Class 1

This week we took part in our very own sports day! We loved being able to take part in lots of different types of races, such as;

⚽️ Egg and spoon

⚽️ Sack race

⚽️ Running race

We enjoyed cheering our friends on because we all wanted to do our best. We also showed our resilience as we never gave up even if we found a race tricky we kept trying and never gave up!

This week in PE we practised using our coordination skills as we needed to cross the river on a hoop boat!

We worked in pairs to try and move our hoops along the river to get to the other side before a shark could catch us! We needed to move the hoop before we could step in but also couldn’t move the hoop we stood in before we were out! To make it harder we then had to transport our own treasure with us!

This week in maths we have been practising using Numberlines in order to solve addition and subtraction number sentences.

We started by reading and identifying number sentences, we needed to know if we were adding or taking away and this impacted how we moved on our numberline. We know that if we are adding a number will be greater and will move forward on the numberline, if we are taking away we know that the number will be less and will make us move backwards on the numberline.

This week Class 1 received a letter from a pirate complaining about how his captain continued to tell him that he needed to go to bed early, the pirate didn’t like this and asked us to write a letter to his captain explaining that they did not need to go to bed so early!

We had lots of discussions about why they need to go to bed when they are told;

Sleep makes you healthy – Layton

You will need more energy to sail the boat – Kezia

We also discussed why the pirates needed to stay up later;

They need to swab the deck – Gray

The rats need chasing – Miya

We all worked very hard to write a letter to the pirates arguing about whether they should go to bed earlier or later.

Thank you so much to everyone who attended our reading afternoon to share a lovely book with your child and spend some quality time together

This week we have been practising our measuring skills, we have been measuring both the weight and length of different objects in our classroom.

We started by measuring the weight of objects found in our classroom, we needed to see which object was heavier or lighter, we know if the object is heavier it would drop down on the scales, if the object was lighter it would rise.

After feeling confident working out which items were heavier or lighter we then moved onto cube amounts.

12 is lighter than 10 because 12 is greater than 10 – Kezia

15 is heavier than 14 because 14 is less than 15 – Gray

After we were confident with our weight measuring skills we began to measure the length of our shoes. We know that length is the distance measured between 2 points. We did well to ensure we measured properly from the end of a shoe to the other without going over or under otherwise the measurement would not be accurate.

This week Class 1 have been working hard on developing their balls skills during PE. We started developing our skills by holding a ball steady whilst moving around, we then tried moving on and patting a ball while remaining still to then patting a ball whilst moving. We then did some controlled rolling to reach a desired target.

We then practised controlled rolling of a ball around our bodies, we worked very hard to ensure that we could move the ball carefully around our bodies without dropping it.

We have done well to develop our ball skills to ensure we can move balls without losing control.

This week we have started our new pirate topic, we were shocked to discover a treasure chest on the middle of our classroom, when we first saw it we thought it could belong to a pirate but we needed to empty it to be sure! When we emptied the chest we discovered a hook, sword, coins and a flag, from this we knew it must belong to a pirate!

We enjoyed exploring our role play area as it can transformed into a pirate ship! We also enjoyed feeling creative as we made our own treasure chests out of cardboard boxes!

We then began to share what questions we wanted to find out about pirates, we can’t wait to do our research all about pirates and learn lots of facts!

This morning reception performed their spring show Jack and the Beanstalk and they were absolutely AMAZING! Confident, loud voices with beautiful singing and acting! We are so all incredibly proud of them!