now will watch closely each day to see what will happen. We had some amazing predictions so it will be faacinating to see who predicted correctly and why!