Week Beginning 20.5.2019

This week we have continued to work on the book  'The Train Ride'.
Children have pretended to be away on holiday and sent a postcards to some special people.

In maths we have set up a tickets shop for children to buy tickets to their favourite destinations. They then had to find the correct coins

'I'm going to need coins...with one on it'

'One, two, that's it, 2p'

Great thinking! 

On top of all that and since the weather was pretty good children spent time cooking in the mud kitchen and setting up a BBQ where the most amazing food was prepared.  

'I'm making a vegetables pie for you'

They even thought about decorating a table cloth for their guests. 

Our money work continued through the week in the form of some problem solving...Qu;  If I am going to the zoo and I need a train ticket and an underground ticket, how much will it cost altogether?

Ans; Use your pennies to add them up.

Wednesday afternoon was special in Class 1... Mrs Webb came for her last visit before she has her baby.

Preparations got underway making her a lovely card.

Mrs Webb arrived for the afternoon with goodies for all, we had a lovely time planting our own flowers to take home and look after.

Thanks to the big boys in Class 4 who delivered us some of their compost to top up the pots.

The children made Mrs Webb promise that she will come and visit with her baby as soon as things are settled.

We wish her lots of luck and have to say a HUGE thank you for all of her hard work.

Well done to Eli our golden book winner today for fantastic Maths and Reading in class.

We hope that the weather has changed for Summer now.  As you can see Class 1 children spend a lot of time outside throughout the course of the day, please make sure they have a sunhat in school.

All that is left to say is Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend and Half Term.

From All Class 1 Staff.

Week Beginning 13.5.2019

This week book is :

The children looked at the front cover and made many suggestions about where the train might be going and what the story might be about.
The text in it comes with repetitive refrains and Class 1 quickly learnt the patterns and join in with the reading. Well done!



As well as a train set in our classroom we had a big train set up outdoors. G and A went off on a journey to Halesworth station.

We had lots of fun in PE. We played a new game called 'Dead Ants'. All pupils were ants except one, the ant catcher. Ants had to move around a designated playing area without getting caught by the catcher. If they did get caught they were dead and had to lie on the ground with their legs and arms up. To save a dead ant four ants had to carefully lift and carry those on the ground and take them to the nearest hospital (hoops). We practised  several times how to carry a dead ant before playing the game.

The children did incredibly well and had lots and lots of laughs. 

'Wait we count to three first and then we lift'

'Hold my arm, i need another ant!'

'If you are a dead ant you have to put your legs and arms up'.

During the week children chose the reading challenge. They had to read part of the The Train Ride story on their own or with a friend.  

'I what some of these words are'. 

We also had some time to carry out a fruit tasting activities. We tried some unusual fruits like the passion fruit and most children were brave enough to try it. Some really loved it. 

'There are a lot of seeds in the passion fruit'

Children ate the fruits and described how they tasted.  

'I love mango it's so yellow and happy and sweet'.

Whilst all of these activities were happening the outdoor area became a giant weaving paradise. 

'We could make a giant bus'

'Hold it here. Can you do a knot?'

'I made a crocodile!'

Lots of us worked together to build a pirate island outside in the sunshine... we needed a shelter to camp in, boats to go fishing in, a bar b q to cook the fish on and so much more.

 Quick hide in here, we will be safe!

Creating colourful fish to catch in the sea.

In other independent activities, we have loved out new weaving frame.

What a lot of colour!

Finally we finished our week with another busy reading share, thank you to all of the parents that came to support.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Our work around Handa's surprise has continued in Class 1 this week and we really have been busy, despite only having four days in school.

Using a selection of different fruits we have been investigating which fruits float and which fruits sink.

'I know this orange is going to sink because it's the biggest and it's really heavy.  Oh no! Look it's actually floating.'

'Well I think this little tiny grape will float really easily, look... What? it has sunk to the bottom'

The children enjoyed the activity that we extended it the next day.

Asking questions such as, if the tangerine floats, will it still float if we peel it?

If the orange floats, will it still float if we cut it half?

So many questions to try and answer, well done everyone.

We have enjoyed more independent challenges this week, Eli is busy here sorting the fruits and vegetables into the correct boxes.

In English, following a session where we drew our own story maps to recall the main events, we had a go at some independent writing to retell the whole story.

The children used their story maps, tricky word cards and independent skills and some of the writing was fabulous, well done!

Elsewhere children have been using their imagination to recreate other scenes from the book.

Look, this is Handa with her basket on her head.

Congratulations to  Thea  Our Golden Book winner today for working really hard in phonics this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Week beginning 29th April.

This week we have started our journey to a different part of the world using the text Handa's Surprise.
Handa is busy about her day in Africa so we looked at where this is on our map.

We have enjoyed many activities but one of our big challenges was to build a basket that could carry something.

 Look mine can go on my head like Handa!

What a selection of different ways to solve a problem, well done.

This then generated its very own game of shops as children used their baskets to go to Eli's shop to buy things to put in them.

Outside we have been pruning the garden to let other things grow know we have the longer sunny days ahead.  We enjoyed using the herbs we cut in the mud kitchen.

The children had a very different day on Tuesday with many visitors as we had our interviews to find a lovely new helper ahead of Mrs Webb's break to have her baby.  We are pleased to share that Miss Pace will be joining us in Class 1.