On Friday 1/2K discussed their thoughts on our most recent case studies; Rosa Parks and Remembrance. They discussed why they thought Rosa Parks was a hero and how her brave actions changed the world. They also discussed the life of the soldiers and why they thought they were heroes.
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1/2K – Our week this week!
Maths:
This week 1/2K have been getting active in the classroom. We’ve been enjoying some counting exercises to warm up for Maths! We have also been bringing technology into the classroom during our Maths lesson and working in pairs to develop our team working skills.
English:
This week we have been learning all about independent clauses that contain a subject and a verb with a little help from Beyoncé. We used pictures from our class story to inspire our writing and the children wrote some excellent sentences! I’m so proud of them.
Art:
As part of our remembrance topic, we have been creating Poppy art. First we drew our poppies using wax crayons. Then we used the water colours to create a background. We were able to wash over our wax crayon picture without it smudging; it was like magic! The children talked about using different colours to represent the smoke there might have been or browns puddles to make mud. We also made poppies using wire, buttons and cupcake cases. It was very fiddly but we are so pleased with the result.
Crew:
As part of our We Care Wednesday, we were exploring the nature of friendships and discussing what it takes to be a great friends. We decided that the most important quality in a friend is to be kind and caring.
Poppy Art Work
In 1LI today, we have been working hard to create beautiful poppy artwork. We have used techniques that all the teachers were recently taught, by Joyce from Buzeman Art, to recreate poppies using different art techniques. We used pastels to create a background representing the changing colours of the battlefields. We then used string and acrylic paint to recreate the poppy stems, before using pointillism to create the poppies.
Mrs Ogle was so impressed she awarded the whole class Headteacher’s award stickers!
Racism
This afternoon 1/2K were talking about racism, as part of our Rosa Parks topic. We discussed that everyone has similarities and differences
The children said that they didn’t think it was fair that Rosa was treated that way. We then looked at some different case studies and talked about if they had thought it was racist or not.
1/2K Artists 🎨
As promised, here is our finished product. The children worked so hard to create this. They used different size and shaped pieces of black paper to create their buildings.
Secondary Colours 🎨
This afternoon we have been very busy using our primary colours to make our secondary colours. We mixed red with blue to make purple, red and yellow to make orange and blue and yellow to make green!
We are artists 🎨
This afternoon 1/2K were learning all about the primary colours. They had a great time starting off their colour wheel. Can’t wait to add the secondary colours.
Quiz Champions!
In our expedition lessons we’ve been learning about the Great Fire of London. Today we learnt how to use evidence to expansion what happened and then the children completed a quiz about what they had found out. Here are 1/2K’s quiz champions!
