Class 1

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.
 

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In our music mindfulness session after lunch today, Class 1 used scarves to perform a lovely movement activity to Vivaldi’s winter piece from his Four Seasons suite. All the children really enjoyed using the scarves and following the actions with both their bodies and and their scarves. 
 

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Class 1 have kick started the term learning all about Space! Their knowledge has been amazing to hear and their excitement and enthusiasm has been wonderful!

We have delved into lots of non-fiction texts about Space and we now know all 8 planets and a little bit about each one of them. We…

Class 1 had such a fun time this afternoon tackling a Christmas themed obstacle course and worked brilliantly in their house teams across the different obstacles to collect presents for Santa.

Thank you Mrs Castell for setting up such a brilliant obstacle course! We all loved it!

Today in our maths activity, Class 1 were exploring the concept of 1 less than. We used some snowmen stick puppets and a fantastic song to help us work out 1 less than a given number. The children loved being either a snowman or a sun and making one snowman melt away at a time. They were all…