Making a map

This afternoon we've been using the Toca Builders app on the iPads. We're going to be using the app to make a map showing our school over the next few weeks. Today we practised using the different robots to find out which ones will be best for making our maps. Mr Ellis gave us a challenge: he wanted to find out which robot would be the quickest for painting the whole floor the same colour.

Why don't you come and ask us what we found out?

We know the names of parts of our bodies

As part of our animals topic last half term we thought about bodies - animal bodies and human bodies, too. We cut out labels and stuck them onto the correct body parts to show what we knew.

Have we got them all right?

European Day of Languages

This year, to celebrate European Day of Languages, children in Year One enjoyed finding out about the Netherlands. They sang Dutch songs, practised counting on and back to ten in Dutch, and even turned their classroom into a Dutch cafe for the morning to enjoy some hot chocolate and stroopwaffels. They tried lots of different tasty cheeses, too!

Our Trip to Pets at Home

Earlier this term we all walked to Pets at Home, a big pet shop near our school, because we were learning all about animals. We wanted to find out what different pets might need to stay healthy. We also wanted to buy some things for our class puppy, Max.

While we were there we got to meet some fluffy rabbits, some cuddly guinea pigs and a beautiful bearded dragon. We were really excited to bump into our tennis coach, Andy, who was there with his dog, Fred. Max the puppy also got to try out some different dog beds, and he had a lot of fun looking at all the toys, treats and leads.

Thank you to all the parents who gave up their morning to help us - we wouldn't have been able to go without you - and to Pets at Home for making us feel so welcome.

Autumn half term blogging catch up

Over the last half term the new boys and girls in Year One have been working really hard and settling in brilliantly. They've been taking lots of pictures to put on our blog, but we kept having technical difficulties and couldn't seem to post them for a while.

That's thankfullly all fixed now, so coming up in the next few days there'll be a few posts to show you some of the things we've been doing in class that you might've missed...

Happy half term, everyone!

Mr Ellis

Scary Monster Poems

Last week , to celebrate Halloween, we worked on some descriptive monster poems with Mr Crompton. We pretended to be scary monsters first, then drew pictures of what we might look like.

Look how many different adjectives we thought of for these monsters. Loads!

Thanks for such a fun lesson, Mr Crompton.

We hope you all have a fun Halloween later this week! 

A police dog in our classroom

Yesterday we had more special visitors in Year One. Some police officers came to tell us about their dog, Charlotte. Charlotte is a white and brown spaniel. She kept licking her tail and lying down. She was crazy!

We enjoyed finding out about her, especially because we've been learning about animals. We knew that Charlotte was a mammal, just like humans, elephants, hedgehogs and leopards.