Week Beginning 19th November 2018

It's celebration Time in Class One!
We started the week talking about all the special events we celebrated over the past few weeks and thought about what other things are there to celebrate. Of course it didn't take long for the children to think about Christmas and birthdays.
We had a chat about everyday things that might not feel like a celebration but they actually mark very important moments in our lives like riding a bicycle without help for the first time, swim, do our shoe laces, start school and many more. 
Birthdays were the most popular of all mentioned celebrations so we set off to celebrate.....

 

 

Some of us made some incredible cakes using wooden blocks and fruits.

 Others made special chocolates for people in need.

"There are chocolates on top of my chocolates"

 

"Shhhhh......! It's Phoebe's birthday. I'm making some chocolates for her."



Some of us got REALLY busy writing to family and friends. There were birthday cards, party invitations and Well Done certificates being created.

"This is for you, it says come to my party".

 

And to add a bit of fun why not have a go at 'Pin the Cherry' on the cupcake game?

 

"I am very good at this because I've been to lots of parties"

 

"You know, I can do it even better if I have another go".

 

 

New friendships have blossomed too.

'Let's hold hands'.

 

Our party theme also inspired lots of independent mask making...

 

 

 Working hard to perfect our cutting skills.

 

 

We have also had time to fit various Literacy tasks too...

 

What a busy week, well done everyone.

 

Preparation for our Christmas play is now well and truly underway and the children should have bought home their letters about costumes today, if for any reason you have not received this please come and ask.

 

Have a lovely weekend.

This week has been a very thoughtful one. Children  learnt about Remembrance Day and why we celebrate it. We talked about why people wear red poppies and how the money raised is used.

Children made poppies and all things red with play dough.

 

Some of us decorated special medals for the soldiers who died for us.

 

We walked to the local War Memorial and read some of the messages people have left there.  

 

 

We had  some quiet time to think about those who lost their lives in the wars and said a big thank you.

Back at school we found an empty big box which soon became very popular amongst the children.

It turned into a jail, a turtle shell a bed and much more....

An empty box...

 

I'm in jail!

I'm like a turtle!

 

Two peas in a pod!

 

Thursday was a very exciting day for all in Class 1 as we welcomed our new sports coach, Mr Sanders...

The children followed his instructions carefully to learn lots of new warm up games, The bean game, The car game and more.

We talked about using space, changing direction, moving in different ways and starting and stopping on a signal.

As you can see, everyone had a wonderful time.

 

 

 

 Congratulations to Leonora; Our Golden Book winner this week for being so enthusiastic about everything in class.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

 

Week Beginning 12.11.2018

Welcome back to class 1 blog and Happy Diwali everyone!

As you might have already guessed this week we have learnt about Diwali. 

Diwali is also known as the festival of lights. We have read the Diwali story and have drawn pictures of it in our books.

 

We embraced this festival by decorating and creating Rangoli patterns and here are some fine examples....

 

 

Needless to say that yoga fitted in perfectly with our weekly topic. This time we have enjoyed a cyber lesson on Cosmic Yoga.

 

 

Namaste....

Breath and stretch...

 

 

One of the weekly challenges was to get children to read environmental prints. It was very interesting to see how many 'words' they can already 'read'. 

 





 

 
 

'That's boys' cars...'

 

'That's like a café...'

 

'I watch CBeebies!'

'Weetabix is for breakfast'.

Keeping with our Divali theme we listened carefully to the story of Rama and Sita and spoke about the characters.  The children then faced the challenge to build a picture (with the 2D shapes) or a model (with the 3D shapes) of something that they remembered from the story.

 

Sita; The Princess

 

 Rama's special bow and arrow

 

 

Hanuman, King of the monkey army in the trees

 

We also found out at the end of the story that people lit Diva's to light the path and guide Rama and Sita on their journey home so we decided to make our own Divas using clay.

 

We have used air drying clay so we have to wait a while for it to harden before we can decorate them and add the candles, watch this space.

 
Well done to everyone who has managed to build a few minutes into their busy daily routines to read at home.  It really does make all the difference at this stage if the children do a little bit everyday.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.