Week Beginning 19th April 2021

Apologies for the late post, the website was down on Friday afternoon and wouldn't let me publish the post.

YOGA: We continued from last week and added movements to our frog pose. We stretched our legs and lifted our bottoms (froggies). We then crouched down again and leapt up high, hopping all around.  

We then continued indoors and sat in a quiet spot to meditate and find our inner selves... 

                                                   Breath in...and out....

Push away any thoughts and empty your head...

                                             
                                                           Relax!

This term we are planning our work following the children's interests and suggestions. Each child has been given the opportunity to think of a place where they wish they could be...

Leo suggested funfairs as a place to be. 

Have a look at some of the our funfair maps and rides... 

Helter Skelter rides

                                               Boat rides

                                                        Ferris wheel

                                                           Dens and hot-dogs!

We then designed posters to advertise these.

We also spent time looking at some fairground art, by a particular artist, inspired by this some of us made some name labels with our name in lights, or worked on this collaborative piece for our classroom door.

Finally we spent time outside using bits and pieces from the circus skills box to help our hand and eye coordination.

I wonder who's 'Wish you were here request we will be following next week and where it will take us?

Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy this lovely sunshine.

Week Beginning 12th April 2021

 Welcome back everyone! We hope you had a very happy Easter holidays.

Time flies and here we are starting the SUMMER TERM!!

YOGA NEWS....

We have been practicing a new pose: FROG POSE.

Take a look at the pictures below

Squat down with your heels close together and slightly off the ground.

 Put your fingertips on the floor in front of your feet. 

Inhale and straighten your legs bringing your head close to your knees keeping your fingers on the floor. 

This pose is great for strengthening legs’ muscles and improving balance. It stretches an activate foot muscles. Well done class 1!

We have also started a new topic....Wish you were here. (Topic letters should be the children's reading bags)

This week we have used the book the Snail and the Whale, as the snail takes a ride right around the world seeing all sorts of wonderful things.

Reggie and Miss Pace added our very own whale to our outdoor area.

We have used this as a starter to inspire the children to think about where they would like to go and why?

We will then use this to inspire our planning throughout the term, so far it looks as though we could be travelling back in time, be off to the funfair or even take a trip to the seaside.

Watch this space!

in Maths this week we have been thinking about numbers and how to represent them in different ways, e.g if you see a digit, can you represent that number with the bead strings?

Some of this took this further, by creating our very own digit cards with larger numbers on them to make it more of a challenge.

To finish the week some of us helped out in the outdoor area, planting some pots to add a bit of colour.

Finally we finished the week with a science experiment, as in our book, we talked about a whale becoming beached on the shore.  We set up a model of this and then had to decide how we could free him?

After lots of discussion Jennifer suggested water, so we tested her ideas to see if it worked.

What a busy first week back, have a lovely weekend everyone.

 Phew! What a busy week to finish the term in Class 1.

An important event took place on Tuesday when interviews took place for Mrs Webb's position as she starts her maternity leave.  We wish her all the very best and will keep you posted with any baby news as we hear.

We also welcome Mrs Clarke to our Class to take over Mrs Webb's days, I know she is very excited about joining us.

Elsewhere, have a look at some of this week activities...

We have sent holiday reading home for the Easter period as requested by many.

As you are aware, reports went out yesterday, if this provides you with enough information, that's fine.  If you wish to discuss it, or anything else feel free to make a parents appointment if you would like one.

Have a wonderful Easter break.

 Week beginning 14th March

Settling back into routines has continued this week in Class 1, as has our PSHE theme; this week considering the word Gratitude.

We read the text 'Bear say Thanks' and then spent time thinking about what we are thankful for in our Class.

Firstly we thought about what we bring to Class 1 and how we help to make it the fabulous class it is, we made a huge jigsaw puzzle as we felt, it represents how well we all fit together.

Brilliant!

Next we wrote thank you cards to our friends in class, telling them why/what we were grateful for.

Some of you may even have had one of these home, as some of the children enjoyed making them, so much that they made another one for somebody at home.

Elsewhere, we continue our Yoga in PE...the children are getting very good at all of the different poses now.

Finally, we finished the week with our Red Nose Day celebrations.  The children have all made a smile poster to bring home and stick in the window somewhere.

We also thought about all of the heroes who are busy raising money for this worthy cause and designed some superhero capes.

Thank you if you donated money, we will let you know a total soon.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Week Beginning 8th March 2021

 And they were all reunited...let's just hope it stays this way!

It has been wonderful to be able to finally see each other and talk about our time apart. Really priceless!

We started off the week with a little bit of yoga. We learnt a new pose called CHILD POSE. As we have all been bombarded with an overwhelming amount of sensory inputs we introduced this pose to help tuning everything out and focus on ourselves. This pose is known as a safety pose which helps with breathing, relaxing and stretching our muscles on our back. 

Have a look at our little yogis....

Some of us felt hopeful too and painted a rainbow:

'This is a very special picture, can we look after it?'

 

Elsewhere we have been getting back to routines, our daily phonics sessions are back on track with some wonderful writing...

We have been thinking about being kind this week, so have made these lovely smile badges to pass to people to make them happy.

We finished the week with our 'Inside Out Day' here we are enjoying our emotion boogie, expressing ourselves to match how we are feeling.

Finally, competition news...

It's well done to Reggie, the winner of our Extreme Lock down reading competition.

That concludes a very busy first week back.

We are very pleased and proud of our children and how they have settled back into school life.

We look forward to seeing you again on Monday.