Halloween

We had lots of fun in the Sensory Room this week.  It was transformed into a spooky house with lots of cobwebs, spiders and even a skeleton!  We enjoyed exploring the different textures in the spooky house and used Halloween torches to project scary images onto the walls. 

We have been very busy creating some Halloween themed crafts.  We designed our own monsters, made scary skeletons and created spider art work. 

Maths

We have been working hard at maths time to complete addition and subtraction calculations using a range of methods.  Cameron likes to use his fingers and sometimes he ‘just knows the answer in his head!’  Jayden is great at using his number line to help with addition and subtraction.  Lewis introduced us to a new iPad app which helps with our addition and subtraction.  Thanks Lewis!

We created a season wheel, which we will turn to help us remember which season it is and the order of the seasons.  We can link annual events with the different seasons, such as Easter, Christmas, Halloween and Bonfire Night.

Floor Books

Jayden has started to create his very own floor book.  Jayden enjoys telling the children and adults in class 1 about his holiday to India.  We enjoy listening to Jayden and asking him questions to find out more about India.  Jayden enjoys drawing the flag of India and showing his peers and teachers where India is on the globe.  We are looking forward to learning more about India as Jayden continues to add to his floor book.

Reflection Time

On Fridays, we take time to think about our week and what have been learning.  This week we enjoyed reflecting on our targets.  We each chose a small prize from the treasure chest as our targets had reached the end of our target treasure maps! 

We also took time to discuss how the adults in class 1 help us.  Here are our thoughts:

David – ‘The adults in class 1 help me.  Mrs Nicol and David work.’

Jayden – ‘The adults in class 1 help me with making lighthouse.’

Joe – ‘Miss Cameron helps me with my drawing.’

Cameron – ‘The adults in class 1 help me when I hurt myself.’

Lewis – ‘The adults in class 1 help me with making my monster.’

Yolie – ‘Miss Barrie helps with my reading, Mrs Nicol helps with painting and Miss Cameron helps with drawing and scissors.’

Yolie created a wonderful model, to show how the adults in class 1 help.

Money Week

We have been learning about money in class 1.  We have lots of fun in our class shop and can use good manners when we pretending to be the customer and the shop keeper.  We have been learning how to add our money to make sure that we enough to pay for what we want.  We enjoyed practising our skills at the bake sale recently. 

Science

We have been learning about the 5 senses.  This week we have been sampling different fruits and sharing our likes and dislikes.  We created our own bar charts to show the fruits we like and don’t like.  We enjoyed comparing our bar charts. 

In the Sensory Room we took turns with a partner to put on a blindfold and try various fruits.  We had to guess which fruit it was and say whether or not we liked the taste.   This was tricky as we couldn’t see the fruit!  We had to use our sense of touch, taste and smell to work out which fruit it was. 

Reading

We enjoy spending time in our class library.  We especially enjoy reading in the library with a partner, taking turns to read a story to each other!  Our favourite books this week have been, ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’, ‘Owl Babies’, The Giraffe Who Can’t Dance’, and ‘The Fish who could Wish.’ Our librarian this week is Lewis.  Lewis has been making sure that our library is kept neat and tidy.  Lewis politely asks others to put their books away if they have forgotten.  Thanks Lewis, our library looks great!

Wonderful News!

Everyone was so excited to hear Jayden’s news.  Jayden has a new baby brother!  We enjoyed creating beautiful cards for the new baby.   Miss Barrie and Miss Cameron were so pleased as the children in class 1 could remember lots from the ‘New Baby’ topic last year.  Joe wrote ‘twinkle twinkle little star’ on his card and glued lots of gold stars as babys like to hear nursery rhymes!  We know that Jayden will be a fantastic big brother!

We had lots of fun in the sensory room this week.  We discovered that some colours glow in the dark.  We played with neon balloons, glow sticks and fairy wands.  When we switched off the light and turned on the neon light we discovered lots of glow in the dark materials.  Our teeth were even glowing! 

We have been working hard at maths time.  Jayden and Cameron like to use their froggy friend to help them with addition using a number line.  We have been adding our money, making sure that we have enough to buy the things that we want from our class shop.

We have been learning how to work as part of a team in class and at P.E.   Joe and Lewis worked well together to complete the Fireman Sam jigsaw!  The adults were very proud as it was a tricky 50 piece jigsaw.   The boys were pleased with their achievement.

Well done to Cameron who was given a medal for doing well at his Judo club!  We enjoyed looking at and learning about Cameron’s medal.  Look out for Cameron’s picture on the achievement display!

Health and Wellbeing

Class 1 had great fun taking part in the onesie walk!  We all looked great in our pyjamas and onesies! After the onesie walk we had a teddy bears picnic with our friends from class 2 and 3.

Art and Design

This week we had fun creating collage art work with Miss Cameron.  We each chose an animal and created a collage of animal eyes, by tearing, cutting and sticking different materials.  We are going to put the eyes on the inside walls of our dark den and use a torch to find them!

Literacy and English

We had a special visit from Mrs Stewart on Thursday morning.  We enjoyed reading to Mrs Stewart and telling her all about our reading books.   We have been using clues from the pictures and text to predict the hidden words and suggest alternatives that would also make sense.   We were great at the ‘find and colour’ activity.  We looked carefully at the pictures in our book, to make sure that we were using the correct colours.  Mrs Stewart was so impressed with our reading!

M&D’s

This week, class 1, 2 and 3 had a wonderful day out at M&D’s theme park!  There were lots of things to see and do at M&D’s.  We enjoyed going on the rides and some of us even watched and helped out with a magic show! 

‘I had fun with Aidan and Caitlin and Cody and Mrs Clark.  My favourite ride was the train.’  Cameron

‘I like the wheel and water slide.’  Jayden

‘A water slide! That was my favourite.’  Lewis

‘I loved the water slide!’  David

‘My favourite ride was the tunnel water slide with Liam.’  Joe

‘I got on the bus to go to M&D’s.  I liked having fun at M&D’s.’  Yolie

On Thursday we covered the walls in the sensory room with paper and painted a giant picture of M&D’s theme park!  Class 1 have also been talking about the things that we could see, smell, hear, taste and touch at the theme park.  Next week we are going to write sensory poems about our fun day out!  The adults are so pleased that everyone had a great time!

The 5 Senses

Class 1 have been learning about the 5 senses.  We worked with Mrs Nicol to create an information poster about the 5 senses.  We enjoy singing ‘The 5 Senses’ song to remind us what the 5 senses are.  It goes like this: 

 This is the way we see things, hear things, smell things.  This is the way we taste things and this is the way we touch.

We had fun creating detailed drawings of our eyes and Cameron and Jayden labelled the different parts of the eye.  

We like to spend time in our class dark den.  We can’t see a thing in there unless there is some light!  We have enjoyed observing the colourful lights in our dark den this week as they change colour between red, blue, green, yellow and white!  We compared our eyes to the eyes of an owl and learned that unlike us, owls are great at seeing in the dark!  They have big round eyes which help them to find food in the dark.  Jayden pointed out to the class that owls have symmetrical faces!  We made feathery owl masks and are going to wear them next week as we learn more about how nocturnal animals use their senses to find food. 

We enoyed watching this clip in class, why not have a look and see if you can work out which of the 5 senses these animals are using to hunt for food.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/nocturnal-animals/12649.html

 Enjoy the long weekend!

Class 1 have been learning about symmetry.  We have been looking at symmetrical butterflies and even had a go at creating our own!

We had fun using mirrors to find out whether or not the shapes and objects were symmetrical.

We completed symmetrical colour patterns and especially enjoyed drawing symmetrical faces with Miss Cameron.

At Choose Time,  Jayden enjoyed painitng his hands and printing them on paper. 

