Class 1 Blog

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  08

  Mar

  Literacy/History - Diaries

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  This term we will be creating our own diaires as if we were in the GFoL. Today, we learnt about what diaries are and what they are used for. We discussed the information that we learn from Samuel Pepys' diary about the Great Fire and about life in London in 1666.
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  08

  Mar

  PE - Throwing and Catching

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  Today, class 1 practiced catching and throwing accurately in pairs. We used under arm throws with either one or no bounce before catching.
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  07

  Mar

  Music - London's Burning!

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  Today, Class 1 began learning the words to London's Burning. We talked about the repeating lyrics and created our own symbols to help us remember the words. We used our voices to show the fire growing by beginning quietly and getting louder each time the song repeated. We then began to get quieter each time to represent the fire going out again.
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  07

  Mar

  History - Timeline

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  We have built a timeline of the history we have alreaady explored including castles and pirates. Today, we plotted where the Great Fire of London came in relation to our other themes and topics. We found that based on the date it came after castle first being built in the UK but before Mary Annings found her first fossil.
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  04

  Mar

  Art - Eric Carle

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  Now that the paper had dried, Year 1 used it to make their Eric Carle inspired butterflies. They used a butterfly template to get the initial shape and then used their imagination for the rest. They created some beautiful and unique buttterflies!
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  03

  Mar

  World Book Day!

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  The children came in dressed as their favourite book character for World Book Day today! They look fabulous!!
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  03

  Mar

  World Book Day!

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  The children had a go at drawing like the World Book Day artist Rob Biddulph. We followed along with his video giving step by step instructions. Year 1 then coloured their illustration and had a go at writing their own story as to why their character might be parachuting.
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  02

  Mar

  Art - Eric Carle collage

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  For book week we will be creating our very own Eric Carle inspired collage. Our first step was to create lots of decorative paper to cut out into the shapes we want. The children used lots of different techniques including printing, colour mixing and wax resisting to make their colourful papers.
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  02

  Mar

  Literacy - descriptive words and phrases

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  Today, Class 1 had a variety of images of different woods. The children worked in their groups to come up with different descriptions of the woods. We looked closely to think about how we can be descriptive by not saying the tress have leaves but bright leaves for example. The children used these to build on what they want their woods to be in their rewriting.
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  01

  Mar

  Literacy - collecting inspiration

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  For our rewrite of the Little Red Riding Hood woods description we decided to go and collect inspiration in our own woods. We noted the things we could see, feel and hear. Some added description to these things e.g. a muddy path or a cold wind.