I have another story for you today, I hope you enjoy it! It is another one of our class favourites!
Easter Fun
Be sure to check back here on Monday 6th April for the final blog posts before the Easter holiday. There will be lots of family fun for you to take part in including an Easter quiz and a picture Easter egg hunt. There will be posts between 10-10.30 am so make sure you scroll down to see them all.
Don’t forget to upload what you have been doing on EExAT or leave me a message on the blog and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Please take care and be safe. 🙂
For lots more stories read by different Damers First School teachers or to watch any you have already seen again please visit here …
You have once again filled my heart with joy this week with your transformation tales. You may know that Mrs Smith is a keen gardener so to spend my evenings hearing about your new planting and the moments you have ‘stood and stared’ at the beauty of nature all around us has been an absolute treat. You have told me about …
The joy of lying on a bed of buttercups
Children planting a patch of grass they had grown with Mrs Goss last year
Planting new life that will attract bees, butterflies and birds
Children designing their own allotment planting
Old planter renovation projects
A Christmas tree that has been planted in preparation for the festive season …
Turf laying and stone transportation
Beautiful sunsets
Tales of the joy of previous lettuce planting experiences
Planting of edamame beans (as a favourite restaurant is no longer an option!)
The recreation of beach scenes in garden plots
The signs of blossom and new life that you have seen all around you
Children growing plants for their cats
The learning that has emerged about about life’s natural cycles
And families sharing their seeds and pots, inspiring others to start planting too … (thank you Flora for the lovely packages that appeared in our garden bank!)
So, time to enjoy the green fingered achievements of Damers First School this week. You may see a few grown ups that you recognise in here as they have been busy ‘transforming’ too …
https://youtu.be/MZyZ-HIQJtU
I have included two stories for you this week. The first is one that I have shared in assembly before so you may recognise it. It fits beautifully with our theme and shows how we can turn ‘grey’ situations around using the power and colours that emerge from planting …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRagjKAG-1c
I felt the second story of the week was a great one for us to start the Easter holidays with as it reminds us how through our imaginations and the beauty of nature we can travel to many exciting, far and distant lands, even during a lockdown! (See if you can spot the badly behaved chicken. My audience were nowhere near as good as you are in assembly!)
See if you can find a magical place where your imagination can run wild, either in your home or in your garden over the next few weeks and do tell me about it during the holidays if you like (your grown ups can help you to send a message).
Stay focused on those green shoots and new beginnings everyone and enjoy your Easter break . Your Headteacher is genuinely lost without you!
In school we started to embark on our very own dinosaur research projects. Unfortunately we only got to the planning stages of our project. Why not carry on your research at home? You could use the field guide on Dinosaur Train to find out facts about your chosen dinosaur. Try and remember which dinosaur you and your group decided to focus on as part of your research. Use what you find to write your own fact sheet including how big your dinosaur was, what it ate and other interesting information. You could even create your own Top Trumps card or create a page for a non-fiction book based on your dinosaur. It could include a labelled picture and some captions of information. You could use an old shoe box and fill it with fun and interesting facts. Why not cut a piece of string the same size as your dinosaur to put in? You could make some salt dough food to represent what the dinosaur ate. Where in the world did your dinosaur live? Could you add in some sand if it lived in the desert or some leaves if it lived in the forest? Get as creative as you want with the information you find out. Do as much or as little as you like over the Easter holiday.
Check out this page to read some interesting and fun dinosaur facts The Dinosaur Museum
Ruby and I hope you are all keeping well and safe and still enjoying your reading.
We love reading your Blogs and notice that you have been bird watching. We love the birds and spend lots of time in the garden watching them and sometimes taking pictures of them. Can you guess the bird in the picture? We also have some bird boxes and notice that all the birds are picking up bits from the garden to build their nests with.
Ruby has to be brushed every day and when we clean the comb and brush we take all her hair outside and put it in a container for the birds to come and help themselves. When the summer comes she has to have a hair cut and that goes out in the garden as well but at the moment it’s too cold for her. It makes really cosy little homes for when the birds lay their eggs and they hatch out. Ruby is very good she never chases the birds.
Sometimes we get squirrels in our garden and Ruby does try to chase them but they are too fast and always run up the very big trees we have before she can catch them. At the top of one of the trees we have an owl box. So far we have not seen any owls go in there but only pigeons and squirrels.
We really miss you and Ruby is also missing her furry friends. Sometimes she has them come for a sleepover but now because of the Caronavirus that’s not possible. Sometimes we see them from a distance when we take her for a walk. We walk everyday near our house because it’s important for her to have exercise. We have added some photographs of her friends for you to look at. One of the pictures was at Christmas and one when she was on holiday in Devon on the beach.
Would love to read any comments you might like to put on the Blog especially telling us what you have been doing or any questions you might have.
Please stay safe and we look forward to seeing you one day.
We started to talk about doubles in school and used dominoes to explore doubles and not doubles. Listen to the Doubles Rap (1-5) to warm up your maths brains Double Rap. If you have your own set of dominoes at home, have a game with your family. Be sure to check the learning pack for more fun ideas to practise doubling. Use a mirror to double or a see the picture below for ways to get creative. You can use a muffin tin and anything small to help with the calculations. If you have any dice at home ask your child how to play DOUBLE BUBBLE! (You both roll a dice, so you’ll need two, and if you land on the same amount of dots you shout ‘DOUBLE BUBBLE’ and then call out what the double calculation is).
Ruby and I hope you are keeping safe and well. We are very sad that we can’t come to see you for a while and listen to you read.
Instead we will send you a little blog telling you what we have been doing. We hope you are still continuing with your reading because you were all getting so good and we both loved listening to your stories. I think we will both be amazed at how much better your reading has got when we come to see you next. Ruby especially liked all the fuss and treats you gave her.
Ruby has been going for a walk every day and playing with her toy in the garden. We miss you all so much and cannot wait to see you again and hear what you have been doing.
Do you recognise where Ruby is in the pictures. She looks very comfortable, doesn’t she.
Dinosaur Discovery on BBC Bitesize is a great game for learning lots about dinosaurs. Collect the stickers as you complete each activity. The Diplodocus activity talks about measuring footprints and recording them on a chart. Measure the footprints of people in your family and record these on your own chart. Think about different units for measuring such as tape measures, rulers, lining up pegs, pennies or spare buttons. Use whatever you can find. Who has the biggest and smallest feet? What else could you measure? Can you do some of your own research and find out how big your favourite dinosaur was?
