We have reached the end of our last full week in Class 1 and what a busy one it has been.

Children have been 'finishing off' many different things ready for their forthcoming move to Class 2 such as phonics assessments and much more.

Thursday we had another very sporty day, thanks to Mr Sanders for our PE session and whole school rounders matches.
Hopefully House Points will be totalled next week and the overall winner for the year can be announced.

If you ask the children their thoughts on what was the most important thing to happen in Class 1 this week, I think they would all have the same answer.....

A special visit from Mrs Webb and her beautiful baby.

Please can you make sure that the children have a plastic bag in school to bring home their art and things next week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Week Beginning 8th July 2019

We started the week with our trip to the Foxburrow Farm. Everybody enjoyed themselves and all children behaved impeccably. Well done.
Have a look at some of the pictures we have taken on the day.
A warm goodbye from the older children...

And off we went...

Once there we got into our groups and explored the meadow with a fun game. 

Sweeping nets activity to explore the wild life in and around the hedges. 

Can you spot the man made object?

Can you spot some little explorers...?

We learnt a lot about where food comes from and how to grind grains of wheat to make flour. 

We tasted rapeseed oil and even had a go at crushing rape seeds to observe the oil come out of them. 

Congratulations and well done to everyone who took part in Sport's Day!

What fantastic sportsmen and ladies we all are.

You should all feel very proud of yourselves.

On Friday we still managed to save enough energy for a Big Write.  Using the plot from the hungry caterpillar we changed the main character and the food they ate.

Our independent writing is really developing now...

Congratulations to Freya, our Golden Book winner today for always trying so hard in class and being a kind and caring friend.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Week Beginning 1st July 2019

This week the world has come to our classroom with e little help from our new book:

The world really does come to visit George when his grandpa arrives to look after him and his sister for the day. Grandpa explains how everything from the food they eat for breakfast and the chocolate bars they love come form different places around the world. 
We had a good look at the map of the world and the globe to find some of the countries mentioned in the book. 
We have started to make a food passport which we will use next week for our food tasting around the world....

Our role play area is now set up as a restaurant/cafe' where children have been busy cooking lovely meals for each other. 

We enjoyed the lovely weather outdoors where children role-played first aid for poorly feet.

'Now, if you put your broken foot in here it will get fixed'.

First aid was also given to pretend pets. 'Put your paw in here. It will get better'. 

A HUGE WELL DONE to all the children in Class One for coping so well with our first transition day. Everyone came back excited and had a lot of positive things to say about their morning in Class Two.

We are looking forward to our trip next week!

Week Beginning 24th June 2019

Another week has gone by and what a lot of things we have achieved.
We have continued to work on the weather and during the these sessions children practiced asking about the weather, looking at the sky for clues and describing the weather. We now have a small weather station in the classroom.
We looked at the weather forecast online most days and learnt to read a weather map.

'It's going to be sunny where we live!'

'I think this is wrong, it's not going to snow'.

We made some lovely rainbow umbrellas to go with the topic.

And whilst all of that was going on, the toolbox came out of the cupboard and all the children had the chance to use the tools safely and 'build' something.

'This is a bit tricky'.

'I have to be careful not to hurt my fingers'.

Some of us took inspiration from the weather topic and made a cloud with nails.

'I need to paint it now because it is going to be a thunderstorm cloud'.

Elsewhere our love for our skill of independent writing continues all around Class 1.

Well done everyone.

To conclude our weather work we have been busy making these colourful wind socks...

Hope fully hanging by the window, the wind will catch them.

Congratulations to Jake, our Golden Book winner this week for settling so well into Class 1.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy the sunshine.

Week Beginning 17th June

'On the Same Day in March' is a lovely book that takes the reader around the world to discover how different the weather is around the world. 

After reading the story we discussed some of the places the children would like to visit and why. Surprisingly quite a few of them would love to visit Antarctica so they could stroke polar bears and get to spend time with penguins. 

Inspired by the weather discussions we have had in class one, some of the children built a shelter from the sun or as they called it 'A place to cool down'.

We created two contrasting part of the world in our small world area and noticed how different the colours are. 'Blue and white because it's snowy and cold'and 'The brown is hot'.

We had a busy afternoon melting chocolate and mixing ingredients to make a delicious chocolate bark. 

Meanwhile in our fantasy world Batman's big brother and daddy were there busy looking after a baby. 'Let's give him some milk, he might be hungry. We need to find a milk bottle'.

We have been trying to 'cement' our number knowledge of those tricky teens numbers this week, thinking about how to identify the number, how to count that many of something and how to represent it with Numicon.

We also continued our topic work based around the weather and created some wonderful sun catcher type stain glass windows for our classroom windows.

The children have worked incredibly hard this week to complete their very first set of assessment papers in maths and reading, this is a skill which they will need as they make their transition into Class 2, as it will be something they complete more regularly.

Everybody approached the task in a calm and collected manner and should feel very proud of all of their knowledge and skills that they confidently used to complete the papers. Well done.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.