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Homework
This week in our homework books there are our new sounds from phonics to practise – i, n, m, d. Can you have a go at writing them and see if there is anything you can find in your house starting with these sounds?
Posted On 29 Sep 2016
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Parachute games
This week in PE we all joined in with some really exciting parachute games. It was lots of fun and everyone was great at listening and participating as part of a team.
Posted On 29 Sep 2016
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Forest Schools
This week on Tuesday we had a great time building dens in forest schools. We were thinking carefully about the changing seasons and how some animals hibernate through the winter. We built some amazing shelters to keep us warm in the colder weather.
Posted On 29 Sep 2016
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Classroom Role Play
This morning we had the grand opening of our classroom role play area. Everyone was very excited to pretend to be teachers and students and to practise taking the register, reading stories and joining in with songs.
Posted On 27 Sep 2016
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Next Week
Next week in Literacy we will be looking at the book ‘The Shopping Basket’ and thinking about writing our own lists. We will also be continuing our jolly phonics with four new sounds. In maths we will be thinking about what time of day things happen – in the...
Posted On 22 Sep 2016
Homework
This week is the first time that we have work in our homework books. We have learnt the sounds s, a, t and p so it would be fantastic if you could have a go at saying and writing them at home. Can you think of any words that start with those sounds?
Posted On 22 Sep 2016
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Phonics
We have started phonics this week so we have been learning lots of new sounds. Everyone has had a really good go at writing labels for things in our classroom such as pegs, pens, books and bags. We have been thrilled to see the writing area full of busy authors and illustrators!
Posted On 22 Sep 2016
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Forest Schools
Today in Forest Schools we got our wellies on and went to explore. We found some big sticks to make a picture frame and then created masterpieces using our imagination. There were some ice castles, monsters, houses and faces. Well done to everyone for joining in, despite the drizzle!
Posted On 20 Sep 2016
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Counting Animals
Today in Maths we have been practising recognising our number symbols. Everyone has worked really hard and impressed me with their recognition up to 10. We then practised carefully counting out the correct number of animals.
Posted On 19 Sep 2016
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Next Week
Next week we will be starting guided reading so reading books will be going home with a reading record for you to record when you have read at home. We will be thinking about writing labels in Literacy and starting our new phonics sounds. We also have an exciting assembly about...
Posted On 16 Sep 2016
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PE
We had our first PE lesson today where we put on our PE kits! Everyone joined in really well and had lots of fun playing the games. We are very proud of everyone for trying something new.
Posted On 15 Sep 2016
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Repeating Patterns
This week in maths we are learning about repeating patterns, we used the chain links to create the repeating patterns with two colours. Everyone had a really good try at connecting the tricky chains.
Posted On 15 Sep 2016
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PTA Books
We were very lucky today in Class 1 as we all received a special gift from the PTA. We were very excited to see our surprise and all said a big thank you for the new books. Miss Sawyer read us the story ‘Tiddler’ and we all listened brilliantly.
Posted On 15 Sep 2016
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Listening Skills
I am very impressed with how fantastic all of class 1 are at listening. We have played lots of games this week that have really helped us to listen carefully including passing around a tambourine very carefully so that it makes no noise. We have also been carefully listening for...
Posted On 09 Sep 2016
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Counting and Numbers
We have all been working really hard with numbers this week. We have practised counting all of our fingers very carefully. Some children have put the numbers from 1 to 10 in order and we have all sung ‘5 Little Speckled Frogs’ and counted backwards from 5.
Posted On 09 Sep 2016
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Welcome To Park Grove
Everyone has made a fantastic start in their first few days at Park Grove, we are so proud of all of our new starters! This week has been a busy week full of meeting new friends, learning new names and getting to know the routine of class 1. Thank you so much to everyone...
Posted On 08 Sep 2016
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Race for Life
Well done to everyone for running a whole mile for cancer research. Even though the weather was warm it was wonderful to see nobody complaining and big smiles and encouragement. Thank you so much to everyone who has brought in a donation. ...
