Grayling 3’s Blog

It’s the end of another week and somehow the end of September already! 

We have been thinking about traditional tales in literacy and continued using base 10 materials to help show different number bonds. Some of our challenges looked like this: 

The children are bringing their purple homework books home this weekend – as it’s the first one, there are a few extra sheets in their books (don’t worry, we won’t always send as much!)

In the books is a science challenge and a page with some scientific words and definitions. We will be thinking about different materials (like wood, glass, metal, etc.) and the properties they have. That looks like this: 

There is also an overview of the half term sheet which can be found here: http://www.damers.dorset.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/HL-Y2-Aut1-22.pdf 

It looks a bit like this:

 

Next week is ‘Cycle to School Week’. 

You can find out more about the Cycle to school week by clicking the link below: https://www.bikeability.org.uk/cycletoschoolweek/

Over the past week we have been looking at the book ‘The Story Machine’ by Tom McLaughlin. We have really enjoyed exploring the book:

If you would like to listen and share the story at home, you can listen to the author, Tom, read it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXVqCCeCPAU (adults, please check the video first as there may be external comments or enabled links to other videos/ adverts etc.).

In maths we have been partitioning and exploring different ways we can make a two digit number using different resources such as dienes (base 10 blocks made up of tens and ones) to physically form these numbers and partition them to form equations. For example, we explored how the number 64 has 6 tens and 4 ones but we could also partition this number into 4 tens, 2 tens and 4 ones. You could use this website to make your own number using tens and ones:

https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/base-ten-blocks 

We’ve also thought of different ways to show numbers, including the part part whole model and place value chart.

Part part whole model.

 

Place value chart.

Parents and carers, we’re looking forward to welcoming you into school for our Meet and Greet session on Tuesday 27th September at 2:30. Please see the newsletter or email from Mrs Smith for full details.

A warm welcome to Year 2! We hope you’ve had an enjoyable, restful and happy summer break. We’re very excited to be welcoming the children into their new Year 2 classes. 

In our first week, we were thinking about bubbles! We described them, wrote poems about them and imagined we had a magic bubble that could take us anywhere we wished! We watched this video to give us some ideas and talked about how the different characters might be feeling too: https://www.literacyshed.com/bubbles.html 

Thank you all for your presents and cards. Mrs Beasley and I are very overwhelmed by your kindness and generosity. We have all had a great year teaching G1. We wish you a great Summer Break and look forward to seeing you all around Damers soon.

Here we all our harvesting our potatoes we grew 12 weeks ago.

Using the compasses has been our favoruite activity over the last 4 months. We have become really good at using circles to make pictures and patterns.

Please take part in the Big Butterfly Count.

Count Butterflies you see for 15 minutes in your garden , park area, Maiden Castle, Borough Gardens, field or meadow and then record on the webiste or app by clicking this link. https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/

You can print off a butterfly count chart if needed too.

The Big Plastic Count have released their results. Grayling 1 took part during May counting all the plasstic the class used from snack time to lunchtime.

The Big Plastic Count was run across a week in May and its results show that the average participating household threw away 66 pieces of plastic in a week.

Using those figures the organisers, Greenpeace and Everyday Plastic, estimate that the UK throws out nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic a year.

Of the plastic surveyed, 83% was from food and drink packaging waste, with the most common items being fruit and vegetable packaging.

“Recycling doesn’t work, we all know it,” Everyday Plastic founder Daniel Webb told BBC News, “If we think things are being recycled we can carry on the way we are. We need to address things further up the chain. By reducing the amount we produce it will reduce the amount that is thrown away.”

Youi can read more here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62126757

We have had some amazing blackcurrent and redcurrent crumbles, smoothies and roasted rhurbarb made by the children using the produce they picked last week from the school garden.

We went to the garden to pick blackcurrents, redcurrents, strawberries, rhuburb, broadbeans and courgettes.

We have been challneged to cook something with what we harvested at home. Mr Moore and Mrs Beasley are happy to be the taste testers!

We went to the garden and picked strawberries and rhubarb.

Eliza took her rhubarb home and made ginger and rhubarb cakes. They were delicious!

If your child brings anything home from the garden can you use it to cook with? We (Mr Moore and Mrs Beasley) would love to see or even taste your creations!