Visit from Mrs Fleet, Florence and Harriet

This afternoon we were lucky enough to have a visit from Mrs Fleet and her daughters Florence and Harriet.  This is what we found out:
Florence is 2. (Sassy)
Harriet is 13 weeks. (Adam)
Florence's birthday is in July, she is nearly 3.  (Raahil)
Harriet's birthday is in March.  (Ruby)
Harriet doesn't have much hair! (Daisy)
Harriet is very small.  (Isabelle)


Thank you Mrs Fleet for visiting us, and we love you!


Please come again soon.


Love from 1PM xxxxxx

Handa's Suprise!

Today we have been doing some more work on Handa's Surprise.  

For early morning work we had to decorate and make a small hut like the one Handa lives in!  We looked at African huts and how they were decorated with beautiful patterns.  

  

1PM made an African hillside with their huts. 

1LJ made a sandy African village with wild animals!

Then we painted with mud and decorated our role play corner to make a mud hut.  

For literacy we wrote riddles about fruit from Handa's surprise.  "It has yelllow skin."  Can you guess what it is?

Look at Angus's mazing simile!

We published our riddles in our neatest handwriting!  We were very proud of them.  

Swap a box!

(as named by Kacper!)

Samuel wrote: "Yesterday we mixed classes to have a practice working with different children.  It was very fun.  In the morning with learnt about Handa's Surprise in mixed groups and in the afternoon we went to Year 2.  The Year 2 children went out for PE while we explored the Year 2 classrooms.  It was interesting working with different children."  Sassy said "it was difficult at the beginning because I didn't know some children's names then I learnt their names and it was very fun!"

PROUD teachers!!!

 All Year One children did some totally brilliant writing today.We watched a clip of the Beijing Olympics  (see below) and wrote a diary entry imagining we had been to watch the opening ceremony and some of the competition!   

Miss Jenkins and Miss Morton  had the best time after school- we read everybody's work and were totally stunned!  You are ALL such clever writers! We are so proud of all Year 1 children for their huge efforts!! Well done!  Here are a few highlights...

Freddie wrote "The fireworks were crashing across the moonlit sky!"

Samuel wrote "The archers accurately shot their arrows at the targets."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOFMK7vWw9c 

Ready, Set, Go!

 In our maths lesson today we were learning about ordinal numbers.  We took part in some silly races and decided who came 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th.  We each got a special medal to write our ordinal numbers onto!  

Why not challenge your family to some silly races and make some medals of your own?  

Try skipping, beanbag, hopping, egg and spoon, crawling, rolling, twirling...?

Here is 1LJ with their medals

Wicked writing and ridiculously good reading

(as named by Hannah in Y5)


Today we learnt about London because the Olympics are being held there.  We were lucky enough to have some Year 5 pupils to help us.  We wrote information books about the key attractions in London using connectives.  

Tommy said "the Year 5's were helping us really well" Adam especially wanted to say "thank you" to his sister Aleen for helping him!  

Here is a page from Lily-Rose's beautiful book, Lily-Rose told us lots about her visit to London including how she got stuck on an underground train!

We also enjoyed sharing books with the Year 5 pupils.  Hannah said that it was lots of fun!

Blue (Y5) said that "the year 1 children were amazing!" and Paige commented that "they were great fun to work with!"

Outdoor learning in Year 1!

 We LOVE our outdoor area!  Look at the learning we did this afternoon!  All independently.  TOTALLY AWESOME!

Building with bricks

Having a tea party

Writing lists with chalk

Building a chair

Writing on a clipboard

Sharing ideas

Hiding in the den

Riding a scooter

Looking at a globe

Cycling

Playing peepo!

Transporting

Squirting a syringe

Building guttering

Searching in the sand

Choosing our own resources

Writing in pairs

Building!

Teaching each other!

Seeing how high we can squirt water

Playing with cars

Washing up with siblings!

Building slopes and investigating

Making small worlds

Writing on the wall with water

Riding a hobby horse

Playing on a see saw

Playing football

Hugging trees!

Counting dots on a dice

Counting on a beadstring

Making a road for cars

Bouncing!!

Scooting as a team!

Sharing and measuring

Helping each other

Laughing!!