Grayling 3’s Blog

Good morning everyone and welcome back to the blogs. We’re busy setting up our remote learning provision after yesterday’s announcement but for today here’s some home learning jobs for you to do which follow on from what we started learning about on Monday. 

We are sad that we didn’t get a chance to properly say goodbye to the children but please let them know that we will be missing them and will see them soon.

Don’t forget our year group email is up and running so if you have any questions or queries about your child’s learning please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us at foundation@damers.dorset.sch.uk 

Phonics

Listen to this catchy alphabet song and try sing along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlF5MCykyZg 

Yesterday we learnt the short digraph ‘oo’ for book. Today’s digraph is also ‘oo’ but this time it’s the long oo sound for moon. Have a go at reading the oo words below.

Open up your phoneme book, find the oo digraph and have a go at writing some of your own words with pictures to match. 

There is also a new tricky bug for today…

See if you can say this word in a sentence. 

Literacy 

In Literacy this week we’ve kick started our winter topic by talking about the 4 seasons of the year. Listen to one of these songs to get you started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjpI6fgYSY

Have a discussion about the seasons and the changes that we see. How do we know when a season changes? Do we change what we do, what we wear or even what we eat in the different seasons? 

Now think about winter specifically. What does winter feel and look like? Draw a picture of what you might wear outside on a winter’s day and label it. 

Don’t forget to check the Winter Home Learning Suggestions sheet that came home in book bags yesterday for more fun winter activities you can try at home.

Maths 

Listen and join in with this wintery number song … 

We are starting this half term off by reminding ourselves of our counting skills before we move on to some subtraction later on. One skill we are beginning to use is to subitise, this means to judge (the number of objects in a group) rapidly, accurately and confidently without counting them, for example knowing the amount of dots on a dice or a domino just from a look. Have a look at the images below and see how many you can ‘subitise’!

Happy New Grayling Foundation!

We have started our learning today by talking about our new topic.. Winter. It’s definitely feeling cold enough for it!

Everyone has brought home a Winter Home Learning sheet with lots of fun activities to have a go at 🙂 Tomorrow a new Phonics letter will come home, letting you know which sounds will be taught which day. Today’s sound was ‘oo’ for book.

Have a listen to our seasons song to get you chatting about this time of year… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjpI6fgYSY

For our final day before the Christmas holidays, we began by watching the Damers X factor! We scored each competitor out of 5 and gave them all a round of applause 🙂

Later we enjoyed being together in our classroom, playing our new monster game and making it snow! What a mess but oh what fun!

Have the best Christmas’ with your families Grayling Foundation. Best wishes from Miss Baker, Mrs Jackson & Miss Kerslake x

Today we all enjoyed some popcorn as we watched the virtual Christmas Panto! We all thought it was really funny, especially when Mrs Smith was the biscuit thief!

Today we all made Christmas hats ready to wear for the Christmas dinner. It was delicious and we listened to some festive music whilst eating to keep us feeling extra jolly!

This afternoon we had a special visit from Mrs Smith who brought us some presents from Santa! We love our new Frozen puzzle, tool kit and monster game! Thank you Santa!

Everyone should have been emailed the link for our Nativity today. We have watched it in school and the children say “We LOVE it”. I hope you all do too… it definitely makes us smile and laugh 🙂

Over the past few weeks we have enjoyed making some Christmas crafts like paper chains, playdough challenge snowmen (which then evolved into monsters and hedgehogs!), stockings, tree decorations and much more of the children’s own ideas!

Grayling 4 have worked with Mrs Rothman to create a Damers window display in Dorchester town as part of the window trail! Why don’t you go on a Christmas hunt for all 12 windows and see if you win the prize? 🙂

Today the children helped to decorate our classroom with a tree, decorations, lights and tinsel! We also counted all the sounds and tricky bugs we have learnt so far…. wow how clever are we?!

Today we were lucky to have a video call from our year 4 Junior Governors! They asked us how we were feeling about the Coronavirus and we talked about some new things we would like in school to keep us smiling. Some suggestions included a bouncy castle but we agreed on some more realistic things like glittery paint and another go-cart for our playground! It was lovely to chat to our Governors virtually 🙂

We have also been practising our Christmas play a lot and the children have loved learning new songs and actions. Please remember costumes worn to school next Wednesday 25th and the following Friday 4th! Any problems, please email me via the Foundation email account 🙂