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We have had another very busy week, and didn’t manage to fit in our usual sit down to talk about what we have done!

Well done 1L, we have all our marbles in our jar for being such a good class.   We have been thinking about a class reward.  The children had to write down what sort of party they wanted and a list of things that they wanted at the party.  It looks like a disco, with ice-cream, maybe the most popular choice. 

We all dressed up for Children in Need as the person we want to be when we grow up.  We drew a picture, wrote a sentence; then we either coloured it or painted it.  Can you work out what everyone wanted to be?.

Here is a picture of some of the children thinking about how to describe smells, using adjectives.

Here are the main things we have been doing this week.

Alfie remembered, after a bit of “teeth pulling” that we had been thinking about describing words for smells.  Megan and Blosssom remembered that we investigated spinning toys; we were finding out what worked best.  Ocean-Rose remembered that we had to try spinning them on different surfaces, like the carpet and the wet area floor.  Alexia remember that we had made wobbly toys.  Macey remembered that we had to make then bounce back up.  Ellie and Megan remembered that we drew and wrote instructions for how to make our wobbly toys.  Jake enjoyed meeting Boris for the first time.  Darcy said that Boris likes playing games.  Millie (H) remembered that Boris is helping us with our phonics.  Ellie remembered that we had to stop and remember the soldiers on Wednesday.  Faith remembered that we won the Head Teacher’s Award.  Macey reminded us that we have not had to send anyone to another class for a long time and that no one has had to miss playtime all week. Karni remembered that we have started learning our Christmas songs.  Alexia told us that we have nearly all our marbles in the jar.  Millie (H) remembered that we thought about describing words  when we were feeling different materials,  some of us got messy!  Ellie remembered that we had sorted toys using a Venn diagram.  Megan remembered that we have been learning about measuring.  Macey remembered that we had been learning about position in PE.  Lily remembered that we have been learning about balancing.  Mrs Sowter remembered that we had researched about a wildlife safari park in ICT.

Here are some of the children’s finished spinning top designs.

Another busy week in 1L.  I don’t know how we fit it all in!  Especially since we only had four days this week.

Here are the children’s thoughts on the week.

Dylan enjoyed making the poppies using tools in the art program.  Darcy liked using the pastels to draw a firework picture.  Saffron likes doing all the work.  Aidan likes doing everything.  Lennon remembered that we have drawn and painted remembrance pictures.  Harry liked doing them too.  Alfie has enjoyed “pencil work”, like writing.  Jake enjoyed doing his firework picture.  Ellie remembered that we watched a video about Guy Fawkes.  Ryan liked learning about the soldiers that died and poppy day.  Megan has enjoyed doing the toys homework.  Blossom enjoyed writing and drawing about our favorite foods, and Alfie remembered that we had been learning about adjectives.  Millie (H) remembered that we have been learning about longer and shorter.  Mrs Sowter and Macey remembered that we have been learning a Teddy Bear Dance.  Amye remembered that we have learn to count large numbers by breaking them up.  Ocean-Rose remembered that we had to count 36 gun power barrels.  We also had to measure a fuse 10cm long.

Here is a picture of our finished menu display.

Here is one of our firework pictures drawn with pastels.

Here is Aidan making a suprise present for Saffron.  It is a bird with flapping wings.  What a lovely thought.

Here is a picture of Harry and Gary-Dean trying to solve the hardest puzzle in the world!  Gary-Dean has already solved one puzzle, and Mr Lewis has given him a prize.  Mr Lewis has offered a super prize for anyone who can solve this puzzle.

Jake and Aidan  have  enjoyed making our Pink Day flowers.  Megan liked painting her pumpkin mask.  Lewis  and Blossom enjoyed carving the pumpkins.  Millie (H) enjoyed painting our pink pictures using different shades of pink paint.  Declan liked having his picture taken with his toy.  Ellie enjoyed making the scary mummy faces using folded paper.  Matthew enjoyed making mummy faces too.  Karni enjoyed sketching and painting his toy picture.  Alfie enjoyed making pictures of skeletons from art straws.  Gary-Dean enjoyed bringing his toy to school on Monday.   Amye enjoyed the birthday assembly today.  We made pumpkin soup.  Alexia thought it was nice.  Alfie liked dipping the bread in the soup.  Lewis liked the taste of it.  Harry thought it was too sour.  Mia thought it was too thick.  Darcy didn’t like the milky taste.  Ocean-Rose remembered that we have started our new topic about toys.  We did a knowledge harvest to find out what we knew about modern toys and old toys.  We drew the toys in a toy shop.  Millie remembered that we finished our menus.  Darcy remembered that we sorted the children’s names in to sets, and then made graphs using the data.

Thankyou for all the donations for Pink Day, the children raised £20.88.

This week we have been finishing off our topic about Ourselves.  Here is a picture of our finished display outside our classroom.

