Class 1

English

Recently we've been researching about nocturnal animals. With the intention to become nature documentary presenters to share all the non-fictional information we know.

Not only did class 1 present the nature show, they filmed it and found suitable videos for the backing. David's whole crew had better watch out!!!

Maths

We've had tons of fun in maths, measuring the mass/weight of objects in a variety ways.

Using a homemade scale to compare weights

"My shark weighs more than the seal"

Ben told me his potato was the heaviest!

If I put a potato in the red bucket, what will happen?

Using non-standard units of measurement such as marbles to measure how heavy fruit and veg is.

Then we moved onto standard gram weights.

"Oh now it's too heavy, I'm going to switch this 20g for a 10g instead. So the apple weights 30g"

Next stop length.

PE

In PE we were interpreting the music into movement. For songs such as Flight of the Bumblebee in contrast to The Nutcracker. The Archie found the first piece as 'fast and busy'. Some did 'very quick feet' like Matei, whereas Ella 'buzzed about like a bee'. This was very different to the graceful movements of Oliver and Chloe to The Nutcracker. Then Reuben noticed 'it changed to marching, so I did a soldier move'.

It was very interesting what imagery the music conjured in their minds. Such as the fire alarm, a stampede or princesses and princes, soldiers marching on the moon, a magical kiss changing a frog back into a man.

Art Gallery

Finally the paintings are back and don't they look MARVELLOUS!!!

Sharing Assembly

As you know we had our sharing assembly. It went so well and I'm extremely pleased with everyone! I wanted to say thank you for putting in the hard work at home to perfect their lines.

English

This week we put on our silly hats to write funny poems. We made different faces and brainstormed adjectives to describe the faces; to help us come up with ideas for our poems later.

"This is my pumpkin face." The other children described it as scared, shocked, ghostly and surprised.

"I'm making a happy face." The other children described it as smiley, joyful and pretty.

"If I hold my breath I make a red face." The other children described it as angry, scary, weird and freaky.

"I can make a silly face, like thi-sh." The other children described it as creepy, funny, toothy and spooky.

With all these wonderful silly faces we were able to come up with words that rhymed with them to make a string of rhyming words for our poetry. Such as.....

I can make a smiley face, a pretty face and a happy face.

I can make a blossom face, a glitter face and a glimer face.

I can make a silly face, a chilly face, a frilly face.

I can make a cheeky face, a squeaky face, a peaky face.

I can make a happy face, a spooky face, an angry face.

I can make a joyful face, a painful face, a playful face. Written and typed by Chloe, Sophie and Abigail.

Maths

We finished off our unit of money by setting up a Toys R Us shop.

Half of the class were customers with a purse full of money burning holes in their pockets and the other half were shop assistants, fully trained to check the full amount was paid.

"Just one more penny please."

"I bought 2 things with my money."

"37p?! let me see if I have enough."

Somebody looks happy with her purchase.

"That will be 26p please."

Lots of bargains to be had! "It only costs 5p!"

Science

We tested a variety of objects to see if they would sink or float. We made predictions first, using the knowledge we had about their materials and properties.

Kara suggested that her rock would sink because it was heavy. James thought "my blue ball will float, because it is made of plastic and plastic is waterproof." Whereas Ava's cloth was "made of fabric, and that's absorbent and will sink."

Not all of our predictions were correct, such as the floating orange. The purpose of science is to test theories and find out new things. It wouldn't be learning if we knew everything already.

Design Technology

To round off the last day of half term we tested our paper straw bridges to see if we had made them strong enough to carry a load.

We used rulers to make sure our bridges were accurately built to the blueprints.

We made strong structures by making a ladder.

Then made beams to go diagonally across to make a triangle shape, which is the strongest shape. We saw it in lots of different structures like the Eiffle Tower.

It took lots of team work and sharing out jobs.

After 2 weeks of building they were ready for testing.

Once all of the bridges were complete we tested them until destruction. By placing on a beanbag at a time to find out which was the most structurally sound, by being able to hold the most bean bags.