This term Year 2

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Welcome to East Grinstead
This term Year 2s topic is Where we Live. We
have been looking at where our homes are, places
in West Sussex, our environment and we have been
exploring plants and animals that share our
habitat.
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Where do I live?
As part of our walk to school week we have found
where we live on maps and on the internet. Here
are some of our own maps.
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Wormery Way
Can you spot my home?
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Click here when you see the Mini Beast drawings
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Poems about Mini Beasts and Plants
In Literacy we have been reading lots of poems
and we have written our own poems about our
favourite mini beasts and plants.
Click on the Dandelion for plant poems, and click
on the Ladybird for mini beast poems.
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Mini Beast Puppet Story
Click the image to watch a short mini beast story.
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Learning about our Environment
As part of our science we have looked closely
into parts of a plants and how plants grow.
Can you label the Plant? Click on the Flower to
play a labelling game
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Petals
Seed
Roots
Stem
Leaves
Try to guess which words go with which arrows,
then watch the short film to see if you were
right!
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Click here to see a flower growing
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A Growing Plant Animation
Click on the image to see the animation and click
on the Bluebell for some animation plans.
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Wakehurst Place
To help us learn more about Plants we spent the
day at Wakehurst Place. We saw bees pollinating,
plants growing and lots more
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We looked carefully at some of the foods we eat
and we decided which part of a plant they were
from was it the stem, the leaves, the fruit or
even the roots! Afterwards we looked at the
artist Arcrimboldo who made faces out of food and
then we got creative and tried it too! What do
you think?
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Review

• What we did
• We looked at maps on the internet and maps from
  books, we drew our own maps and labelled our
  school and our houses we studied plants and mini
  beasts. We designed a caterpillar and a snail for
  the animation, we made animation plans for the
  filming, we made scenery and props for our
  animation and puppet play, we used digi blue
  cameras to film our animation .We did sketches of
  plants and mini beasts in paint and on paper , we
  wrote poems about mini beasts and plants, we
  visited Wakehurst Place and looked at the work of
  Arcrimboldo.
• What problems were overcome
• Making the setting for the animation was tricky
  as we had to hide the stem of the plant until it
  was needed. Then the seed kept falling down and
  rolling away. The computer crashed half way
  through. The heads of the animals in the
  animation needed wire because they wouldnt turn
  easily. When we made the scenery the glue stuck
  to our fingers. Max spoke half way through the
  filming of the puppet play and interrupted the
  show. The legs on the spider hand puppet kept
  falling off.