Rhyming

This week we're thinking about rhyme in our English lessons. We played a fantastic game on the BBC website where we had to match rhyming words to help get Max across the river. 

A link to the game is on the Year One page of the school's website. Why not have a go and practise your rhyming skills at home?

We watched the solar eclipse

This morning something exciting happened. There was a solar eclipse. The moon was going to pass right in front of the sun. We brought boxes and colanders to school so we could watch it safely.

It was a bit too cloudy to see it properly, but we had a good time looking at the sun shining through the little holes in the colanders. We also had fun playing with our shadows.

Snow Day

We've been so busy recently in Year One that we're only just getting around to blogging our photos from snow day, all those weeks ago. 

We investigated what would happen to a big bowl of snow in our classroom (see our Twitter page for all the details of the experiment: https://twitter.com/mvpsyearone). We also had a fantastic time creating snowmen, snow animals and lots of other snowy creatures out on the playing field in Golden Time.

What a great day - we wish it would snow a LOT more! 

We also used the snow as part of our science topic on materials. We thought of words to describe snow, and words to describe water. Isn't it funny that the same material can be so different when it gets very cold!

First Aid Training

Knowing what to do when an accident happens is really important. We recently had a visit from Sandra Scott from St John's Ambulance about just that. She talked to us about what to do if someone was hurt. We learned which telephone numbers to use and what to say. We also learned about some of the things we might find in a first aid kit, and how to use them. Sandra left us with a fantastic big book full of funny stories, some puppets, pretend mobile phones (which we LOVED!) and, best of all, some really good advice about what to do if one of our friends or family members ever got into an accident and needed our help.

Thanks for visiting us, Sandra - we hope you can come back and work with us again sometime!

We've Been Writing Reports

We really enjoyed interviewing one another to write reports. We had to find out lots of information about one of our friends. We used pretend microphones and listened carefully to our partners. Then we copied parts of a book called Children Just Like Me. We made sure that the pages in our books had titles, subheadings, captions, and lots of facts. 

Come and read our books and tell us what you think of our writing!

Which material is the best at soaking up liquid?

Last week we did some Science work to help Discovery Dog. He needed to find a good material to mop up a mess that Naughty Nora had made on the kitchen floor.

First of all we made guesses about which materials might be the best. Then we tested our ideas to see whether our guesses were right.

We put some blue food colouring in the water so it would be easier to see. We poured it into a tray and used each of the materials to try and soak it up.

Which one do you think worked the best?

Making Jam Sandwiches

We're learning how to write clear instructions in our English lessons at the moment. Today we made some jam sandwiches, thinking carefully about how we would tell someone else how to do it.

While we made our sandwiches we had to tell a partner what we were doing. We thought especially carefully about time connectives (then, next, etc) and bossy verbs. We are going to use these words to help us write down our instructions tomorrow.

When we had finished saying our instructions and making our sandwiches we enjoyed eating them. They were delicious!

Why not leave us a comment or question to ask us which bossy verbs we used, or which connectives we used to put our ideas in order?