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.