Enchanted Woodland

Caterpillar class have been loving their latest topic of 'The Enchanted Woodland.' We had an afternoon outside helped to make a bug hotel for our new sensory garden with Tim the ranger who has been building the new garden. The children collected twigs, leaves, sticks, feathers and fir cones from the field and woodland areas and then pushed them carefully into the pallet structure. 

We have also had lots of fun designing and making enchanted story boxes in Design and Technology. The children were asked to try and include a moving part and some enchanted features in their design brief. They also used these to help them write some fantastic enchanted stories.

Weekly News 17.11.17

This week we have been super star authors, writing our own stories set in an Enchanted Woodland! We have been using brilliant time adverbs and amazing adjectives to make our stories exciting.

In Maths we have been learning about doubling numbers, including working out how to double teen numbers. We have also started learning about subtraction. We used cubes to help us work out the answers but we had to remember to always start with the largest number first.

We were wowed by how brilliant our spellings were this week. We were amazing at remembering how to write the tricky words that we can’t sound out. We have sent home the next set of tricky words to practise at home, ready for next Friday 24^th November.

We have also been busy becoming pop stars and recording a Christmas CD. We sang the songs that we have been practising in our class and assemblies, including a song in German.

If you would like to purchase a copy of the CD, they will be on sale at the Christmas Fayre, 1^st December, 5-7pm.

Our shoebox project has now finished the planning and preparation stage so we will be starting to use our shoeboxes next week. We have taken influence from our brilliant story writing to create a story shoebox with characters, backgrounds and lots of other decorations. Please bring your shoebox in next week, ready for us to start using them if you have not yet brought one in..

Have a lovely weekend – the year 1 team. 

Week Beginning 6th November

This week at school we have enjoyed listening to the story of ‘The Bog Baby’ which we then made a story map of.  This story has inspired us to create our own stories using a story mountain format, we have planned the characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  Next week we will begin using the shoe boxes to create our story world and write up our final version of the story.

In maths this week we have been learning about odd and even numbers and sorting numbers to 100 into this pattern.  We have continued this learning to then count in 2’s and fill in missing numbers on a number line.  We learnt that you can say number 1 quietly and then 2 loudly, 3 quietly and then 4 loudly to help with this.

Thank you for your support with the children’s spellings – these will be checked in a very informal way during our daily phonic session.  The children are used to having to think of ways to spell and write words during these sessions.  The next sets of spellings we have sent home you will see are all tricky words and this is the way that we will continue for now.

We’ve begun practising the songs for our Christmas performances and so far these are going very well!  What a choir of angels we already have – hope you will agree as you will probably hear them practising at home.

We have sent home the next home learning – the first piece needs to be handed in by Wednesday 22^nd November and we will return your child’s book by Friday 24^th November.  The second piece will then be due by Wednesday 6^th December.

Have a great Weekend – The Year 1 team. 

Weekly News 3.11.17

We have had a fantastic week starting our Enchanted Woodland topic. On Monday we made title pages for our topic books and learnt to measure using balance scales in maths. The children then used the cookery room to make fairy cup cakes by using two eggs and measured out ingredients by balancing the flour, sugar and butter with the eggs.

On Tuesday it was our Enchanted Woodland WOW day which was a huge success. The children had so much fun and thank you all for providing some excellent costumes. Activities included wand making, magic potions, lolly stick fairies, fairy doors, dream catchers, stick crowns and the children decorated their cup cakes. Thank you also to the parents who came to help, we really appreciated the extra adults to allow so many activities.

In Science we have been learning about plants and trees. The children have been on a tree hunt outside and used a spotter sheet to identify trees using their leaves. We also learnt how to classify deciduous and evergreen trees. The children enjoyed watching some videos of Andy Goldsworthy making some art using leaves.

We have given out a spellings book to all of the children with 5 spellings to learn. These will go home each week for the children to practise and we will do a short spelling test on a Friday. Please make sure they keep their spelling books in their book bags so that they have them at school to practise and for us to stick the new spellings in each Friday. Please see the letter inside the cover with more information.

Reminder- Please can the children bring in a shoe box in next week which we will be using for a DT project.