Year 2/3

Year 2/3 enjoyed a 'Creative Day' as a reward for reaching 150 class points in Term Three. They decorated cookies, learned to sew running stitch and tye-dyed fabric, which is now being made into cushions. 

In Mathematics the class explored grams and kilograms, and estimated and weighed items that weigh less than, the same as and greater than one kilogram. Their estimates were very accurate!

Year 2/3 are enjoying their novel study of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl. The class examined Roald Dahl's technique of using similes in descriptions and how the names of the characters 'suit' the personality of each. The children created characters of their own, with names such as 'Horatio Sourgrape' and 'Hermoine Honeybee' and wrote descriptions (including similes) to describe their characters. It was great fun!

Outcomes:

MA2-NSM-01 estimates, measures and compares the masses of objects using kilograms and grams

EN1-UARL-01 understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose

EN2-CWT-01 plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience