We complete 'Daily 10' at the start of our lessons and if you would like to have a go at home follow this link: Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks
In English we have been getting ready to write our own Adventure story based on Supertato! We are writing them tomorrow after we planned our own new evil character today.
In Maths we have been consolidating our knowledge of Money in our Measurement topic, looking at different coins and comparing amounts.
In History we learnt about the Great fire of Gateshead and Newcastle.
Can you remember when it began?
Mrs Hague
In class, we received a letter from Evil Pea!
He kidnapped the vegetables from the kitchen and took our English books! We created our own Supertato superhero each to help try to stop him. We wrote some wonderful WANTED posters with excellent descriptions to put up around school. He was up to no good in class during the week but, we finally captured him! We are very excited for next week's English lessons.
Our Rights Rucksack came back this week and we looked at some wonderful pictures from different outings, it's now been passed onto the next pupil ready for the weekend!
Enjoy!
Mrs Hague
We have begun our Non-Fiction topic of instructions in English and explored 'How to wash a woolly mammoth'. We received some mammoth pictures in class covered in mud, sand and glue and had to wash them ourselves with lots of soapy water! We had lots of fun! We then explored the features of this type of text and the importance of chronological order.
In Science, we are exploring 'Seasonal Changes' looking deeper at Spring and Summer. We visited forest school to see if we could find any signs of Spring and enjoyed building dens.
We're working super hard and can't wait to see what this term holds for us!
Have a nice long weekend! x
Miss Greatrex, who is a student teacher, has been in our class this term too and she has loved every second being with us and we wish her all the best in her new class in KS2 next term.
Have a wonderful half term everyone!
Mrs. Hague x
This week in English we have explored our Non-Fiction topic; we have planned our own recounts ready to write tomorrow. We looked back at pictures from Red Nose Day as this is going to be our topic. I will share some next week!
We went on the metro into Newcastle this week as part of our Geography topic. We explored the different landmarks in our local area and carried out a survey asking members of the public what was their favourite. We collected the data and presented it in a bar chart.
In Math's, our measurement topic this week was mass and weight. We have used balance scales to measure and compare the different mass of classroom items and wrote some comparative statements.
We have had a wonderful week, well done Year 1!
Let's hope it stays this way for the rest of Spring term!
We planted beans in Science to begin our 'Plants' topic and discussed what plants need in order to grow. We will update you with some pictures each week.
In Computing, we looked into changing font, size and colour of text in Microsoft Word, some of us are very quick using the laptops!
Have a great weekend,
Mrs Hague x
In English we have explored our new literary heritage unit exploring the history of Winnie the Pooh. We have really enjoyed reading about A.A. Milne's family life and how the story came to light. We have created story maps and character descriptions ready to write our own stories next week.
On Friday we will be making them in class so look out for some pictures!
In Science with Miss Hamer, the children were investigating poop! Yes, you read that correctly!
We had to use tweezers to explore the contents and try to guess what animal it was from based on the type of things we found for example, seeds or bones etc.
Have a nice weekend!
Mrs Hague x
We painted paper plates with tiger stripes and then used black to also write the character for Tiger on plates. We learnt so much about why we have the Zodiac calendar and how it all started.
Can you retell the story of Emperor Jade to a friend or adult?
We have once again loved our music this week. Franco and Steve brought the puppets in so we played along to different rhythms.
In Science we were investigating the different animals who are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. We created some wonderful posters for our Science display.
Can you remember what animals were omnivores?
We completed our own Traditional Tale in English this week, we have some children who wrote over 2 pages! The most we have ever had for a story in Year 1 this year, I am so impressed!
Have a good weekend!
Mrs Hague
Have a good weekend, Miss Bell :)
I can't wait for you to all see the recording when it is complete!
In English we are looking at features of letters ready to write our own to Santa next week!
Also, our elf Buddy has been up to no good in class, take a look!
Have a lovely weekend x
He is here to watch us until Christmas and is leaving treats in our advent calendar each day.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Bell :)
In English we are ending our week writing our own 'Tale of Fear' after we have read and explored 'Scaredy Squirrel'.
Can you tell a grown up about our story?
We celebrated World Youth Day by listening to readings from Pope Francis and creating our own bunting with symbols and prayers related to the messages he gave us. We also celebrated Anti-bullying week by wearing odd socks on Monday and designing our own with kind messages on. We ended our 'Belonging' topic in RE by gathering for our collective worship in class. The children decorated their own Baptism candles to add to the focal point during our worship.
Can you tell a grown up about what happens during a Baptism?
We are continuing to work hard on our nativity songs and dances and we can't wait to show everyone how good we are!
Enjoy your weekend!
Miss Bell :)
In English, we have been watching videos of them and exploring adjectives to write our own poems about them on Friday!
Can you tell an adult what an adjective is?
In RE we explored our topic 'Belonging' by looking at Baptism. We took turns explaining in groups what happens.
Can you remember who holds the candle?
In Maths we have been solving some tricky problem solving questions with subtraction, we used resources to help us.
In Computing we began our animation topic using the iPads and had great fun making our own backgrounds.
We are starting to learn some songs for our Nativity and we are doing so well!
Enjoy the fireworks this weekend everyone!
Miss Bell x
In history, we explored last weeks lesson on Mary Seacole and then compared her work and life to Florence Nightingale. We were very good and recalling facts.
Can you tell an adult at home a fun fact about Mary or Florence?
In Art, we created our final piece for our Giuseppe Arcimboldo topic trying to draw a pepper. We also had our Commando Joe's Day today and it was fantastic!
We began with a scavenger hunt around school looking for clues. Then we completed Mission 1 - Helping Jack gather resources needed to grow the beanstalk. After lunch we completed Mission 2 - Collecting treasure whilst not waking the scary giant.
We have all had a fantastic week :)
Well done Year 1!
On Monday, we were disturbed by a mess left in our role play area!
There were crumbs and Tim the caretaker had cordoned off the area. We had great discussions around why they were there and who may have left the crumbs behind. Some suggestions were Poppy, a mouse, a fox or someone having a party - it certainly wasn't me!
Can you tell a grown up who you predicted it was?
We then found a sign in our class room telling us to head to forest school, we were all very excited to find the clues! We discovered many different clues but, we decided that it must have been the gingerbread man as the clues were all different parts of his story.
We have been writing instructions with time conjunctions and prepositions to help him this week as he wrote us two letters asking for our help in escaping the old lady trying to eat him!
Hopefully, next week he writes to us again to let us know if he managed to get away!
Miss Bell :)
In Science, our topic is 'Seasons' so we have been focusing on the weather and how it changes during the year. This week, we looked at the weather outside and set up our own rain gauge and wind vane in the yard to track the weather conditions over the week - there has not been much rain for a while now so our rain gauge is rather dry!
Can you tell a grown up what season we are in and how you know?
Can you tell a grown up what hospitals used to be like in the Victorian times?
Starting this week, the Mini Vinnies are collecting for CAFOD's Harvest Festival.
Thank you to those who have already brought in food donations!
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Bell :)
It was a lovely treat to take outside on the yard at break time!
Can you tell your grown ups what a numeral is?
In Humanities, we looked closer at why Florence Nightingale was significant for nursing and wrote down the different things she did to make hospitals better.
Can you remember why she was called the lady with the lamp?
Have a great weekend, well done for working hard!
Miss Bell :)
the role play 'Hospital' area has been particularly popular and it links to our Humanities topic 'Victorian Nurses'.
I can't wait to see what we get up to next week...
Miss Bell :)