Class 1
A bear-ry good week!
admin on: Class 1
17th November 2023
In English, we have been exploring the book Old Bear by Jane Hissey. This week we described the characters from the story using adjectives and then ended the week by writing a 'grrr-eat' fact file all about the history behind teddy bears.
In computing, our new topic is all about digital painting. We have been using Microsoft Paint to create self-portraits of our partners and this week, we looked at the artist Piet Mondrian and re-created his Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow. Here are some examples of our work.
In music, we have been listening to the Colonel Hathi's March from The Jungle Book. We practiced marching in time to the pulse of the music and even started to create our own music to march to. Hup, two, three, four, keep it up, two, three, four!
Have a brilliant weekend after a busy week!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Fantastic first week back!
admin on: Class 1
4th November 2022
Today, we started our DT topic, mechanisms with a focus on sliders and levers. We looked at different picture books with moving parts and to see if we could work out how the different parts moved. We then learn the different features of a sliding mechanism and proceeded to create our own. We chose a character before creating a background which matched the objects we had chose for the sliding part of our picture. Look how creative we all are!
Well done for the first week back!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
First half term complete!
admin on: Class 1
26th October 2023
We have made it!
I would just like to take this time to thank everyone for all their hard work this first half term in Year 1! We really do appreciate the work that everyone is doing at home and it is starting to reflect in the work in school. We are super proud of how all of the children have settled in and adapted to life in Year 1!
In RE we've been thinking about what morals are and discussing Peter and the Wolf and the The Elephant and the Ants.
Have a lovely rest and we will see you all after a week off where we will hopefully see some lovely weather!
Mrs Parker, Mrs McLoughlin, Mrs Cooper, Miss Littler and Mrs Pearce
xxx
Hot and cold places
admin on: Class 1
20th October 2023
During the past two weeks in art, we have been finishing our hot and cold colour washes. We looked closely at animals that live in these places and created detailed drawings of a variety of animals. We then cut them out and stuck them onto our colour washes. We decided that these paintings made us feel very differently, depending on which we were looking at. We felt nice and warm looking at the hot colour washes and cooler when looking at the cold colour washes.
At the start of a new school year, the school chooses new house captains for our houses; Pitcher, Booth, Hayley-Porteous and Stewart. Children in Year 6 wrote speeches if they were interested in running for these roles and recorded them for us to watch. In class, we listened to the speeches, which were fantastic, and then democratically voted for who we thought would make a good house captain. Our votes were put with the results of the other classes in school and the house captain and vice-captain were announced in assembly on Friday.
In RE we have been talking about stories and what we can learn from them, as part of our learning about special books. We looked at The Hare and the Tortoise, and then The Good Samaritan.
Have a good rest, ready for the last week of the first half term in Year One!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Amazing atlases!
admin on: Class 1
13th October 2023
In geography this week, we used an atlas to located the Amazon Rainforest as part of our hot and cold places topic. We discovered that most rainforests are near the equator which makes the climate topical. We then compared forest that are found in the United Kingdom to the Amazon Rainforest.
What a wonderful Autumn morning we had in the woods! We sorted lots of different kinds of seeds; conkers, acorns and pine cones and then pretended to be squirrels hiding acorns to eat when Winter comes. While we had our snack we read a really funny story about two squirrels who were chasing the same pine cone. Some of us made squirrel swing using our knot tying skills, we cooked up a squirrel feast in our mud kitchen and used our engineering ideas to think of ways to transport the nuts down the hill. Before we came in for lunch we tried to remember where we had hidden our acorns. Now we know how clever squirrels are!
In maths, we have been learning about part-whole models and how they can help us with our addition. We also learnt how to write number sentences with the plus symbol, +, and the equal to symbol, =.
I hope the weather dries up for you this weekend!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx