Class 1

Welcome to Class One's page. Mrs Curtis will be teaching on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Mrs Barratt on a Thursday and Friday. All of our new children have settled in beautifully and we have had a very busy first week!

Buddy Time!

On Thursday afternoon we invited our Class 5 Buddies to join us. They helped us finish off our Leaf Art. We played and shared stories too. Later we enjoyed eating bread stick and chocolate sprinkle 'wands' whilst we listened to 'Room on the Broom'. We love seeing our special friends.

 

Forget Marble Runs!

Class One used the guttering and stands to create a fantastic track to roll the conkers down. When they realised that it was too high to reach they pulled over the crates to stand on to make them tall enough! They decided that it would be dangerous to stack the crates and then stand on them. Quite right Class One! Great problem solving skills!

A huge thank you for the amazing ECaT work the children have been bringing into school. Our wall is bursting with paintings, models and the children's work that they have loved talking about and sharing with their friends. It has also inspired lots of creative activities in the classroom!

We went on our own lion hunt around our playground. We splashed through the water, squelched through the smelly mud, crawled into the cave and then ran away quickly hiding under the covers away from the lions at the end! It was lots of fun!

We have been learning about animals living in different parts of the world. The children have been using some fantastic new vocabulary to describe the places including climate, camouflage and habitat. Whilst exploring the ice the children described how it felt and noticed as the ice melted it became transparent! A fantastic wow word! Our Year One children in Science have been sorting animals into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. 

The painting for Take One Picture this year was 'An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump' by Joseph Wright. We talked about the details the children could see in the painting. They identified the bird in the 'glass jar' and we talked about how the bird would feel sad in the jar. We also discussed what breed of bird it could be and the children described and named some birds that they knew of. We decided to paint colourful birds and the Year One children painted a scene where the bird would feel happy instead of sad. 

All of the children painted either a picture or a bird and they were all fantastic! They are now on display in our classroom.