Grayling 3’s Blog

Today the children created some bright firework artwork to celebrate bonfire night. During discussions, they were very sensible recognising how to stay safe whilst enjoying fireworks and sparklers.

It has been lovely to chat to some of you this evening about how well your children are settling in to Grayling Foundation. They are such a positive, fun and kind class 🙂

Just a reminder that I will continue with calls throughout next week 3.30-6 every evening so if you receive a call from a withheld number then it could be me! If there is a certain day or time that suits you best then feel free to email foundation@damers.dorset.sch.uk to let me know.

Enjoy your weekends,

Miss Baker

Today we all had a look and celebrated our hard work in our phoneme books. It was lovely to see beautiful drawings, pictures, writing and stickers inside 🙂

We also wanted to share with you our favourite song in Grayling. We all feel a bit cold after lunch time play so we warm up with some dances. Mr. Pumpernickle is such a groovy dancer and so are we! This song and more can be found on our Songs page at the top of the blog.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-length-height/zdrx92p

Thank you to those who joined us yesterday for the Foundation Meet and Greet Zoom call. If you were unable to join then you should have now received an email where you can watch the recording of it. Please remember that any questions can be answered by emailing the school office. Here is an accompanying leaflet for your information.

Today we had our first P.E lesson. We had a go at an obstacle course with hopping, crawling, jumping, throwing, balancing, climbing and running! What great fun we all had 🙂

This week we are going to start learning our sounds to help us to read and write! When we got to school this morning we noticed a friendly rainbow monster on Miss Baker’s shelf! He had been eating things from our classroom. Scissors, snake, star and string…. all these things begin with the sound sssssss! He must be a sound monster and we will check his zippy mouth tomorrow to see what objects he has eaten over night. You will notice that you have been given sound books today. You could try remember the objects that the monster has eaten to help you think of pictures to draw in your book 🙂

This week we have started to talk about ourselves. What do we look like? Who do we live with? Where do we live?

We all had a go at being artists! We carefully looked in the mirror to notice our facial features and decide what colour paint to use to paint a self portrait. What amazing paintings we now have to display in our school corridor 🙂

It has been lovely watching Grayling Foundation begin their school journey! Everyone has settled in well, exploring our classroom, outdoor areas and getting familiar with the daily routines. Friendships have already blossomed and we can’t wait for both morning and afternoon groups to meet each other next week!