December 2014

Writing

The Year 1s - We wrote an information book about The Romans.  We had to include a contents page, each page needed a fact and then the picture had to go with the fact, lastly we had to number the pages.

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Reception - Santa came to visit.  He was poorly, he had a cold.  He needed help with the presents for the children because he was not feeling well.  We looked at a picture that had a fairy tale character on it.  We had to think of what our character would give as a present.

Cinderella gave one of her glass slippers.

Little Red Riding Hood gave a basket of apples.

Pinocchio gave his  hat.

Puss in Boot gave his boots.

I was a pig and I gave him sticks to build a house.

Belle gave a dress.

I was Snow White, I was going to give him my books.

I was a pig I give bricks to Santa because he was not very well and he could build a house.

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Maths - Whole Class Thinking Things Through

We had Elves and Snowmen who needed new outfits.  We could use 3 colours and each character had to look different.

Creative - As a class we have been making Father Christmas, Reindeers and Snowmen by cutting them out and ordering them to look like a character.  We made Olafs.  We made baubles for display in our window.  We made our Christmas cake with Miss Rayner when we mixed it we made a wish.  On Thursday we iced our cakes and decorated them with tiny holly and berries.  We made our cards for mummy and daddy.

On Monday Afternoon we had a museum all the year 1s were curators.   We had to show the parents what we did and tell them all about the pictures we have been doing.

This week's blog was written completely by the children, all I did was type out their sentences.

Class One would like to wish you a Merry Christmas (At this point of writing they are all singing 'We wish you a Merry Christmas'..I hope you can hear them because it is quite loud)

Have a wonderful holiday break and see you next year.

Hanukkah Week

Homework

Group sounds we have learnt this week...

Miss Stafford - sh, ch, th, ai

Miss Petts - th, ng, ai

Miss Rayner - oa, ai, ee, oo

These are the sounds the children have looked at in their phonic group this week.  Please help them to learn these sounds by playing games using the sounds and seeing if the can find them in words.

Reception
Please look at bug club for other stories to read.  also you have a handwriting sheet to complete.

Year 1
You have the above sounds to learn, a worksheet that focuses on one of those sounds, a maths sheet that links to what you have learnt this week and then handwriting practice for our class competition.n

In Class we have been looking at Hanukkah this week, the children have read the Story of Sammy the Spider and learnt about Hanukkah and the games and sweets that are made at this time of year.
we have had a fun aerobics lesson to music in the class and also made Christingles for our service.  We have made our own sweets for Hanukkah from pastry and jam.

Last Week

As you will know Class one have been looking at different world celebrations.  we have looked a Diwali and made our own Rangoli patterns in the playground

 last week looked at Thanksgiving.  They learnt the story and from that they wrote about things they were thankful for.
Some children's letters of thanks...
'I am thankful for my mummy because she gives me sweets'.
'I am thankful for my daddy at Christmas because he loves me'.
'I am thankful for chocolate'

In groups we also made cookies in autumn colours.

On power down day the children had many different activities to complete.  They decorated mosaics, made their own from beads, designed posters about Romans and wrote about Bodicia.

This week we are looking at Hunukkah and the story of Sammy the Spider and his first Hunukkah.    

Since half term...WOW!!!

Well Class 1, what a few weeks we have had, jam packed with so much learning.

The Year 1s have been learning about how to write a diary and what the main features are...ask them, can they remember?  They have written diaries for everything from wombats to worms and even pretending to be the Tortoise or the Hare from the play they watched before half term.


The Hare in a pose for the camera

The Hare and the Tortoise

Them in a competition

They have also been writing addition sums to 10, to do this they have used Numicon.  The children have started to make number bond activities for home learning.
At the same time in maths the reception have  used Numicon and explored what each colours value is.  They have investigated the Numicon by pushing it into bread or playdough and counting the dots,  then to extend their learning they wrote a simple addition sum to match.

As it was Remembrance this week we looked at a book called 'The Hen and the Great War'.  From this the children wrote postcard home from the boy Arthur to his mum talking about Bertha the Hen he had found.  The children enjoyed the story and  have talked a lot about Bertha (I hope they have also at home!!)
Keeping on the theme of poppies and addition sums, the children made poppies and had to add together the circles used for petals and stem.

Our poppy addition

We have made lemon and poppy seed shortbread this week to stay

 with our poppy theme.

Making Lemon and Poppy Seed Shortbread

 

Another exciting activity this week was pretending to be
horses and learning how to use a stopwatch and time each other for a race.

Horse Racing - Scoreboard

Let's Go!!

Who was the winner???


Next week we are looking at the Hindu festival of  Diwali.  We will learn the story of Rama and Sita, make diva lamps and Rangoli pictures.

This week in in class 1

This week in Class 1 we have...

• Baked Bread after reading the Little Red Hen Story.  We made it to show in the Harvest Assembly.

Our plait

 

Mixing in the Yeast

Mixing in the water

Mixing all the ingredients together

• Gymnastics with Colchester Gymnastics club - this was our last session

"We done some forward rolls" Florence
"I walked along on my tip toes, I was on a bench" Aiden
" I learnt to do bunny hops" Eva
"I learnt jumping" Oliver

In maths we learnt to use weighing scales.
"If the heaviest one is down and the lightest one is up, then that is how you measure weight".  Maddison

Our Gold Cup Class Winners this week are:

Wonderful Writing - Nina for her understanding of connectives.
Thinking Things Through - Joe for thinking of different shapes he could make with 10 cubes.
Handwriting Homework - Charlotte for excellent, neat handwriting and everything sitting between the correct lines.
Reading and Phonics - William for knowing so many sounds and words when asked this week.

Well done to you all for such a fabulous week of learning.

Also to let you know on Friday afternoon we will be watching 'The Hare and the Tortoise' play in school.  I just thought I would let you know as I understand from the phonics evening some children are not talking about their day.  Hope this gives you the opportunity to ask your child about their day.

Have a lovely half term one and all.

Miss Stafford, Miss Petts and Miss Rayner