Week beginning 24th May

There was a Rainbow theme in Class 1 this week...

In Maths we have been learning how to use our Tens Frames...

Our text this week has been the Rainbow Fish and we have been fascinated how the Illustrator uses colours.  We have been learning about different shades and tones and how to mix and blend colours. We then created our own fish using one colour to start...

The children have had a wonderful half term and worked well, they all deserve a well earned rest.

Happy Half Term everyone.

 Week beginning 17th 

This week we have continued our learning around Flowers.

We have also started to see our flowers emerging through the soil in our pots too.

Some of us have been working on our cutting skills to create these lovely flowers to take home too.

In Maths this week we have been learning how useful the 'part part whole' model can be for problem solving.

Rained off this week for PE, Mr Sanders had a very special treat for us...he bought in his archery equipment and we got to do some target practice in the Hall instead.

Well done everyone.

Have a lovely weekend.

Week Beginning 10.5.21

Sorry that we haven't been able to post for the last couple of weeks, for some reason we have been unable to access our Blog page in school, fingers crossed all is back to normal now... 

Well, we had an unusual visitor in Class 1 this week....

Not the Tiger who came to tea, but the Tiger who came to Wenhaston Primary.

We used this as a focus to learn and share Tiger facts and to do some descriptive writing,  everyone worked brilliantly and we are very proud of what we achieved.

Elsewhere in our Topic, we have gone with Reggie's choice in class, finding out about flowers...

''Do you know Miss Welby these insects are all busy here on these flowers?'

And look, these leaves and flowers have been put here to attract all different kinds of insects into the garden.

We have also started off our own seeds, which we decided to keep inside for now in case there are anymore frosts over night, but also because Theo found a slug while busy in the wildlife area in our outdoor area  and we definitely do not want that paying our seedlings a visit!

We have also been finding out about the different parts of the plant and what they are all for.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Please note, the office staff have sent home a Parent Mail letter this evening, even though you don not have to pay for your child's school meals until Year 3, please set up an account as then you will be able to use it for any other payments.

Many thanks.

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.