29 January 2016
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 03 February.
Learn your lines for our class assembly.
Remember to practise speaking slowly, clearly and loudly.
29 January 2016
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 03 February.
What does it mean to be alive?
This statement could be explored in a scientific or spiritual way… or both.
29 January 2016
Here are the spellings for this week:
29 January 2016
The week’s spellings are all singular and plural possessives. We’ve been looking at the role of apostrophes in the contracted form (can’t…don’t…won’t) and have started to look at how they are used to mark possession (the cat’s pyjamas are the pyjamas that belong to the cat).
For this spelling list we’re focussing on using ‘s for singular nouns (one cat’s pyjamas) and s’ for plural nouns (two cats’ pyjamas).
one girl’s (…house – the house lived in by one girl)
two girls’ (…house – the house lived in by the two girls)
one boy’s
two boys’
one owl’s
two owls’
one ferret’s
two ferrets’
one lady’s
two ladies’
29 January 2016
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework focuses on fractions work and is due on Wednesday 03 February.
To be able to work with fractions.
There is a booklet inside homework books this week that requires the children to practise the many skills required to confidently work with fractions. All of these skills have been used in our Maths lessons this week and will be used again next week. There is an explanation or example for each skill to help the children to work independently.
29 January 2016
This week’s Creative homework is due on Wednesday 03 February.
To be able to show what I know about life in the ocean.
Our Life topic will focus on life in the oceans next week as this is where all life began. Think about what you know already about the world’s ocean and the life it holds today, or has held in the past, and present this creatively.
Here are a few ideas to get you started:
- Information poster
- Draw and label diagrams
- Present the different types of animals you find in the ocean
- Create a quiz
- Create a ‘lift the flaps’ info page
Silk painting
We’ve all tried something new this week. Our art project, linked to our Life topic, has been to create a new hybrid animal and then paint it onto silk. None of us had ever tried silk painting before and we all enjoyed doing something new.
Once we’d designed our new animal, we drew it on silk before going over our design in ‘gutta’. This is an outline which hold the paint inside the lines of your drawing. We practised on paper before using the gutta on silk.
Once our outline was complete, we painted the silk and loved watching how the colours would merge and bleed into each other to create a lovely effect.
What do you think of our final paintings?
Animal Antics
We really enjoyed getting up close and personal with some real life animals as part of our Life topic this week. We wore a snake as a scarf and learnt all about how the patterns of its scales help it to hide from its prey.
We also used our maths skills to estimate how long it was and then measured it against our own height to compare.
Next, we met some rainforest chickens and learnt all about how the mother has to sit on her eggs to keep them warm so that they’ll hatch.
Finally, it was time for the creepy crawly – a tarantula. Only the bravest dared hold this little creature.
What a fantastic experience for us all. Thanks to Miss Valentine for organising it!
School dinners
Our school dinner menu was discussed by our School Council this week. They also talked about ways to encourage others to try some of the new meals that are on the Spring term menu.
Did you know the menu is available to view on our website and also displayed on our dining room window. This is a good way to make your child aware of what the daily meals are.
The menu follows a three week cycle and it changed on a termly basis.
Here are the options for today.
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year begins on 08 February 2016 and this year it is the Year of the Monkey.
Year 1 found lots of similarities to celebrations that we may experience including spending time with family and friends, enjoying special food, wearing new clothes and sending cards and presents.
- ‘I wear new clothes for Diwali.’
- ‘We give presents for birthdays.’
- ‘We decorate our home when it is Christmas.’
- ‘We have special food when it is Eid.’
The Chinese zodiac follows a twelve year cycle, each of the years being named after an animal. The Chinese believe that people born in a particular year take on the characteristics of the animal associated with that year.
We watched the story of how the order of the animals was decided and the children were encouraged to find out what animal they are.
For Chinese New Year, there are lots of events happening in Leeds if you want to get involved.
Gong Hey Fat Choy!
