Tuesday 26 February 2019

Alien Crash Landing!

There have been some very strange goings-on at Mulbarton Primary School today!

We came into school to hear the news that a spaceship had been seen hovering over our playground.


We checked CCTV footage and saw that something appeared to have crash landed on the grass behind our classrooms.

Some of us were a little anxious, but we summoned up the courage to check out the site.  We found the wreckage of what looked like a shiny, silver spaceship, lots of wires, a round window, various springs, tubes, cogs and a ticking clock.  The grass looked like it had been scorched in several places too.

We decided that we needed to share this news, so we wrote and illustrated newspaper reports of what we had seen and found out.  Later in the week, we will investigate some of the wreckage and learn about the properties of the different materials.

What an excellent way to kick off our new 'Moon Zoom' topic!


Thursday 14 February 2019

Weekly News w/c 11.02.19

Another busy week - this seems to be a common theme!

On Tuesday, we conducted a science experiment to find out how long it took to bake a perfect roll.  We mixed batches of dough, shaped them into rolls, left them to prove and cooked them for different lengths of time.  We found that the best rolls were the ones baked for 15 minutes.









Last week, we learnt that the Great Fire of London started in a bakery on Pudding Lane.  It spread quickly as it was very windy and the houses were close together and mostly built of wood and straw.  We looked at what the houses were like in 1666 and created our own models using the cardboard boxes that you have been saving for us!  They were very impressive!






We took our houses outside and made our own mini Pudding Lane.  Then, as a surprise for the children, the Fire Brigade arrived.  They set light to the houses to show how the fire spread and some of the children made chains to pass water along as they would have done in 1666.  Thankfully, this fire was put out fairly quickly, although sadly none of our lovely houses survived.







We then went inside with the fire fighters and learnt a little bit about fire safety.  We found out that if our clothes were on fire, we should
STOP, DROP and ROLL!

This has been a really exciting ending to our Bright Lights, Big City topic.  Tomorrow, we will have a crafty treat linked to our mystery book for children who have completed all of our writing challenge tasks.


Friday 8 February 2019

Weekly News w/c 04/02/19

This week in our mystery Power of Reading book, Claude visited a hospital with his poorly friend, Sir Bobblysock.  The other patients in the waiting room had some interesting looking conditions, so we took on the role of doctors and diagnosed what was wrong with them.  We then suggested how we could treat the patient and wrote this for our Wonderful Writing.











In maths, we continued our work on direction and followed a series of directions to help a poor teddy, who was lost in London, find his way home.  As part of this lesson, we learnt about clockwise and anti-clockwise turns.



On Thursday, we enjoyed our Multi Skills trip.  We tried lots of different activities and Riley and Addison (Ladybirds) received special certificates for Sportsmanship for their positive attitudes and how they encouraged the other members of their teams.






In science, we continued to learn about the properties of materials and this week, we tested some to find out whether they were absorbent.  We made predictions about whether they would soak up all of the water, some of it or none at all.  We also learnt what we need to do to make our experiment a 'fair test'.  See if we can remember!





Next week, we will be finishing our Bright Lights, Big City topic with a special treat, which the children do not know about!  All will be revealed later in the week!

Finally, we would appreciate any cereal boxes, shoe boxes or other cardboard boxes that you no longer require to use for our science project.

Thank you and have a lovely weekend,
Year 1 Team





Friday 1 February 2019

Weekly News w/c 28/01/19

This week in Caterpillars 🐛, we have continued with our Power of Reading ‘mystery’ book.   We freeze framed a scene in the book and wrote speech or thought bubbles to show what we imagined the character would say or think.  These are going to become part of a lovely display in the hall.  



Then, Claude became a hero when he foiled a robbery.  We wrote questions we wanted to ask the characters involved and then conducted a press conference to find out more information.

In maths, we have been focusing on position and movement.  We have practised describing the position of different objects using 'left', 'right', 'above', 'below', 'between' and 'next to'.  We also had fun working with a partner to give and follow directions to see if we could re-create shape pictures.

In science, we conducted some simple tests to find out if various items were waterproof, transparent or magnetic.



The children enjoyed sharing their homework today and it was a pleasure seeing all their lovely work.  Next week's spelling words to practise are:
of
said
be
he

During our phonics session next Friday, we will see how many of the 16 words they can remember - so keep practising!

Have a lovely weekend,
The Year 1 Team