Stick Man

We made a very strange discovery when we tried to go out to play; we couldn't get out of the door as something was blocking it! 

One of the children managed to squeeze through and found a box. 

Inside the box there was a Stick man!! 

We thought about why the Stick man might be outside our door and went outside to look for clues.

Is this a clue? Some children thought it might be part of stick man or a member of his family.

Is this where Stick man lives? 

We made posters to let people know what we had found. We described what the stick man looked like and where we found him.

The children noticed that the stickman looked sad and made predictions why this could be;

 "He is sad because his is missing his family."

"He is worried because he is lost."

"He is sad because he's having a bad hair day."

We hope we can find out why! 

Miss Smith found this story called 'Stick man' written by Julia Donaldson. We started to read the story and discovered that Stickman had lots of different uses in the story. We made some predictions about what he could be used for:

Christmas tree decorations, snowman arms, a campfire, a basket, a headband.

We spotted that there were lots of repeating patterns in the story and we added the repeating patterns to our predictions: 

'Stick man, oh stick man beware of the footballer!' 

'Stick man, oh stick man beware of the children!'

'Stick man, oh stick man beware of the boys!'

'Stick man, oh stick man beware of the big girls!' 

We worked together as a class to write our own version of the Stick man story before we wrote our own using the repeating patterns that we had spotted. We tried really hard to use words that make our writing more interesting; can you spot them? 

We went on a trip to Delamere Forest to follow the stick man trail through the deep dark woods! It was a very cold day and we walked such a long way but we were kept busy spotting stick men and reading poems as we walked through the forest. On the way back to the coach we collected fallen twigs and branches to take back to school to make our own Stick men.

Investigating magnets

In Science this week we have been investigating the properties of materials. Miss Smith introduced us to magnets and we were very excited to explore the classroom to see which materials the magnets would be attracted to. We learnt that if a magnet is attracted to a material then we say the material is magnetic. 

The magnets were attracted to the dolly tub...

and the blade of the scissors...

and the old-fashioned shoes...

and the cupboard door handles.

We found out that the magnets were only attracted to the material metal.

In our next science lesson we are going to investigate if all metals are magnetic! 

Measuring

This week we have been learning all about length. We started comparing items to find the longest and the shortest from two and three objects.

We then looked at using different units to measure things with. We did lots of measuring using paper clips, counters, pencils and pens to see how long things were.

Miss Smith asked us a tricky question: Who is the tallest person in the class?

After lots of discussion we decided to measure everyone. We drew around our bodies (we thought this was very funny!) and then measured how tall we were in lollipop sticks. We thought about using counters but decided it was would take too long and that we might loose count after a while.

After we measured ourselves we ordered the number of lollipop sticks from smallest to largest. The shortest person was 9 lollipop sticks tall and the tallest person was 11 lollipop sticks tall. Can you remember who these children were? 

 

Here is a picture of one of our outlines being measured.

When we learn about measuring later in the year will we be learning about centimetres and metres. 

The Tiger Who Came to Tea!

We have been looking at the story 'The Tiger Who Came to tea' as part of our work on stories in Literacy. 

We have made tiger paper by shredding black sugar paper and arranging it onto orange paper to look like tiger stripes.

We have been using role-play to perform the story to each other. We like using the tea set to help us.

We made our own cakes and sandwiches so that we could have a tea party. We had a great afternoon eating our goodies and drinking tea and then we had a surprise....a tiger came into the classroom!!! 

The Very hungry caterpillar

This week we have read the story of 'The very hungry caterpillar'. The caterpillar ate his way through lots of delicious foods. We decided to see what the caterpillar could eat in our classroom.

7 cubes

19 finger puppets

11 dominoes

23 counting sticks

The hungry caterpillar is going to be very full! Can you see him in our classroom?

Welcome to Year 1!

This week year 1 have been very busy settling into their new classroom and exploring inside and out! 

We started our week by looking at our 'Golden Rules' and thinking about why we have them and how we can keep them. We decided that our school would be a sad place if we didn't have golden rules and we are very glad that our school is such a nice place!