Over the past couple of weeks we have been learning about the past. We have discussed what we mean by the past and as a class we were able to identify different things that have happened in the past. Some things happened millions of years ago and other things in our past happened more recently.

We are making links between the past and our lives today. So far we have explored what school was like in the past and toys that children played with in the past. We are able to make comparisons and we have noticed that some things from the past aren’t so different to our lives today.

We have also played some games children played in the past. We knew almost all of the games and it was lovely to have some time in the sunshine playing these.

What’s The Time Mr Wolf

Hopscotch

Marbles

Noughts and Crosses

Some of us brought something in from home related to the past. The item could have been personal to our family or simply a historic item. All of the items promoted lots of discussion and it was especially lovely to see photos and listen to stories about Grandparents, Great Grandparents and even Great, Great, Great Grandparents.

    

We had so much fun taking part in the Colour Run!

Here we are before…

And after…

More pictures of the Colour Run to follow…

 

Over the past couple of weeks we have been exploring Data Handling. We have discussed what data actually is and also data about ourselves.

We sorted the 3D shapes into different categories which we chose. We sorted them by shape, colour, size and if they were stackable or not.

We also had a go at sorting shapes on the board based on their colour and shape. We can sort data in many different ways!

We then sorted the fish based on information we spotted about them. We could sort them based on size, based on their pattern and also if they have a fin or not.

We have also learned to sort data using Carroll Diagrams. We had a go completing some together as a class and then completed some in smaller groups. We sorted the dominoes based on the total being seven or not seven and then sorted the numbers into two groups, one was more than five and the other was not more than five.

We have already learned a little about tally marks but next week this will be our focus along with bar graphs.

 

This week we have been taking part in Crookfur’s Culture Week and completing activities to celebrate Eid.

Here we are in our amazing outfits, some of us wore traditional dress for our own culture.

Thank you very much to the volunteers who came into school and created the beautiful Mehndi on our hands.

We then completed our own Mehndi designs on a hand template using the pictures as a guide. There was lots of detail and most of us agreed it took longer than we thought to add the detail.

We very excited to find melted chocolate in our classroom and loved dipping the strawberries and bananas into them. They were extremely tasty!

We all had a go at speaking a little Arabic during assembly and then enjoyed painting our names in Arabic.

We ended the week with a visit from Mr Crawford who teaches at Williamwood High School. He taught us some Spanish and brought along some props for us to enjoy.

 

 

It has been a week full of excitement as we look forward to the Spring holiday.

The children prepared and ate their fruit salad on Tuesday as part of our Health and Wellbeing topic, Food and Health. We spoke about the importance of washing hands before preparing food and how to keep our chopping board and knife clean. We also discussed how to keep  ourselves safe when using a knife. We did an excellent job of cutting our fruit although the apple was quite tricky!

    

Eating the fruit salad was definitely the best part!

Break the Rules Day  was lots of fun! Thank you to everyone who donated 🙂

Here we are breaking the rules…

Have an amazing Spring holiday!

We have had a very busy week celebrating Neurodiversity Celebration Week, British Science Week and World Down Syndrome Day. It was lovely to see all of the odd socks in class 🙂

To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week we discussed what this terms means and discussed ways in which we are all different. We learned what our brains help us to do and that we all learn differently and process information differently.

We were asked to colour in the Neurodiversity symbol as part of a whole school competition and also took part in an activity which encouraged us to think about what makes us who we are and how we are different from each other.

For British Science Week we decided to think about Lego. We worked in pairs and completed various challenges with only six bricks.

We had to get the bricks to balance vertically which we agreed was the most challenging.

   

   

    

We then had to make a snake and explored different ways we could connect the bricks to show this.

We also made out own creature and described this to our partner who then had to guess what we had made based on our description.

Our last challenging was building something of our choice, whilst our partner wasn’t look and then showing it to them. They then had to build it back up the exact same way.

As part of our Health and Wellbeing topic about Food and Health, we designed our own fruit salad on Monday with Miss Thomson. We chose up to six fruits that we would like to include in our fruit salad. We were all keen to know which fruits were the most popular so we decided to look at tally marks as a way to record this information.

In small groups we created our own tally charts based on the data we collected. Mrs Agnew thought we did such an amazing job she has decided to display these in the cloakroom. We then presented our tally charts to the rest of the class and read the data from each one.

We totalled up the amounts of fruits we each chose and the most popular were strawberries, raspberries, apples and grapes. We will be making our fruit salad in class on Monday 🙂

 

Over the past few weeks, we have been learning about Dinosaurs, a topic chosen by the children. Many of us already show a keen interest in dinosaurs and have enjoyed sharing our knowledge with others, including Mrs Agnew.

