Class 1 had a very busy week last week. They enjoyed learning and acting out the story of the enormous turnip. They even found the turnip buried in the garden, which they dug up, took to the mud kitchen and made delicious turnip soup. In maths we have continued practicing finding the total of two… Read more »

It’s been another busy week in class 1. As part of our growing topic we have been busy learning about how plants grow and planting seeds. Then we wrote instructions. In maths we have been busy finding 1 more and 1 less than a given number and in expressive art and design we have been… Read more »

We have continued our growing topic this week by looking at the lifecycle of a butterfly and reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. The children have enjoyed retelling the story with puppet shows and writing their own books to retell the story. In maths we have been very busy finding 1 more than… Read more »

We have been keen to start our new topic of Growing this half-term and the children have enjoyed finding out and talking about how humans grow. They have looked at pictures of themselves as babies and made comparisons between then and themselves now. They have used mirrors to look carefully at themselves and talk about… Read more »

As part of our colour and pattern topic, this week the children have enjoyed exploring different ways of mixing colours. In maths we have been busy representing and comparing numbers within 10. We have explored our feelings and the colours we associate with them through The Colour Monster in Literacy. We have also been very… Read more »

As part of our colour and pattern topic the we have been exploring the story of Elmer the elephant this week. They talked about how Elmer felt about being different and some of our own similarities and differences . They have practiced re-telling the story and identifying words with that have the initial sounds s,a,t… Read more »

Week beginning 1st November. As part of our topic this term ‘colours and patterns’ The children have enjoyed learning about the celebration of Diwali. They had great fun in participating in some Diwali traditions. On Wednesday the children made Coconut Ladoo a type of Diwali sweet made with coconut and cardamom. The children explored the… Read more »

This week class 1 have been talking about where they live as part of our Marvellous Me topic. The children have had great fun building and making different places for people to live. They enjoyed using big boxes to make houses, bungalows a block of flats and even a castle before they became boats. They… Read more »