Crash landing

Look what happened at school today.  There was a story on the news saying that something had been spotted flying over Mulbarton Primary School and that something had broken off and crash landed behind the beehive!!   The children were super excited to begin investigating this event and excitedly discovered that indeed something had landed in the grounds.  What can it be?  Where did it come from?  What is it made from?  Was there anyone inside? It could be a satellite?  These were just some of the questions and thoughts that the children were having about it. 

 

Father Christmas Present

We had a great surprise on the last day of term when Father Christmas arrived and brought us some presents. It was a beautiful wooden small world with fairies and elves. He must have known we had been doing an Enchanted Woodland topic! We also got some super hero figures to use with the wooden base. (I wonder if he knows we might do that topic later in the year.)

Reading dog and Bug hotels

This week we had 'Daisy' the reading dog come into school to read with us as part of our eight week plan to improve reading across the school.  She enjoyed snuggling on the bean bag and listening to stories and then a cuddle afterwards.  We've held a book club and shared some of our favourite stories too.

  

We have also been making bug hotels as part of the challenge to add to our new reflective garden.  Well done girls these are amazing!

Enchanted woodland stories and shoe boxes

We have really enjoyed writing an Enchanted woodland story, thinking carefully about the characters, setting, a beginning,  middle and end.  Based on our ideas we went on to design a shoe box story world and thought about how to incorporate  - enchanted features, make it colourful and add a moving part.

It was a wonderful experience to invite in our grown ups and give them an exhibition of all of our hard work!  We were very proud Bumblebees. 
  

Authors and Popstars

This week we have been super star authors, writing our own stories set in an Enchanted Woodland! We have been using brilliant time adverbs and amazing adjectives to make our stories exciting.

In Maths we have been learning about doubling numbers, including working out how to double teen numbers. We have also started learning about subtraction. We used cubes to help us work out the answers but we had to remember to always start with the largest number first.

We were thrilled by how brilliant our spellings were this week. We were amazing at remembering how to write the tricky words that we can’t properly sound out.

We have sent home the next set of tricky words to practise at home, ready for next Friday 24^th November.

We have also been super busy becoming pop stars and recording a Christmas CD. We sang the songs that we have been practising in our class and assemblies, including a song in German!

If you would like to purchase a copy of the CD, they will be on sale at the Christmas Fayre, 1^st December, 5-7pm.

Our shoebox project has now finished the planning and preparation stage so we will be starting to use our shoeboxes next week. We have taken influence from our brilliant story writing to create a story shoebox with characters, backgrounds and lots of other decorations. Please bring your shoebox in next week, ready for us to start using them.

Have a lovely weekend – the year 1 team. 

Stories, Odds, Evens and O Tannenbaum.

Week Beginning 6^th November

This week at school we have enjoyed listening to the story of ‘The Bog Baby’ which we then made a story map of.  This story has inspired us to create our own stories using a story mountain format, we have planned the characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  Next week we will begin using the shoe boxes to create our story world and write up our final version of the story.

In maths this week we have been learning about odd and even numbers and sorting numbers to 100 into this pattern.  We have continued this learning to then count in 2’s and fill in missing numbers on a number line.  We learnt that you can say number 1 quietly and then 2 loudly, 3 quietly and then 4 loudly to help with this.

Thank you for your support with the children’s spellings – these will be checked in a very informal way during our daily phonic session.  The children are used to having to think of ways to spell and write words during these sessions.  The next sets of spellings we have sent home you will see are all tricky words and this is the way that we will continue for now.

We’ve begun practising the songs for our Christmas performances and so far these are going very well!  What a choir of angels we already have – hope you will agree as you will probably hear them practising at home.

We have sent home the next home learning – the first piece needs to be handed in by Wednesday 22^nd November and we will return your child’s book by Friday 24^th November.  The second piece will then be due by Wednesday 6^th December.

Have a great Weekend – The Year 1 team.

 

Woodland WOW day Week

We have had a fantastic week starting our Enchanted Woodland topic. On Monday we made title pages for our topic books and learnt to measure using balance scales in maths. The children then used the cookery room to make fairy cupcakes by using two eggs and measured out ingredients by balancing the flour, sugar and butter with the eggs.

On Tuesday it was our Enchanted Woodland WOW day which was a huge success. The children had so much fun and thank you all for providing some excellent costumes. Activities included wand making, magic potions, lolly stick fairies, fairy doors, dream catchers, stick crowns and the children decorated their cupcakes. Thank you also to the parents who came to help, we really appreciated the extra adults to allow so many activities.

In Science we have been learning about plants and trees. The children have been on a tree hunt outside and used a spotter sheet to identify trees using their leaves. We also learnt how to classify deciduous and evergreen trees. The children enjoyed watching some videos of Andy Goldsworthy making some art using leaves.

We have given out a spellings book to all of the children with 5 spellings to learn. These will go home each week for the children to practise and we will do a short spelling test on a Friday. Please make sure they keep their spelling books in their book bags so that they have them at school to practise and for us to stick the new spellings in each Friday. Please see the letter inside the cover with all the information.

Reminder- Please can the children bring in a shoe box next week which we will be using for a DT project.