Class 1
Hot and cold places
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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!
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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
Harvest festival
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6th October 2023
All this week, we have been bringing in donations for the food bank at Thongsbridge. We collected everything that had been donated, from all classes in school, in our hall. Wow! We couldn't believe how much had been brought in and cannot thank everyone enough for their kindness and generosity!
On Wednesday, we took part in NFU Education's Harvest Live! We looked at how to make a delicious Palak Paneer dish. We learnt how to grow onions, spinach and coriander, along with understand which part of the plant they come from and how to prepare them safely. We then went on a quest to discover where the milk we needed to make the paneer cheese came from, meeting the robots who do the milking and feeding the calves on Farmer Elaine's diary farm.
This week in Science we have been asking the question 'Does the wind change direction?'. We looked at the Beaufort Scale, acted out some different winds and then had a trip outside to see how we could tell what direction the wind was blowing in. This is all part of our learning about Autumn and Winter and being able to observe changes in the seasons and describe weather!
I hope you warm up warm this weekend!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Who is special to us?
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29th September 2023
In our PSHE session this week, we started looking at our new topic, who is special to us. We thought about our families and discovered that this is just one of the groups that I belong to. We realised that we are part of groups outside of school, like swimming, gymnastics and rainbows, and we are part of groups in school, like our class, our friendship group and many more. We then drew what our families look like, what our class looks like and what other groups we belong to.
Linked with our English topic, The Tiger who came to tea, we watched the animated version to see how it was the same and how it was different to the original book. We then looked at facts all about tigers and wrote fact files about these beautiful creatures.
In computing, we thought about what technology is and how it can be useful to us both in school and outside of school. We then discovered which technologies could help us do jobs like cleaning the house and going to sleep.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
What will the weather be like next?
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22nd September 2023
We didn’t let the rainy weather put us off our outdoor learning this week. We decided we would have a go at telling the story of the Three Little Pigs ourselves and, after we had collected some natural materials, we worked in teams to create some fantastic collages of the three different houses. We had our snack in the shelter in the woods and sang some rainy day songs. The rain water came in very handy for washing our hands!
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!
