Class 1 Archive 2023 24

We have had a very exciting week in Class 1 as we had our themed week of Circus! We were very lucky to have a real circus performer come into our school and teach us some tricks using the equipment he brought.

We were able to try juggling with bean bags, netting, clubs and rings, we all started by trying to catch the netting one at a time and giving ourselves more the better we got.  if we felt confident we could move onto using the beanbags to try juggling, again we started by throwing one ball at a time and catching it with one hand and then moving onto more balls the more confident we felt.

Look! I can throw two nets and catch them! – Leo

I can throw a ball and catch it in my hand – Pud

We also had a try of spinning some plates on a stick, we had to work very hard to first balance the plates and then we used our stronger hand to try and spin the plates.  First we started with one plate and if we wanted to we could try with more than one!

I have 4 plates spinning – Ollie

I have a plate on this hand and another here – Maya

This week was also World Book Day and we all looked amazing for our theme surrounding The Circus! We all enjoyed reading our story Ninja Nan, the story told us about a Nan who ran away to join the circus! We then all wrote our own letters to our families telling them that we were running away to the circus to become jugglers or acrobats.

We have all had an amazing week celebrating World Book Day and The Circus!

It has been another very exciting week in Class 1 as we have been learning about the Life cycle of a Butterfly.  We started by reading a new story called “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, after reading this we then created our own story map to retell the story as a class.

We then completed some activities in our class all about The Very Hungry Caterpillar, in our Maths area we completed a task where we needed to add the correct amount of body segments to the caterpillars head.  We did this by recognising the number above its head and then used our finger dipped in paint to count out the right amount of segments.

In our reading area we used story spoons to order the story events, this also helped us to verbally retell the story to our friends.

We were also busy in our Art area where we recreated the hungry caterpillar using 3D shapes and printing them onto large pieces of paper in the shape of the caterpillar.

We have also been very lucky to have a special delivery of some real caterpillars! We are very excited to watch the caterpillars grown and turn into beautiful butterflies!

Class 1 have been working hard during Maths, we have been learning about addition and subtraction!

We started by completing some practical activities to add different items together, we started by rolling a dice and subitising the amount of dots on top, we then wrote this number for the start of our number sentence and then adding the addition symbol.  We then rolled a second dice, subitised the number and wrote this number next in our number sentence, we then had a number sentence such as 4 + 3 =__. We then added these numbers together and then wrote this at the end of the number sentence.

Following on from this we then started subtracting in Maths.

When we take away the number gets smaller – Timothy

We practised subtraction physically to begin with, we did this by putting beanbags out and counting the amount, we then verbalised subtracting 2.

Take 2 out to subtract 2 – Nova

We then started to write this in a number sentence, we identified that the larger number went first and we then used the subtraction symbol before putting the take away amount, we then worked out the answer by counting out how many beanbags we had left.

This week Class 1 were surprised to find a real egg in our classroom, nobody could understand where it had come from and why the nest had been built in lour classroom.  Attached to the egg was a special set of clues we all needed to read to try and discover what animal was inside of the egg.

I think it’s a dinosaur! – Joshua

It’s a T-Rex – AJ

I think it’s a brontosaurus – Bodhi

We read the clues carefully, when we read that it had flat teeth we all knew that this meant the dinosaur was a herbivore, which is a dinosaur that eats plants.  We then read about how it had horns, we then had a long think about the dinosaurs we know of which have horns and are herbivores.

Using our detective skills we read a Top Dinosaur book to see if it was one of the dinosaurs inside, sadly, we couldn’t find a dinosaur in the book which was being described.  So we then began to think about what other dinosaurs we knew, together we decided to research a triceratops.  After searching for the triceratops on the computer we found that this dinosaur had horns, a frill and was a herbivore!  We all then learned some super facts about a triceratops and wrote them in our books.

We also had some broken eggs in our classroom, these eggs had numbers and numicon written on them, our job was to try and put the pieces of egg back together by matching the right number to the correct numicon! We all did a fantastic job!

On Tuesday morning we were all shocked to enter our classroom and see that it had been destroyed! We could not believe that someone would have been so cheeky as to make our classroom such a big mess! After having a discussion in our class we decided it might not have been a person at all, we all shared our ideas of who we thought it might be!

I think it was a  Rhino – Jersey

It was a Dinosaur! – Leo

We were surprised when a video of our classroom was found and it turned out to be a DINOSAUR that had invaded our classroom and made a huge mess!

We then created a spider diagram about what we wanted to find out about our dinosaur such as;

What type of dinosaur was it?

What did it eat?

How long ago did it live?

We have been working very hard to learn about different dinosaurs and what makes each dinosaur different.  We know that some dinosaurs are carnivores which means that they eat meat and we know that some dinosaurs are herbivores which means that eat lots of grass, leaves and trees.

A carnivore has sharp teeth! – Nova

Herbivores eat plants on the trees – Bodhi

We have had such a fantastic week learning about lots of different dinosaurs and can’t wait to see what happens next!

This week we had a fantastic morning with our grown ups showing them how amazing we are in Maths!! We took part in so many fun, interactive Maths activities with our grown ups such as:

🌟 Doubling

🌟 Ordering numbers

🌟 Addition and subtraction using practical objects, lego and numicon

🌟 Number recognition

🌟 Subitising on a dice and identifying the numeral

🌟 Number formation

🌟 Board games to practise our number recognition, subitising and counting

Class 1 received another surprise this week! We were all so shocked to enter our classroom to find a GIANT PAIR OF UNDERPANTS hanging from one of our washing lines.  We looked and studied the pants to try and figure out who the underpants belonged to, we knew it had to be someone bigger than us!

I think they belong to a T-Rex – Riley

They are underpants – AJ

It must be someone very big! – Jersey

We soon discovered they belonged to a DINOSAUR! We discovered that the underpants belonged to a dinosaur as we read a new story “Dinosaurs love underpants”. It was such a funny story!

After discovering who the underpants belonged to we then set on our task of writing a sentence about the underpants using an adjective.

Class 1 have been working hard during Maths this week as we have tackled a new aspect of doubling.  We have been talking about what doubling is and how we answer questions such as double 2.

Doubling is adding the same number 2 times – Vinnie

2 + 2 = 4 – Jersey

Double 3 is 6 – Timothy

We used lots of different ways to help us to double numbers this week.  In our books we doubled using ladybirds, we know that ladybird have the same amount of spots on each wing so we can use these to double numbers.

I put 3 on this side and 3 on this side. Double 3 is 6 – Joey

We have also been using numicon to help us to double, we used the number sentences given to us to then make using the numicon, this helped us to work out the answers.

We have all done an amazing job at learning how to double!

This week has been very exciting, we started by having a special delivery come into our classroom! We were all so excited to see what could possibly be inside of the giant box!

When Class 1 took a closer look at the box we noticed that there were lots of holes and a large sheet of instructions attached.  We read the instructions with Mrs Bruce, we were told to;

• Do not feed me
• Do not cover my air holes
• Do not touch my box
• Do not make loud noises

After reading these instructions we all decided that there must be something alive inside of the box!  We all worked together to come up with some ideas about what could be inside of the box.

I think there’s a slimy snake – Timothy

I think it’s a cute tarantula – Bodhi

I think it’s a green crocodile – Nova

When we came in the next morning we all saw that it was in fact……….A REAL DINOSAUR!

We can’t wait to see what we will be doing with the dinosaur over the next few weeks!