We started our learning by finding out about different types of dinosaurs. We completed our own research and then created our own fact sheet based on a chosen dinosaur. We collated all of the fact sheets and turned them into our ‘P1B Dinosaur Fact Book’.

    

We wanted to learn where dinosaurs lived. We explored each of the different types of habitats and why certain species lived in them. We then drew our own habitat and labelled which habitat it was.

We were also keen to find out what dinosaurs ate. We learned that dinosaurs are split into three categories; carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. We discussed what each of these mean then sorted the dinosaurs into each of the categories based on what they eat.

We know about dinosaurs because of fossils found over the years! We made our own dinosaur fossils from salt dough and waited patiently whilst they were baked in the oven. We were extremely excited to bring them home!

   

   

   

    

We have had a very exciting week celebrating World Book Day! The theme this year is ‘Read Your Way’ with the aim being to bring the fun of reading to more children.

We started off with the Book Swap on Wednesday. We were all delighted to bring our chosen book home and love showing each other what we had picked.

We took part in a ‘Book Scavenger Hunt’ where we had to scan the books for many different things such as an alien, a witch or a vehicle. We were tasked with finding an example of friendship within the books and this prompted lovely discussions. We saw examples of cuddles and kindness which we could identify as a way to be a good friend.

    

On Thursday, Ms Doig visited our class and read Paddington to us. She brought a lovely Paddington for us to see and we even got to smell some of Paddington’s marmalade!

We were asked to study an author and P1 were given Nick Sharratt to learn about. He is also a famous illustrator We learned a little about Nick and how he became an author an illustrator. We have explored a variety of book that he has either wrote or illustrated. Our favourite was ‘Pants’ and this led to us designing our own pants on Friday.

We also listened to Mrs Agnew reading ‘The Foggy Foggy Forest’ but the cover and pages were hidden. We had to listen carefully to the story and use our imagination to design a front cover for it.

    

On Friday , we explored the style of Nick Sharratt’s illustrations. We had a go at drawing like him by following a ‘draw along’ video. We of course chose a dinosaur to draw since this is our current topic in class!

Some of us shared our learning at assembly 🙂

The most exciting part of the week was meeting with our buddies to enjoy some stories. We loved showing them our teddies and cosying up to read a book together.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    

In class we have all been working extremely hard by practising our single sounds, diagraphs and common words. We do lots of different activities to help us learn these.

We play common word splat to see how quickly we can find the common word.

We practise reading, tracing and writing each common word.

We complete read, write and draw activities to help us learn CVC words, CVCC words and words with digraphs.

To support our reading, we read with Mrs Agnew, read with each other and also read independently. We can record our reading on a talking tin which Mrs Agnew then listens to.

    

We also show that we understand what we have read in various ways. We have started using story maps to show our understanding. We draw a picture for each part of the story.

Thank you to all of our parents and carers who attended our open afternoons last week. We were very excited to have you in our classroom and share some of our learning with you.

   

   

Over the past few weeks we have been demonstrating more and more creativity in class. We are always keen to have our creations photographed and celebrated.

I made a purse and it opens and shuts.

I made a snowman with the playdough. It’s nose is like a carrot.

It’s a house. You can go inside it and I put bricks around it and there is a smaller house on top of it. I had some help with it too.

I made a picture with sprinkles. I out the gems on top of the buttons.

I got the animals ready to make funny faces at them.

I made my name from lots of different loose parts.

We made a tent, it was made from sticks and the crates.

I made a bridge that went from the building to the table.

It’s an exercise home for bugs.

Oh yes they can!

For the past couple of weeks we have been reading Giraffes Can’t Dance. We learned how Gerald was laughed at by his friends in the jungle for being a terrible dancer. However, Gerald quickly learned that his dancing wasn’t so bad at all and ended up believing he was a good dancer.

We have used the story to discuss what we can do In P1B and what we feel confident doing. We have also touched upon kindness and discussed how Gerald’s friends in the jungle could have supported him better instead of laughing at him.

We created a beautiful display together as a class. We painted the background, cut the grass and each wrote our ‘I can…’ statements. We then drew a giraffe and cut it out to add to the display.

We are also learning about music in class, in particular keeping the beat. As Gerald learned to dance to his own music, we decided to make our own musical shakers and had fun with them, moving to the music in any way it made us feel. We will use these during music to help with our beat keeping!