Day: March 31, 2020

Here is a song we would be enjoying at song. Listen and enjoy with your family at home. Can you spot any springtime things in your garden?

Happy Spring time everyone.

Hi everyone,

Look who has been busy working on his engines at home. Lots of listening and concentrating involved there. Well done, keep up the good work.

Have a look at the train layout video. Click the link above.

We would love to see any pictures of things you are doing at home. You can send photos to the school office and from there we can put them onto the Copper Base blog. You can also send photos to your classes – check your class blogs for details.

We will be able to put images onto the blog if appropriate. We can not post photos containing pictures of other people or your child if they are wearing pyjamas or swimming costumes. The images you email us will only be used on your child’s blog and they will be deleted from the email once they have been uploaded

Please send your photos to: office@damers.dorset.sch.uk

See you all soon.

Good Morning Copper Base,

At school we enjoy looking closely at patterns in nature as part of our geometry and beauty. Look at these lovely patterns below.

ISLAMIC PATTERNS

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Talk to your children What shapes can the children see? What are the properties of these shapes? Through these discussions you will discuss shape vocabulary in relation to circle, triangle, square, hexagon, and octagon.

Shape investigation 
Cut out a range of 2D shapes from paper (like the ones above) and ask them to fit them together so there are no gaps. After some time, ask the children which ones fit together and which ones don’t. (Oblongs, rhombus, parallelograms, equilateral triangles, squares and hexagons will tessellate.) Once the children have had an opportunity to explore, ask them to draw a pattern by fitting their shapes together and drawing around them. This could be developed by asking the children to colour in, using a repeating pattern and explaining how they did it.

Have fun making different patterns. You can colour on the shapes or cut out the shapes from different coloured paper if you have it at home.

Enjoy and happy pattern making.