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!
We have been identifying British leaves using identifcation sheets. We then did some rubbings of the leaves using wax crayons and labelled them in our books.
Have a go at leaf or bark rubbing when out and about this weekend.
We invited the parents of Grayling 1 to come and make dens with us. There were dens of all shapes and sizes.
At the weekend when on a walk how many tree leaves can you identify? You can make your own leaf dial below.
Also a leaf spotter sheet too.
You can also use the Seek inaturalist app https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app
Also here are some more resources to identify other items in nature.
http://treetoolsforschools.org.uk/activitymenu/?cat=tree_id