Polar animals
Class 1 have explored our Wonderful swinger topic and delved into all things Polar Animals! Here are a few snapshots of our learning and activities so far. We have all learnt lots of new language relating to these animals and found out about how animals survive in such cold conditions.
Mud kitchen bakery
Class 1 created a “Mint Bakery” in our mud kitchen today, we had rock cakes, mint tea, herb pancakes and much more. We even had a driver to help the bakers collect their supplies and then a scooter driver to deliver the orders to customers. Lots of watery, muddy fun and a few sets of wet socks!
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The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders
In our RE session today, we discussed the Parables we have learnt about so far and talked about why Parables are so special to Christians.
We then listened to the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders and talked about the lessons we could learn from the story.
Following the…
Exploring 1 more and 1 less.
In our maths session today, we have been exploring 1 more and 1 less using our outdoor resources.
Mrs Philp called out and showed a number and challenged the children to show 1 more than that number. All the children could accurately identify the number that was 1 more and had such fun finding…
Forest school Chinese New Year
Forest school morning celebrating Chinese New Year.
Class 1 enjoyed creating natural dragon and lion masks, cooking up a storm in the Chinese mud kitchen, making new year fans, Chinese symbol mud writing and exploring our outside area.
We got very muddy and had lots and lots of fun!
Chinese New Year
Class 1 are exploring all things Chinese New Year this week. So far we have listened to the language and we have learned how to say "Hello I am___" in Mandarin.
We have all tried to use Chinese symbols to write our name, it was very tricky and the symbols were much more complex than our…
The Year of the Snake!
Class 1 have listened to the story of the Zodiac and have acted out the story using animal masks. We remembered parts in the story and that the rat and the cat had a lift across from the Ox, but the rat was not kind and pushed the cat off! We had such fun reenacting the story and learning about…
Find Your Happy!
Class 1 have been discovering different emotions and how to manage those feelings.
We listened the beautiful story Find Your Happy and listened to how the character finds his happy after experiencing emotions of feeling sad, shy, angry, worried. One of the things the character does is think of…
Class 1s Big Garden Bird Watch
After learning all about birds and how to identify them Class 1 headed out to complete our big garden bird watch. We put on our rain suits so that we could lay down to camouflage ourselves and to not scare the birds away We tried our best to be quiet and headed out to the different areas of our…
All about birds!
In preparation for our Big Garden Big Watch Class 1 have been learning all about birds, watched a video on how to encourage birds into our gardens and how to identify each bird. We looked at the markings on the different birds and listened to their bird songs. Class 1 enjoyed sharing what birds…
Exploring 1 less than with snowballs!
In maths today Class 1 were exploring the concept of one less than. The children had great fun using snowballs to help them find one less than a given number.
In this activity, the children used their subitising and number recognition skills and practised their number formation on our fantastic…
Aliens Love Underpants!
Today our classroom was covered in pants!
We read the story Aliens Love Underpants and had a day full of alien fun! We listened to the aliens voices on our talking tins and wrote down their names in Literacy. We then found a letter from the aliens asking for our help to find magnetic items so…