It’s Friday! I can’t quite believe it’s already February, I hope you have all ha a great week.
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 which we really enjoyed taking an active part in the story about what happens when fairies are about…
We have still been exploring symmetry and shapes we can see in nature and we have been particularly intrigued in finding hexagon shapes around us. We discovered that often they can be slightly irregular which makes everything unique! We have been focusing on looking at the hexagons we could see on a turtle, especially on it’s shell and sketching our own turtles then using some bright colours with oil pastels to create a vibrant coral reef scene.
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 after half term. Follow this link for a copy of the home learning project sheet: http://www.damers.dorset.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HL-Y2-spr1-22.pdf
Finally, 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
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, see you all on Monday. Miss Mansell
Brilliant love hearing about the emperor penguins!
We have really enjoyed learning all about them too!