Year 1/2 have enjoyed gymnastic session with Mr Gilmore this term. We have learnt about rolling and balancing. Even though we find it tricky we persevered and have really noticed how much better we are becoming.
We loved exploring moving pictures and were completely transfixed to our own creations to make a picture move.
To end our literacy book study on ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ we held our own afternoon tea party. This week we have learnt about instruction writing; including time words and bossy words. We wrote some wonderful instructions really trying hard to apply our developing phonetic skills and segmenting words using Fred Fingers.
We followed our instructions to make our own jam sandwiches. We all thought they were delicious and enjoyed a toast to the end of our first term back to school. You will all be relieved to know that the Tiger did not join us for tea!
In Year 1 this week we have been learning about animals and their different bodies. Our topic is ‘Why are humans not like tigers?’ which deals with Animals including Humans. We had great fun making new animals using the different body parts. We made sure we put them in the right places and we created some weird and wonderful new animals.
Take a look at some of our creations!
This term in Year 1 and 1/2 we are going to be reading ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr.
We love this story and cannot wait to start doing some fantastic activities.
We are going to be looking at speech and thought by talking about how each character feels and what they say in the story. We will be using speech and thought bubbles to explore this in our writing. We will also be looking at conjunctions to extend our sentences, which will help us towards the end of the term in our story retell. We will be creating our own story maps, exploring different characters and even making our own invitations to tea for very own tea party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXgW9UCgpc8
Year 1 have enjoyed learning more about high and low notes in music. We then used the instruments to play high and low notes.
Stuart from Testos roundabout development popped in to Year One to talk about his job and the clothes he wears to keep him safe on site. We had great fun trying on the workwear and talking about it’s importance.
Year One have been working hard to learn the steps for a dance routine this term. They worked in small groups and worked so hard as a dance troupe to master the dance Waka Waka.
Year One had a great time when they visited The Word. We had a great time using the green screen technology and using the touch screen technology to explore publisher packages.
As part of our work based on our focus text, we thought about how Begu may need a new friend. We all thought of a new friend and what Begu might be saying.