Posted On 20 Jul 2016
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Happy Holidays!
I can’t believe how fast this year has flown by, thank you so much to every child in class 1. You have made this year a wonderful experience and I hope you all have a well deserved, restful summer holiday. Good luck for year 1, I will miss you all lots.
Posted On 20 Jul 2016
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Sponsorship Prize
Today Miss Sawyer brought our class a prize of sweets and books for doing so well in our Bakeathon. We won the prize for the most original idea! Well done for everyone who collected lots of sponsors!
Posted On 20 Jul 2016
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Scarborough Trip
We had an absolutely fantastic day out last Thursday at Scarborough. Everyone was so well behaved on the coach and the journey flew by. We then got straight to the beach and went for a paddle. The water was so cold!! Next we had a sandcastle building competition and some people...
Posted On 20 Jul 2016
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Next Week
Thank you so much to all of the parents that have helped on our Scarborough trip, we hope you enjoyed your day. Next week we will have the exciting chance to watch the year 6 production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, we will also be taking part in the Race for...
Posted On 14 Jul 2016
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Homework
This is the final time we will have homework this year! Please have a go at your last maths challenge!
Posted On 13 Jul 2016
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Outdoor Phonics
Using beanbags in the outdoor area lots of children have been practising their digraph so from phonics. Everyone has made so much progress with their sounds, well done!
Posted On 13 Jul 2016
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Souvenir Shop
On our outdoor stall at the moment we have a souvenir shop to buy some fun holiday items. What have you bought on holiday before to bring home? The children have all thought carefully about the price of things and how to pay correctly.
Posted On 13 Jul 2016
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Outdoor Learning
After the terrible weather last week we have finally had some sunshine this week so we have been using the outdoor area lots. We have had fun making leaf crowns, practising our gross motor skills by balancing and climbing and taking turns in groups. ...
Posted On 13 Jul 2016
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Next Week
Thank you to everyone who has already filled in the consent form for the Scarborough trip on Thursday. We are hoping it will go ahead if we recieve enough payments. The money can be paid to the office as soon as possible and a final decision will be made on Monday. Here is...
Posted On 07 Jul 2016
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Homework
Please have a go at the new maths challenge in the homework books. I am very impressed with the maths work you have all done recently.
Posted On 07 Jul 2016
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Transition Morning
Everyone in Class 1 had a great morning in their new classes. We are all so excited to be moving to our new classes and getting to know our new friends and teachers.
Posted On 07 Jul 2016
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Measuring Sunflowers
We have updated our sunflower diaries again today by measuring them and counting how many leaves they have. The tallest was 70cm! We are hoping they have a growth spurt before the end of term so that we can see the flowers.
Posted On 05 Jul 2016
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Sports Day Skills
Today we teamed up with class 3 to practise some of the events for Sports Day. We were all excellent at the sitting over head throw and we are hoping to get lots of points for our team on Friday!
Posted On 04 Jul 2016
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Next Week
Next week is another busy one, we are going to be practising our skills for sports day. On Wednesday we have our transition mornings to new classes, all children should come to class 1 in the morning to be registered and we will then move on to our new classes. On Friday it...
Posted On 30 Jun 2016
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Homework
Well done for the great homework on patterns this week. We have a new maths challenge in our homework books to look at this week.
Posted On 30 Jun 2016
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Pirate Ship
Our role play area has transformed this week from an international airport to a pirate ship! We have had great fun dressing up and pretending to be on a pirate adventure and writing messages in bottles.
Posted On 30 Jun 2016
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I do like to be beside the seaside
As the weather has been so terrible during June we have decided to make our own beach inside class 1, even with our own Palm tree! All of the children have had fun burying their toes in the sand and building sand castles.
