The month of October is Black History month in the uk , and Class 1 had the chance to celebrate and explore black history and important figures, as well as the culture and heritage of Africa.

Class 1 met Rocket and her brother Jamal and they traveled to space!! This book is written by Nathan Bryon and kids really loved it!! We built up our own rocket and we made ourselves astronauts. We also practised with the letter  “a” for astronaut and we made a lovely craft 😃

We spoke about Rosa Parks and the idea of “fairness” . Using drama we tried to act out the scene from the bus and we found out that some people were treated unfairly because they were different.We also talked about Martin Luther king and we watched a part of his famous speech. After that we drew our own “ dreams” and we made hand prints creating a wreath.

Finally , we explored the culture of Africa. We  learned that in Africa they use masks for special occasions; so we used paper plates and feathers and we designed and decorated own masks. Also, we listened reggae music and we made our own maracas using plastic bottles and lentils. We had great time!! 😃😃

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New reading books have been allocated on Bug Club. Sumdog challenges are also set up focusing on number work and the days of the week.  Finally, Phonics tasks have been assigned in Teams.

Please make sure that you have your kid’s logins for Bug Club, Sumdog, and Microsoft Teams. If you have any issues, please do not hesitate to contact me 🙂  gw19symeonidouchrist@glow.sch.uk

Enjoy your tasks Class 1!!! See you all soon 🙂 🙂 🙂

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Class 1 loved learning outdoors. This week we have covered lots of areas of the curriculum by learning outside and exploring the different ways that we can use our school grounds.

In literacy we practised different sounds and letters and we planted lettuce words in our wee garden.

In maths, we practised our mental strategies and place value using sticks and leaves, stick =10 and leaf=5. We created lots of maths problems and we solved them with the visual support of numicon shapes. We also found out how to estimate the life of a tree  just by measuring its circumference. Based on our knowledge that roughly every 25cm of girth represents about 10 year’s growth, we estimated that the trees in our playground are 30 years old (75cm).

For our topic, we continued talking about living things in our school grounds and we made our own bird feeders.We also created beautiful art pieces by rubbing barks and comparing the different the shapes and surfaces. The kids enjoyed exploring secret paths in our garden and performing their drama skills through play. Finally we used our senses to feel, smell and see the variety of herbs that grow in Eco graden. We collected some of them to use them for our sensory activities. At the same time we checked the lentils that we planted and we were so happy when we saw the small stems that have started to grow. We added some drops of water and we placed the pot close to the window

Have a lovely October break everyone!!

Miss Symeonidou

Hello everyone!!

We have been having so much fun in Class 1 this week for our outdoor learning week.

In literacy, we continue practicing with our sounds and letters. Sorley read CVC words on the logs and Murray and Zainab ha a race picking up the correct “ai” word from the washing line!! Seher, Mariam, and Diego made an alphabet potion while Joshua, Muhsin, and Abdul dug for alphabet letters.

In maths, we continued learning our numbers using washing lines and checking for missing numbers. Sorley also worked hard with skipping counting in steps of 4s!!

For our topic this week we searched for living things in our garden and we planted lentils in a pot using cotton!!

In H/WB we played a lot outside creating our own obstacle routes and we baked healthy muffins using courgette and feta cheese!! That’s a recipe that Miss Symie used to do very often when was in Greece 🙂

Have a lovely weekend everyone!!!

Miss Symeonidou