World Book Day

We had a lovely day today celebrating World Book Day! We came into school this morning and shared our favourite stories and photographs with the class. We then read the story 'How to Grow a Dinosaur' and we have spent the day doing lots of fun activities based on the story! Look at our pictures to see what a fun day we had in Year One...

We had lots of fun playing in the mud! We found things from the garden to create our own dinosaur swamp! 

When we were in the swamp we were using lots of story language to come up with a whole group story about the dinosaurs adventures!

We worked well together to create our stories and our swamp!

We even gave the dinosaurs a bath at the end to clean them! 

We used brush to draw and paint our own dinosaurs...

We worked hard to write our own dinosaur stories!

We made some yummy dinosaur biscuits!

We made some masks so we could act out our favourite dinosaur stories...

And we made some funky dinosaur bookmarks! 

 

 We were writing stories everywhere! 

Just when we thought the day was over we put on our coats and went to read our special books in a special place! We shared our books with our friends and to keep us nice and warm we drank some hot chocolate and marshmallows, and ate our lovely biscuits that we made this morning!

A lovely fun day enjoyed by all. Year One were all superstars today! 

What a Wonderful Week!

Year One have been very hard at work since coming back to school after the half term break!

We have been having lots of fun exploring Alice in Wonderland!

As part of our Literacy unit 'Fantasy Stories' we have been finding all the parts in Alice in Wonderland that tell us this story is set in a fantasy world! There have been lots of things to talk about!

We have been thinking about what happened to Alice, and how she got through the door! We watched the part in the film where Alice falls down the rabbit hole and is presented with the challenge of getting through the door into Wonderland!

In teams we made our own door into Wonderland. We experimented with colour mixing to make these bright and inviting doors, thinking carefully about what details we needed to add.

We also noticed that Alice drank a potion which made her smaller so she could squeeze through the door into Wonderland. We used our imaginations to come up with our own potion recipe! We had some super ideas!

We also had a think about what adventures Alice might get up to when she did manage to get through the door... We had some very imaginative ideas! 

Numeracy got very exciting when we received a letter from Alice! It was very sparkly and some unusual flowers fell out of the envelope when we opened it which we decided must have come from Wonderland! In her letter, Alice explained to us that although it was very exciting in Wonderland it was also a little scary! She asked for our help to tell her which we thought the friendliest mini beast in Wonderland might be as she needed to ask one to help her find White Rabbit! We had a discussion and decided the best way to find out would be to ask everyone in the class to see which mini beast most people thought would be the friendliest. We had to design a table to collect our results...

Once we collected our results and had asked our friends their opinion we were able to create a graph of our results...

When we had finished finding out which mini beast was the friendliest we wrote a letter to Alice to tell her about our findings! 

On Thursday we watched some of the film without the sound which led to quite a few unimpressed faces! We talked about the impact sound had on the film and on the world around us which got us thinking about sound and music. We had some time to explore different types of music and instruments and then had a think about what we wanted to know more about! Here are some of our questions...

How are musical instruments made? 

What is inside your ear and how do you hear sounds? 

What are different instruments called? 

How do you make a band? 

What music do you listen to around the world? 

Who writes music and how do you write it? 

Why does music make us have different feelings? 

Enterprise week...!

We have been very busy during Enterprise Week! We have enjoyed making some brilliant products to sell at the Enterprise market. We have learnt all about fair-trade, and the journey bananas and cocoa beans go on before they get to our shops! We have enjoyed completing market research, designing and advertising our products! Here are some pictures of us making - a big thank you to those who came in to help us! 

Chilly Builders!

We had a lovely afternoon today during our choosing time! We were exploring some mystery objects, building houses, selling houses in the estate agents, creating images in play dough and learning about houses from the past from our library books. Some of us went outside into our construction site too... it was pretty chilly outside so we kept topping up with some 'warm tea', which looked suspiciously like water! Here are the boys admiring their handy work!

A Lovely Winter Walk...

You can tell by our smiling faces in this picture, and the general buzz around the classroom, that we enjoyed our walk today! We saw lots of things that will help us with our topic! We learnt about different types of houses; detached, semi-detached, terrace, flats and bungalows and tried to spot these along the way!

Thank you to all the grown ups who helped us on our trip :) 

Amazing Poems!

Happiness

Happiness sounds like children playing loudly,

Happiness smells like fish fingers,

Happiness feels like my teddy at home,

Happiness tastes like chocolate cookies.

Kacey

Happiness looks like a bunch of flowers, 

Happiness sounds like birds tweeting, 

Happiness smells like roast dinner,

Happiness feels like my new slippers, 

Happiness tastes like sweeties. 

Grace

Happiness looks like rainbow flowers,

Happiness smells like a sausage roll, 

Happiness feels like my teddy,

Happiness tastes like sweetcorn, 

Happiness sounds like playing with friends.

Shaye

Happiness sounds like gummy bear, 

Happiness smells like fish and chips,

Happiness feels like cuddling my teddies.

Drew

Happiness looks like a swimming pool, 

Happiness sounds like birds,

Happiness smells like a flapjack,

Happiness tastes like ice-cream,

Happiness feels like my mummy.

Gracie

Happiness looks like my family, 

Happiness sounds like children laughing, 

Happiness smells like roast dinner, 

Happiness feels like my onsie, 

Happiness tastes like broccoli.

Oliver

Happy New Year!

We had a lovely day back at school today. Everyone came in with lots of exciting stories from the holidays that they enjoyed sharing with us and their friends.

We started the term as we mean to go on today... working hard and being the best that we can be! We began our Literacy topic of Poetry and today we were learning all about our five senses! We will be thinking about how we can use our senses to explore objects around us and how we can incorporate this into our writing.

In Numeracy today we explored the 100 square, looking how it all fits together and reminding ourselves of the value of tens and units. We will spend time this week looking at patterns and how the 100 square fits together.


Our new topic 'Houses and Homes' is set to be an exciting topic, we have lots of exciting things planned! We will find out what we already know tomorrow, and what we want to find out more about in our topic time! Keep checking the blog to find out what we are learning about!

Here is a website we will be looking at to find out what houses used to be like...get ready to take a Step Back in Time!!!