Museum Madness!

We had a lovely time at the museum yesterday learning all about dinosaurs! We got to touch 'dinosaur skin', looked at fossils and even saw a dinosaur jaw! Here are some photos of us exploring during te workshop...

Fathers Day lunch

Better late than never! Here are our fabulous Dads harvesting, cooking and eating with us! Garlic bread! Yum! (We can still smell it in the corridors!)

Dino Fun!

We are all really enjoying our Dinosaur topic so far. This afternoon we had so much fun getting arty and crafty! We muddled up the classes to give us a chance to make new friends and to have a go at working with other children and got stuck in with our dinosaur art!

Some of us made huge 3d dinosaurs using junk modeling; some of them can even chew and bite!  Some of us made dinosaurs eggs out of papier-mâché and some of us made dinosaur bones using salt dough. Tomorrow we are going to rotate around and have a go at a different dinosaur art project.

Thank you to all of our wonderful helpers!

Dangerous Dinosaurs!

Wow! You all worked so hard over the half-term holiday on your dinosaur project. We’re sorry we didn’t have a chance to share it earlier last week but it was definitely worth the wait!

We all enjoyed the dinosaur gallery we created in the classroom where we had the chance to look at everyone else’s homework and learn something new from our friends. We then shared our homework telling each other what we found out, how we carried out our research and how we created our marvelous models, posters and presentations!

Lots of children used the internet and books to find out about their chosen dinosaur, some children even visited the exhibition at Bristol Zoo, others went to M-Shed and a few children even visit Bristol Museum!

Take a look at our fantastic facts and marvelous models! 

Investigation Week

At the end of each term it is investigation week across the whole school so we have enjoyed a jam packed week full of problem solving, puzzles and investigations in Year 1. It all kicked off with a visit and fantastic workshop from the Happy Puzzle Company. We had to work as a team to solve different puzzles, find out what was making the problem tricky to solve and work out a way to resolve it.

Then throughout the week we worked as a whole class, in small groups, in a pairs and on our own to solve different maths puzzles and problems. Here are some of the investigations and problems we have completed. Maybe you could try any you didn’t do this week at home.

Four-pin bowling: We labelled four bowling pins with the numbers 1 to 4. We then had to work out which pins we had to knock over with our beanbag to make different totals.

Gob-stopper: We pretended we bought a sweet or toy that cost 6p and paid for it exactly. We tried to find all the possible ways we could make 6p using different coins.

 

Pick a pair: We had the numbers 1,4,2, and 8. We picked a pair of numbers, added them together, found the total and wrote the number sentence. We then picked a different pair of numbers. We tried to be systematic to make sure we found all of the possibilities.

Sum up: We had the numbers 2,4,8 and 3. We had to make the totals 9,10,11,12 and 13 using only these numbers.

Ride at the fair: Lucy had a ride at the fair. Her mum asked her to pay less than 20p towards it. Lucy paid exactly 3 coins towards the ride. We had to find all of the different possible ways Lucy could have paid her mum.