St Mark's CE Primary School

Over the last few weeks we have had a few transition days when Year 2 have joined Year 3 in Cocoons' Classroom to get to know their way around the classroom and how things work in their new class. In the first session we read a poem called, Ten Things Found in a Wizard's Pocket by Ian McMillan and wrote our own versions for a fairy tale character. After that, we worked out some things about Mrs Pridmore using our maths skills and then made our own maths problems for Mrs Pridmore to work out so she could find out about us! On our last afternoon, we coloured our lego characters that would be used in class next year to represent us and enjoyed the sun playing some water games.

A hive of activity

Cocoons had a very special visitor today! A very kind parent (and governor) came in to talk to us about bees as we have been learning about these in science, linking to our Plants topic. We dressed up in bee-keeper outfits, watched bloopers of bees returning to the hive with pollen on their legs, watched a bee growing in fast-motion, examined a hive and the cells within it where the honey is made and most importantly, we tasted some fresh honey!! We learnt so much we were buzzing!!

Thank you Mr Cook!

22nd June 2019

Cocoons will be having a spelling dictation on Monday! We are revising homophones (and near homophones) from Year 2, 3 and 4. These are words that sound the same but are spelt differently. Please support your child with knowing how to use the following words correctly:  there, they're, their, too, to, for, four, write, right, our, are, peace, piece, quite, quiet, whole, hole, through, threw, meat, meet, knight, night, ate, eight, wheel, we'll, which, witch, wood, would, read, red, blue, blew. 

Spelling Frame has many homophone practice rules - https://spellingframe.co.uk/  in Year 2 and Year 3/4

Thank you. Mrs P :-)

We have been studying Flotsam by David Wiesner and have produced some fantastic writing as tour guides. We will now be using Padlet to collaborate on senences for our last piece of work on this book: a narrative.

https://padlet.com/lpridmore1/flotsam

Welcome back Cocoons! 

I hope you have all had a lovely half-term.

Take a look at our learning journey below for Term 5 and 6. We are learning about respecting our environment with a focus on the rainforests and oceans of the world.

We learnt about the states of matter today (solids and liquids) and had lots of fun investigating different materials and using our understanding of the properties of each state to determine if it was a solid or a liquid. We made particles to show the states of matter and played an outdoor game where WE had to represent the particles for each state! 

We also wrote some riddles. Can you guess what the material is?

"I am a liquid material which children like when it's hot outside. I am kept in a cup, jug or carton to stop me from spilling. I'm fluid and my particles aren't held together as much as solids due to weaker bonds. What am I?" by Molly/Barnaby

"I am solid but I am a bit wobbly a bit like a liquid. I am a solid because I keep my shape."

What am I? by Charlie/William

"It sounds like a liquid when shaken in a closed container. This is white and keeps its shape. It is a wobbly solid matter. What is it?" by Emmie/Max

"I am a solid because I keep my shape. I can melt when heated. I can get moulded into balls by force because I am a solid. What am I?" by Oliver/Summer

Last term Cocoons worked really hard on creating mixed-media rainforest animal collages which they are hugely proud of and rightly so! Some of them are up in our reception area if you would like to come and look at them! They are large so they don't all fit but the other wonderful works of art will go up on the landing by Cocoons Classroom!