Welcome to the Meerkat class blog!

I can’t believe our first week together is nearly done! We have had lots of fun getting to know each other and carrying out our Bear Hunt themed activities. I have been so impressed by the children’s hard working attitude and enthusiasm.

This will be our class blog for the year. Here you will be able to see examples of our wonderful work, updates on our learning in class and photographs of all the fun we are having! Please feel free to comment as the children love hearing your feedback!

Miss Dale 😀

Researching Meerkats!

Yesterday, we used the ipads and factfiles to research lots of Meerkat facts! We have found out about their diet, habitat and appearance. Today we wrote our own information reports using what we found out. Some of these will be displayed in our classroom soon!

Have a look at our fantastic writing 🙂

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Miss Dale.

Welcome to the Meerkat class blog!

I can’t believe our first week together is nearly done! We have had lots of fun getting to know each other and carrying out our Bear Hunt themed activities. I have been so impressed by the children’s hard working attitude and enthusiasm.

This will be our class blog for the year. Here you will be able to see examples of our wonderful work, updates on our learning in class and photographs of all the fun we are having! Please feel free to comment as the children love hearing your feedback!

Miss Dale 😀

Traditional Tales

On Friday, the Meerkats all did an AMAZING job inventing their own version of the tale of The Lion and the Mouse. Their problem sections were extremely scary, but they all thought of a way to solve it and end their story happily. This week we will be publishing our new and improved versions of the story as a book which we are all very excited about!

Here are some of the children’s stories, starting with the ‘Oh no, There’s a Problem’. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did…

Olivia
Without warning the prairie dog heard a horrifying trumpet echo across the Savannah. Just then the prairie dog remembered his promise. Before going to the elephant he collected some things he might need. When he got there the elephant was surrounded by hunters with bows and arrows, cutlasses and more. The hunters wanted ivory to take to the Ivory Coast.
The things he collected were very useful now…A ARMY OF PRAIRIE DOGS! The prairie dogs broke everything but left one and hid it and made it dusty so the hunters ran away. The prairies felt incredibly proud.
The elephant and the prairie dog were friends forever and the closest of friends.

Scarlet
AARR! Without warning the spotty jaguar screamed in fear. Just at that moment the colourful lilac breasted roller remembered his promise. As quick as a flash he flew to the echoing scream and he saw the jaguar trapped under a hunters net. The jaguar was so frightened and his heart was pumping faster than ever while his body was shaking with fear.
Bravely he grabbed the net and pulled it up with all his might while the jaguar was looking out for hunters. When the lilac breasted roller had pulled the net up the jaguar whispered all the hunters over there. Then the lilac breasted roller flew to the hunter while holding the net and he dropped the net on the hunter.
Finally they ran away in so much laughter while the lilac flew and the jaguar pounced along behind him.

Billy
A few days later the meerkat was taking a walk when suddenly he heard an incredibly loud and enormous scream echo across the Savannah. As quick as lightening he remembered his promise and raced like an F1 car. Suddenly he ran into the trip and slipped his feet out. Then he broke the net.

The Lion and the Mouse

In literacy, we are developing our story writing skills by innovating a traditional tale. Last week we re-told the tale of The Lion and the Mouse. We explored its structure and language features in detail, and now we are ready to createour own version of the famous tale! We have each chosen 2 safari animals to become the main characters in our story, and have created some of our own plot events. Here are some pictures of our role-play as the Lion and the Mouse from last week. Can you tell which part of the story we are showing? How are you going to change the events to fit with your original story this week? Can you describe how the characters are feeling?

Miss Dale.

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Zoo Lab!

This Monday, all of KS1 received a visit from Zoo Lab linked to our ‘On Safari’ topic. We have researched minibeasts in lots of detail, so we were very excited when we learned we would get the opportunity to see some exotic mini-beasts up close…and even get to hold some of them!

Here are some pictures of our exciting session. The mini-beasts we saw were a tarantula and a scorpion. Then we had the chance to hold a giant African millipede, a Madagascar cockroach and a snake!

The children were EXTREMELY brave (much more brave than me…I could only hold them for a couple of seconds!)

Well done Safari Rangers :]
Miss Dale.

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Sports Day!

This morning, Meerkats took part in the Year 1, 2 and 3 sports day and I must say how very impressed I was with each and every one of them. The children all worked well as a team, listened carefully to adults and showed off their fantastic sporting abilities! Well done marvellous Meerkats. I think we may well have some future Olympians in our class…

Using Ipads to research.

This week in literacy we are learning to write an information report. We will be focusing on using different openers, connectives and structuring our report correctly with both a beginning and end. To get us started, the children worked with their listening partners today to research a safari animal of their choice…on our school’s Ipads! I was so impressed with how sensible the children were, especially since this was our first time using them! They were all able to search the internet for useful information and record their findings in their own words. Keep up your fabulous work Meerkats! I can’t wait to read your interesting reports on Friday :]

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Outdoor Maths!

Recently, we have been working hard to practise our written method for division by sharing. We now understand what each part of a division number sentence means, and can draw out the problem to help us solve it. Here is the fabulous maths Meerkats did on the playground on Friday. If you look carefully you can see how clearly they were setting out their work. After working on our number sentences, we swapped around and checked another pair’s working out to help them improve. Marvellous maths Meerkats!

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Indoor Sports

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Unfortunately, on Thursday our Sports Day was cancelled because of all the rain! To make up for this, all of Year 2 took part in some indoor games which we used to inspire our big writes on Friday. We wrote instructions for Beanbag Bullseye! The children remembered lots of the features we use in this genre and their writing was full of bossy words, time signposts and ly words. Why don’t you have a go at playing this at home and see if you can follow your own instructions?