A New Start For Year One (written by the children of Year 1)

It has been a fun couple of weeks starting in Year One. We have met our new class teacher, Miss Welton, again after the long summer holiday. We have learnt new class rules. We have had to decorate the classroom. Here we are doing some painting for our number work display.



We like our new outdoors play area. Here we are playing in the sand...

... and the water.

We are learning new things in our new classroom and Miss Welton makes us work very hard.

We are learning about Jewish people and their religion. Here we are with the Kippah and Torah and other things that Jewish people use.

We had fun acting out Olivers Vegetables, a book that we are reading in Literacy. The book has four characters, Oliver, Grandpa, Grandma and Mum. The setting is in Grandpas garden. Here we are acting out the story.

We have all been working very hard now that we are in Year One. We are looking forward to a relaxing weekend of playing.

Thank you and goodbye

This week we performed our version of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for the school and our Mums and Dads.

Everyone put in lots of hard work and the play was a great success.

Thank you to Mrs Clifton and Mrs Scragg for helping make the fairies wings.

Year 1 made an amazing 'baby cake' for Mrs Thwaites and we shared it in the classroom on Monday. It was delicious!

Mrs Thwaites would like to thank all the parents and children for the lovely gifts you gave me and the baby! You have all been so generous and supportive this year.

I would also like to thank year 1 who have worked really hard all year. You have been a very special class and I am a very lucky teacher to have had you for two years. I will miss you lots!

Bye bye!

Fairies

We have been enjoying our fairies topic, making natural collages of fairyland.

We love working together in year 1!

Last week we made miniture fairy food and enjoyed a picnic in the sunshine.

We are all looking forward to Sports Day on Tuesday.

Once upon a time

This week we have been reading and retelling a range of traditional stories.

We all enjoyed tyring out different voices for the characters, especially the 'Big Bad Wolf'!

On Tuesday we used props and costumes to tell the stories of 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'the Three Little Pigs' and 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'.

It was really funny and had lots of pzazz! (Oscar)

We are going to have a go at writing our own stories next week. perhaps with a few changes!

This week in Music we have been learning about the orchestra and how different instruments are used to represent different animals.

We enjoyed listening to 'Peter and the Wolf'.

We made up our own animal music stories.
In Literacy we finished our recounts. Mrs Thwaites was very pleased with our writing. Now we are helping to write a story about a boy called Jake and his dog bones.

We are still enjoying our animals topic.

On Thursday we made butter - yum!

It took a lot of shaking!

This term we have enjoyed cooking with Mrs Gregory and Mrs Hedges. Our recipes have focussed on animal products which links in with our topic 'Down on the farm'.

Last week we made stuffed eggs.
This week we made chocolate ice cream - yummy!

In science this week we have been learning about how animals eat, grow and move. In literacy we have been learning about the work of the RSPCA.

We are enjoying our 'Down on the farm topic'.

This week we have been learning about the needs of animals and

what animals have in common with us. We discovered that many of them are much cleverer than you might think.

On Friday we had a wonderful trip to Windmill Hill City Farm. We enjoyed exploring the gardens and meeting all sorts of animals.

Ian the farmer let us stroke the chickens and goat.
At the end of the day we made model animals in the craft room.
We were very tired after walking a mile there and another mile back!

Thank you to all the helpers for coming with us. It was a great day.