Year 2

Year 2 have been learning about the structure of the rain forest. Below is a diagram of the structure and a typed up explanation of what has been drawn. 

"This is our picture of the rainfoest. It shows the four layrs of the rainforest like the forst floor, the under canpy, the canpy and finally the emergent layer. The sun does not get to touch the forst floor and it is very dark so that’s why we coloured it in black. It’s a bit lighter in the under canpy because a littl bit more light gets there. Trees grow taller in the canopy layr because they get more sun. But the layr with the tallest trees is the emergent layer because thos trees pop out of the canopy layr. They get the most sun of all and they have a shampe like an umbrella!"

Marie-Ann and Lea

Year 1
This week we have been learning about fractions. We started the week finding parts of a whole practically using a range of resources. Here is a child in 1A piecing together parts of a pizza to make a whole. 

Here is an example of how we used the numicon to find equal pieces of a whole. This child was able to find 1/3 of 6.

 This child has split 20 into 4 groups, finding out that 1/4 of 20 =5.

In English we have been looking at traditional tales. 

1M have been retelling the story of The Frog Prince by sequencing the story into the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending. In this video children in 1M act out the opening scene.

We loved the use of actions, expression and clear voices.

Year 2

2J have been learning about a variety of important concepts in science this week. The children worked together in small groups to explore the life cycles of humans and other animals. Also, they discussed what humans, plants and animals need to do to grow and stay healthy. As a class we drew a number of conclusions about the basic needs of living things.

Straight into learning

Welcome back to The Grove Academy. We hope you enjoyed your break and had a rest!
This week Year 1 were straight into their learning by using rulers and cubes to measure the length of different objects that you might find in a castle.

On Wednesday we got to choose which equipment we wanted to measure in when given a choice of cubes or a ruler. We had a go at recording too. 

Eg:

The flag = 12 cubes.

The flag = 29cm. 

Here is a picture of Sanuga's work from 1F

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