Exploring and Learning
I’m looking forward to seeing you all back on Tuesday this week. This half term we will be finishing off our shadow puppet film and starting our new topic – Why are our oceans amazing? It will be brilliant to use our trip to the Sea Life centre to kick this off! I can’t wait!
Also a reminder that after school clubs start this week for those of you that signed up for a place.
Hello Year 1!
Here are some things that will keep you busy at home today. If you can do join me live at 9am for a quick good morning and then at 1pm for a catch up. The office at Damers will have sent you a link to do this.
Literacy
This half term we have explored lots of different traditional tales. Pick a baddy from one of them and create a wanted poster for them! You might pick the witch from Rapunzel, the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood or maybe the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk. Yesterday we gave you a sheet that you could use to do it on.
Here are some examples
Please click on the video and watch this split digraph lesson. You can join in when asked to. Remember to have paper and pencil at the ready!
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Make a number line that looks like this (with each number in a separate box):
Turn over one card from each pile and create a subtraction number sentence eg.
Top tips: Remember to always write the greatest number first!
Use ‘Froggy Fingers’ to start on the greatest number then ‘jump’ as you count back.
This afternoon you can decide if you would like to do the art or the music or if you want you could do both!
We have been looking at lots of fairytale books by Author and Illustrator Beth Woolvin.
Can you draw yourself in the style of Beth Woolvin? Why not create a family portrait?
Here are some links to her books online.
Little Red
Hansel and Gretel
The first clip explains how composer Gabriel Prokofiev created his unique ‘Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra’ and shows him performing the piece with an orchestra.
In the second clip you can learn a cool table top dance sequence inspired by this piece of music. Learn some moves with dancer and choreographer Jordan Douglas and create your own sequence inspired by turntables!
Click on the link below – you will need to scroll down to ‘Get moving and create turntable inspired choreography with Sadler’s Wells…’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/ten-pieces-tasters/zjy3382
We are still missing a few permission slips for our trip after half term. Please could you try and send them in by the end of this week. Many Thanks
Today the children drew story boards ready for our exciting shadow puppet film that we are working on. Hopefully this will be ready to share about a week after half term! They did a fantastic job this afternoon!
The children are getting really good at reading words with split digraphs in but sometimes find it tricky to spell them. This morning we played this game, spin the wheel and try to spell the word. They loved it and wanted to be able to play it at home. Have fun!
The children in Meadow 1 love our reward system. If they are spotted being kind or doing some amazing work they get given little pom poms to put in a tube. Once they have ten they are able to choose a prize from the prize box. These little prizes are small but mean the world to the children. If anyone is able to donate some prizes for the box it would be really appreciated. They only have to be small – similar to cracker prizes or party bag gifts.
Many Thanks
Mrs Keys
Today is national Safer Internet Day and we have spent time in class discussing how we use the internet in our day-to-day lives and how to stay safe when online or when using technology with a particular focus on online gaming. The discussions we had in class today might be a good starting point for a discussion at home about online safety so if your child can’t remember what they did at school today then ask them about how they can stay safe online and they might be able to give you a few pointers!
For more information you can also look at our Online Safety pages on the Damers website here http://www.damers.dorset.sch.uk/parents/online-safety/ or you could also visit the national Safer Internet Day website at https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2022
There is also this very useful info graphic to look at and discuss elements of with your child. Click on the link to read more.
On Friday the children found about the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian who is famous for his abstract paintings made from squares and rectangles. We loved how he only used vertical and horizontal lines. He also used the primary colours to create his minimalist pieces of work. We all had a go at creating our own and thought carefully about the position of our colours and lines.
We were all thrilled for this young man who received a Golden Butterfly for helping others to make the right choices!
As part of our work looking at architecture the children created their own pen drawings of Notre-Dame in Paris. They all started with a photo of the beautiful rose window.
