AUTUMN 1
Week 7 :
This week was all about our Harvest Assembly. We have worked really hard to learn all our songs, actions and lines. Mrs Maurel is extremely proud of all her 'farmers'. Each person tried to do their very busy even though some of us were a little nervous.
After our assembly, we went back to class to talk about the bread making process. We spoke about how important it is to follow a recipe carefully and in the correct order. We worked in groups to sequence the bread making process. Then we went into the kitchen and made our very OWN bread. We got Laxey flour all over the place and ourselves! We had such fun making our bread but our favourite part was when we got to taste some of it before taking the rest home to share with our families.
At the end of our very busy day, got to design and create our own scarecrows!
Week 6 :
What a busy week we have had! We had our first Science investigation. We are learning about our sense of touch. We learnt that we mostly use our hands to touch things but we also use our feet and skin. For our investigation we had to put our hands into a bag and had to feel an object. Then we had to explain to our group how the object felt using describing words like smooth, rough, bumpy and soft. Once we all had a chance, we had to guess what the objects were and then sort them into the correct groups.
On Thursday we got to dress up as rock stars! We got to rock out with Rock Kidz. We learnt about kindness and had such fun dancing.
Week 5:
In Literacy this week, we had a vocabulary scavenger hunt around the classroom. We got some picture clues, related to our class story, and we had to look around the classroom to see how to spell the words correctly. We will be using these new words to create our own stories.
We had a very special visit from PC Kennaugh, who shared invaluable tips on staying safe while we are out and about. We were lucky enough to try on some of the police uniform.
Week 4:
This week we enjoyed our Literacy lessons based on our class story 'The Little Red Hen'. We enjoyed the story so much we are able to retell the story by using our story maps we created. We used these map to help us sequence the story correctly.
In our History lesson, we were looking and discussing how farming has changed over the years. We watched a video where we could see how farmers milked the cows long ago and how the farmers of today use machines to help milk the cows. We worked in small groups to sort pictures of farming into 2 categories - then and now.
Week 3:
In our Science this half term we are learning about our bodies and our senses. We enjoyed singing one of our favourite songs - Head, shoulders, knees and toes.
For Art this week - we learnt how to use templates to create a cow's face. We also got to use oil pastels for the first time.
Week 2:
This week we have been working on our letter formation. We have tried our best to remember our finger spaces too!
In our Art lesson, we got to create a farm picture using different types of materials. We used blue card for the sky, for the grass we used torn tissue paper, the sheep's head is made out of sugar paper and the body is made from bubble wrap which we painted white. Then we used our fingers to create the little red meadow flowers and a scrunched ball of kitchen foil to create the clouds.
Week 1:
This was our first full week of Year 1! What a busy and exciting week we had. We are busy learning our classroom routines and starting to learn new things.
We have been learning how to form our numbers correctly. We also used our numbers to create different types of pictures.
In our Maths lesson we are learning how to sort objects into different groups. We are able to group objects according to their colour, size, shape or type.
These vegetables were sorted into size groups - garlic and red pepper are short and the corn, carrot, cucumber and aubergine are long.
We sorted these sea creatures into groups according to their type.
The fruit has been sorted by colour and type.
We were deciding how to sort these insects into groups. In the end, we choose to make 2 groups - flying insects with wings and another group for the crawling insects.