We are starting our unit of art and this will include painting. If possible, could you please send the children in with a spare top that you do not mind getting dirty.
Thank you!
The KS1 Team
We are ARTISTS!
Category : P31
Crew Crawford’s Time to Sign
On our Wednesday Crew, we have been learning how to sign. We have been recapping all the greetings they have learned. We have even challenged ourselves to “silent check-ins”, completed fully in sign! Here are some videos so you can sign along too!
Buttering our own bread
We have been practising independent in our snack time this week and buttered our own toast. Look how good we are at this skill. Yummy!
Counting Fun
We have had lot’s of fun practising our counting skills this week. We have had fun in the water tray with 10 little ducks and the interest tray with 5 little speckled frogs.
Miss Polly …
This week we have enjoyed caring for our babies. We learnt the nursery rhyme Miss Polly and we cared for and gave the babies a bath to feel better. This led onto a discussion about being hygienic and looking after ourselves. We also explored full and empty concepts in Maths.
1C are Mathematicians.
In Maths, we got moving with our favourite warm-up, Hollabaloo (click here if you’d like to join in at home!). We then practised comparing numbers by building them, drawing them, and making the correct comparison symbols (<, >, =).
These are tricky, tricky, tricky words!
Today in English, 1C have been learning all about tricky words – these are the words we can’t sound out using phonics. We went on a tricky word hunt around the classroom, looking carefully for all the tricky words we could find. The challenge was even harder because there were some words that weren’t tricky words – so we had to decide which ones to collect!
After our hunt, we practiced reading, making, writing, and using our tricky words in sentences. A special shout-out to Edith, who wrote some wonderful sentences – well done, Edith!
History Detectives in 1C
Today we became History Detectives! We examined evidence to predict what we thought the pictures were before they were burnt in the fire. We also explored the different tools used to put out fires and learned how they worked.
1C Investigates: THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
Yesterday, our playground turned into a giant investigation zone! The children searched high and low to find jigsaw pieces, each one revealing a different possible cause of the Great Fire of London.
Once we pieced the clues together, we had some brilliant discussions – was the fire started on purpose, or was it just an unfortunate accident? After hearing all the evidence, our class held a jury vote…
 Verdict is in: 1C officially believes the Great Fire of London was an accident!
The children were so engaged and thoughtful – we were so impressed by how they worked together like real historians to reach a conclusion.
1C’s Character Traits
As well as Integrity last week, we also spent days looking at Respect, Courage and Compassion.
Respect: We talked about class rules and we devised a set that we all thought would help our classroom run harmoniously. We sorted some statements into “Resepectful Behaviour” or “Not Respectful Behaviour”.
Compassion: We created a “Compassion Bingo” card filled with what we thought were the most important acts of kindness. We also looked at the art work of Keith Haring and created some inspired pieces.
Courage: Finally, Mrs. Southgate unleashed our inner cowgirls/cowboys and taught us some line dancing. It was a new skill for all of us but we had so much fun. We were courageous when we performed it to all of the classes in KS1 out on the playground. Yeehaw!