‘Look!  It’s symmetrical hands!’  Jayden

“I made the face the same on the other side.” Cameron

Next week we will go outside and explore symmetry in nature.  We will collect objects and decide if they are symmetrical or not symmetrical.

Health and Fitness Fortnight

This week we have been learning about keeping ourselves fit and healthy.  We had a special visitor on Monday!  The school nurse came to class 1 to teach us all about keeping ourselves safe in the sun!  We were able to answer lots of Mrs Fleming’s questions as we have been learning about safety in sun recently.  Mrs Fleming was very impressed!

This week we enjoyed playing rugby.  We learned how to hold and pass the rugby ball.  We also learned to play Hockey.  We were able to show Miss Barrie how to hold the hockey stick correctly and we practised passing and stopping the ball. 

At swimming we said goodbye to Mrs Patterson.  We had an extra special treat at swimming this week.  We played with giant floats in the swimming pool.  It was great fun pretending that the giant floats were boats.  The boys in class 1 have worked hard this year to develop their swimming skills.  We are much more confident in the water and can swim using floats and kicking our legs.

Reflection

We had our final Get Together of the year.  We looked back at events from throughout the year.   Some of our favourite memories include:

The Christmas party at Hampden Park,  Soft Play, learning how to care for a new baby and holding baby Cameron, the Nativity show, new iPads, swimming lessons, Sports Day, Singing ‘Welcome Everybody’ at Get Together, gardening with Mr Marsden, learning about people who help us,  Billy No Buzz, a special visit from PC Arnott, playing the Rainbow Room, meeting Yolie and David, the Skoog, P.E and lots more!

Goodbye

This week we said goodbye to Mr Marsden, Mrs Zaloni and Aiden.  We will be sad to see them go and wish them all the best at their new schools.

Have a great summer holiday!

The first week of fitness fortnight has been great fun.  We have been very busy learning about keeping fit and healthy.  We also learned about our right to have clean water, nutritious food, a safe place to stay and medical care when are ill (UNICEF Article 24).

We had a great time at Sports Day!  Miss Barrie, Mr Marsden and Miss Cameron were so proud that we all participated and tried our best at the Sports Day events.

Mrs Stewart gave us a special medal for going to Sports Day and taking part with the events.  We clapped our hands and said well done to everyone who got a medal.  We always try to be a good friend when someone else is given a prize.  We are looking forward to another week of Health and Fitness.  We will be learning how to play rugby and hockey!  We will also learn more about healthy eating and how to stay safe in the sun.

Finally, the boys in class 1 would like to say thank you to Cary.  Thank you for creating the coolest Sensory Room we have ever seen!  When we arrived back to school from Sports Day, there was a special treat waiting for us in the Sensory Room.  Cary had transormed the Sensroy Room into an Angry Birds play area!  We enjoyed dressing up as Angry Birds and playing with the birds, pigs and building blocks.  “It was so cool and awesome!” Cameron

We have been learning about the Seaside!  There are lots of fun things to do and see at the Seaside, but it is also very important to stay safe.  This week we learned about keeping ourselves safe in the sun.

‘If you don’t stay safe in the sun you could get sunburn.’ Cody

We listened very carefully for information on how to keep ourselves safe in the sun and were able to tell Mrs Stewart some things that we could do to stay safe.  We enjoyed watching a safety in the sun cartoon.  This helped us to realise how dangerous the sun can be if we don’t protect ourselves.

We created some lovely beach bags and glued on pictures of the different things that we would take to the beach.  Some of things we packed in our beach bags were:  parasols, t-shirts, towels and packed lunch boxes.  Miss Barrie was very happy to see that we all included sun cream, sunglasses, sun hats and water!

Liam drew some lovely pictures of Mr Bear keeping himself safe in the sun.  Liam drew pictures of Mr Bear wearing a t-shirt, sunglasses and a hat.  He also drew a big bottle of sun cream!  Cody drew a picture of a bench in the shade, as it is very important to spend time in the shade on sunny days.

