Jam sandwiches and 10 heads?

English

We've been reading the little red hen all in preparation for writing a sequel, the little red hen 2. To help with our planning we had to make jam sandwiches.

                                      

We cut the bread

Spread the jam

 

Caught you red handed having a sneaky off cut of bread.

Then the best bit eating the sandwich

Art

The children have been learning about the artist David Hockney. They tried to recreate his cubism style. 

The children took lots of pictures using the ipads from different angles of each other.

Then they cut the pictures up, I think they turned out wonderfully. Here are some examples.  

Science
The bean plants are coming along nicely, it would be nicer if a few more would wake up and pop out of the soil...

So along with our weekly observation of the plants we have been looking at garden plants. Identifying a few flowers and giving responses about them.

RE
In RE we have been learning about Harvest and how to appreciate nature. Sukkot is a feast Jewish people celebrate to be thankful to God for the natural world. We did this by having our own feast.

Maths
In maths we have been making 5 and 10 in different ways. trying to be practical and working mathematically. 

Computing
In computing we are working on the basics; turning on the laptop, using a keyboard, using a mouse and logging in. We used some maths games to practice using the left and right click of the track pads on the laptop.

Certificates

Merit

Bella and Kenny (23.09.16)

William and Summer (30.09.16)

Neat Presentation 

Chloe (23.09.16)

Scarlet O (30.09.16)

Star Writer 

Elizabeth (23.09.16)
Isla (20.09.16)

By Elizabeth

By Isla 

Line Dancing

PE

In PE we have been learning some choreography for a line dancing routine. All members of staff who have been lucky enough to walk through the hall while we have been practicing and performing have been astounded. I'm sure you will agree...

Year One Line Dancing

Ella in our class filmed the video. Next week we will try from a different angle, to include more children in the shot.

Welcome 2016-17 Cohort!!!

We've had a full on start to the term. Making sure we have all the basics for learning for this year.

Maths

We have been counting physical objects, Finding one more and one less than a number and have started adding two one-digit numbers.

English

In English we have been looking at stories with repeated and predictable phrases in. Starting off with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Little Red Hen. Which has linked very nicely to our Science and PE topics.

Today we acted out the story of The Little Red Hen in small groups. We have some expressive members of the class which gets me very excited for our Christmas Production. Check them out for yourself.

The Little Red Hen 1

The Little Red Hen 2

The Little Red Hen 3

The Little Red Hen 4

Science

Our bean plants are coming along nicely. Small One has the tallest plant so far standing at 14cm tall, measured by Lacey. We're still waiting on some of the bean plants to make their appearances, but it has become a very exciting experiment to follow over the coming weeks.  

PE

In PE we have looked at movement and reacting to the stimulus of music. Moving in different ways, like different insects. The flight of the bumblebee made us move quickly whereas there was some beautiful fluttering of arms whilst listening to a slower piece of classical music.
Next we played out the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, going from a small body shape of an egg to transitioning to a caterpillar and chrysalis then finally a butterfly.
This week we have started learning a line dancing routine with basic actions such as bending knees and clapping in time to the music. Put on achey breaky heart and ask for a performance. I'm really excited for next Tuesday when we can add more moves to the routine. 
I'll add some videos of this next week when we've practiced a bit more.

RE
In RE we have been looking at the natural world and went on a nature walk to find objects that aren't man-made. Here are some of the things we found.

Certificates

Merit

Freddie and Molly (09.09.16)

Donny-Lee and Small One (15.09.16)

Neat Presentation 

James (09.09.16)

Erin (15.09.16)

Star Writer 

Lucia (15.09.16)

Summer fair/Sparkle Jars

Year 1 parents,

Just a short one. As you may know our class has been placed on the sparkle jar stall for the summer fair.

I have managed to get my hands on 37 small jars. So that I'm not left decorating them on my own I would be very grateful for you to take some of them off my hands 😀

Miss Morris

Fairy tales and Swords

Firstly I would like to say a well done to everyone who has upped their game this week with reading. The reading chart looks fantastic, wouldn't you agree?

Would you believe none of the boys wanted to be on the fairy chart...

English

These past two weeks we have been reading all of the great Fairy tales Cinderella, Goldilocks and the three bears, The princess and the pea and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. 

We've sang about Goldilocks and the three bears, making sure we change the pitch of our voices for each of the bears. 

(I'm hoping the music teacher will send me a video of them singing, they performed it for me and it was such a delight!)

I've lost count of how many times I've read Cinderella, so much so that Ella can recite the whole story. Which came in handy when we invited year 5 to come listen to our retell img of the stories using story maps to guide us.

We've acted out freeze frames for Cinderella making sure we use our expressive faces to covey emotions in that moment.

(Freeze frame pictures)

Art

This half term our main focus for art was William Morris and his wonderful wallpaper. We've been mindful and coloured in his patterns, we even painted very neatly to colour in his patterns too. Then we started to make some of our own William Morris style wallpaper which will decorate our classroom wall. We started by doing leaf prints.

Then we made some leaf rubbings using wax crayons.

 By Gwennie

 By Rachel

 By Archie

History

Today was the last day of our history topic St Albans through the ages, starting in the Stone Age and  finishing with the Vikings. We have made some fantastic things over the weeks and here are the children proudly displaying their Roman daggers 

 Nutters.