The wind changed direction, but our faces didn't stick that way.

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.

 

Chloe, Matei, Rachel, Griff and Summer - 12 beanbags

 

Kara, Anna, Gwennie and Ryan - 19 beanbags

 

 

 Ella, Estelle, Owen and Megan - 19 beanbags

 

 Reuben, Oliver, Ben, Simian and Alfie - 15 beanbags 

 

Sophie, Archie, Ava, James and Abigail - 19 beanbags

Then made a table to display our results.

I hope everybody has a lovely half term and I will see you on Monday 22nd February, fresh and ready to learn more exciting things!!!

Teddies lost and found

 

 

Looking at number bonds to 10 and 20 by playing Wild West Shoot Out!

As a class we paired aliens with their spaceships,

then safely flew them back to the mothership.

"What number do you add to 17 to make 20?"

 

"How many more do I need to make 20 if I have 10?" 

 

 

"What do you add to 6 to make 10 Matei?"

 

British Values week starts with finding out, What is Britain? Do we live in Britain? Are we British people? Do we have other nationalities we could feel like?  
 

Map of Britain

Then we debated and voted on which of the values we most important and why in a house of parliament style face off, with boos, mocking laughter and a good amount of "hear hear" agreement.
 

Oliver is getting the opposition riled up!

James suggesting why it was important to understand right from wrong.

 

E-safety in a song

Finally our Lost Teddy stories are complete. After lots of discussion and reading other examples of lost teddy stories we have made our own books.

 

 

 

With the inspiration of Chris Evan's 500 word competition, we had the idea to turn some of the books into audiobooks. But with their illustrations being far too good I had to share their pictures too.

 

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Then we toddled off down to year 5 and read our stories to the big kids and they LOVED them!!!

Hello Spring term

 After a lovely rest over the Christmas holidays the year one children came back full of enthusiasm to get back into learning and finding out what topics we are doing this half term.

We had a class discussion about our favourite part of the Christmas holidays, I was delighted to find out it wasn't just all about the presents. The children were very thankful for the time they spent with their family and enjoyed eating lots of delicious food. We also agreed that we were very lucky to have received presents from family, friends and especially Father Christmas. So to show our appreciation the children wrote thank you letters for their favourite gift.

Abigail was very grateful for her puppet bag and told us how she enjoyed performing puppet shows with her cousins in Wales.  

Gwennie loves her new desk, she's looking forward to doing her homework on it. Looks like I'll need to set more so she has more of an excuse to spend time on it.

Anna wanted to thank her Nanna and Nannu for her speaking bear that she loves squeezing very hard.

Estelle told me all about her baby born doll that she's going to take special care of because it means so much to her.

We started our new unit in maths of addition. We looked at adding on ten to any number. Griff, Ryan and Owen found out that if you add on ten you "just go down in a line on the 100 square."

Then we began to look at materials, Rachel defines it as "materials are what things are made of."

We explored a variety of different objects and tried to identify what each item was made of, what its material was. Here are some of the materials we named.

 Some metal hoops.

 A leather purse. A piece of wool carpet.

 A tower of plastic blocks.

We will continue to look at materials and their properties and think about which materials will be the most suitable for making houses or other structures out of.

Our science topic is linked in with DT this term. The children will be making structures, concentrating on planning to build structures that are strong. We explored what we could make by connecting straws.

"My bike wheels around really fast like this."

"Can we try to make the biggest tower?"

"Look at my glasses."

"We built a helicopter."

"My spider has 8 legs."

"I made an umbrella to keep dry"

In assembly we continued to observe the progress of Major Tim Peake, a British astronaut. Afterwatching his spaceship blast off on his way to the international space station before Christmas, it was about time we checked up on how he was doing.

We found out that he had arrived safely and was adapting to life at zero gravity "that means he can float around" (Archie). This morning the pupils of Sandringham School made history by contacting the astronaut on the space station. You can read more about it and watch videosby following this link - www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35261160 . We willcatch up with him again, next week when he plans to take a spacewalk.

This inspired us to write a mini report about the event, whilst focussing on capital letters and full stops.

I would also like to welcome a new member to the class, Ava. You should be very proud of how warm and welcoming your children are to new pupils, showing them how friendly Sandridge school is.

Audacity files

Carrying on from Mrs  Ledger's last post, below are the three links to year 1 Audacity files they created and edited in the Radio room.

Geog - https://vimeo.com/148206555

Art - https://vimeo.com/148206553

Science - https://vimeo.com/148206554

Computing file will uploaded very soon.

Audacious computing (with a little help from Mr Sherwood)

So far we've enjoyed some really creative computing lessons this term: we began back in September by linking our computing work with our art sessions on David Hockney.  We used the Paint program to draw digital landscape pictures, and compared these to our own hand drawn and painted versions.

Next we used the tough-cam, iPad and camera to take photographs to make David Hockney inspired landscape collages.  We learnt how to type words and insert clip art pictures into a Word document so that we could write about our art work.

  

This half term the cross-curricular links have continued strongly.  Mr Sherwood helped the children record some recounts using the Audacity program - I was so impressed that they managed to do all of the recording themselves!  The children recounted what we had learnt in the first half term in science, literacy and other areas of the curriculum.

To show me what they had learnt so far, the children edited a Christmas card in Word by changing the pictures and editing text.  This week we got to grips with Publisher where we used the same skills but in a slightly different program. It's amazing to see how quickly the children can all login, open programs and documents now.  Some are even starting to save their own work independently - they truly are the digital generation!

A Fruity Surprise!

In literacy the children have been working hard on writing, and now adapting, their own versions of the story Handa's Surprise.  In D&T this afternoon we had a lovely time making our own fruit salads, using some of the fruit from the story.

See if your child can remember which fruits we used.