Class 1

This week we enjoyed celebrating world book day, we all arrived in school wearing a costume which represented a job we would like to do when we grow up.

To continue sharing our love for reading we also drew a picture of the front cover of our favourite stories and the. wrote about an event which happened in them.

We also did a fantastic job during our class assembly as we shared the importance of reading  and what where we can continue reading.

This week we have been having lots of discussions about what we will be doing when we grow up. We know that when we grow up we are able to start looking at having a job, we know that this is very important as it can help us to look after ourselves when we grow up.

We need a job for money – Eleanor

We can buy a house – Miya

We need to buy food – Piper

We know that different jobs require different skills in order to complete them well.

Your have to be good at counting to be an accountant – Maxwell

You need to have good listening as a doctor – Aria

We also know that it would be good to enjoy the job we do, we discussed things we are passionate about and how we could then use this to gain a job when we’re older.

I like drawing and can be an art teacher – Ivy

I am good at building things. I can build houses. – Gray

We decided on what jobs we would like to do when we grow up and drew how we thought we’d look doing them.

This week we have been working hard to read longer words by chunking them up, we know we can start reading these words by identifying any digraphs first. After that we then decide if a word needs to be chunked up to support our reading. We have all done an amazing job chunking up our longer words.

l-a-p lap t-o-p top laptop – Henry

l-e-m lem o-n on lemon – Aluna-rae

We have also been working hard to identify trick words, we know our tricky words and can read these without sounding them out, we also shared what makes these words tricky.

They is tricky because the e and y are making an ay sound – Aria

This week in Class 1 we enjoyed using some music instruments. We were all given a glockenspiel to explore and use to create a short tune. We firstly had a small try of each note to identify higher and lower pitches.

We then focussed on the note names on each chime, we looked very closely at the C note as there were 2 different ones. We heard that one was higher pitched than the other, we practised making a small tune using only the 2 C notes.

We were then introduced to another note which was D, we then were able to create a small tune using the C and D notes we have just learned. We can’t wait to learn about more of the notes and create more mini musical compromises!

This week we have enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year as we know this was celebrated on Wednesday. We learned about how people prepare for Chinese New Year and then celebrate it on the day and the days following on.

People clean their houses before it – Aria

They wear new clothes for Chinese New Year – Kezia

They wear red and gold because it’s lucky – Henry

We were very lucky to get to try some Chinese food during Chinese New Year, we all loved the noodles and prawn crackers!

This week we have been learning all about the number 11, we have been able to;

➕Identify 11 on a number line from 1 to 20

➕Make 11 using bean bags

➕ Write a number sentence about how we made 11

➕ Find one more and less than 11

➕ Identify is 11 is odd or even

We all worked very hard to learn about the number 11;

8 + 3 =11- Iiona

10 and one more is 11 – Henry

11 is odd it has an extra one – Aria

9 + 2 =11- Maxwell

This week we arrived in our class to find a huge box had been delivered to our classroom. After inspecting the box we found that there was a set of very special instructions which we needed to follow.

The rules stated that we could not;

Feed it

Cover its air holes

Touch the box

Make lots of noise

After reading these rules we knew that what was inside must be alive and if we put our fingers in its holes it might have a nibble! We decided to become detectives and created a warning poster about what might be in the box.

I think it’s a dangerous alligator – Henry

I think it’s a scary snake – Kezia

We were shocked to find that the creature broke out of the box during the day and found that it was in fact a dinosaur! We can’t wait to learn more about dinosaurs and share some amazing facts!