This afternoon KS1 had an exciting visit from Mr Hull, who showed us all his different musical instruments. From the banjos to the base guitar, and clarinet to drums we explored it all.
Music Expert Visitor
Category : Class 3
Spinach Cake
Year 1 enjoyed a treat today when Mrs Wojcik brought in a spinach cake she had made. Most of us had never had a green cake before and were surprised by how delicious it was!
Thank you Mrs Wojcik, we’d love it if you could share the recipe with us.
Musician of the Week
This week we are enjoying music from Ella Fitzgerald.
Carrots!
Class 3 have been on a fact finding mission this afternoon, finding and reading interesting facts about carrots to add to our anchor charts. It was lovely to see how confidently they applied their phonics skills to the challenge.
They also learnt a new skill and got to grips with a new piece of equipment whilst peeling the carrots.
In art we looked carefully at the detail on the carrots when completing our line drawings. We critiqued our first drafts thinking about how we could improve them.
We’re looking forward to completing our carrotfact files
Musician of the Week
This week it is composer – John Williams!
Shrinky Dink
What a great way to end our week, we added our first vegetable to our keyrings. After a week of learning all about spinach, critiquing and redrafting our outwork we were finally ready to transfer our final drafts onto the shrinky dink paper. It was so exciting watching them shrink in the oven and adding them to our keyrings.
Expert Visitor
We had a visit from the school nurse this morning who came to help us answer our guiding question ‘How will I be the healthiest version of me?’ We enjoyed listening to the story ‘Peace at Last’ and talked about the importance of sleep to make sure we have lots of energy and give our brains and bodies time to grow. We got some great top tips for good bedtime routines and shared some of our own, it was lovely to hear how many children enjoy a bedtime story. Before we said goodbye to our visitor we made a pledge that we would all try and make sure that we turn our screens off at least half an hour before we go to sleep and remember that we all get a better night’s sleep in our own beds!
Green Fingers in Class 3!
We had fun during our family learning session this afternoon when our grown ups joined us in class to find out the title of our new expedition ‘Ready, Steady, Grow! How will I be the healthiest version on me?’ We planted cress heads and peas and can’t wait to watch them grow.
Oliver’s Vegetables
After reading our new core text ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’ we have been finding out all about spinach. In our tasting session everyone was willing to have a try and some of us were even surprised that we liked it! We identified the features of fact files in preparation for writing some of our own. Finally, we ended the afternoon with a lovely art lesson and gallery walk to look at everyone’s first drafts. We can’t wait to have a go at a second draft.
Preparing for our Student Led Conferences
Class 3 have been working with their talk partners to prepare for our Student Led Conferences next week. We are really looking forward to welcoming our grownups into school and sharing our learning so far in Year 1.
