Year 1 getting ready for our Christmas sing a long. Thank you to everyone who came!

This is Cloud, a beautiful Barn Owl. The children were able to stroke her.

Barn Owl Bill visits Year 1

Four owls came to visit us. Carol told us their names and ages. She also explained that not all owls are nocturnal.

Counting teens numbers

Making teens numbers

Rangoli patterns in the outdoor area

Some of the children in 1AH created colourful patterns in the outdoor area. Let's hope the rain doesn't wash them away too quickly!

A Festival of Lights!

Year 1 all went into the hall and we lit our Diva lamps. They looked beautiful!

Look at our fantastic diva lamps!

Painting our diva lamps

Spooky Story night!

Making diva lamps to help us to learn about Divali in 1KL

Can you name all the shapes that we have used in our castle?

1KL have made shape castles

Blue Balloon Fun in 1LM

After reading the book 'Blue Balloon', we decided to have some fun with a blue balloon ourselves!

shape pictures

We have been looking at 2D shapes.We used them to make shape pictures. 

What could you make?

Making patterns

1KL have been making repeating patterns this week.Can you see what the pattern is here?

Playing in the outdoor area!

1AH have had lots of fun this afternoon playing with all the new things in our outdoor area. Thank you to those parents who have donated toys for the children to use.

Role playing in 1AH

This week we are really enjoying acting out some stories with familiar settings.

Here we are pretending to be the characters from "The Blue Balloon".

Gingerbread number bond men

Numicon

1LM have been enjoying working with our new numeracy resource, Numicon, in the classroom and in the sunshine room! We can recognise the plates 1-10 and can find lots of different ways of making some numbers, we can also print with it in the play dough! 

Labelling body parts in 1LM

Last week 1LM enjoyed labelling different objects in the classroom. We then linked our science topic with our label writing and decided to label parts of the body, Hennecy was our fabulous volunteer!

Welcome back!

Welcome back everyone! What a lovely first few days we have had in Year 1! The children look super smart and eager to learn! Thank you so much for your co-operation at the end of the day, home time will run more smoothly and the children will all be safely delivered to the right carer! :-)

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