Summer 2
📖 English Experts 📖
This week in English we have been learning all about fantasy settings. Today we started designing our own amazing fantasy worlds such as candy land, rainbow world and cloud castle! We are now amazing at using adjectives so decided to challenge ourselves to improve them by using a thesaurus.
✂️📰 Creating Collages 📰✂️
Today we started our new art unit learning all about collage. To kick start our exciting topic we learnt about the collage artists Patrick Bremer and Megan Coyle. We loved looking at their artwork and discussing the techniques, colours and textures they had used. In our sketchbooks we chose 2 pictures from a range of collage artists to write about before having a go at learning some paper techniques. We explored folding, rolling, cutting, crumpling, tearing, layering and overlapping!
🐅🦓🦏 Our Zoo Trip! 🦏🦓🐅
To kick start our new topic all about animals we have spent the day at Dalton Zoo! We had a fabulous time in the sunshine looking at all the different animals, learning about their diets and habitats and even got to feed the giraffes!🦒 We are so proud of our Year 1 superstars who represented the school fantastically!🤩
🔎 Investigating Texture 🔍
This week in Art we have been exploring texture to enhance our collages. We used materials such as tinfoil, bubble wrap, cellophane, tissue paper and corrugated card to create different designs. We thought carefully about why we might use particular textures and wrote our ideas in our sketch books. We had amazing examples of lions manes, fish scales and giraffe fur!🦁🐠🦒
🧳 A Mysterious Suitcase…🧳
On Monday we came into school to find a mysterious suitcase win our classroom. We decided to open it and discovered it was full of strange objects such as straw, bricks, twigs, a pan, a for sale sign, some money and much more. We worked together to put the clues together and concluded that our new text must be The Three Little Pigs!🐷 We had lots of fun orally retelling the story to each other with lots of actions.
🌿 Henry Rousseau Inspired Collages 🌿
This week we started our collages inspired by the French artist Henry Rousseau. We thought carefully about what animals we would like to create a picture of before identifying their habitats. We used this to collage the background for our design. Take a look at our super underwater, jungle, desert, woodland and grassland scenes!
👶🏼 Guess the Baby! 👶🏼
In PSHE this half term we are learning all about how we have changed since we were born. Today we discussed all the things we can now do that we couldn’t do when we were babies. We were very proud of ourselves! We then had lots of fun passing our baby photos around the circle trying to work out who it was. Just as we were about to start recording our amazing ideas we had a special visit from gorgeous baby Ayeda who is 2 months old. We loved discussing all the things she would learn to do before she was old enough to be in Year 1!
🧪🧬🧫 The Super Science Fair! 🧫🧬🧪
We had a brilliant time on Monday morning at the Science Fair ran by 6G! We loved learning all about forces, animals, materials and much more. They were very impressed with our amazing scientific vocabulary too. We love being scientists in 1D!
💰Money, money, money💰
This week we are learning all about money. We have had lots of fun this morning in Maths discovering the value of the different coins. We worked together to find out how to record them before completing a challenge to match equivalent amounts of coins.
🤩 Cool Collages! 🤩
Take a look at our finished collages! We can’t wait to share them with our grown ups next Thursday afternoon and teach them all how to collage using our new skills.
🎸Rock Kidz 🎸
Wow what a brilliant day we have had at the Rock Kidz workshop! We absolutely loved learning all about how we are each unique and special and singing about these in the new songs we were taught. A definite highlight for the children had to be the pupils vs teacher dance battle though. Thank you Rock Kidz for a brilliant day of rocking!
Blowing Bubbles!
We had so much fun on the Science trail this week exploring how to make different sized and shaped bubbles using various utensils.
🧪 Super Slime! 🧪
Wow what a fabulous Friday afternoon learning how to make slime! We loved seeing how the ingredients changed as we mixed them together and were in fits of laughter trying to stretch out our slime.
🏅Sports Day!🏅
We have had an amazing afternoon at our EYFS/KS1 Sports Day. The children were fantastic and tried their very best. We all had lots of fun taking part in the different races. A huge well done to green group who were the overall winners and a great big thank you to our grown ups for coming along an watching us!
🐥 Shetland Ducks! 🐥
We had a very exciting morning meeting the Shetland ducklings which have hatched in Year 2!
✝️ Baptism ✝️
This week in RE we learnt all about Christian baptism. We watched some videos of a baby being christened and enjoyed learning all about how Christians celebrate and welcome the baby into their Church family. Afterwards we had a go at making our very own Lego fonts and had lots of fun testing them.
💃🏻 Zumba! 💃🏻
We have had a fantastic afternoon at our Zumba taster session!