Posted On 30 Jun 2016
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Greenfield Community Garden
On Tuesday afternoon we were very lucky to have our class trip to the community garden on Haxby Road. It was a great chance to identify different trees, plant some new plants in the beds and also learn about growing different plants and the seasons. Unfortunately it started to...
Posted On 30 Jun 2016
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Next Week
Next week we have a special trip on Tuesday to the Greenfields Community Garden, please let us know if you are able to help us with walking the children there. We also need all reply slips back with consent for the children. We will also be continuing our writing about the beach...
Posted On 23 Jun 2016
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Homework
This week we have another maths challenge in our homework books. Well done to everyone who has had a go at them so far.
Posted On 23 Jun 2016
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Planting Sunflowers
Our sunflowers had stopped growing in the classroom as the roots were too big for the pots! We have therefore moved them outside to our flower bed.
Posted On 23 Jun 2016
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The Bakeathon
Well done for a successful sponsored event today. Everyone did a fantastic job at weighing ingredients, giving them a good stir and most importantly decorating! The buns tasted delicious and we all enjoyed sharing the jobs through the day. Please remember to keep collecting your...
Posted On 23 Jun 2016
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Class 1s Assembly!
Thank you so much to everyone who came to join us and watch our assembly. We are all so proud of the children for being confident, loud and smiling on the stage. The props all looked fantastic and everyone remembered what they were supposed to be doing. ...
Posted On 23 Jun 2016
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Next Week
Next week is a very busy one in Class 1. We have our class assembly on Tuesday morning and we have our fingers crossed that everything will go smoothly. It is then our sponsored Bakeathon on Thursday morning and our Art Enrichment Day on Friday!
Posted On 16 Jun 2016
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Homework
We have another maths problem in our homework books this week, put on your thinking caps and see if you can solve it!
Posted On 16 Jun 2016
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Assembly Preperation
We have spent lots of time this week practising the songs and story for our assembly next Tuesday. All of the props are coming together and we are getting excited to perform for an audience!
Posted On 16 Jun 2016
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Sunflowers
Wow! We are so excited by how tall our sunflowers have grown. Luckily they have survived the half term holiday and they are now shooting up at pace! As they are now getting too big for their plant pots we are going to plant them in the community garden and in our wildlife area in...
Posted On 16 Jun 2016
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Come on England!
We have all had a fun afternoon in class 1 cheering on England. We have all got our fingers crossed for a win against Wales.
Posted On 16 Jun 2016
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Ice Cream
Welcome back everybody, I hope you all had a fantastic half term break. This week we have started our new topic Beside the Seaside. We have opened up our own ice cream stall outside and have had lots of fun in the sun pretending to eat our delicious ice creams.
Posted On 11 Jun 2016
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exploding Volcanoes
This week in Forest Schools we have learnt about the warning signs that show danger in nature. We all created brightly coloured safety sticks to create a warning. We then searched for the volcanoes and then used our magic potion to make them bubble and explode.
Posted On 11 Jun 2016
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Pirate Phonics
Lots of children have worked hard in phonics this week playing our new board game. We have been practising real words, alien words and segmenting the sounds in the picture cards. The winner collects the most gold.
Posted On 11 Jun 2016
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Homework
This week our homework is a maths challenge! Can you add the numbers together on a car registration plate? Try writing it as an addition sentence in your homework book.
Posted On 11 Jun 2016
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Next Week
Next week we will be continuing our seaside topic by reading the story The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch. We will also be practising our number bonds to 10 in maths. Our class assembly is fast approaching so we will be preparing for it with lots of rehearsals. On Thursday we will also...
Posted On 11 Jun 2016
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After Half Term…
Thank you so much for all of your hard work this half term, I hope you all have a wonderful break. There is no homework over the holidays but if you would like to practise your numbers, sounds or tricky words that would be great. After half term our topic will be changing to...
Posted On 25 May 2016
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Minibeast
We have finally finished sewing our felt minibeasts. They have been beautifully decorated with sequins and some even have a symmetrical pattern! All the fiddly stitching has been great for our fine motor skills.
