Year 1

The chicks have been able to come out and play with the year one children. They will be in the class until Friday 15th February with the children learning how to look after them. The children were very gentle and careful whilst handling them.

Isn’t nature wonderful? The children have been so excited and some actually managed to see one of the chicks hatch out of an egg. We now have three chicks but…. how many will we have in the morning?

We have had a special delivery in Year 1 today. We are very excited to see what will happen to the eggs. We are keeping them warm in an incubator and we are taking turns to check the eggs to look for any changes.

In RE this week we have been thinking about how Christian’s view Jesus as a friend.  We retold the story of Zacchaeus to our groups then sequenced it on our own.

A brilliant start to the year in Maths! This week we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes.  We can name them, talk about them and make patterns with them.

We have done lots of different work linked to our zoo trip in lots of different subjects.  Have a look.

Some of our parents came into class to do phonics with us on Friday.  The children got to show them how they are learning to read and some of the different activities that they do in phonics.  The grown ups were very impressed with how well everyone worked and some of the tricky sounds they know.  Everyone enjoyed working together!

We saw penguins, peacocks , peacock feathers  and a bearded dragon called Puffy. “It was the best day ever” said Maddox.

In PE we have been doing gymnastics.  We are learning how to jump and land on 2 feet safely.  We chose how high we wanted to jump – it was scarier than we thought at first but after a little encouragement we all managed a jump from the height of our choice.  It was a fun lesson.

To finish our geography learning off we have identified the scruffiest area in our school environment – right outside our classroom! We have cleared away some rubbish already and over the coming months we will decide how we can make this space better.