"They will soar on wings like eagles" (Isaiah 40:31)
Respect / Responsibility / Courage / Trust / Perseverance / Compassion
In Grebes, Children read the poem ‘You See?’ by Matt Goodfellow, all about how kind words stick to us ‘like pollen to the knee of a bee’. Children drew legs on their bees and buzzed around the classroom searching for kind words that might stick to them!
Year 2 Independently writing about the impact of our changing world on polar bears.Â
Kingfishers class have thoroughly enjoyed this class book. They have used it as an inspiration for their own writing and also to help develop their reading skills. Clearly it comes highly recommended – perhaps you’d like to give it a go?!
In Grebes we are reading Darwin’s Dragons, a work of historical fiction with fantasy elements by Lindsay Galvin. Here is the blurb:
Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime – cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin’s Beagle – but when he is separated from the crew during a storm, his life takes a truly extraordinary turn.
Shipwrecked on a Galapagos island, he makes a discovery that could change the world – and make his fortune. But should he share his find, or will it lead to the extinction of a legendary species?
There’s one person who could help, but he’s busy writing a book …
Kingfishers are enjoying this book as part of the school topic of ‘Dragons’.
Each week the chapters they read are used as a starting point to build on reading skills including; inference and retrieval. They are also developing their vocabulary and writing skills using what they read from the book as a focus.
Every Wednesday Kingfishers watch the news. One week they were shocked to see the mountains of plastic ready to be recycled. They were even more shocked to hear that this recycling was often transported to other countries.
As a result, they have researched what we can do to REDUCE the amount of plastic we use.
They shared a story book with the whole school along with some videos showing the impact plastic has on Sealife. They spent time creating some persuasive writing encouraging everyone to reduce their plastic usage and ways in which they could do this.
Kingfishers presented their work in a school assembly.
Last week we undertook some cross-curricular learning incorporating our history topic of the gunpowder plot into our literacy topic. On the Friday, we were lucky enough attend a forest school session where we had a bonfire, sang campfire songs and tried marshmallows. We then used our experiences of the bonfire to inspire our writing of poetry. We concentrated on our senses and considered the sights, smells, tastes, feels and sounds of the bonfire when writing our poems. The year 2 children tried their hands at acrostic poetry whist the Year 1 children wrote some wonderful descriptive poetry. The Year 2 children also produced some wonderful creative writing after looking at photos and videos of fireworks.