Posted On 25 May 2016
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Maths Enrichment Day
On Tuesday we learnt about maths all day as it was our enrichment day. We started with a story about a centipede with lots and lots of shoes and practised our counting and grouping. We then read about a swarm of hungry ants and tried to get ourselves into groups of 2s, 5s and...
Posted On 25 May 2016
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Bee Keeping!
On Monday morning Mrs Farquarson came in to discuss bee keeping with us. We were all fascinated by the ways we can keep bees healthy and all the good things that bees can do for us. We even got to try on a bee keepers hat and learnt about worker bees and queen bees. ...
Posted On 25 May 2016
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Next Week
I can’t believe how fast this half term has been, next week is our last week before the half term holiday. We are having a maths enrichment day on Tuesday where we will be thinking about shapes, symmetry and measurements to make a minibeast. We are also going to be reading...
Posted On 19 May 2016
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Homework
Please could you practise the tricky words ‘like’ and ‘have’. They were the last two words on our tricky tree, let’s hope we’re excellent at all of them now!
Posted On 19 May 2016
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Pond Dipping
Today in Forest Schools we took some nets and sieves down to the pond to see what we could find. All the children behaved very sensibly and were very safe by the edge of the pond. We found lots of pond weeds, some different bugs such as ‘Water boatmen’ and...
Posted On 18 May 2016
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Sewing Minibeasts
On Tuesday morning in class 1 we started sewing our very own Minibeasts. We have all started using a running stitch around the outside which is great for our fine motor skills. We have chosen a range of colours and we are going to stuff them and embellish them later in the...
Posted On 17 May 2016
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Goldilocks and the Minibeasts!
Last week on Thursday we had a very special performance from some students at York St John’s University. They told the tale of Goldilocks and the two bears meeting lots of different Minibeasts. We also learnt about how special bees are and how important they are for our...
Posted On 17 May 2016
Hatched Butterflies
We were all very excited this morning to see that all 4 of our butterflies had hatched out of their cocoons. We have given them some fruit and special nectar to drink. We have made it from mixing water and sugar. Tomorrow during forest schools we are going to set them all...
Posted On 16 May 2016
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Next Week
Next week we will be reading some non-sense poems by Roald Dahl called ‘Dirty Beasts!’ We will then create our own minibeast and describe it. In maths we will continue to look at sharing and division problems using objects and quantities. We all have our fingers...
Posted On 12 May 2016
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Homework
Our homework this week is to practise the tricky words ‘are’ and ‘were’. We’ve nearly revealed all of the tricky words on our tree now.
Posted On 11 May 2016
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Outdoor Phonics
We had great fun in rising fives this morning throwing the hoops on to different phonics sounds. We were all very confident at ‘sh’, ‘ch’ and ‘th’ but we need a bit more practise at ‘ai’ and ‘or’.
Posted On 11 May 2016
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Planting Herbs
On Tuesday in Forest Schools the sun had disappeared and there was lots of rain and unfortunately lots of us had not brought a coat! So we decided to stay in our outdoor area and plant some herbs in the bed by our classroom. This was also a great chance to check on our sunflowers...
Posted On 11 May 2016
Singing Picnic
On Monday all of the reception children were involved in a singing picnic with Haxby Road School. We were so lucky with the weather as it was lovely and sunny. We had lots of fun singing songs with Mrs McCartney in a HUGE circle on the field and then sitting in the cool shade for...
Posted On 11 May 2016
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Next Week
We have a very busy week next week, we have our singing picnic on Monday so don’t forget you can either have a pack up or a grab bag on Monday lunchtime. We are all keeping our fingers crossed for sunny weather so that we can have fun singing with Haxby Road outside. We...
Posted On 05 May 2016
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Homework
Our homework this week is to practise the tricky words ‘when’ and ‘do’. Can you think of a sentence with these words in?
