Amazing I pad art!
Today in computing we used a paint programme on purple mash to create our own hedgehog, linked to our non chronological report in writing. The children worked extremely hard and paid great attention to detail. What super stars
Fascinating facts!
Today we researched lots of wonderful facts about hedgehogs to help us with our non chronological report. We focused on their appearance, diet and habitat. We even found some fascinating wow facts too.
Features of non chronological reports
Today we worked together to identify the features of a non-chronological report. We also identified the Year 2 skills to be included.
Exploring computers
Today in computing we used the programme word. We used the different tools to edit our writing changing the size, colour and style.
Amazing artists!
Today we have been exploring different mediums. We have used pencils/handwriting pens to complete observational drawings of the objects we collected last week to create replicas of Andy Goldsworthy’s work. Today we focused on continual line drawing and the results were fantastic.
Incredible I pads
This Year we are extremely lucky to all have our very own iPads in class. Today we had some fantastic training, teaching us how to use them to further enhance our learning. Using the story of Little Red Riding Hood, linked to our writing text, we learned how to record our voices and add them to…
Gymnasts in training
This half term our focus is on gymnastics. This week our learning intention was how can you track in different ways. We started off with a game called Astronauts to warm us up. Here we focused on different ways to travel. Once we were all warmed up we moved onto recapping the different jumps we’d…
Flexibly partitioning numbers to 100
We used base 10 to help us to flexibly partitioning numbers to 100 in lots of different ways. The practical apparatus helped us in securing our knowledge and understanding.
Freeze-frame fun
Today we had lots of fun role playing and freeze framing our new story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children all got into role and thought about the actions and behaviours of each of they characters.
Hello Lighthouse - Diary writing
We have been writing diaries in Year 1 this week, using the text Hello Lighthouse. We focused on using last tense and first person, as well as including all the features of a diary entry. Today we planned a diary entry for our independent write next week. The children came up with lots of amazing…
Spotting seasides!
Today we worked together to locate the seasides around the UK using an atlas. The children drew upon their prior knowledge, knowing the seaside is located on the coast, to help them locate and identify the specific seaside destinations. The children’s map skills developed considerably throughout…
Sensational sports day!
We had a fantastic day on Thursday for KS1 sports day. The children were absolutely amazing and wowed me with their courage, determination and sportsmanship. What an incredible morning we had, finished off with a nice resting ice lolly.