Monthly Archives: October 2010

Baxter Park and Halloween

What a week we have had!

On Monday we had our visit to Baxter Park to look for the signs of Autumn. We collected leaves, conkers and fir cones and brought them back to school to have a closer look. We recorded, using an Easi-speak microphone, our feet crunching in the leaves. We also took lots of photos using our digital camera.

We have been using Halloween to help us with our writing. We made spells in the water tray with jelly, we found spiders in the cornflour in our cauldron. Lastly we had to make up our own spells. We drew pictures of different things we would like to put in our spells and each class made a spell book.

In ICT we used Pivot for the first time. We made little animations by making the stickman move about and took pictures of him. We also changed his colour too.

You can download Pivot free of charge as it’s a bit of freeware. You can find the download here…

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html

DCA Visit

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Our first week back after the holidays and we have been very busy practising all our Jolly Phonics sounds. We have been beginning to blend our sounds together to make three letter words and write them down. We get lots of practise on our magnetic boards and at the writing table.

We have been learning to recognise our numbers and put them in order. Some of us made a ‘Ten Green Bottles’ video to help us remember. We took photographs of our ten green bottles wall and then recorded our singing using an Easi-speak microphone. It’s hard work making a movie!tengreenbottles

In the classrooms this week we have been learning about the book ‘We’re Going On A Bear Hunt’. We painted of all the things the characters met in the story and helped make a lovely display.

In the Active Learning Zone we have been learning about the book ‘Funnybones’. At the making table we made skeletons using black paper and white art straws and lots of glue. Our favourite activity has been ‘Sound the Room’. Funnybones left all his bones (with sounds written on them) hidden in our room and we had to find them and write them all down.

We had a trip to the DCA Film festival to see ‘The Varmints’ and ‘The Gruffalo’. It was a great trip to the cinema and we are looking forward to learning lots more about the story. We have been playing some games on www.gruffalo.com

Remember our trip to the park next week. Fingers crossed for dry weather.

Last week of first term

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A great start to school for our P1s. They have settled into school really well, can follow instructions and have been learning about our school rules. It’s good to be green. They have all been successful learners. They confidently take part in all school life.

Both classes have been looking at our Oxford Reading Tree stories again in the last week and have been learning all about Mum, Dad, Kipper, Biff, Chip and Floppy. They have loved the stories At School and The Lost Teddy.

We have been learning more Jolly Phonics sounds and so far have learned 25! We keep practising these sounds all the time so we can remember them and use them when we start to read and write.

We used the microscope to look closely at conkers and fir cones and took pictures of them. We have made lots of art work eg. paper art trees and paintings of trees to help us remember about the signs of Autumn.

During play we have practised writing our numbers. We have continued to make patterns and look for shapes in the world around us.

Lastly, on the last day of term, we used Active Expressions for the first time. We used these to see how well we had remembered our numbers and shapes this term.

Thank you to all P1s and parents and carers for a fantastic first term. Your support is greatly appreciated.