Class 1
Look out! There is a Woolf about!
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19th January 2024
During English, we have started to look at a new book, Woolf by Alex Latimer. The main character is an animal which is half sheep and half woof. We drew Woolf then thought of adjectives which we could use to describe him. We then put these adjectives into sentences. We had a howling good time!
In art, we have been looking at artwork by Jean Metzinger and comparing this to artists we looked at in Reception, Monet and Van Gogh. This week we had a go at creating a piece of artwork inspired by Metzinger, using colouring pencils to carefully colour in each square to create a landscape. We used some realistic colours and some none-realistic colours, just like Metzinger. How fabulous they are!
In geography, we have been starting our new topic of mountains, rivers and coasts. We looked at coasts, which are near to us, in the first week and his wek we learnt about rivers. We looked at how a river is made and where rivers go. using atlases and Google Earth, we looked at rivwers which are close to us, the River Helm, and river which are in the United Kingdom.
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Christmas time!
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21st December 2023
I can't believe it but the end of the Autumn term is here! We have had such a fabulous time and the children have all worked incredibly hard, we are extremely proud of them and how they have all matured. We would just like to thank all of you at home for the continuing support that you have given us and the children, we really do appreciate it!
We performed in our tree-mendous Christmas production on Tuesday and what a spectacular job we did! We are all so proud of the children as they projected their voices, sang beautifully and the show went without a hitch!
Thank you all the grown ups that came to watch us perform, I hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed performing it!
On Wednesday we had our Christmas party! We played lots of games and even had some party food, thank you FONs for providing this!
We have been busy making lots of different Christmas crafts. These Christmas crackers and Christmas tree decorations!
Have a lovely Christmas break and we will see you in the New Year! Thank you all again!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Stepping into Christmas!
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15th December 2023
We finished our DT project this week, we made Christmas cards with moving mechanisms. We chose between the following mechanisms: sliders, levers and pivots, wheels and pivots. We decorated the front of our cards in a Christmas theme, thinking of what our recipient would like on the front of a card, before adding our mechanism. I think you will agree, that they look beautiful!
We took a moment this week to relax as things have been a little different with rehearsals for the Christmas production and did some yoga. We centered ourselves and thought about how we can take time out if we feel overwhelmed over the Christmas period and use some of these techniques to have a little moment to ourselves. We all feel ready for the last week before Christmas now ...
Have a good rest, ready for the last week of the Autumn term!
Mrs Parker and The Year One Team xxx
Stepping into winter
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8th December 2023
We had a snowy start to the week so we went outside at playtime while it was snowing! We had lots of fun making patterns with our footprints and making snowpeople!
In maths, we have been consolidating our 3D shapes knowledge by making them using marshmallows and cocktail sticks. We realised which 2D shapes are used to create 3D shapes. How much fun we had making these safely!
We had our school pantomine today, Snow White by M&M Productions. All the children had lots of fun (Oh no we didn't, oh yes we did!) and really enjoyed participating. We a great way to end our first week in December!
During English on a Wednesday, we have been larnnig about poetry, looking at the specific poem I Do Not Mind You, Winter Wind by Jack Prelutsky. We have been leanring to read this orally and even put some actions to it! The children were completely amazing, here is the copy of it. Why not ask the children to perform it at home at home for you with actions!
We are very excited about the next two weeks coming up so get lots fo rest ready for the Christmas festivities to begin!
Mrs P and the Year One Team xxx