Welcome to Meadow 4!
In Meadow 4 we have been sketching the plants we can find outside in our school grounds. We had to look extremely closely to make sure we were drawing what we were actually seeing and not what we thought we could see.
Our next step was to practise using water colour paint. We explored painting with wet on wet paper and then wet on dry paper, looking carefully at how the colours merged. We picked the right paint brushes for delicate and small paintings.
Today we had a surprise package delivered. When we opened it we found a dragon’s egg! With it, a set of instructions telling us how to keep it safe so that it could hatch. We were asked to guard and protect it with our lives as it’s mother had been killed by dragon hunters.
Who sent it? We don’t know. Why was it sent to us? We don’t know. Who are the dragon hunters? We don’t know…………
We went outside to see if we could find any evidence of dragon activity. We found scratches on the logs that could have come from claws. We found an upturned compost bin, large footprints in the forest school area, feathers and fluff and some netting that could have been used by the dragon hunters. Surprisingly we also found pieces of chess!
We are going to keep on looking for the dragon hunters and protecting our egg.
Welcome everyone to Meadow 4. We have a very exciting year planned and can’t wait to get started. I’m looking forward to spending time with you and getting to know you all.
This term numeracy begins with place value, looking at numbers up to 10,000. In literacy we are revising nouns and verbs an then we are developing our knowledge of expanded noun phrases and prepositions. In guided reading we have started reading a very exciting chapter book called “The Explorer,” by Katherine Rundell. It is an adventure books that begins with a plane crash in the Amazon jungle. Our history project for this term is the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. In science we will be investigating the digestive system and teeth.
In addition to all of that we will be walking to Thomas Hardye School to listen to a visiting author, have a music workshop from musicians from the Benedetti Foundation and hold a carol concert in the church for Christmas and not forgetting the X-Mas Factor. Who will get through to the finals and be the 2023 winner? Phew! How busy will we be!
The Big Butterfly Count starts today till 6th August. Find a sunny spot and count how many butterflies and moths you see using the ID chart. There is also a free app that can be used too.
Then add your data here https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/
What fabulous blue skies we had for our visit to the Dorchester Roman Townhouse. An incredibly well preserved townhouse complete with freshly cleaned mosaic – we were able to see it in it’s full glory!
It’s not too late to join in with The Wildlife Trust’s ’30 Days Wild’ project. It’s running throughout June and encourages everyone to do one wild thing a day. What wild thing can you do today?
Screen time is the amount of time spent using a device with a screen such as a smartphone, computer, television, or video game console. Digital devices provide many great opportunities for the whole family, including activities for learning and creativity, as well as entertainment and enjoyment but too much screen time can have negative effects for both adults and children and managing screen time can be a source of conflict and stress. Below you will see a short guide about screen time along with lots of helpful links and ideas about how to manage and monitor screen time.
To see more information and links about online safety please do visit our online safety website pages at: http://www.damers.dorset.sch.uk/parents/online-safety/
If you have any questions or concerns or would like any further support in relation to online safety please do speak to your class teacher or email the school office.
After finishing our amazing stories based on the fantastic picture book Journey we have begun to look at editing our writing to make it even better. Even famous authors have to go back and look through their writing to improve it, so we had a go.
We started with simple story sentences and worked out how we could chop them up and make them better, and then read through our own stories to see if there were any sentences that weren’t as brilliant as some of the others. We chopped them up and added in some fantastic language to make it really interesting to the reader!
We’ve been busy finishing our stories in M3 following on from our writing based on the book Journey.
In this session we were trying to make our stories even better by editing them and extending them. It worked brilliantly and our stories are brilliant!