Reading day.

Today we had our Reading day and Official launch of the lending library.

 Here we are dressed as our favourite book characters.

 We shared our books and read with children from Year 4.

Later we listened to the wonderful author Kathryn White. She read us two of her books and explained what inspires her to write. She then officially opened our lending library and we were all able to choose a book to take home. 

Happy Reading Everyone!

Science. Learning about plants.

This half term our topic work is all about plants and gardens.We are making a garden centre and plant shop in our classroom. We have made a research area in our book corner so we can go and find answers to our own questions e.g. What can plants be used for?  What do plants need to grow?  How are new plants made?Why are plants so different? Why are they different colours?

We have been learning about how plants make new plants. To learn more look at these videos!

Firefighters visit

Today we had a visit from Jon Sweet - the Education officer from Dorset Fire and Rescue service.
He explained how we must make sure our homes have smoke alarms and we have an exit plan in the event of a fire.

We learnt the sequence of events if there is a fire in our home.

1. Smoke alarm goes off.
2. Shout "FIRE"
3. Get out, stay out...Don't go back for your toys!
4. Phone 999, say your address and what has happened.

If a fire reaches you you must STOP, DROP and ROLL!

We learnt how firefighters prepare themselves to fight fires safely and we had a go at getting the uniforms on in less than 1 minute.

Then the fire engine arrived!

Thank you firefighters for visiting us and for all the good work you do!

For more information visit Safe-D Kids on

http://www.dorsetfire.gov.uk/

**** NEVER PLAY WITH MATCHES OR LIGHTERS.****

Science - Heating materials

Many materials change in different ways when they are heated - Ice becomes water, water becomes steam etc.Bread becomes toast!

We changed some materials by heating them.

Like chocolate ...

and cake mix...

It was a great science lesson and we had lots of fun. Later we did a magic trick - we made all the cakes disappear!

Here are some links to science clips about how some materials change when heated.
Glass blowing
From liquid to solid

Gymnastics in Year 2

Here we are preparing for our 'Gym' festival.
It was hard work but we had lots of fun (and made a couple of mistakes too!) but "Practice makes perfect!!!"

Well done to everybody for working so hard.

(Just click on the PLAY button to run the video)

The Great Fire of London

This week we are going to be learning about the events of the Great Fire of London.

Click on this link to play a game all about the fire.

www.fireoflondon.org.uk/game

A FIERY start to 2012!!!

Happy New Year to everyone!

This half-term we have the exciting topic of 'Fire'.
The children have already thought about the good and bad features of fire and raised some interesting questions -

• How do fires start?
• How do they spread?
• Does everything burn?
• Why is fire different colours?
• How hot is fire?

In Science we will be looking at materials and their properties. We have aleready looked around our classroom and sorted objects into material groups.

Later we will be seeing which materials can be changed by heating and cooling.

On the children's page (above) you will find activities you can try in order to find out more about materials.