Stars of the week - 19th September 2014

This week Mrs Heaps, Mrs Denny and I have chosen Teagan and Kyle to be our stars of the week.

Kyle has been working very hard in phonics with Miss Smethurst and decided to carry on practising his phonics even after the session had ended. Kyle thought of different words with the 'ea' sound and recorded them in our writing area.

Teagan is our star of the week because of her all round super attitude! She is a very kind and helpful member of the class and she tries her best in everything she does! 

Well done Kyle and Teagan! 

Stars of the Week - 26th September 2014

This week the adults in Year 1 choose Ryan and Corey as their stars of the week.

Ryan has completed some excellent number work this week; he has been reading numbers to 50 and then placing them in the correct places on a blank number track. 

Corey has been working really hard in phonics this week; he is always one of the first to suggest a word or read a sound, well done Corey! 

Well done to our stars of the week! 

Potato Maths and Star of the Week - 12th September 2014

As always it was a hard decision to choose two stars from a whole class of superstars but this week we have chosen Cody and KC. Cody has been following the golden rules all week and completing all of his jobs. KC asked Mrs Bond some excellent numeracy questions whilst she was working in the science garden to dig up potatoes; KC's questions inspired us to spend the next few days completing 'Potato Maths!' 

We used the potatoes that we dug up to practice our counting and writing numbers and some of us even had a go at estimating how many potatoes were in the bucket. We also arranged the potatoes into size order and used a bucket balance to find the heaviest and lightest potato. 

Now that we know exactly how many potatoes we dug up, we can ask Mrs Bridge to cook for the potatoes for us so that they can be served in our school lunches! 

Mrs Bridge cooked the potatoes and served them as part of our roast dinner on Thursday; they were delicious! 

Star of the Week!

I had such a difficult decision to choose the Stars of the week this week as all of the children in Year 1 have been fantastic! After lots of discussion with Mrs Denny and Mrs Heaps we chose Cameron and Miah.
Cameron has been very helpful at tidy up time this week and all of the adults including our visitor, Mrs Griffiths, have noticed that this week.
Miah has settled into her new class and school this week so well that I keep forgetting that she hasn't always been with us!
Well done Cameron and Miah!

Miss Smith

Welcome to Year 1 - September 2014

Hello and welcome to Year 1! Mrs Denny, Mrs Heaps and I have really enjoyed getting to know the new Year 1 class this week!
The children have really enjoyed exploring the new classroom; especially playing in the building site role-play area and watching the real builders work in the playground!
This week we have been busy writing about ourselves and painting self-portraits; have a look at the display in our classroom and see if you can spot any familiar faces!

Miss Smith

Year 1's holiday!

Earlier in the year, Year 1 went away on a safari themed holiday! Here are a few photographs from our very busy two days: 

We used this rope to play a monkey game; can you remember how? 

These Lilly pads were the only way to get across the infested swamp! 

How did we get the ball onto the other post without touching it and only using the ropes? 

 

We walked to the very top of his hill, can you remember its name? 

We built lots of dens in the woods incase we got lost on our woodland safari and needed shelter. 

We visited a farm and learnt all about how the cows are milked so we can their milk. Can you remember what the baby cows are called? 

What was your favourite part of our holiday? 

Dear Zoo!

We have been reading a new book called 'Dear Zoo' by Rod Campbell. In the beginning, the person who is telling the story writes to the zoo to ask for a pet. We wrote our own letters to the zoo asking for a pet; we had to explain which pet we would like and how we were going to take care of it! We also talked about whether it would be sensible for us to have all animals as a pet and we know that all animals need special care. We looked after our school pet Milton and took it in turns each day to feed him, give him clean water and clean his house. A lady from the Blue Cross also came in to talk to us about looking after pets.

We made some predictions about the pets that the zoo could possibly send and we wrote some descriptive sentences to go with our pictures:

We read the rest of the story and found that some of our predictions were right! We painted big pictures of the animals and turned our classroom in a zoo: 

We thought of lots of describing words for the animals. We tried to think about their colour, size and personalities. We used these describing to make the sentences in the story more interesting: 

Did we do a good job? 

Miss Smith decided that we needed to go to the zoo so that we could find out about these animals! Before we went on our visit we worked in groups to make a list of the animal that we wanted to see and then we planned a route around the zoo to make sure we saw everything on our list and didn't get lost! 

When we got back from our visit to the zoo we used the information that we found out to write information texts about the animals in the story. We used Microsoft Office to type our work.