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Home Safety with Second Class

31/1/2014

It is so important to feel safe in your home!
Can you think of any rules that you should have in your home to be safer?

Follow These Safety Rules In Your Home

Electricity can be dangerous, so don't use it carelessly. Follow these safety rules:

Never use any electric appliance in the tub or shower. Shocks can be fatal.
Never insert a metal object into an appliance without disconnecting the appliance first. Metal conducts electricity.
Never touch an electric cord or appliance while your hands are wet.
Never overload a circuit with high-wattage appliances. Check wattage on the appliance labels.
Turn off lights and appliances when you go out. Teach your children this habit by example.
Know your appliances. Read and follow manufacturers' instructions. Be sure all appliances and power tools carry the label of a national testing laboratory.
Practice extension cord safety. Cords are for temporary indoor use, away from moisture, heat or metal pipes -- and never under rugs.

Have a look at the pictures below and answer the survey questions below.

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Homes

31/1/2014

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Our topic this week is the theme of HOME.
Can you name some homes of different animals? Can you name any homes of insects? Where is your home? What makes a home a home?

What sort of a home do u live in? What materials are needed to make your home?

Have a look at the unusual houses below.

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Subtraction Practice with second class

31/1/2014

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Try out these maths games
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/subtraction.htm
http://www.fun4thebrain.com/subtraction.html
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/addition-and-subtraction
http://hoodamath.com/games/subtraction.php

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The Butterfly with Second Class

22/1/2014

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This week we are investigating the life cycle of a Butterfly.
We have researched some fun and interesting facts about them.

Butterflies are insects.
A butterfly’s lifecycle is made up of four parts, egg, larva (caterpillars), pupa (chrysalis) and adult.
Butterflies attach their eggs to leaves with a special glue.
Most caterpillars are plant eaters (herbivores).
Fully grown caterpillars attach themselves to a suitable twig or leaf before shedding their outside layer of skin to reveal a hard skin underneath known as a chrysalis.
An adult butterfly will eventually emerge from the chrysalis where it will wait a few hours for its wings to fill with blood and dry, before flying for the first time.
Butterflies can live in the adult stage from anywhere between a week and a year, depending on the species.
Butterflies have four wings.
Butterflies often have brightly coloured wings with unique patterns made up of tiny scales.
Most butterflies feed on nectar from flowers.
Butterflies taste receptors are on their feet.
Scientists estimate that there are between 15000 and 20000 different species of butterfly.
Birdwing butterflies have large, angular wings and fly in a similar way to birds.
Monarch butterflies are known for their long migration. Every year monarch butterflies will travel a great distance (sometimes over 4000 km), females will lay eggs and a new generation of monarchs will travel back, completing the cycle

Look up this information yourself
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/butterfly.html
Check out the San Diago Zoo:
http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals/insects/butterfly

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Ants with Second Class

20/1/2014

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This week we are looking at insects and we decided to focus on the ant. Did you know that ants can live up to ten years?
An individual ant cannot survive without its colony.
Ants have lived on the Earth for more than 100 million years.
Ants are related to wasps.
Ants live in organized communities called colonies.
Ants smell with their antennae.
Ants can hear with their legs.
Ants are near-sighted.
Ants can bite, sting, and spray their enemies with chemicals.
Ants can walk upside down.
Ants are very neat and clean.
Ants do not have lungs, and they have tiny brains.

Ants do not have lungs, and they have tiny brains.
An ant’s worst enemy is another ant. Some ant colonies have
huge wars in which thousands of ants rip one another to pieces.
Ants are strong. They can carry food 5 times greater than their
own weight or drag items 25 times heavier.
Ants like hot and humid climates, like the tropics.
Worker ants are all female.
Male ants don’t do any work in the colony. They live a short time
and their only job is to mate with young queens.
When an ant dies it simply falls over. The other ants ignore it
until it starts to rot. Then they pick it up, and carry it out of the
nest

We have discovered lots of interesting facts about ants.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/activities/funscience/ants-science-experiment/_

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Subtraction and Renaming with Second Class

15/1/2014

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This week we are learning how to RENAME!
Can anyone remember the steps we have to use to RENAME?
It's important to revise our subtraction tables.

Play the games below.

Fishing Subtraction
http://www.softschools.com/math/games/fishing_sub.jsp

Shoot the Fruit
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fruitshoot/fruitshoot_subtraction.htm
2-Digit Subtraction
http://www.softschools.com/math/subtraction/2_digit_subtraction/2_digit_subtraction_with_regrouping/

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The Super Heroes of Second Class

15/1/2014

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POW......BAM.........WOW!!!
This week second class are SUPERHEROES!
What makes a good superhero? What special powers do they have? Who is your favourite Superhero?
Leave a comment below.
Make your own superhero comic strip below
http://marvelkids.marvel.com/activities_

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On The Ning Nang Nong! with Second Class

15/1/2014

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This week we had great fun learning Spike Mulligan's poem-'The NIng Nang NOng!' We had great fun inventing our own animals and creating our own sounds on the NIng Nang NOng! We even created a picture of what the Ning Nang NOng might look like. It's a real tongue twister!! Have a go at saying it. You can listen to second class rhyming it off.

On the Ning Nang Nong
On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

Spike Milligan

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Rounding and Estimating with Second Class

8/1/2014

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This week we are rounding numbers!
Remember 5 and above, give it a shove.
4 and below, let it go!
Play the games below:
http://www.adaptedmind.com/p.php?tagId=185#

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/glowlas-estimation-contraption/

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