100 days in Year 1

We have been in Orange Class for 100 days!

We are just about half way through Year One - doesn't time fly?! What a wonderful time we have had so far. Take a look at the children's list of 100 things that they have learnt this year. I'll put it up in class too if this is hard to read. Keep up the hard work Orange Class!

Mystery item...

Hello, welcome back! We all seem to be full of beans again and eager to do our learning, which is wonderful.

Today the children had great fun trying to figure out what the 'mystery item' was in maths. They were given this clue...

'It is longer than 21cm.'

Some children were given a second clue...

'It is shorter than 30cm'.


We had a great time exploring the lengths of different items in the classroom and our measuring skills were fab! We all remembered to line our rulers up carefully and to start at 0.

Well done everyone who made careful and accurate guesses, but a big well done to Niamh who managed to find the object! It was the train book on our bookshelf.

Maybe you could play a similar game at home and tell us all about it in snack time? Your game could have even trickier clues...

Our animal facts

Well, I think you'll agree that Orange Class performed our polar bear facts fantastically in church this morning! Well done to you all.

I was going to put some photos of the children's own animal facts on here, but they really don't show up too well I'm afraid.

Instead, I will share a few snippets of everyone's work. Please take the opportunity at parents' evening (1st and 2nd March) to look at your child's animal information text and their other pieces of writing in more detail. They have worked so hard and they (and we!) are proud of what they have achieved.


The beluga whale research team were...

Ruby
Cheyenne
Esme
Jake
Sophia
Grant
Ava
Niamh
Lorenzo
Ellie-Mai
Harry
Marah




Beluga Whales


Do you know much about beluga whales?
Read on and find out some amazing facts.

The mums are creamy white.
The babies are brown or grey.
Beluga whales are creamy white but baby whales can be grey or brown.
They can swim backwards so if people want to catch them they can swim out.
They have a layer of blubber to keep them warm.
They have strong tails.
They have squishy round noses.
Adults are creamy white and babies are brown and grey.
The adults are creamy white.
It keeps warm with blubber.
Strong tail helps it swim underwater.
Their noses are squishy.
Babies are brown or grey.
Adults have squishy noses.
They make funny noises.
They have got a squishy nose.
A beluga whale has a big hump on his back and their babies are brown or grey.
The mummies are creamy white.
Beluga whales have strong tails.
Beluga whales make excellent sounds.
It has flat flippers.
Adults are creamy white.






The arctic fox research team were...

Lucas
Ava-May
Kian
John
Charlie
Louis

Do you know much about arctic foxes?
Read on and you'll find out loads of facts.

In winter they are white and they turn grey.
They have lots of fur and body fat.
An arctic fox can change colour.
An arctic fox has four feet.
An arctic fox has excellent hearing.
An arctic fox is 12cm tall.
An arctic fox has a black nose so they can sniff.
An arctic fox has white fur because it is cold in the arctic.
They change colour to white and brown in winter and summer.

 

Once again, well done Orange Class. Have a restful half term and I'll look forward to seeing you all again soon.

 

Money, money, money!

We have been working very hard to get our heads around the concept of money over the past few weeks.

We have been looking at real coins and making amounts using them. We have even started to think about what happens if we need to give the shopkeeper too much money and how we can work out how much change we are owed.

Today we had a go on the game 'pay for it' on ICT games (http://www.ictgames.com/payForIt/index.html) which gave us a great chance to practise our skills. An even tougher version of this game is 'change exchanger' on the same site (http://www.ictgames.com/change_eXchanger_50p.html) which turns you into the shopkeeper who has to give change.

The more you can play this at home, the better - it is really useful and links perfectly to our learning in school! Also, if you have any opportunities to allow the children to count out coins to pay for an item, that would be fantastic experience for them. We have looked in depth at amounts under £1, but some children will be ready to use pound coins too.

We would love to see photos of this if you have take any!

Here we are in maths today...