At drama, we were able to show Mr Marsden how to stay safe in the sun.  We pretended to apply sun cream and we had lots of fun dressing up with sun glasses and sun hats.  We made sure that we played with our beach toys in the shade, out of the hot sun!

We will continue to learn about staying safe in the sun during Health and Fitness fortnight.

We always look forward to P.E. on Tuesday.  We are very good at changing for P.E. all by ourselves. 

‘I have been trying hard to get my buttons off.’ Cameron

Mr Jeffries, makes a special P.E. map for us.  It shows us the different activities that we will be doing.  At the end of P.E. Mr Jeffries chooses someone who has tried really hard and they get to take home the P.E. map!  We enjoy taking the map home as it helps us to talk about our day at school and what we have been learning to do at P.E.

We listen to the song ‘Ready, Steady, Go!’ during warm up.  ‘We jump, run, tip toe, march, bend down small and skip!’ Lewis and Joe

‘I was doing the obstacle course.  I was putting my knees through the hoop’. Joe

‘I like the pencil and rolling one.  You have to make your body straight like a pencil then you just roll over.  That was fun!’ Cameron

‘I like P.E at Balbardie and jumping onto the blue mat.’  Liam

We have been working really hard on our balance and coordination.  We are also learning how to work as a team. 

‘I’m rolling the ball and playing bowling’. Joe

‘My favourite is the bowling, I would like a bowling set for my house.  You need to roll the ball and knock down as many pins as you can’.  Cody

Literacy

Lewis told us all about his weekend adventures with Mr Bear!  We listened carefully to Lewis as he explained his news.  Lewis and his mum created a wonderful DVD for us to watch in class.  It was so much fun to watch and the boys enjoyed joining in with the backing track ‘Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear’.  It is now Jayden’s turn to take Mr Bear home.  We can’t wait to hear all about Mr Bear’s holiday at Jayden’s house.

This week we have been learning about animals that live in water.  We each chose an animal and wrote some interesting facts about it.  We included facts in our explanation and drew beautiful, detailed pictures to support our writing.  Cody carried out some research of his own.  He found out that if a starfish loses a limb, it can grow back again!  We also learned that starfish have sea water in their bodies instead of blood. 

Cody told the boys in class 1 a great joke!  ‘How Does a Fish Get to School?’  Have a guess at Cody’s joke and he will write the answer on the blog next week! 

Music

We enjoyed watching clips from the Blue Planet DVD.  We spotted lots of different animals that live under water such as sharks, whales, dolphins and tuna fish.  We are going to taste tuna fish at snack time next week.  The boys in class 1 experimented with a range of percussion instruments to recreate sounds of the ocean, like the crashing waves.  Joe and Cameron used the castanets to represent the crabs.  We learned that crabs walk sideways, and we even did a funny dance and pretended to be crabs!   We used the tambourine to create some scary sound effects.  We tapped on the tambourine head very slowly, gradually getting faster, and faster and faster!  We thought this sounded like a shark coming!  Cody thought it sounded like a giant puffer fish.  Cody loved shaking the maracas, “That would be like when the octopus is coming!” 

Mr Marsden taught us a new song this week, ‘I’m a Little Penguin’ (tune of I’m a Little Teapot).  It goes like this:

I’m a little penguin

Black and white,

I waddle to the left and I waddle to the right.

I cannot fly but I can swim,

So I waddle to the water and JUMP RIGHT IN!

Finally, a big congratulations to Cameron!  We were so happy to find out that Cameron has been selected as a winner for the Young Writer of the Year competition.  We have been learning about holidays and had great fun creating our own Balbardie Camp Site in class 1.  Cameron enjoyed visitng the sensory room when it was transformed into a campsite and wrote a wonderful senses poem based on his experiences.   We then typed the poem and Cameron selected his own font, colours and graphics.  We are so pleased that Cameron’s hard work has paid off!  Cody was such a great friend and said ‘Congratulations Cameron!’ when he found out the good news.

Miss Barrie, Mr Marsden and the boys in class 1 were feeling disappointed this morning as our trip to the beach was postponed due to the wet and windy weather.  After our hello song, we had a class discussion about the weather.  Miss Barrie explained that the bouncy castle at the beach would be all wet and the play park would be too slippery for us to play on.  The boys in class 1 agreed that we should go to the seaside when the weather is a bit nicer. 

We decided that instead of feeling sad, we should have a fun day of beach themed activities!  We loved playing with the water toys.  We like testing to find out if an object floats or sinks.  We enjoyed filling the containers with water and pouring the water over the water mill.  “The water mill is like a fan!” said Jayden.   Joe had fun playing with the whales and the dolphins.  This week we will be learning more about life under the sea! 

We enjoyed visiting the Rainbow Room and painting pictures of the seaside.  We used different painting techniques, including paint brushes, finger painting and printing rollers.  Jayden and Liam enjoyed using the printing roller to create a wavy sea, using blue and white paint.

We even got to plan our own silver circle timetables.  We each had to choose four activities and put them in the order that we wanted to do them.  Lewis, Cody and Liam all wanted to make masks of their favourite characters.  Joe wanted to choose the library so that he could read his favourite story book ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ and Jayden chose four of his favourite activities, which included the dark den.

At snack time we ate marmalade sandwiches, just like Paddington Bear!  Joe and Jayden really enjoyed their sandwiches.  “It is just like orange jam!” said Jayden.  Miss Barrie and Mr Marsden thought the boys in class 1 deserved an extra special treat at snack time.  We had a yummy scoop of vanilla ice cream with delicious strawberries!

We have enjoyed our new story ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’.  During story time, we discussed the different ways that the lighthouse keeper could travel from his cottage to the lighthouse.  “It’s way too far for him to swim!” said Cody.  We also thought about some ideas for getting his lunch from the cottage to the lighthouse, without those naughty seagulls eating it!  We enjoyed acting out the story using props.

At the start of the week, we received a letter from our friends in Primary 6!  Our friends had heard all about our topic and wanted to show us the lighthouse models that they had made.   On Friday, Jessica, Becky and Ben brought a lighthouse to class 1.  We listened very carefully as they explained how it was made.  It even had a working light and we were able to learn a little bit about electrical circuits.  After the visit, we were desperate to make our own lighthouses!  We made red and white lighthouses, with a little door and window.   Next week we will add a light and a roof.

We have been thinking about fun activities to do at the seaside and different things to see.  Cody and Joe brought in some lovely shells from their Holidays.  We used the shells during maths to sort into groups of big, small, rough and smooth.   Cody was able to sort the shells onto a four box Carroll diagram! 

We looked closely at the shells, noticing different patterns and colours.  We chose our favourite shell and created lovely line drawings for our seaside display.   We learned about creating texture using sponge painting techniques and we used this to create the sand and water for our display.   We also made colourful fish for our display using a range of materials including pencils, sequins, glitter and mosaic tiles to represent the fish scales.   Cody drew a great picture of a Red Snapper fish, which we have added to our wonderful display!   We will upload a picture of our display next week.

Finally, a big congratulations to Cody!  PC Arnott presented Cody with a goody bag for designing a fantastic road safety t-shirt.  Callum was such a great friend to Cody when he heard the news!

We use lots of ICT in Class 1 to help us with our learning.  We have a new resource, it is called a Skoog!   The boys in Class 1 like to say ‘Skoog’.  It is a funny word!  We enjoyed experimenting with the Skoog to make some interesting music using a variety of instruments.   The boys in Class 1 really liked the tactile element of the Skoog.  We can change the sensitivity of the Skoog to encourage gentle hands or a firmer grip.    

“It is soft and smooth.” Cody

“It is hard to press now.  I think it is falling asleep.” Cameron

Cody enjoyed choosing different instruments to create sad songs and happy songs.   

Cameron liked to hear the sounds of the different instruments; his favourite instruments were the oriental strings and the rock guitar! 

Liam likes to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the piano.  Liam listened very carefully to the different keys on the Skoog and worked out all by himself, how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.   

Jayden played ‘Old Macdonald Had A Farm’, by following the colours on the SMARTboard and pressing the corresponding colours on the Skoog. 

Joe created some fast, energetic music and loved playing the horn and the drums! 

Miss Barrie enjoyed trying to play ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ by following the colours on the SMARTboard.  We are looking forward to using the Skoog again and showing our friends in class 2 and 3 how to use it!

We also enjoy using the Nintendo DS.  We can combine our drawings with recordings of our voices to create our own animations.  Liam loves to show his animations to his friends during Golden Time.  We can also link up our devices and chat to each other by typing messages. 

This week went on a bear hunt!  Liam found Mr Bear sitting on the bird house, in the garden.  Liam is going to take good care of Mr Bear over the weekend and on Monday we will read Liam’s email to find out what he has been doing with Mr Bear!

Mr Bear’s Holiday

We have enjoyed listening to the story ‘Mr Bear’s Holiday’.   In the story, Mr Bear and his family set off on a camping trip.  We discussed the things that we would need to pack for a camping holiday and helped to create our own Balbardie Camp Site!  We collected sticks, twigs, leaves and grass with Mr Marsden for our camp site.  Joe and Jayden have had lots of fun in the role play area.  Joe and Jayden love to pretend that the rain has suddenly come on and they have to get inside the tent as quickly as possible!  Jayden has been making Miss Barrie some lovely cups of tea in the camp site. 

The boys had great fun in the Sensory Room this week.  The Sensory Room was transformed into a camp site with lots of things to see, smell, taste, touch and hear.  We have been learning about our senses and using our knowledge to create some lovely senses poems. 

“My tongue went bursting with delicious flavour.” Cody

“The grass smells like a garden.” Jayden

“I saw a tent, like at the shows!” Joe

“It’s going to rain down, ssshhh.”  Lewis

“Marshmallow tastes like yummy ice cream!” Joe

“The wind went wooosh!” Cameron

Next week, we will add some WOW words to our poems and enter them into the Young Writer of the Year competition.

 Snack Time

Every day we use good table manners at snack time.  We always try to say please and thank you.  We enjoy helping to set the table and prepare the food.  This week we have enjoyed making tortilla wraps with cheese and cucumber inside.  Liam loves to help chop the fruit as he likes to learn if the fruit has any seeds inside and if they are big seeds or small seeds. 

Lewis has been working very hard on his spreading skills this week.  He is able to spread the butter on his wrap, all by himself.  Joe likes to wrap up the tortilla like a telescope!  We had fun saying ‘AHOY MATEY’ once we managed to roll our tortilla.

We have started our new maths topic and have enjoyed learning about time this week.

The boys in class 1 are already fantastic at checking their class and individual timetables.  We can all explain what is first, what is next and what is last on our timetables. 

Every morning we say what day it was yesterday, what day it is today and what day it will be tomorrow.  We enjoy taking turns to write the date on the class calendar.  We like to look at our weekly and monthly timetable.  We can explain and show when key events are taking place.  We have noticed that it is Jayden’s birthday soon; we can’t wait to have a party in class 1!  We also enjoy singing our days of the week song and can sequence the days of the week into the correct order.  

 The boys in class 1 use a range of devices to help keep track of time such as sand timers and time timers.  This week we have been looking at analogue clocks.

“The class clock is a circle shape.”  Cameron

“Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.”  Jayden

We can demonstrate the direction that the clock hands turn, and are beginning to recognise the minute, hour and second hand.  We made our own clocks by sticking the numbers in the correct order. 

