Maths-rekenrek
The Year 1’s have been learning how to use the rekenreks to help us with our addition sentences.
British Sign Language
Mrs Forrester has been teaching the children some sign language this week! They have been working extremely hard on signing their names, numbers and even a song!
Lego club-the year 3000!
From flying cars to time machines, Lego club were looking into the future with their builds from the year 3000 this lunchtime.
Testing materials: predictions and conclusions
The children had an interesting afternoon predicting and experimenting with different materials, exploring their properties.
Story sequencing- Traditional tales
We’ve been learning about Traditional tales this week and have enjoyed reading Little Red Riding Hood. This afternoon we’ve been looking at ‘sequencing’ our story.
Clarice Cliff plates
This morning the children made a fantastic start on their Clarice Cliff plates. They put all of their colour mixing skills to use and began their designs.
Science-testing materials
This afternoon the children discussed ways of making a fair test and set about testing which material was the bounciest! They rolled various balls of different materials down the ramps and measured the rebound to determine the winner!
Art - hues and shades
The children have been building on their knowledge of primary and secondary colours, creating hues of green and experimenting with shades by adding white to their hues. There was some really thoughtful colour placement and shade variation in their work.
Lego club
Some fantastic builds in Lego club this week. Our build challenge was ‘vehicles’ and we had some wonderfully imaginative creations!
Science- Materials
What better place to have our science lesson, about rubber and the inventor of the tyre, than on our tyre park! The children learnt about Charles Goodyear and John Dunlop, so they may be inspecting your car tyres to see if they can spot either of those names.
Lego printing
We’ve been exploring block printing in art today. Using our prior knowledge of primary and secondary colours, we had a go at block printing with Lego!
Basic sentences.
We’ve been going back to basics this week and exploring basic sentence structures. The children matched their chosen subjects and verbs and added capital letters and full stops.