Class 1
Snowdrops 18.10.2024
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Snowdrops had a very busy morning in the forest this week. There was a lot of amazing teamwork and cooperation making brooms and wands using natural materials. There was bridge building and den construction and lots of imaginative role play. We have started working on Hibernation Hotel stories of our own using extended noun phrases and we have been building number sentences using 1-20. Have a lovely weekend, The Year 1 Team
Hibernation hotel
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Our new book is Hibernation Hotel. We had a good look at the front and back covers and asked each other questions: Do we think it will be a fiction or non fiction book? Who might the characters in the book be? Where might the story take place? Can we spot any clues about the time of year? When we had lots of ideas, we recorded our predictions in our English books. I wonder if we will be right? In maths we have been looking at number patterns from 1-20. We have made patterns, worked with number lines and practiced number formation. Last week we put our rain gauges out to measure the rainfall in different areas of the school grounds and the Autumn weather definitely hasn't let us down! We have collected lots of rainfall and now we can measure it! We had a lovely sunny morning for our outdoor learning on Friday. Our story was Room on the Broom and we have been very busy using our fine motor skills to make broomsticks and wands out of string, rope and natural materials.
Harvest Festival
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4th October 2024
All this week, we have been bringing in donations for the food bank at Thongsbridge. We collected everything that had been donated, from all classes in school, in our hall. Wow! We couldn't believe how much had been brought in and cannot thank everyone enough for their kindness and generosity!
On Thursday, we took part in NFU Education's Harvest Live! We looked at how to make a delicious Caribbean Carnival Festival soup. We learnt how wheat, celery and potatoes grow, along with understand which part of the plant we use and how to prepare them safely.
Linked with our English topic, The Tiger who came to tea, we watched the animated version to see how it was the same and how it was different to the original book. We then looked at facts all about tigers and wrote fact files about these beautiful creatures.
I hope you warm up warm this weekend!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
What will the weather be like next?
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27th September 2024
This week in Science, we have made a rain gauge as we observe the weather. Every day we are now excitedly checking and measuring the amount of rain fall and the temperature, recording it on our class weather chart.
In our PSHE session this week, we carried on looking at our new topic, who is special to us. We thought about our families and discovered that this is just one of the groups that I belong to. We realised that we are part of groups outside of school, like swimming, gymnastics and rainbows, and we are part of groups in school, like our class, our friendship group and many more. We then drew what our families look like, what our class looks like and what other groups we belong to.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Technology here, technology there, technology everywhere!
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20th September 2024
In computing, we thought about what technology is and how it can be useful to us both in school and outside of school. We then discovered which technologies could help us do jobs like cleaning the house and going to sleep.
We read a much older version of the 3 Little Pigs this week and constructed homes for the pigs we made out of clay. There was also lots of problem solving, role play, art work and some fantastic team work when it was time to tidy up!
Hope you can stay dry this weekend!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx