Welcome back.... and what a lovely start we have had.

Our new topic; It's a Wonderful World has kicked off with looking at Where in the world we are in Wenhaston?

We have enjoyed looking at maps of our Class and the village.  We were very good at finding different places and while looking at the village map we discovered that we couldn't find any of the new houses on the map.

So Friday morning we set off to find where on the map they should be.

Then children put their new map skills into practice and we found the houses and then updated our map.

A super start back everyone, well done.

There is a selection of Artwork at The Halesworth Gallery this weekend, if you would like to go and visit.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Week Beginning 1.4.2019

We have ended our term with the story of Easter. Some children were able to talk about what happened to Jesus and why we celebrate Easter.

Children did really well at expressing their opinions about this story. 

'Jesus was a nice person and it was not fair what they did to him'.

Lots of the activities have been based on Easter and Spring. Children created lovely patterns on eggs. 

Our Spring tray was very popular. 

'We are making up the story with Peter Rabbit'

Outdoor children printed egg patterns with our potato masher 

'It looks like Egyptian writing'

Team effort in the sun shine. 'We did this together' 

'I'm building a house and this is a computer for the mummy'

Some of us enjoyed an Easter reading activity on the computer. 

Wednesday bought a miserable rainy day so we had to think of ways to use up some of our energy....'I know lets build an assault course!'  

 'I'll be Mr Sanders and show you what to do...follow me'

We were so busy we didn't even notice how wet it was. We also decided to keep the course in place for the remainder of the week.

Back inside and we needed a way to warm up so we made a bed big enough for everyone to get in.

A special treat on Thursday, thank you to George's Mummy for bringing the Hot Cross Buns from George's Grandads bakery, they were delicious!

Not to be out done, we decided that perhaps we should make and bake our own Hot Cross Buns to take home too.

What with that and the kind gift of an egg from the ladies at the church we had plenty of treats to take home

Finally to end the term, Class 1's first experience of a Wenhaston tradition....Egg Rolling on the common!!!! The pictures say it all...

Finally all that is left to say is, have a wonderful Easter holiday everyone.

Advanced warning some of the children's artwork will be displayed in Halesworth at the art exhibition in April, more details to follow after the holidays.

Wb 25.3.19

Goldilocks and the Three Bears have come to visit Class 1 this week and what a busy time they have had too.

I think probably all of the children were familiar with the text and enjoyed reading aloud with the grown up's in class throughout the week...

We then used our knowledge of the text in lots of different areas of learning

Making porridge for the bears; estimating and measuring how many cups to fill each of the bowls.

A hot seating activity, taking on the role of one of the characters and asking questions about how and why things happened.

A thinking skills problem; can you make or find or build the three chairs or the three beds for the three bears?

'Well that easy just take a chair and stack them up bigger for Mummy and even bigger for Daddy'

'I've just made Lego chairs for the whole family.'

In amongst all of our planned activities the children have been very creative in their own ideas... They made a cinema in class.

This is the screen...

We are making the pictures for the people to watch the film.

There was even a written advert for the picture...

The children set up seats and made tickets that even have to have the side ripped off so that you couldn't return without paying for another seat.

Wow! What fantastic thinking and lovely social interaction, well dopne everyone.

Friday afternoon and we welcomed lots of parents, grandparents and siblings for another reading share.

Lovely to see you all.

Finally its Congratulations to Leighton, our Golden Book winner again today for making lots of new friends and having a super week.

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Weeki Beginning 18th March 2019

Another week spent working on 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'.
The children did a great job at creating the different settings from the story.

 Some of us enjoyed working with wooden blocks and built an outline of their body...

As well as building with blocks children had the challenge to build words and write them in our rainbow sand.

Outdoors, we have been busy in the cave...

I wonder who these footprints could belong to?

Its a BEAR!!!!       Roar!

Quick lets get out of here.

Back in class we were faced with an independent challenge; How do you get the bears across the river?

Easy, make a boat.

Other suggestions included, build them a bridge, make a bear chain so the one at the back runs across and the line gets smaller one by one each time.

Lots of independent thinking and problem solving, well done everyone.

Finally can we just say well done to everyone for being such super mathematicians this week, we have been doubling and halving numbers and the children have done so well.

By the end of the week everyone had a great understanding, that to double you need to add the same number to itself whereas to half a number, you need to cut it into two equal parts.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.