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Happy Easter!

Hello there! This is our last blog before we finish school for our Easter holidays. We’re really hoping that we have nice weather to roll our Easter eggs, as at the moment it is very cold and still snowing!

We have been practising all our sounds and tricky words and also trying to write sentences about the things we did at the weekend.

We have been learning about graphs this week. We have been gathering different information and learning how to record our findings onto a graph.

We made a graph of the different things we had been measuring in the classroom and we recorded how tall/long they were. We also counted some items inside our classroom, e.g., clocks, doors, lights, radiators and recorded the number onto a graph. We were then able to compare the results and see if there were more lights than clocks or more doors than radiators etc.

                   

Today we went into our playground and counted the different kinds of traffic that passed our school. We then gathered all our information and recorded our findings on a bar graph

  

To continue with our topic we began to look at lifecycles. We started by looking at the life cycle of a butterfly. Mrs Sands, our school secretary, lives on a farm and she came to our class to talk to us about life on the farm and tell us about the jobs she and her husband Tom have to do, especially at lambing time.  As Mrs Sands also has hens on her farm we also looked at the life cycle of a chick. We made our own chicks using card and pipe cleaners. Do you think they will lay any eggs for our breakfast?

  

As you know we have been visiting the ladies at the local servite home. To return the favour, we invited the ladies to spend the afternoon at our school and to see all the things that we have been doing and to share our learning with them. We had a lovely afternoon and all the ladies really enjoyed looking around our classrooms. We ended our afternoon with a well deserved cup of tea, drink of juice and a biscuit.

  

  

To celebrate Easter at the end of this week, we painted eggs. We used brightly coloured pearlescent paint and tried very hard to make them colourful. Some of us rolled our eggs in our playground and some us took our eggs home to roll them with our families on Easter Sunday.

    

Happy Easter Everyone!

Parent Notices

Gym Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. Also please note that all jewellery must be removed for gym.

Your child has been given a blue homework packet, please ensure your child brings this to school every day.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.003.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.

Please check your child’s diary for show and tell.

The school will be closed on Friday 29th march (Good Friday) and for the following 2 weeks. It will re-open on Monday 15th April.

Easter Craft

Hello and welcome back to P1’s blog. We are all really glad to get back to school and back to working hard. We all had a lovely holiday and some of us were very busy and visited some very exciting places. We wrote about all the things  we did on our holidays in our thinking books.

   

We are at school only 4 days this week as we are on holiday on Friday to celebrate Good Friday. We have been discussing Easter, reading the Easter story and talking about how we celebrate Easter.

We made Easter cards with a daffodil on the front. We had to cut paper carefully to get the right shape and stick it on with glue.

   

our Easter cards

We also made chicks. This was an especially tricky job as we had to fold the paper backwards and forwards to make it look like concertinas. We had to concentrate hard to get this right! We then had to stick all our pieces together. We made such a good job our chicks are displayed in the Assembly Hall!

   

We’ve been revising all our sounds to make sure we still remember them after the spring break. We’ve also been looking at cvc words. We’ve been working with our play dough mats, bee bot mats and lace cards to make  and learn new and familiar words.

We’re continuing to work on our addition to 10. We’ve been using number lines and white boards and Luke came back to help us this week with his lily pads! We’ve also started a new number line this week. This special number line is to help us add and help us hold the big number in our head. As you can see the number really is in ‘our head!’

    

GymMonday and Friday – Please ensure your child has full gym kit in school on these days.

Open Doors – Every Wednesday3.00pm3.15pm

Homework – words and sounds every night.