Posted On 05 May 2016
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Sunshine!
The weather this week has been much sunnier so we have loved being outside. We have been using plastic balls in the water area and feeding them down drain pipes to make a huge adding machine!
Posted On 05 May 2016
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Observational Drawings
In Forest Schools on Tuesday we were doing observational drawings of the wildlife area. Everyone looked very carefully at the shapes they could see and drew beautifully with the pastels and oil pastels.
Posted On 04 May 2016
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Animal Intuition
We had a great end to last week as we all got to hold some fantastic mini beasts. All of the children were really brave and we were fascinated by the new facts we learnt. There were giant snails, scorpions, giant millipedes, cockroaches, stick insects and even a tarantula! The...
Posted On 04 May 2016
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Next Week
Next week we will be thinking about things that we are really good at in Class 1 and what we would like to improve. We will be thinking about sharing and doubling again in Maths. We will also keep practising our songs for the Singing Picnic in May.
Posted On 28 Apr 2016
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Homework
Our homework this week is to practise the tricky words ‘there’, ‘were’ and ‘one’. Can you have a go at writing and reading them in your homework books?
Posted On 28 Apr 2016
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Singing Practice
On Monday we had another chance to sing our songs for the picnic. We have learnt lots of songs and actions about travelling to a picnic and what we can do when we are there. We all have our fingers crossed that it will be nice and sunny for our picnic in May! ...
Posted On 27 Apr 2016
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Comparing Weights
We have used our balance scales this week in maths to compare weights. We have ordered 4 different objects from heaviest to lightest and also thought about sinking and floating in the water area.
Posted On 27 Apr 2016
Sunflower Check-up!
This week in Forest Schools the weather was really cold and wet so we decided to check on our sunflowers. We watered them all and checked to see if they had grown. The tallest was 13cm! We recorded how they had grown in our sunflower diaries. ...
Posted On 27 Apr 2016
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Homework
Our homework this week is to practise reading and writing the tricky words like, have, come and some.
Posted On 21 Apr 2016
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Next Week
On Monday we will be having another singing practice with Mrs McCartney for our Singing Picnic in May. We had great fun this week so we are really looking forward to it. We will be doing more practise of one more and one less in maths and we will be reading books about ladybirds...
Posted On 21 Apr 2016
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Rising Fives!
For the first time this Wednesday we opened the door between Phoenix next door and class 1 so that the nursery children who are starting in September could visit the reception classroom. We were so proud to see class 1 helping the younger children and showing them how to use...
Posted On 21 Apr 2016
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Making a Wormery!
On Tuesday in Forest Schools we had a fantastic afternoon in the sunshine looking for worms. Miss Orr was a bit worried that we wouldn’t find any because it had not been raining but we managed to find lots and lots! We started with a worm charming dance, stamping on the...
Posted On 21 Apr 2016
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Number Bonds to 10
On Monday we used our numicon to create number bonds to 10. It was great fun fitting the different coloured shapes together to see if they could make the same shape as 10. Some children even found 3 that fit together such as 5+3+2. We were all very impressed! ...
Posted On 21 Apr 2016
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Next Week
Next week we are going to be retelling the story of the Hungry Caterpillar. We will also be looking at the story of the Bad Tempered Ladybird also by Eric Carle. In Maths we will be looking at our teen numbers, can you recognise them? Can you put them in order? ...
Posted On 15 Apr 2016
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Homework
Our homework this week is to practise the tricky words ‘said’ and ‘so’.
Posted On 15 Apr 2016
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Eric Carle
On Wednesday we started doing some painting in the style of Eric Carle. We have been reading the story of the Hungry Caterpillar and we love the pictures of the caterpillars and the butterflies.
Posted On 15 Apr 2016
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Tally Charts
On Tuesday we made tally charts in maths. We took our clipboards down to the end of the field and counted how many of each coloured car drove past, it was very fun and the most frequent colour was silver. Later in the week we used the laptops to create a pictogram showing the...
