Week Beginning 15.1.2018

The seas....the waves....the land...
This week we have worked on different questions however they were still related to water.
We started the week by locating the seas and oceans in our planet and found out that there is much more water than there is land. From there we talked about waves and how they are made. All of the children had something to say about waves:
They come in different sizes: big, small, medium....different strengths: strong, weak, gentle, choppy, and different looks: frothy, flat, shiny, foamy.

We also continued with yoga and experimented with more new positions. take a look at the children efforts in achieving the 'Sliding Board' position. It seems very easy but it took some time before we got there...

 Palms on the carpet, behind our back.

 Straight legs and toes pointing away from our body.

 Breathe in and lift your body.

  Hold the position for five seconds and breathe out lowering the body.



We had the perfect weather to test our rain gauges so after a rather wet and miserable morning we went outside and checked how much rain had been caught.

We were quite disappointed to find out that most of the bottles had been knocked over by the wind and those still standing had hardly any water in them.
We looked, talked, thought and shared our ideas and came to the conclusion that because the gauges were placed a bit too close to the fence that might have stopped the rain from falling into the bottles.

We came up with a Plan B:

The rain gauges should now be safe from the wind and because we have moved them to the middle of the playground nothing should be in the way of the rain....

 

Following one of the children's questions about what happens when the sea meets the land, we decided to spend the afternoon investigating wet and dry sand.  We felt the difference in texture, we looked at whether you can change the shape and how easily it holds a shape.  We then introduced 'waves' using water dropped from a pipette to see how it changed any structure that had been made.  Children were very inquisitive and came up with some fantastic conversation about how and why they thought things happened.

 

 

 

 

 

A volcano with a lava eruption.

 

This week saw the start of our 'independent challenge' book.  The children are introduced to a number of different tasks that they are expected to complete independently and then add their name to the finished list in our book.  Everyone enjoyed this and are already looking for ward to whatever they may have to do next week.

 

 

 

Have a lovely weekend everybody.

Week Beginnig 8.1.2018

Happy New Year and Welcome back to you all! We hope you've had a happy and restful holiday.

We have started the new year by introducing children to yoga.
Through these sessions children will hopefully develop their concentration skills as well as becoming more aware of their breathing.
Children really enjoyed their first session and put a lot of effort into it.....

Lots of good breathing techniques...

"I can do it with my eyes shut...."

 

 

 

Our focus this week was to answer some of the questions children asked about the rain, why does it rain and how?

We learnt about the water cycle in class and on Wednesday we went for a walk in the Common to find signs of winter and to closely look at the sky. As it started to drizzle we talked about how the rain feels and...taste (yes, we stuck our tongues out....!)
We have also made our own rain gauges which are now in our outdoor area for us to see how much rain falls.  Thank you for sending in the bottles.

Most trees have no leaves during the winter months.

Some trees are always green.

"It's really cloudy and cold today"

 

The children seem to have come back rested from their holidays and ready to write.  Mrs Webb's phonics group this week decided that they didn't even need her to give them a sentence or a question but would rather make up their own.

 

PE with Mr Knights and we had a fantastic dance session, we were learning all about 'beats' and how to move in time to these.  The children thought carefully about different ways of moving and how to keep in time with the beat create by our big African drum.

 

Our water themed classroom is beginning to take shape and the children have enjoyed transforming their role play area into a submarine this week.

 

 

 

 

 

Finally to finish the week we had a lot of thinking to do in maths today.  The children were set the challenge of using the same shapes, a square, a rectangle and two triangles to create different things.

 

 

Congratulations to Ruby, our Golden Book winner today for all of the super artwork you have created in class this week.

 

Have a lovely weekend everybody, see you all Monday.

Week Beginning 18.12.2017

 

 

... and Happy New Year

to you all form Class 1 !!

We have had a fantastic busy term filled with lots of learning and fun. Well done everybody!
To finish the term in good spirit we went on a walk to the common ....

 

It was very cold when we were out and about so when we got back to school we warmed up with a lovely hot chocolate.

 

 

Thank you to Mrs Kett for cooking a scrumptious traditional Christmas dinner to all the children at  Wenhaston Primary.

 

 

 

To end the day.... the week.... and the term, we had a rather special visitor in....

 

                      Santa came to wish us a Merry Christmas and gave all the children a present.

Thank you Santa and Mrs Elf.  

 

Dates to remember:

 

Children will back to school on Thursday 4th January 2018

Once again Merry Christmas!!

 

 

 

Week Beginning 11.12.2017

What a magnificent week! Class one and most probably the rest of the school have welcomed the snow and frost.

Have a look at our very own Winter Wonderland...

Looking at footprints in the snow...

 

"I like the snow, it's very wet and cold".

 

 

 

 

Busy exploring ice and working out how to break it.

 

 

"Can you take a picture of my piece of ice?"

"Look we have made some sandcastles....I mean snow castles!"

 

 

We have added a bit of magic at the end of a school day by watching a Christmas favourite....

The Snowman.

 A few Christmas crafts towards the end of the week, making lovely cards to take home and then EVERYTHING was about our performances on Thursday.

 

The children behaved like professionals and performed their play to a packed audience both times.

Well done to you all.

You should feel proud of yourselves as I'm sure all of your teachers and family do.

 

Congratulations to everyone who made it into the Golden Book today for your super performances and to Georgie for being a super market trader.

Week Beginning 4.12.2017

Everybody meet Ginger, Santa's little helper. He arrived on Tuesday morning via special delivery.

 

Unfortunately by Tuesday a disaster had happened and Ginger had been captured by the naughty dinosaurs.  The children enjoyed writing notes to the dinosaurs to try and free Ginger.

 

 

Baking this week and we enjoyed making our own mini Victoria sponges, yummy.

 

Much of the rest of the week was taken up with our play in preparation for next weeks performances.  Children have been involved in painting the scenery and have made a fantastic job.

We also tried on all of costumes today so that we could see how it was all looking.  A final run through before the dress rehearsal next week and everything is looking good.

Unfortunately we have decided not to post any of the back stage pictures as we do not want to spoil the surprise for next week 😊


Have a lovely weekend and remember, Share is next Wednesday morning and the Play is on Thursday afternoon.

Week Beginning 27.11.2017

It has been another fun packed week in Class One! We have been learning about ordering events and measuring weight.

We spent time making jam sandwich which helped us think about how to order instructions when we make things...

 

We then continued this work with weighing different items.  Finding out how many bears each item weighs.

 

In phonics this week we have been learning more of our next set of sounds, this week we have met  ai, ee, or, and oo.

 

 We have been using these to write words and sentences.

 

We have started to turn our classroom into a Christmas Wonderland.

 

''Look Miss Welby its Baa Baa Bethlehem'

 

 A busy Santa waiting for his sleigh to be filled with presents but he cannot find those reindeer anywhere!

 

Well done to everyone at the church today when we visited for our Christingle service.  You sat and listened so well.

 

Have a lovely weekend everybody.