2022-24 Year 2 Blog

 In geography this term we are going to be comparing where we live with a contrasting location which is Mugarameno in Zambia. Today we started by learning a little bit about where Zambia is and what it is like. We wrote down some facts and drew the flag of Zambia. 

 In geography this week we have started some fieldwork around the school. We began by learning about maps and plans and trying to draw a map of the ground floor of the school which was really tricky! 

 We started doing some map work this week in Geography. We learnt about compass directions and then thought about what was in different directions around the school, we started by thinking about what was north, south, east and west around the school. We then thought further afield around the Isle of Wight and even the world! Some children were then keen to look at atlases to find places to the north, south, east and west of the United Kingdom.

 We worked in small groups this afternoon sorting the human and physical features of the seven different continents.

Today we learned that a continent is a group of countries. We learnt that there are seven continents and we learnt the names of them. We also had a go at locating the continents on a world map and labelling the world map.  You may like to listen to the continents song at home to help learn the names of the continents.  https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiti-6f_aX6AhWPX8AKHcdIDz0QtwJ6BAgIEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DK6DSMZ8b3LE%26vl%3Den&usg=AOvVaw0-1CixQd1uagMgXn15d6ID