20th September 2019

Class 1 have had a brilliant first few weeks! We are enjoying lots of firsts: this week we have had our first full day; first PE lesson; first phonics lesson, and welcomed our parents and families into the classroom for the first time this year.

Our learning theme this half term is superheroes. We have enjoyed designing our own superhero costumes and discussing our dream super powers. The artist Roy Lichtenstein is famous for his comic book style pop art; we have studied some of his work and created our own superhero artwork using some of his techniques.

We have been busy cooking up a storm in the kitchen and learning to follow recipes, while honing our stirring technique to combine ingredients.

We have set up our own Superhero HQ and are regularly receiving calls to action! We have been answering phone calls and writing messages, and using a world map to locate the source of trouble!

  4th October 2019

In Class One we having been counting and recognising numbers to 20. We have enjoyed playing number games on the interactive whiteboard, and can’t wait to show you how high we can count.

On Monday we went to the Harvest festival at the church. We walked sensibly and were very careful crossing the road. In the church we sat beautifully and enjoyed listening to the story of Ruth and hearing how our food donations will help others.

In PE we have been exploring ways of travelling and are looking forward to using equipment next week.We have also been practicing our ball skills with a coach and are getting really good at rolling and pushing balls.

We have all completed our first piece of writing in our writing books. We worked really hard at sounding out the word ‘am’ and writing our name. We are very proud of ourselves!
Keep checking Tapestry for more updates. We look forward to seeing parents at the RWI workshop at 6pm on Monday 14th October.

18th October 2019

Last week in Class One we started learning about people who help us as part of our Superheroes theme. We had a visit from a real nurse and asked her lots of questions. We also learnt about Police officers and started to turn our role play area into a Police Station. Last Friday we used some more of our home grown tomatoes to make a sauce for pizzas, we had great fun squeezing and squelching the tomatoes!

This week we have been learning about 2D shapes. We had fun finding them in shaving foam in the garden, and have been able to spot 2D shapes around the school and classroom. We have also been using a large 100 square to help us count over 30 objects; we are getting really good at finding one more and one less than numbers up to 30. We have now learned 10 phonemes and can read and spell so many words! We love writing in our books and can’t wait to show you our work at Monday’s book look.

We cannot wait for our Class One Comicon event next Friday, look out for the letter coming home today with all the information you need.

 November 8th 2019

Welcome back to the second half of the autumn term. We hope you all had a lovely half term; we have enjoyed hearing about the children’s adventures. We have been using the sounds we know to write about our half term, as well as practising our past tense vocabulary when talking about what we have been doing. We are now learning a new phoneme every day and so far have 15 phonemes we can say, read, write, and use to spell. This week in maths we have been learning to add 2 groups of objects. We are using written calculations (i.e. 3+2=) as instructions to add. Ask us to show you at home! We have been learning about Bonfire Night and creating firework art through a variety of media. We have used pastels, glitter, and blow painting, as well as creating a 3D rocket decorated with 2D shapes we have drawn and cut out ourselves.

22nd November 2019

Class One have been busy learning about farms and farm animals. We have been talking about where food comes from and went on a local walk to a vegetable farm nearby. We had a lovely afternoon and the weather was perfect! As well as discussing how vegetables grow, we talked about not eating mushrooms and berries we find in the wild, and found some of the animal habitats we have been learning about. We have planted our own broad beans and can’t wait to watch them grow!

We have created textured collages of the farm animals we will be in the nativity, and have created some brilliant writing about our favourite farm animals. We read the story ‘The Naughty Sheep’ and had great fun writing some more naughty things the sheep could get up to! In maths we have been learning about pairs of numbers that make 10 and adding using a part part whole diagram.  

We found out that potatoes grow under the ground and we made some mashed potato. Archie said “It was deeeeeelicious!”

17th January 2020

Happy New Year! We have certainly had a busy one so far. To celebrate the New Year we looked at some of the words to Auld Lang Syne, in particular the line ‘Drink a cup of kindness.’ We have had a big drink of kindness and have thought about lots of ways we can be kind to each other. We thought about other things we would like to do or achieve this year and wrote some new year’s resolutions. We will reflect on these from time to time to see if we are on track to reach our goals.

The mouse from the Gruffalo has been visiting our classroom. As well as meeting a fox, snake, and an owl, he has met (and will be meeting) other characters as he takes a stroll through the Fairy Tale Forest. Last week we learnt the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have really enjoyed re-enacting the story, creating stick puppets from the story, and making and eating some yummy porridge! We went on our first walk to the woods on Friday last week. We were very responsible when walking there and back, and were mindful of our boundaries in the woods. Having read lots of stories about animals and their woodland homes, we searched for some possible homes/nests of animals hibernating or taking shelter. We were very careful to walk around them and not disturb anyone who might be sleeping. We talked about the effect of litter in a natural environment and safely cleaned up several pieces of plastic rubbish we spotted. We also discussed composting as we sat and ate our fruit snack in a log circle on the forest floor.

This week we have been reading versions of Jack and the Beanstalk and acting out the story. We have created WANTED posters to help the angry giant catch naughty Jack, and have been measuring beanstalks (and other objects) with multilink cubes. We have been observing the beans that we planted last term (they haven’t grown as quickly as Jack’s!), and we have been imagining what could be at the top of our beanstalks when they have grown as high as the clouds.

 31st January 2020

 In Class One we enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We made red envelopes with a good tidings message on the front and we wrote our names in Chinese. We made beautiful Chinese lanterns and colourful Chinese dragon puppets. We made noodles and ate them with delicious dumplings Isabelle brought in.

Last week we read The Three Little Pigs and got interested in architecture. We designed, built, and decorated houses for the Three Little pigs to keep them safe from the Big Bad Wolf. In the woods we built stick houses just like the second little pig, then we pretended to be big bad wolves and tried to blow the houses down!

This week we have been reading The Gingerbread Man. We made gingerbread men on Tuesday and at lunchtime they all ran away! We managed to find them and kept them safe in a tin until we decorated them on Wednesday. After making the gingerbread men we explored the features of a recipe and wrote our own gingerbread men recipes. We have had a very tasty few weeks!!!

6th March 2020

In Class One we have been writing our own stories based on The Gingerbread Man. We really enjoyed coming up with edible characters to star in our stories!  We have been learning about Little Red Riding Hood and have written shopping lists of things to take to Granny. We have enjoyed acting out the fairy tales in a game called Whoosh, we love putting on voices and becoming the characters. Last Friday we made sandwiches and took them to the woods in a basket, just like Little Red Riding Hood!

This week we have been studying the impressionist artist Paul Cézanne and creating our own versions of his famous still life paintings of apples. We have used sketching pencils, watercolours, and paints, and explored the contrast between light and dark – just like Cézanne.

We have really enjoyed the wet weather this week! We splashed in all the muddy puddles in the garden and then made some more. We jumped all afternoon and even enjoyed a spot of mud painting.

In maths we have been subtracting from 10 and 20 by counting back, and have really been working on our number formation. This week we are celebrating being at school for 100 days, we have been making 100s out of clay and using tools effectively to create textured patterns. We are looking forward to celebrating these 100 days with you on Friday afternoon, the party starts at 1.30, enter through the office.

Have a wonderful and relaxing half term break.