It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We’ve had a magical last few weeks in Class 1!

The children performed a beautiful Nativity – great singing and dancing – well done Class 1! Thank you parents for all the lovely costumes you provided – the children looked amazing!

This week we have enjoyed making Christmas cards for our mums and dads, and magic reindeer food . Don’t forget to sprinkle this on your lawn or path on Christmas Eve !

On Monday afternoon we had a fun Christmas Party! Thanks so much to parents for providing all the food. We played lots of fun games and really enjoyed ourselves.

We have been overwhelmed by your kindness this Christmas and your cards and gifts are much appreciated by us all – thank you.

We hope you and your children have a very Happy Christmas and wish you the very best for 2017! We look forward to seeing you in the New Year.

Best wishes, The Class One Team

Christmas is coming!!

This week we have been starting our Christmas celebrations.  The children have written their letters to Father Christmas and made many different decorations to put up in class.

The children have also noticed a magic door in class on Friday morning.  Then in the afternoon they had a special delivery from Father Christmas.  This said that the door was for the Elves to come in and visit to see their work.  He also sent us some Santa Cams so he can see if the children are being good.

Nativity - Wednesday at 2pm and 6pm.  Please make sure your been to the toilet before the evening performance so they do not need to go during it.

Home Learning - Next 1/2 term we are looking at the Arctic.  Please could you work with your child over the holidays to create a fact sheet about an Arctic animal.

Festivals and Christingle

We've had a very busy and fun last two weeks in Class 1: Mickey Mouses' birthday celebrations, learning about the American Thanksgiving and the story behind this celebration. We also read a delightful story about friendship and a little Pilgrim girl.
 We finished the week with a beautiful Christingle Service in Church followed by the Christmas Fayre to get us in the mood for Christmas. We've also started learning the songs for our Christmas Nativity and next week we're going to start practising in earnest!

We're looking forward to meeting parents and children to discuss their learning at our conferences next week.

Enjoy some of our beautiful festival displays so far and thank you to Miss Rayner for her hard work with these:

Bonfire Night

Diwali - Festival of Light

Mickey Mouses' Birthday

Thanksgiving

Friendship Week and Mickey Mouse Birthday

This week has been Friendship Week. The children have read the Story of The Rainbow Fish.  They have made a display to show what they have done this week.  They children each made a fish from materials.
In Literacy the children played a game, they had to say something nice about a person in their class. They wrote these on bubbles for the display.  These are a few examples...

He is kind
She plays with me.
He is my best friend.
She is funny.

To celebrate Mickey Mouse's Birthday the have been making birthday cards and cakes.

They made a train track to take Mickey and his friends around his Club House Land,

The children listened to stories written by year 6 pupils about friendship.  They had to answer questions about the stories.

Thinking Things Through Maths
This week the children worked in small groups to build robots.  They worked on listening to each other and team skills.  The robots are a work in progress and the children will be continuing with them next week.

Week 2

We've had another very busy week in Class 2!

The highlight was Mr Malcolm coming into school and showing us how to use an apple press to make delicious apple juice - it really was wonderful! The children were excellent at taking turns, listening carefully and remembering their good manners!

In maths we worked on recognising numbers up to 6 without counting, and  partitioning a set of five or six objects in different ways and beginning to record these numbers as an addition sentence. We made the most amazing rangoli patterns with chalks (outside) and powder paints, glitter and sequins (inside). We enjoyed listening to different versions of the story of Rama and Sita.

We're also practising letter formation and applying our phonics when reading!

Enjoy some of the photos below. Also a message from Miss Stafford:

Dear Parents,

This term our theme in Class 1 is celebrations.  On Thursday the 24^th November, we will be having a themed party day to celebrate Mickey Mouse’s birthday.  As we are celebrating his birthday, we would like children to dress up as Mickey or Minnie Mouse.  Please don’t feel you have to go out and buy a costume, just use what you already have e.g red shorts/ trousers and a black top for Mickey or a spotty dress for Minnie.  Any questions please don’t hesitate to ask a member of class 1 staff.

Miss Stafford

Diwali and Bonfire Night

This term we will be looking at many different celebrations such as Diwali, Bonfire Night, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

To start the term off we have been learning about Diwali and Bonfire Night.  The children have made Diva Lamps from the story Rama and Sita.

The children have independently made sparklers from different materials.  They had to think about how to join the pieces together unaided.

In Ltieracy the children have written words to describe the sounds fireworks make.  This activity encouraged them to use lots of phonics and blending.

Mrs Sibley took the children for maths on Thursday where they learnt about Capacity.  They used water, sand, marbles and pasta.  The children had to talk about the containers they used and whether they were full, half full or empty.

Percy the Park Keeper Stories, Rosie's Walk and The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

We had lots of fun this week continuing with activities based around Percy the Park Keeper. We read Badger's Bath and A Very Useful Little Friend. We also enjoyed reading some stories from our new Fordham's Awesome Book Box. One of these - Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins, we used to learn about positional language in maths. We also used Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar to learn the days of the week and sequencing times of the day.







We have also been checking the children's phonic, reading and maths skills to finalize our assessments of the children this half term and this will continue next week along with time for the adults and children to talk during learning conferences and look at their 'learning journey books' together, to celebrate the children's learning this half term.

 The children have been doing some great emergent writing during their role play in the animal rescue center, writing prescriptions and information about their patients. They improved their fine motor skills by cutting and applying bandages to the animals and dolls!

 We also enjoyed icing Percy's animal cakes: a fox, some hedgehogs and an owl. The children's counting and sorting of white and milk chocolate buttons was amazing!!! And we enjoyed an extra snack to taste our cakes - they tasted as good as they looked!

 The children have also been making pictures with 2-D shapes and talking about the shapes used.

Fox's Hiccups

This week we read the story of the Fox's Hiccups.  The children had to help find the fox so they wrote out lost posters asking people to help them look for the fox.  They had to describe him and where he was.
We had an Animal Centre where they could bandage up their own  teddies.

The children had to make food in the mud kitchen for the animal centre cafe.

We made clay hedgehogs,

For maths some of the children did independent adding using numicon

The children made a stage and sang songs to class 1 staff and Mrs Sibley.  This was a lovely surprise as I did not know there were so many different verses to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.