English - Flamingos

In our English lessons Flamingos have been focusing on an adventure story called The Tunnel. Below are pictures of us collecting adjectives to describe the different tunnels using our senses.

Sustainable Storks

The Storks have been learning different ways to look after our world. We discussed many things that we can change/do, such as: turning the lights off when we leave the room (as long as nobody else is still in it :)), not leaving the tap running when we brush our teeth, recycling our garbage and having a shower instead of a bath. We talked about how it is hard to walk to places in Abu Dhabi as it is often too hot and that there is not a lot of public transport, however, some children mentioned that they car pool in order to cut down the traffic on the road. The children then each made a pledge on something that they promise to do to help the world and signed it using a handprint.

Flamingos ICT

Flamingos had lots of fun learning about animals in the polar regions. They used PowerPoint which was programmed to ask branching questions and the children had to click yes or no and it would reveal the animal they had chosen. The children found this very clever and learnt lots about the animals.

Polar Explorers

Year 2 are delighted to be able to use their new shared curriculum focused area Polar Regions.
Some of the activities undertaken last week were constructing igloos out of sugar cubes, letting their creative juices flow completing Polar play dough activities, making models of rescue helicopters, ice vehicles, Antarctic Science labs etc from Lego. There are many more activities to enjoy including role play, maths and literacy activities and a scientific zone too!

This week we have started on making our own life size igloo out of milk cartons! Thank you Mum's who have got us off to such a wonderful start!Can't wait to see it continue taking shape.

Remember you get 2 House Points for every carton you bring in. As you can see we need loads more to make our igloo look something like this!