Where are Class 1 hiding?
Today in maths, Class 1 have been practising using our positional language to describe where things are. We talked about how we need to use special words to describe where something was and where we could see the bear hiding.
After practising, we then went outside in our small groups to…
Autumn walk
Class 1 went on an autumn walk around the school grounds to tick off the first signs of autumn. The children spotted orange, brown and red leaves, mushrooms, berries, sweet chestnuts and lots of leaves on the ground.
We will revisit our autumn walk next term where we will compare the photos we…
Look at our amazing natural patterns!
In our maths sessions this week, we are exploring patterns. This afternoon after looking at some repeating patterns together in class, the children were challenged to create their own repeating pattern using natural resources they found in our outdoor classroom.
All the children worked…
Mini figures
Class 1 explored the outdoors with their mini figures this afternoon. We pretended they were our families and were going on adventures. Some children imagined they were fire fighters and police officers linking to our new topic this week. The children enjoyed creating their homes and playing…
Nature houses
Class 1 enjoyed creating their houses using natural resources in our outdoor classroom. We had designs that uses softer resources to create their fluffy beds, chimneys, garages, a boat and lots of attention to detail!
Well done Class 1!
Nature faces
Class 1 enjoyed exploring our Forest school classroom this afternoon. We collected natural items to create the children's faces to make artwork. The children had lots of fun enjoying the space and working together with their friends.
Caring for our vegetable patch
Class 1 headed out to care for our forest school area and our vegetable patch. The children picked up as many weeds as they could and tended to our classes vegetable patches. We tied up the peas to the canes and weeded in the beds.
Afterwards we sat down to have some afternoon fruit and a drink…
Rainbow fish outdoor art
Class 1 took their artistic skills outdoors this afternoon. We have been reading the story Rainbow fish in Literacy and decided to create large scale paint splat rainbow fish! After we had finished the colourful scales we added silver sparkly scales with just enough to share one for each of our…
Gardening in the sunshine!
What a lovely and happy time Class 1 had gardening in the outdoor classroom this afternoon. The children worked brilliantly to help tidy the beds and then had fun and took great care planting some strawberry and some different seeds.
We can’t wait to see what grows and to spend time caring for…
Our Easter Gardens
Today in our RE session, Class 1 continued to explore the Easter story and found out about what happened after Good Friday and how Christians celebrate Easter Saturday. We watched some short videos about the Easter story and how Easter is celebrated in church on Easter Saturday and Sunday. We then…
3D Shape Butterflies and an Obstacle Course Challenge!
Class 1 have been incredibly busy exploring 3D shapes this week in their maths sessions.
They have made beautiful butterflies by printing with 3D shapes to see what 2d shapes are in different 3D shapes, listened to and joined in with some 3D shape songs and today, Class 1 were challenged to…
Hide and Seek
Today in maths Class 1 have been number explorers and finding out about odd and even numbers. We talked about what makes a number odd and what makes a number even and then we went outside on a numicon hunt. Mrs Elwell is very good at hiding numicon - some were very tricky to find!
Once the…