Posted On 15 Apr 2016
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Welcome back!
It was fantastic to see all of the smiley faces on Monday morning! We have also welcomed two new friends into our class, well done for settling down so well. We introduced our new topic of ‘Minibeasts’. What do you already know about them? Is there anything you would...
Posted On 15 Apr 2016
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Easter Holidays
Have a fantastic Easter break, there is no homework over the holidays! We can’t wait to start our next exciting topic after half term.
Posted On 24 Mar 2016
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Easter Nests
This afternoon we had the fantastic challenge of making chocolate Easter nests. First we melted chocolate over a pan of boiling water. Then we crushed up shredded wheat and mixed it together. Finally we spooned the mixture into bun cases. To decorate we used some chocolate mini...
Posted On 23 Mar 2016
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Easter Egg Hunt
Yesterday in Forest Schools we had a special Easter egg hunt, we all worked in teams with different colours and had to find 20 numbered eggs. After we had found them all we had to put them in order from 1-20. The winning team was the black team but everyone worked really well...
Posted On 23 Mar 2016
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Building Towers
Mr Stoner is still busy working on our outdoor area, he has now put AstroTurf on our stage so it won’t be too slippy when it rains. We have had lots of fun outside building towers this week and thinking of stratergies to make our towers even higher.
Posted On 23 Mar 2016
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Next week
Next week in class 1 we will be learning more about the Easter story and how we celebrate Easter. We will even be making some chocolate nests. We will also be reading poems about feeling unwell in Literacy. Don’t forget that school closes for Easter on Thursday at 2.30pm!
Posted On 17 Mar 2016
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Homework
This week our homework is to practise reading and writing the tricky words ‘all’ and ‘they’.
Posted On 17 Mar 2016
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Easter Tree!
Easter has arrived in class 1 as we now have a special tree with lots of eggs and chicks. We have been finding the numbered eggs and counting them in 2s!
Posted On 17 Mar 2016
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Milkshakes!
After reading the story of Oliver’s Milkshakes we decided to make some of our own! We wrote our own recipes to follow and then we followed them carefully. We cut up all of our fruit carefully, added the milk and then put it in the blender! It was very noisy but it made very...
Posted On 16 Mar 2016
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Forest Schools
On Tuesday we had the freedom to explore whatever we wanted to in the wildlife area. There was a fantastic assortment of activities including observational drawings of the spring flowers, collecting sticks for the Easter tree and making bark and leaf rubbings. ...
Posted On 16 Mar 2016
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Next Week
Next week we are thinking about odd and even numbers and counting in twos. We are also reading the book ‘Oliver’s Milkshake’ and making our own milkshakes with healthy fruit.
Posted On 11 Mar 2016
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Homework
Our homework this week is to sort which words have a long on sound like food, and which have a short on sound like book.
Posted On 10 Mar 2016
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Doubling Machine
We were very excited about our new doubling machine made by Miss Ford. We have been practising doubling numbers from 1-20 and having great fun with putting fruit down the tubes and then counting the total.
Posted On 10 Mar 2016
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Oliver’s Vegetables
Today we learnt about where different vegetables come from. We even found out that chips come from potatoes. We had great fun in the soil looking at the roots and how they grow. We would all like to find out more about beetroot, rhubarb and spinach.
Posted On 10 Mar 2016
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Forest Schools
On Tuesday in Forest Schools we thought about animal habitats changing now that spring is on the way. We all worked in teams to build a birds nest and thought about how to make it comfy for the birds to lay their eggs. The end results were fantastic and some teams got a prize for...
Posted On 09 Mar 2016
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Measuring jumps
On Monday in the outdoor area we decided to compare the length of our jumps by all standing behind the line and then seeing who could jump the furthest. We marked where we had landed with chalk at the back of our heels and then compared the lengths.
Posted On 09 Mar 2016
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