Meadow 2

We’ve loved exploring spirals in different ways, including outside with pebbles and chalk.

We loved looking at the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy and how he creates lines, spirals and other patterns using natural materials. Then we created our own art, big and small! Could you create some of your own at home?

We absolutely love puzzles in Meadow 1! The children show such brilliant collaboration, resilience and focus working on all our class puzzles together. If you have any at home to donate, please do send some in!

What materials are different objects made from? We’ve enjoyed being scientists and exploring different objects in our classroom this week. Some quotes from the children this week….

“Hair clips can’t be made from wood, or you might get splinters and hurt yourself’.

“Cuddly toys are made from fabric because they’re soft. Metal is too hard’.

“We thought this was plastic but then we realised it was wood that had been painted”.

We loved exploring how the way music is stored and played has changed over the last 70 years. The cassette tapes were particularly fascinating! We also enjoyed dancing to music from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including some brilliant break dancing to ‘Grandmaster Flash’ and air guitar to ‘Hey Jude’. We would love to know what everyone’s parents, carers and grandparents listened to when they were young. Please let us know your favourite songs or artists and we’ll listen to them in class too.

We enjoyed looking at our home-made rain gauges today, which had filled up SO MUCH we had to empty them to start recording again (probably most it from last night!) They are definitely helping us answer the question ‘Does it rain more in the Autumn than the Summer?’

We’ve been making the most of the beautiful weather by spending lots of time outside.

We enjoyed learning all about creation this week. We started by creating interesting things in the classroom out of a range of materials, from lego to play dough and then thought about how we should treat each other’s creations carefully. We went on a scavenger hunt outside (in the rain!) to find natural items that inspired us, including pine cones, apples and petals. We learnt what Christians believe about creation and created some paper plates to represent each day in their creation story. Finally, we looked at lots of different pictures of people caring, or not caring, for the environment and discussed what we can do to look after our beautiful world.

Just a quick heads up that we will be going on a trip next term. Please don’t tell your children yet as we’d like to save the surprise for in class but we will need plenty of helpers and are conscious working parents need as much notice as possible. A formal letter will come home the first day back but we are delighted to be going to a working farm in North Dorset. The cost will be an absolute bargain £1 as we have managed to secure some funding from several sources!

The dates will be 

Grayling – Tuesday 10 May

Skipper – Thursday 19 May

Meadow – Tuesday 24 May

We started this week with a visit from Neil and the Science Dome. Neil is a geologist and had some of the most interesting fossils that we were able to hold and look carefully at including a very large lump of fossilised dinosaur poo! After Neil had shown us his fossil collection we went inside the dome where we were transported back in time to see some dinosaurs on a giant 360 degree screen! Thank you all who contributed to the funding of the Dome including a very generous donation from Damers PTA!