Thursday 26 March 2015

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?



Friday 20 March 2015

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.












Thursday 19 March 2015

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!