Next week we are starting our new topic about Toys.  We all need to bring a “character toy” to school on Monday.  Our toy will be doing everything we do!  Even going to assembly and the hall for dinner.  The toy must be our best friend.

Here are the things the children remember about this week.

Saffron liked learning how to use bats in PE and finding out about ourselves.  Ocean-Rose likes playing in the kitchen.  Megan likes playing in the quiet room.  Lewis has enjoyed having the pirate ship to play with.  Brandon enjoyed learning about shapes, and drawing a picture using 2D shapes.  Millie (H) enjoyed learning about 3D shapes.  Harry liked being able to move his fish up on our target board.  Amye liked entering the cycling safety competition.  Alfie enjoys Jolly Phonics.  Darcy enjoyed everything.  Mia likes dressing up.  Megan remembered using coloured straws to make 2D shapes.  Ellie likes playing with the puppets.  Lily remembered that we have finished our big job making our autobiographies.  Mrs Sowter remembered that we have finished making our plates of healthy food.   Well what another busy week we have all had!

Wow!   We get to the end of the week and write our blog as a class; then we realise how much we have done.  Here are the things we remembered about this week.

Ocean-Rose remembered that we made a story board to help us think about ideas for a story.  Lennon remembered that we used our story board to make a book.  Rachel remembered that we have been learning more tricky words.  Gary-Dean enjoyed playing sleeping lions with Mrs Sowter.  Dylan enjoyed drawing a pudding using the computers.  Ellie reminded us that we have had our pictures taken in the hall.  Megan and most of the children have enjoyed playing (some like to work all the time!)  Karni liked getting his picture taken and we all made letters with our bodies for our display.  Toddy enjoyed using pastels to draw his dinner.  Karni has come to our school from Australia, and has enjoyed his first week.  This week we won the Head Teacher’s Award.  Dylan remembered learning our harvest festival songs. We all sang our class song perfectly and got another marble in the jar.  Alexia remembered that we have been learning about number names.  Brandon has been to his first School Council meeting.

Here are  a couple of pictures of our School Councillor, telling the rest of the class about his job and answering questions about the meeting.

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Over the last few weeks we have been learning about story writing.  We have read a lot of different books.  We have discussed the characters, settings and events.  We have been working on our own story in a garden setting.  Each group have had to think of a story and think of which character to play.  They worked together to act out their story.  Here you can see one group acting out the begining, middle and end of the story.

The rabbit has got lost.  Everyone looks for the rabbit in the garden.   They find the lost rabbit.  Next week we will be writing our sentences to go with our pictures.

 Things the children enjoyed this week.

We have had a problem Houston!  We sat down on Friday afternoon and we all brainstormed what we had done over the week.  Unfortunately, I did not update the post, and it timed out and we lost all the text!  Never mind, here are the things we remembered and enjoyed.  We have been learning about money this week.  We learned about which football skills we are good at in PE.  We have been designing healthy plates of food for a restaurant in the classroom with pastels, and in the IT suite using an art program.  We also learnt how to log in to the computers using our new username and passwords.  We have been working hard on our literacy stories and learning new sounds in phonics (th, sh, and ch).  We have also been using the photocopier to copy our pictures of ourselves for work next week, and took each others portraits using a digital camera.  Oh, and we also had time to play!

This week we have been very busy learning.  These are the things that the children remember doing this week.

Alexia liked the homework because it makes her clever.  Alfie and lots of the children liked their homework.  Declan liked doing the Jolly Phonics and learning our sounds.  Megan enjoyed bringing and talking about portraits.  Ellie enjoyed doing everything.  Darcy has enjoyed learning about adding and taking away using the cubes.  Toddy enjoyed making the numbers using Play-Doh.  Blossom liked investigating throwing with our hands.  Faith remembered that we were finding out about our heart.  Saffron and Elizabeth enjoyed making the puppets and re-telling a story.  Macey remembers drawing our portraits and painting them with water colours.  Faith remembered that we had been drawing a garden for our own story.

Here is a picture of our Homework Display.

Here are a couple of pictures of us making Play-Doh numbers.

Welcome to our restaurant.  It is called the Knife and Fork Restaurant.  Mrs Holmes wanted the children to know how to use their knives and forks properly, so we thought it would be a good idea to open a restaurant.

What the children have enjoyed this week.

Dylan likes it.  Harry likes the restaurant sign that we made.  Lily likes eating the pretend food made by our chefs in the kitchen.  Alfie has enjoyed playing in the football court on Friday.  Megan has enjoyed learning our sounds and practising our writing.  Brandon has enjoyed making the food out of play-Doh.  Jake has enjoyed doing the washing up.  Toddy liked learning how to write sentences on the computer.  We all enjoyed reading our books during literacy.

Welcome to the New 1L.

It has been a great start to the new school year.  The children have been working hard and have already got 12 marbles in the jar for being such a good class.

I’m looking forward to feeding those brains with knowledge and seeing them grow.