Everyone knows that Class 1 love listening to stories so we based all the activities today around one of their favourite book characters …Elmer!  We read the first part of ‘Elmer Again’ before our special assembly and children had fantastic ideas for how the other elephants in the story might dress up for their special parade.  We then used these ideas to decorate our own elephants and had a lot of fun especially when the glitter came out!

Year 1s practised the alternative ‘y’ sounds to write sentences about Elmer and Reception went on a hunt around school for two-syllable words. They came up with some super words including ‘Elmer, costume and patchwork!’

We also listened to a Japanese story read by our very own Class 1 storyteller who had everyone’s attention!

Look out next week for our Elmer display which Class 1 are looking forward to creating on Friday.

Class 1 have had lots of fun in the woods this afternoon.  Their first task was to stand as quietly as they could and hear what sounds there were in the woods. They could hear  many different sounds including birds, cars, a helicopter and church bells.

Their second task was to work in pairs to go on a scavenger hunt.  They were asked to find: 3 seeds, something smooth, something rough, a feather, something beautiful and a stick as long as their arm.

One of the children in Class 1 lost their toy rabbit so the class decided to go on an adventure around the school to try and find it…

The children camauflaged themselves (with their hoods!) and set off on their journey.   They had lots of fun and encountered some dangers on their way, one involving finding some ‘mystery fur’ behind the shed….could it have been a polar bear following them??

After lots of searching the children found the missing rabbit safe and sound and made their way quickly (and safely) into school so the polar bear didn’t catch them!

Well done Class 1! Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

On Monday morning, Class One went on a frosty walk to the woods.

Please see the photosheet for photos and information about our walk.

On Monday afternoon, we used freezing and melting as a focus for a small experiment/investigation.

Please see the photosheet for photos and information about this.

It was lovely to see children bringing in objects/books/pictures for our topic Show and Tell session this morning. The children enjoyed showing each other their things. Please continue to bring in topic related things for Show and Tell (normally on a Tuesday morning).

A frosy morning walk freezing science experiment jan 2015

freezing science experiment jan 2015

Class One have had another busy day today. This morning, we spent time exploring how to use positional language. The children carried out activities involving using language such as next to, behind, above, under. Some children played a game with Miss Bellis where they had to say where they thought the puppet was. At first he was hiding under a box.

After break, we carried out lots of Letters and Sounds activities. Some children were recalling sounds from last week and looking at how to use a phoneme frame correctly. Children in Year 1 were looking at the alternative ‘i’ sound and how the ‘i’ sound differs in words such as ‘kite’ and ‘sink’.

This afternoon we had a great time learning about the Norther Lights, or Aurora Borealis. The children were amazed when they watched a video about the fantastic light shows that can be seen from places such as Lapland.

They watched a video and then thought about which colours they could see in the sky when the northern lights were taking place. The children then looked at landscape silhouettes and then created their own silhouette of trees and mountains using black paper. They then all used coloured chalks to create a scene of Aurora Borealis on black card. The silhouettes were then stuck on top of the card to create the effect of a scene from Lapland. These have been put up already in our role play area to create a backdrop of Aurora Borealis!

Tomorrow we will be looking at the location of the polar regions and finding out a little bit more about the areas by looking at our collection of non-fiction books.

Here are the links to the video watched today and the images of Aurora Borealis. I am sure your children would love to watch them again!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/znx76sg

northern lights presentation

Today Class 1 discovered an abandoned dinghy on the playground!  All the children were very excited and talked about where it might have come from and shared lots of great ideas.  They also found a letter from the King Penguin asking them to help him and the penguins to find the missing fish…

The children thought they could help the penguins by making some fish and sending them back on the boat so they don’t starve.

Year 1 children wrote detailed letters explaining how the class were going to help.