Stars of the week

The Year 1 stars this week are Lily and Heidi. 

Lily retold the story 'Where the Wild Things Are' in front of the whole class using her story map to help, and included many details! 

Heidi did some excellent work in Numeracy, using straws to represent tens and units in numbers to 100. 

Well done both of you! 

Remember that Monday is now our PE day and you must have your PE kit (shorts, school t-shirt and plimsolls) to get a house point! 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Mrs Behi

Where the Wild Things Are

This week we started a new text in Literacy called 'Where the Wild Things Are'. We have been reading the story every day to get to know the characters and the plot. We have been drawing story maps to show what happens in the story.

Here we are working hard on our story maps:

Can you tell what the story is about from our drawings?

Welcome back!

Welcome back Year 1!

Last week's Stars in Year 1 were Ruby and Kalvin. Ruby did some excellent phonics work, learning the 'oa' and 'ew' sounds. Kalvin was really enthusiastic about our new topic 'Where can we go?' and participated very well by answering many questions about local rivers.

We also had some excellent homework brought in after the holiday. Elias made a poster on the computer with old and new photos of Ellesmere Port. 

Leah made a model of a house from the past and also made a poster where she drew and labelled different forms of transport.

Well done to Leah and Elias! 

I look forward to seeing many more creative homework tasks! remember, homework is given out on Friday and should be back in on Thursday.

Christmas party!

On Monday, Year 1 and 2 had our Christmas Party! We bought our party clothes to get changed into and a great time in the hall!

We danced to lots of Christmas songs...

We played pass the parcel... 

We had a dancing competition...

And we even had a very special visitor...

We had a fantastic time!! 

2D shapes

We have been learning about 2D shape this week and recapping the 2D shapes that we learnt about in Reception. 

We made 2D shape pictures using circles, squares, triangles and rectangles.

Miss Smith challenged us to be able to describe each shape by explaining about the number of sides it has, the number of corners and the types of sides (curved or straight). 

Artist study

This week we have been studying a famous artist called Mark Rothko. He was a Russian painter who lived most of his life in America. He was born in 1903 and died in 1970.

We started by looking at some of his painting on the website http://www.markrothko.org and talking the colours, shapes and moods of the pictures. 

We then used pencil crayons to investigate which colours we thought looked good together.

We then used paint to create a painting in the style of Mark Rothko by painting different sized blocks of colour onto our paper.

Here are some pictures of us creating our masterpieces. They will be on display in the classroom shortly.

Gymnastics!

All through the autumn term we have been working with Ashleigh, a gymnastics coach.

Here are some pictures from one of our final sessions where we were working on partner balances.