Halfway through the year!

Hello everyone!

It's amazing to think that we're now just over half-way through this school year - it's flying by!  I'm very happy to finally see some signs of spring, despite all the rain we've had this week.

In school this week, we've been busy starting some fascinating new topics.  In English we are continuing to use Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett, and have been identifying words which have been contracted with an apostrophe in the postcards which Sunny the Meerkat writes.  We've started a new Geography topic on Earthquakes, Mountains and Volcanoes, and this week we learnt about the different layers of the earth.  In Science we are now learning all about Forces - we even tested out gravity by dropping pens all over the place!

In Maths, we have started a topic on Statistics, and this week we focused on tally charts and pictograms.  As well as this, on Tuesday this week we created bar charts of favourite pancake toppings!  As it was also pancake day on that day, it would have been a missed opportunity if we didn't try some of those toppings for ourselves - we enjoyed some pancakes with chocolate chips, or lemon and sugar!  (Perhaps you could create you own pictogram or tally chart at home this weekend, and ask you family about their pancake toppings, or anything else!)

Next week, it is Chagford's World Book day on Thursday 10th.  The children were all given letters with more information about the out world book day, including the pop-up bookshop which will be visiting our school.  The books will cost £6 each, or £10 for 2 books.  If your child would like to buy a book (or two!) please can you send some money in with them, in a named envelope.  I've loved hearing some of the children planning what they are going to wear already - I've been planning my outfit as well!  It would be fantastic to see as many characters from books as possible, however if you don't want to dress up, that's ok too.  Perhaps you could wear the clothes that you like to wear when you read a book instead! 

Have a lovely weekend everyone - enjoy sunnier weather!

Miss Paddon