Hello Year One! I hope you are all enjoying your half term and have tried making some of the delicious foods we learnt about last term! I had a go at making some more pasta at home, it was yummy!
I had an exciting email this morning from a little boy called Sam who has just had an amazing holiday in Argentina! I have posted a copy of his email below so you can have a sneaky peak!
Email from Sam
Fact files from Sam
His email has given me lots of interesting ideas for our learning next week in school! I hope you are as excited as me, some of those animals look ever so funny!
Enjoy the rest of your half term,
Miss Burge
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Thursday, 8 May 2014
How Does Your Garden Grow?
We have had a very busy few weeks in Year One! Our 'Growing' topic has been a really big hit in our class and we have all really enjoyed learning and finding out about fruits, vegetables and plants. We started the topic by thinking about what we already know and what we want to find out. We had a fun afternoon exploring different activities to help us come up with questions.
In Guided Reading we learnt about where some fruits grow around the world and we thought about why they grow in different places. We studied fruits closely and then created our own images using pastels. Here is our map of where all these fruits grow!
In Topic we have been learning about what plants need to grow. We have been busy planting flowers in pots in the classroom. We have to have a plant monitor to water the plants each day! We are excited to see what colour our flowers will be. When they are big enough we will move them to our pots outside!
We have also been growing some herbs! Our herbs have been growing really well in the classroom! Can you see which ones have started to grow already?
Outside we have been busy preparing, and planting, in our vegetable patch! We have planted carrots, lettuce and peas! If you look closely you can see that some of them have started to grow already! We have been checking the weather forecast every day to check they have been getting enough water!
In Topic we have also been looking at the different parts of a plant. We have been exploring the leaves of plants by making leaf rubbings and looking in non-fiction books.
We also found an experiment in one of our books we borrowed from the library which we were really keen to try out! The book said we could change the colour of a flowers petals just by changing the colour of the water they were in! We set up our own experiment to see if this was true! If you look closely at the petals in the picture below you can see the petals are just starting to turn pink after only one day!
In Literacy we have been working like busy little bee's to produce some amazing non-fiction posters about the parts of a plant. We worked in our 'Amazing fact finder' pairs to look through lots of information about the parts of a plant and we made notes as we went. When we had lots of information we started to type them up on the laptops. We created a diagram of a sunflower and then stuck our labels around the diagram to create our own non-fiction poster! They look great!
In Topic we have also looked into the work of artist Hermel Alejandre. We really liked the bright colours and abstract nature of his designs! We looked closely at plants and created our own interpretations of his painting!
In Guided Reading we learnt about where some fruits grow around the world and we thought about why they grow in different places. We studied fruits closely and then created our own images using pastels. Here is our map of where all these fruits grow!
In Topic we have been learning about what plants need to grow. We have been busy planting flowers in pots in the classroom. We have to have a plant monitor to water the plants each day! We are excited to see what colour our flowers will be. When they are big enough we will move them to our pots outside!
We have also been growing some herbs! Our herbs have been growing really well in the classroom! Can you see which ones have started to grow already?
Outside we have been busy preparing, and planting, in our vegetable patch! We have planted carrots, lettuce and peas! If you look closely you can see that some of them have started to grow already! We have been checking the weather forecast every day to check they have been getting enough water!
In Topic we have also been looking at the different parts of a plant. We have been exploring the leaves of plants by making leaf rubbings and looking in non-fiction books.
We also found an experiment in one of our books we borrowed from the library which we were really keen to try out! The book said we could change the colour of a flowers petals just by changing the colour of the water they were in! We set up our own experiment to see if this was true! If you look closely at the petals in the picture below you can see the petals are just starting to turn pink after only one day!In Literacy we have been working like busy little bee's to produce some amazing non-fiction posters about the parts of a plant. We worked in our 'Amazing fact finder' pairs to look through lots of information about the parts of a plant and we made notes as we went. When we had lots of information we started to type them up on the laptops. We created a diagram of a sunflower and then stuck our labels around the diagram to create our own non-fiction poster! They look great!
In Topic we have also looked into the work of artist Hermel Alejandre. We really liked the bright colours and abstract nature of his designs! We looked closely at plants and created our own interpretations of his painting!
We hope you enjoy our flans after our assembly - they look delicious!
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