It’s the end of another week and somehow the end of September already!
We have been thinking about traditional tales in literacy and continued using base 10 material to help show different number bonds. Some of our challenges looked like this:
We’ve been enjoying sketching in art. We have been using different types of sketching pencils to help us draw famous landmarks around the world. We have looked at the Taj Mahal in India and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. This week we thought about how some pencils are softer than others and how we can use these to help us add shadow and shading. We started to talk about perspective and how this can make objects appear to be bigger or smaller than they actually are.
The children are bringing their purple homework books home this weekend – as it’s the first one, there are a few extra sheets in their books (don’t worry, we won’t always send as much!).
In the books is a science challenge and a page with some scientific words and definitions. We will be thinking about different materials (like wood, glass, metal etc) and the properties they have. That looks like this:
There is also an overview of the half term sheet which can be found here: http://www.damers.dorset.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/HL-Y2-Aut1-22.pdf
It looks a bit like this: 
Next week is ‘Cycle to School Week’.
You can find out more about the Cycle to school week by clicking the link below https://www.bikeability.org.uk/cycletoschoolweek/
Science challenge looks interesting!