Happy Friday! We hope that you have had a good week, we can’t believe it is now February!
We have been busy with our learning and have continued to learn about Emperor Penguins. Did you know that Emperor Penguins are the biggest of the penguin species and are around 115cm tall? We enjoyed measuring ourselves and working out how big they were compared with us.
This week we have taken part in a Literacy Festival which has been kindly funded by the PTA.
We heard an extract from Catherine Emmett’s book, The Pet, and learnt about how she creates her characters and how the illustrator, David Tazzyman, then draws them. We also took part in a storytelling session with Emily Hanna-Graze Brook and a session with author Ross Collins too.
In art we have continued to look at Symmetry in Nature, this week our focus has been on owls. We enjoyed looking at the majestic barn owl and sketching its face. We have also enjoyed painting our own abstract owls too.
We are loving writing our own emperor penguin information books and can’t wait to get these finished.
Our home learning projects are in full swing. These can be shared with us whenever they are finished although we hope to see them all after half term. Follow this link for full details: http://www.damers.dorset.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HL-Y2-spr1-22.pdf
Thank you for supporting the children at home with their additional learning opportunities and please continue to read daily with your children.
A message from Mr Moore:
The CPRE National Star count is back from Saturday 26th February – Sunday 6th March. If you want to get involved, choose a clear night between 26 February – 6 March 2022 and look to the skies to see how many stars you can spot within Orion.https://takeaction.cpre.org.uk/page/95329/data/1?locale=en-GB