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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lila and the Secret of Rain

We have been reading a lovely book in Year 1 this week called "Lila and the Secret of Rain." We enjoyed sharing our first thoughts about the story and telling each other what we liked and didn't like. 

"I liked finding out about life in a different country," Ernest. 

"I liked discovering the secret of rain!" Tenzin. 

"I didn't like the part where Lila overhead her mother saying without water there would be no life," Kyla. 

We then wrote some fantastic poems using similes to say thank you for the rain. Here are some of the ideas we came up with as a class:

Thank you for the rain,
It looks like shiny wet pebbles, 
It sounds like children playing catch, 
It feels like one of my mummy's kisses,
It smells like a summer's evening,
It tastes like a sweet pear. 

We then made our own rainsticks. We looked carefully at African fabrics and copied the patterns using paint. We then covered one end of our tube and poured in some rice before covering the other end. We carefully wrapped our painting around the tube and had fun playing with our rainsticks! 

African masks!

Wow! Year 1 created some fantastic African masks for homework last week. We really enjoyed sharing our masks and telling everyone how we made them. The teachers were so impressed with the effort you had all gone to so well done children and grown ups! Lots of children chose to look at different African masks on the internet and carefully copied the colours and patterns they saw, some children created  African animal masks like the ones we looked at in school and lots of children got really creative and used lots of the lovely art supplies they have at home. We have created an amazing display outside the Year 1 classrooms showing our the fantastic masks.