Week Beginning 15th November 21

 It's a new week with a new story....this time Bear is scared!

In class we talked about feeling scared and safe. Many of us are scared of the dark and feel safe with our grown ups and friends. 

Some of us built a safe house to live in using wooden blocks.

As the days are getting shorter and colder we shared ideas on how to keep warm during the winter months. Can you guess what was suggested?

In Maths we continue to sort and order objects and fond different representations of them.

Coughs and colds are doing the rounds again but the children are aware of the need to look after their friends, look at this lovely Get Well Soon card...

Keeping on the cold theme of a different nature, we have been talking about what animals do in the Winter to keep warm.  There are various things but for this investigation we looked at 'fat'

By coating our fingers with fat, we were able to find out that it makes a very good insulator when submerged in an ice bath, compared to our fingers without the fat.

Your child will have bought home important information this evening about the Christmas Trip, the Christmas Play and our Bring your own bear day, any queries please ask.

A busy end to another busy week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Week Beginning 8th November 21

 

Bear Feels Ill has been a good talking point about feeling poorly, germs but also friendship and kindness.

The children have enjoyed talking about who look after them when they are not well and had a go at writing it too. well done.

We have all made the most of bear's cave in the classroom and cooked delicious meals for each other. 

Feeling ill is not nice and given the current situation in the world we took this opportunity to discuss germs, how they spread and how to keep them away....

Glitter Germs

Germs are very small, so small that we can see them with our eyes...so we sprinkled glitter germs on one after that hand and rubbed our hands together. We were all surprised to see how easy it was for germs to spread to the other hand!

After an informative discussion we decided the best thing to do to get rid of the germs would be to wash them off with water and soap.

Ta-Da!!

Germs 

We continue to work hard with our writing  in class 1 during both independent and adult led activities.

In Maths, thinking about the numbers 1,2,3, we then linked this to shapes, cirles, semi circles and triangles as we couldn't help but notice that the numbers correspond to the number of sides on the shapes.

We spent valuable time on Thursday thinking about Poppy Day, what it is and why it is so important, the children then worked on their cutting skills to make their own poppies.

We even did some Poppy art work.

We had a go at hot seating today, taking it in turns to be the Bear, who was poorly in his cave, we (the other woodland animals) had to see what we could do to make him better.

The end of another busy week, have a good weekend everyone.

 Welcome back, we hope that you have had a lovely half term break?  The children all certainly seem keen to be back in class.

Our new topic this term is Snuggle up for Winter, which we have started this week looking at our book Toad's Road Code.

Toad has been teaching us how to cross the road safely and we have spent time noticing the changes in daylight hours, following the clocks changing at the weekend.

Is it safe to cross?

In phonics we have continued to develop our skills... look at our lovely writing.

Maths and we have continued to 'cememt' our knowledge of numbers 1,2 and 3.

We had a wonderful afternoon this afternoon with our friends from Blyth Woods...

Acorn collecting, filling our treasure boxes, colour matching, planting and much more.  Unfortunately due to Covid restrictions we were unable to invite you but here are some pictures to share...

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Week Beginning 18th October 21

 It is fair to say we are all ready for a well deserved break!!

Well done everyone for all the hard work this term. 

Please have a peek at our last week of work....

We enjoyed some spooky sorting and counting at the Maths table.

Our Autumn area has been investigated 

We are building on our writing skills, using our sounds to write simple three letter words. 

How many ways can you make number three using your fingers?

                                           Which one is the easiest way?

More fabulous writing in Phonics, some of us are becoming so confident with this now, well done.

Lots of shape related independent problem solving too this week, including making pictures with 2D shapes and building models with 3D solids.

We have included a couple of extra books in children's bags for half term so that they can continue their reading.

Also in your child's bag, if you have not completed it, (thank you if you have) is the school health form. Please return this to school as soon as possible after the half term. 

As the weather gets colder, please help your child over the break to practice doing up their coat. Of course we are here to help in class but, we encourage the children to do these jobs as soon as possible by themselves.

All that remains to say is HAVE A WONDERFUL HALF TERM EVERYONE.

We will see you back in school on the TUESDAY as the Monday is a PD Day.

Week Beginning 11th October 21

The end of the term is fast approaching...!

Class one children are continuing their journey of learning and discovery.

Children are doing well with their sounds and are now beginning to work with simple CVC (consonant,vowel,consonant) words.

Take a look at our busy week:

We have also completed the first set of sounds, so have been practicing writing them from memory.

Elsewhere, we have been thinking about the importance of keeping healthy and looking after our bodies, so what better way than to find some healthy snacks to feed 'Alan Alien'

Outside, we have had great fun with our giant bubble wands, trying to find out how to make the very best bubbles, not a bad effort,  I think you may agree.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

   

 Week beginning 8.10.21

Finally we have lift off with our Blog, following a couple of disrupted weeks, apologies for that.

we are still enjoying our 'All about me topic' and this week we have been thinking about what we can do, we even made our own class 'I Can' book.

We even had a go at writing our own 'I Can' sentences.

We continue with our Phonics on a daily basis and spend time daily completing activities with the sounds we are learning.

Many of us are enjoying independent table based activities which is really helping our hand eye coordination and pencil grip and control develop.

Phonics this week we have been looking at the sounds 'h, b, f, ff'

Please continue to hear your child read at home as much as possible and write in the journal so we know this is happening...thanks.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.