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Animal fun!

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7th October 2022

On Tuesday, we were lucky enough to join in a virtual event hosted by Read, the bookshop in Holmfirth. We joined lots of other schools to hear the author, Sophie Henn, talk about her book series Lifesize. We really enjoyed listening to Sophie tell us the facts she learned researching her books and joining in with her activities like flapping our wings like humming birds and drawing our very own red pandas. Did you know the giant squid could only just fit into our classroom as it is so massive! Thank you Read and Sophie Henn for this wonderful experience! 

   

   

   

   

As the days get shorter and we move into Autumn, we are thinking about animal shelters in our outdoor learning afternoons. This week we read a very old version of The Three Little Pigs and had a go at choosing different construction materials to build houses for our own little pigs. Snowdrop group had some some fantastic ideas and it was great to see lots of cooperation and teamwork.

   

   

During computing, we have been learning how to save our work on PurpleMash. We continued to develop our fine motor skills by using the track pad to colour in different pictures! 

Hope the rain stays away and you don't get swept away by the wind!

Mrs P and the Year One Team xxx

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Harvest time!

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30th September 2022

Today, we watched the NFU Harvest Live session. We looked at different food and decided whether they were a stem, leaf, root, fruit or seed and learnt all about what happens during a cereals harvest. We then created the world's biggest virtual combine harvester by replicating the actions of this machine.

   

   

After the session, our class went out to our school field and harvested the apples growing on our apple trees. We tasted these in the afternoon and they were delicious! 

   

   

This week we went outside to think about how the seasons change and how daylight hours become shorter as we move into Autumn. In our story the 3 Little Pigs had a problem; they need to build strong shelters before it got too dark in the evenings. We thought about all the animals in the wild who start to build shelters at this time of year, all ready for the colder weather and darker evenings that are on the way.

   

   

Hope the weather warms up for you! 

Mrs P and the Year One Team xxx

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Gliding across the week!

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23rd September 2022

During our dance session we have been looking at different seasons. This week we looked at winter and thought how we could move our legs and arms, imagining we were wrapped up warm on some ice. We watched an ice skater and how she moved herself across the ice then tried to replicate this in our hall. We watched each other and gave 1 star and 1 wish for different performances. How fantastic we all were, gliding, jumping and turning across the 'ice'! 

   

   

This week in Science, we have made a rain gauge as we observe the weather. Every day we are now excitedly checking and measuring the amount of rain fall and the temperature, recording it on our class weather chart.
   
In maths, we have been introduced to a new concept! We used Coco the Crocodile to help understand the greater than and less than symbols, using our hands to munch the bigger numbers. 
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Mrs P and the Year 1 Team xxx

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Tiger-tastic Week!

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16th September 2022
What a busy week we have had in Year 1! 
We have been discussing the death of Queen Elizabeth II a lot in our class and today we wrote in the online book of condolance. The children chose what they wanted write, they were very kind and thoughtful with their message!
We have started looking at The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr, which most of our literacy work is going to be based on for the next few weeks. We made ourselves familiar with the story by drawing and describing our favourite character and retelling the story through acting.
   
Well done to Snowdrop group for a fantastic first morning in our wild area. We read the story of The 3 Little Pigs and collected lots of natural materials to make house collages. We thought about which ones would blow away first if the wolf came along and huffed and puffed!
   
   
During art, we learnt about hot and cold colours and how they can influence our feelings. We then learnt how to create a colourwash using the 'hot' colours red, yellow and orange. Next week we are going to do the same for cold colours! 
   
We've also been looking at the school behaviour system this week and reminding the children why it's 'good to be green'.
Have a lovely weekend and hope the weather warms up! 
Mrs P and the Year 1 Team xxx

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First week back!

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9th September 2022

Wow!

I know I speak on behalf of the whole team in Year 1 when I say how incredibly proud we are of how well all the children have settled into the life of being a Year 1 child! 

We have been doing lots of fun activities in maths, including groups objects within 10 in different ways. 

In art, we learnt how to draw a self portrait using a mirror to look at our different features and compared these to our partners. We then walked around the room and admired the amazing work everyone had done! 

      

   

We begun our phonic sessions and within these, we work together with a partner to read a book. Here we are looking through our speed sounds. 

During PE, we started our dance topic where we will be creating dance routines linked with our science topic of the seasons. We pretended the hall was made of ice and 'skated' around jumping, spinning and creating different shapes like real ice skaters! 

After such a busy week, we hope you all have a good rest ready for our first full week in Year 1! 

Mrs P and the Year 1 team xxx

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