Homework Highlights
After a great curriculum week, here are some examples of the homework from Year 1.
Fruit surprise
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch has been a popular book as part of our learning in English. Today we created a fruit surprise for Mr Grinling. We also learnt some facts about fruit and keeping healthy. Did you know your 5 a day can be from fresh, dried, tinned or frozen fruit? Peeling, chopping, scooping (using a melon baller) and using a lemon squeezer were some of the food technology skills we learnt, too.
We also thought about important table manners when we tasted the fruit surprise and as it was so delicious there wasn’t much left for Mr Grinling!
‘I loved it because the raspberries were so delicious.’
‘We learnt how to use a lemon squeezer and we made a nice salad.’
‘I think Mr Grinling would love it!’
‘We learnt to chop a banana and we put it in a bowl.’
Variety is the spice of life!
If you ask your child what they’ve done today, you may be surprised! From learning Mandarin to finding out about geysers, it was all going on. All the children were mixed up for the morning and took part in four different lessons – there are eight different lessons altogether so there will be some more mixing up going on tomorrow. These lessons have been part of our Enrichment Week where children have thought about a variety of subjects in lots of different ways. Here are some photos to give you a taste of what has been happening: learning Urdu or Mandarin, art work, music, PE, geography, programming and DT.
A sentence looks like this.
This was one of the key messages from the theatre production today based around the Gruffalo story. We, as the audience, helped to create a story by choosing the correct punctuation and looking at when to use it. Some great adjectives, for characters and settings, were suggested to improve the writing. We also learnt an important message about cheating – the best story rightly won in the end.
Hopefully this will inspire lots of budding story writers.
Fascinating fingerprints
As part of our themed week, Year 1 found our whether they had loops, arches and/or whorls on their fingerprints.
Super scientists
Year 1 have been biologists, physicians and chemists as part of our themed week. We can predict, question, plan, discuss our results and conclusions.
What will happen when the lemon juice invisible ink pictures are dried and placed in the oven?
Will the water and marbles stay in the bucket?
You could try these at home!
Maths all around us
Maths can be found all around us and Year 1 completed a maths trail as part of our themed week.
- Can you find an array?
- What shape is the bench?
- What is the height of the bin?
Puzzling puzzles
Reception class and Year 1 began our current themed week with some problem solving mathematical puzzles with The Happy Puzzle Company.
With lots of teamwork, thinking skills and resilience, we enjoyed the challenge of all the puzzles.
Building the dream
Iggy Peck, Architect inspired Year 1 to become architects themselves today. World Book Day was celebrated with drawings, thoughts, painting and actual building. Iggy Peck built towers out of nappies (dirty ones!) – you will be glad to hear we didn’t do that but we did construct our own structures:
We did some sketches and line drawings:
…and we did some printing:
What a creative day!
School council elections
Our current school councillors held their final meeting recently as we prepare to elect our new school council.
Children from every class, including Reception, are encouraged to prepare a speech to present to their class as part of the election process. Our whole school homework before the election date will give children the chance to plan their speech.
Thank you to our existing school council who have been involved with many decisions and discussions throughout the year. Most recently they have selected books for our library and pupil prizes as rewards in class.
