Class 1 have been looking at the story ‘The 3 Billy Goats Gruff’ this week.  Today the children worked in groups to act out the story with one person acting as the narrator.  They also used the bridges in the play area to act as a prop for the goats to cross.  There was some fantastic acting and good use of character voices!

Class 1 went on an Easter egg hunt this morning.  They had lots  fun working in teams to find their coloured eggs and ordering the numbers once they had found all 10.

The winners of the Easter egg hunt…….Well done!

Class 1 have been working hard this term in science finding out about different materials.  Their task this week was to use their knowledge to talk about what materials would make a good shelter for Pebbles (our class penguin!).  They decided that it needed to be waterproof so they planned an investigation to test which materials were waterproof or not.  They also discussed how they would test a material to check it was waterproof, what will happen to the water as they tested it, what equipment they would need and how they would make it a fair test.  The materials they decided to test were wood, tin foil, paper, card, plastic and cotton.  They found out that wood, plastic and tin foil were the most waterproof.

Well done Class 1!

This week the focus in Class 1 has been all about penguins and the children have had lots of fun finding out about them and sharing their knowledge with the rest of the class.  Here are some of the activities they have done…

Penguin potato printing:

Independent activities – making penguins using a range of materials and small world objects:

Writing information booklets about penguins – the Year 1 children worked hard to use the topic books to find out lots of interesting facts:

Making penguin movements / dances – the children even tried to pass the ‘penguin egg’ to each other without dropping it which proved quite tricky!

In numeracy the children have been looking at numbers and place value.  The Reception children have been ordering numbers up to 10 and practising their number formation.  The Year 1 children have been counting in 10s and finding one more and one less with numbers up to 20.  Some have even looked at numbers past 20.