Grayling 3’s Blog

If you do not have a dice at home for the phonic game you could make a dice or there are loads of dice apps you can download on to your phone or tablet.

Here is how to make a dice below.

https://www.firstpalette.com/craft/paper-dice.html

Please have a go at Rock around the Clock at home encouraging your adults to join in too. We will be doing this dance with the rest of the school during our Jubliee Celebrations on Friday 27th May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uQgwNxFD0Y

Our door display is looking fantastic with many children and adults stopping to read the facts and look at the pictures.

There is still time for you to bring in a poster of facts to add to our door and now wall! The Deadline is Wednesday 25th May.

Thank you so much for all the contributions so far.

We have learned the importance of the Circular Economy. This is something that Ellen MacArthur is campaigning for. We now know that we all need to Reduce, Refuse, Reuse, Repair and Refill are all more important that Recycling. We all need to change our ways.

We have been using Compasses for the first time to draw circles. It was hard to start with but we kept on having a go and we are all getting there. We can even use circles to makie our own pattern picture. If you have a compass at home please have a go.

All the information you need is on the document below. The Deadline is 26th May. Please bring Portraits to Grayling 1.

Each class at Damers is decorating their classroom door as part of the Queen’s Jubliee Celebrations with information and art about a inspiring Women.

We have chosen Dame Ellen MacArthur. Please research about Ellen and bring in a poster with interesting facts, drawings, artwork about her that we can add to our door display.

We are looking forward to seeing what you have produced. Please bring these posters of information in by Wednesday 25th May.

What did she achieve in sailing? What is she doing now related to the environment?

A few years ago she wrote to Damers Eco Crew to praise the children on the work they were doing to reduce single use plastic.

Here is some information below to help start you off.

She was born in Derbyshire in 1976.

Her first experience of sailing was when she was just a child. She went out to sea on her aunt’s boat. From then on, Ellen wanted to get her own boat. So she saved her school dinner money, Brithday and Christmas money for three years and finally managed to buy her first boat.

In 1995, aged 19 years old, Ellen sailed around Great Britain on her own.

In 2003, MacArthur set up the Ellen MacArthur Trust (now the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust), a registered charity, to take young people, aged between 8 and 24 inclusive, sailing to help them regain their confidence on their way to recovery from cancer, leukaemia and other serious illnesses.

On 7th February 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat which gained her international renown. Her time of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes 33 seconds is world record for the 27,354 nautical miles (50,660 km) covered.

She was made a Dame in 2005.

On 2 September 2010, she launched the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a charity focusing on accelerating the transition to a regenerative circular economy. The Foundation works in three areas:

• Education – inspiring a generation to re-think the future
• Business – controlling business transformation
• Insight – the opportunity for a re-design revolution

Circular Economy explained https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/general-science/all-about-the-circular-economy/

We have been looking at the cricles and patterns that we find in fruit and then drawing what we see.

What circles can you see outdoors in nature when out and about this weekend?

30 Days Wild is The Wildlife Trusts’ annual challenge where they ask everyone to do one wild thing a day throughout the month of June.

You can sign up below to receive a FREE pack – either through the post or via email (business pack only availably digitally) – and receive lots of fun activities throughout the month to keep you inspired.

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30dayswild