When the farm came to Sandridge School

Class One and Early years had some special visitors today, a mobile farm. We learnt some new words today such as carnivore, herbivore and omnivore. So be sure to test me on these later. 

What noise does the pig make?

The farm was good. The dog was nice and fun - Edward.

The sheep were really good, they have wool - Donny-Lee.

The donkey was the funniest because it made noises - Olivia

I don't normally like animals, but this donkey seems nice - Mrs Baker.

My favourite part of the day was lunchtime but chasing the dog was pretty fun too.

The kites were upsetting the geese.

It made me really scared, I didn't know what it was. I was a bit terrified. But it's funny now looking back at it.

My favourite animal was the dog, we chased it around the field and I was faster than it - Toby.

The farm came round and the lamb was cute. I liked the bit where I was running with the dog - Mehde.

The goat's horn was really hard and solid. Not bendy at all - Zac.

The donkey have soft furs - Sophie.

The goat bumped the pig - James.

How much are the lambs? - Bailey.

The lambs were SOOO FLUFFY. This one was the fluffiest - Phoenix.

I'm not too sure about the geese, think i'll stick with the donkey - Mrs Fowle.

I can stand on one leg like that thing.

When the offer was put out for who wanted to take the dog for a walk the only answer was MEEE!!! So they all went.

My favourite animal was the sheep - James.

The sheep were soft because their fur is wool.

We dug our fingers into the wool and it was warm - Chloe.

I touched a pig. Her had rough hair.

The donkey was my favourite animal from today because he was soft and lovely - Lucia.

It was really soft it ate lots of grass - Bella.

The donkey was my favourite because it was soft - Isla.

I liked him, I know that donkey feet are called hooves - Chloe.

I enjoyed stroking the donkey because he was soft.

Miss Morris loved how gentle the children were with the animals and how many new things we learnt. She was very proud of Class One and how well they all listened. 

 We've really enjoyed looking at them and learning new things from them. We're the envy of the whole school because we always put in such a massive effort. So thank you and well done. 

Is it possible for projects to start going home?

Class one will have an environment check this week. Without the projects would help make the room look a little tidier. 

Itty bitty weeks after Easter

Homework Update:
I've been informed that 2 weeks in a row I've set homework games that aren't working on tablets. This is an issue with flash not being compatible with tablets. There is a way around this if you download puffin browser to open it with. If you open the game on a computer there shouldn't be a problem. Here's the link.

Maths
We've started looking at counting in multiples of 2s, 5s, and 10s. This has come in handy with doubling and halving.

Miss Morris had a nightmare of a half term, she came across all of these problems and challenges that if she had her amazing year one class with her would have been a doddle.

The first being she needed to send a post card and stamps cost 5p, but the post card wanted 20ps worth of stamps!!! We worked out all the possible answers by counting in 5s to get to 20p.

Next she needed to tile the whole bathroom!!! She knew that the wall was 10 tiles tall, and counted how many tiles went along the bottom. But how many tiles would she need to buy? We counted in 10s to find the total number of tiles for each wall.

Then she had to clean out her bedroom, and came across a massive amount of pairs of shoes!!! She knew she had 29 pairs of shoes... but how many shoes is that all together. So we laid out all of our pairs of shoes in a line and counted in 2s to find out the total number of shoes/

This week we're going to have a try at using arrays to multiply to help us solve some more problems.

English
Normally the boys groan when this topic in English comes about. Traditional Tales; princesses, fairies, true love and happily ever after. But not all traditional tales are full of that mushy stuff. Instead we're reading stories such as Hansel and Gretel, The Gingerbread Man and Little Red Riding hood.

To help us learn the story of Hansel and Gretel we had a read of the story, most of the children in the class had a go at reading and blew Miss Morris and Mrs Bakers' socks off with how far our reading has come over the Easter holidays and when we came across a word we were sure of we used our phonics to sound it out, SMASHING!

We then split off into groups and set to practicing acting out the story using finger puppets.

Then came the time to show off our story retelling. Thanks to Ethan's puppet show theater we had a stage to perform on.

Once upon a time there lived a boy called Hansel and Girl named Gretel.

We learnt that acting is a hazardous profession so we altered the staging afterwards

Then the wicked witch appeared and invited the children inside for some sweets and cake.

We know the difference between the narrator of the story and the charcters

I think all of them did a superb job!

In the second part of the Summer term we will go into detail of Rumpelstiltskin. We will be altering the story and making it our own, for starters we will need to change the name of the main character, even Miss Morris needs to use her phonics to sound that one out.

Science
In our Animals Including Humans topic we had tons of fun talking about the parts of the body and had to get in a sing a long of heads shoulders knees and toes as requested by William.
Then we brain stormed all the parts of the body we knew. Then attacked a member of the class with post notes to label his body.

He loved it really :)

(No children were harmed in 

the making of this science lesson)

Next we will move onto parts of animal bodies, which will tie in beautifully with our visit from the farm tomorrow!!!!

History

I'm really annoyed with myself that I haven't taken more photos of this subject. We've been having faaaar too much fun to find the ipad. So far we've learnt about: 

• The Stone Age - where they made tools out of stone and ate food they found, caught and killed, along with foraging for nuts and fruit. Their clothes we made of animal hides and didn't wear trousers.
  We made some cave paintings by drawing around our hands, like they used to spit paint leaving a silhouette of their hand.

• The Iron Age - where they started to melt iron ore rocks to get the metal out to make weapons, tools and jewelry. They started making clothes out of wool from the sheep they raised. They made houses with wattle and daub walls, we loved one of the main ingredients of that.
  Then we forged some iron daggers. 

• Next we will cover how these ages are relevant to our local area  learning about Stonehenge and the origins of St. Albans , a modern city shaped by over 2000 years of human occupation. The town first appeared as Verlamion, a Celtic Iron Age settlement whose name means 'the settlement above the Marsh'.

Certificates

Merit

Elizabeth & Donny-Lee (21.04.17)
William & Ella (28.04.17)

Neat Presentation

Sophie (21.04.17)
Freddie (28.04.17)

Star Writer

Elizabeth (21.04.17)

Small One (28.04.17)

You saw how well she acted out the story of Hansel and Gretel.

They all looked gorgeous today and gave their best smiles, we had a practice in the classroom before we went in. Hair was still gelled, plaits were still tied and t shirts were tucked in. Most impressive was how well they listened to instructions and pulled the poses asked of them. Freddie, Mehde, Edward and Kenny had a really tricky pose where they had to balance on one leg, I think we got a good action shot there.

Early Warnings

Good Evening all,

As mentioned a month or so ago our class will be raising money for UNICEF. It was the childrens' idea to have a 'jumble sale'. Some have you have been proactive and kind of arranged it all for me so thank you. but that will take place the Thursday after next (11th May). So I hope to see you all there, and I think Mrs Ramage is open to more helpers.

  

Also as mentioned in the recent curriculum letter we will be doing a poetry module on, the former children's Laureate, Julia Donaldson famous for writing books such as the Gruffalo and Room on the Broom. WB 15th May I intend to get a collection of the books out and have a book share, read to each other, look for rhyming words, retell the stories, find some common themes and learn one off by heart. 
It would have a greater impact for the children to see a real variety of books. We have the Gruffalo and the Stick man in school, so I was wondering if my wonderful parents could have a look around the house to see if they had any Julia Donaldson books. Thank you :)




I need to update again soon, I've taken a bunch of pictures over the last couple of weeks but left the school ipad at school. So I'll try to get that done this week. See you Tuesday, hopefully you've had a lovely long bank holiday weekend.

I've just walked into school and it's school photo day!!!