We had a brilliant time at Forest school this week, lighting fires, whittling sticks, playing games and exploring nature. We enjoyed building dens and investigating the ice that had frozen around Forest school.
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Class 1
Mystery Readers
We have loved welcoming more parents into our class to share stories with us. We have enjoyed lots of different texts including ‘Cops and Robbers’ and ‘The Giant Jam Sandwich’.
Technology from the past
Year 1 had lots of fun exploring different items of technology from the past including old phones, a gramophone, a cassette player, cassettes and records. We worked out what they were for and compared them to objects from the present day. We even had a little dance to...
World Book Day
Year 1 and 2 had lots of fun on World Book Day exploring the text ‘The Kindest Red’. We explored the importance of being kind and made pledges of kindness to others and to our world. We made origami hearts with key words on too. We followed Faizah’s lead from the...
Researching Tim Peake
In Year 1 we have been using the iPads to research Tim Peake and write down facts about his life and work to use to plan our biographies about him.
Using Beebots
We had lots of fun using the Beebots in Year 1, practising giving them commands and seeing how they travel. We described the directions of travel using forward, backward, left and right.
Magical music
We enjoyed learning some of our Round and Round song and began to practice using the glockenspiels to compliment our singing. We learned that glockenspiels have keys with different letters to show the note it will play. [contact-form][contact-field label="Name"...
Making rain gauges
Today we continued to look at the Seasons and created rain gauges to see how the amount of rainfall changes across the seasons. We will be measuring them over time and comparing our results.
Making maps
Year 1 and Year 2 had a wonderful time visualising and creating the journey from the play park to school in the hall and then physically taking part in the journey around the room to help to remember the key landmarks. We then drew our own maps to show the journey we...
Listening to stories
In Year 1, we have been loving listening to different stories in provision on the Yoto. We like being able to choose which story we like independently. Our current favourite is Peter Rabbit!