We have used our clocks to play fun time games in class 1.  We can set our clocks to ‘on the hour’ times and say ‘o’clock’ when telling the time.

Our favourite time game is called ‘Stop the Clock’.  We have to be very fast to match the time to the correct clock face and then press stop the clock.  We like to shout out ‘STOP THE CLOCK!’ when we have finished the game.  We are very good at praising our friends when they have completed the game.  Lewis even chose to play this game for Golden Time! 

Cody has investigated how many seconds are in 1 minute.  Cody completed some 1 minute time challenges this week.

“I can make a cube tower with 33 cubes in 1 minute!”  Cody

“I can write my name 7 times in 1 minute!” Cody

The boys in class 1 have been working very hard at Maths time.  We have been learning all about money.  We can recognise all of the coins from 1p to £2!  Miss Barrie, Mr Marsden and Mrs Stewart are very proud.

We like to go shopping with Mr Marsden in the class 1 grocery shop.  We buy lots of different things like books, fruit and cereal.   We love our role play shop; we take turns of being the shop keeper and the customer.

Lewis likes to help his mum with the shopping.  Lewis asked his mum to buy cucumber when they were in Tesco recently, as Lewis enjoyed tasting cucumber at snack time. 

Joe, Lewis and Jayden enjoy counting their pennies to make sure that they have enough to pay for each item on their shopping list.

Cody, Cameron and Liam have been investigating how different coins can be used to make the same amount.  Here we are, hard at work!

Next week we will go to the local shop to put our money skills to good use.  I wonder what we will buy!

As part of our ‘People Who Help Us’ topic, we have been learning about the Fire Brigade.  We have been learning about the role of a Fire Fighter and how important their special uniform is.  

“A brick could fall on the fire fighter’s head, so that’s why they have to wear helmets!” Cody

We have our very own fire station in class 1, where we love to dress up like Fire Fighters!  We have been learning about the different equipment that Fire Fighters use.  We especially enjoyed learning about fire engines!  Here we are building our very own fire engine!

At Drama, we have been pretending to be Fire Fighters.  We went on a special mission to extinguish the fire in the Sensory Room! 

“We have to extiguish the fire!”  Liam

We have been writing all about what to do if you see a fire.  Mrs Stewart brought her special stamp to Class 1 as she was so impressed with our great writing! 

“If you see a fire call 999.” Cameron

Sorting Socks

 This week in maths we have been gathering, grouping and sorting a variety of objects.   We enjoyed arranging our dinosaurs into groups depending on their colour and size.  Some of the dinosaurs were tricky to sort as they didn’t fit into any of the given categories.  This was when we had to get creative! ‘This dinosaur goes here, because he’s the boss of all the other dinosaurs and he needs to look after them’ said Cody. 

When the dinosaurs couldn’t be sorted depending on their colour and size, we had to decide ourselves how to sort them.  ‘Here are all the dinosaurs that can fly’ explained Liam.  Jayden sorted his dinosaurs by height and placed them next to similar sized trees so that they could reach the branches. 

The boys in class 1 also helped Miss Barrie to sort her socks!  Miss Barrie had too many mismatching socks, so the boys gave her a helping hand!  Here we are arranging them into matching pairs.  We enjoyed looking at the different colours, sizes and patterns.  We are getting very good at describing similarities and differences.  This was a great fine motor activity too!  Miss Barrie thinks that the boys should help to hang up the washing at home!

 Reading with a twist!

 The boys in class 1 love to read!  We enjoy practising our common words and tricky words in lots of different ways.  This week we had to listen very carefully to Miss Barrie’s instructions, and then we had to find and balance on our words.  It was quite tricky but we had great fun! 

 Phonics Fun!

 This week we practised our letter formation in the playground.  We used lots of different colours of chalk to write our new sound on the ground.  This was so much fun.  ‘Nearly the whole entire playground is covered in m and ch’ said Cody.