This term year 2 have been busy on their trip to The Musuem of Carpets we learnt all about the history of Kidderminster and how Kidderminster was famous for making carpets. We learnt lots of new words such as, weaving, loom and bobbin. We had a go at weaving and separating the sheep's wool where we took all the hard bits out and any grass that we found, we also had a go on the spinning wheel and watched how the big carpet machine (loom) worked. We had lots of fun!

We have spent some time outside in the allotment and started to prepare the soil so all the weeds were out and talked about why we needed to do this and how we needed to look after the soil to be able to plant when the weather picks up. During our science lessons we have been looking at plants, we learnt that germination means for a seed to start to grow and sprout and we have planted our own bulbs and will watch them grow over the next few months to watch the life cycle of a plant. 

During maths we have looked into fractions we have learnt to share equally between groups to then find out what a ¼ ½ ¾ and a whole are. We used lots of practical methods for this such as sharing crayons, sweets, cutting cakes and bread into the correct equal pieces such as halves and a quarter. 

In Writing we have written a Non-chronological report we learnt that we had to include real facts which made it non-fiction and that it does not matter what order the information is presented. We based it on Minibeasts and reminded ourselves of minibeasts facts that we had learnt previously in order to help us write our final piece. The children really enjoyed finding out more facts and sharing them with other children in the class to help with their final piece of writing.

We hope you have a lovely Easter break and we can not wait to see you all in the new term. Happy Easter Year 2 🙂