Today Year 1 started the day by writing silly sentences all about dinosaurs making sure they included verbs. Later that day we discussed how dinosaurs move and the children then created their own dances moving like a dinosaur.

Yesterday and today we have been busy learning all about dinosaurs! We researched facts about them and then learnt about fossils. We then collected some items from our woodland area and printed them into playdough to create fossils.

Today Year 1 have written some questions they want to ask about next year. We talked about how we needed question marks at the end of our questions and what phonic sounds we need to use.

This week we have been very busy completing phonics, maths, science and PSHE. In phonics we have been writing sentences and for science we went on a listening walk around the field and the pond. It has been lovely to have a busy classroom again.

Year 1 have been enjoying using their Power Maths books at home! They have been working extremely hard.

Year 1 have been very busy at home!

This week we have been very busy looking at all things to do with Science. On Monday we got to program all different types of robots and experimented with how to move them and use them. Miss Langford then gave us instructions that we had to follow and we pretended to be a robot ourselves!

This afternoon we have been busy looking at how the state of chocolate can be changed by heating it and how to plan a fair test. We made a list of what we needed to melt the chocolate and what would happen to it. Many of the children predicted that the chocolate would melt when it is over heat! We then put our chocolate into the fridge to see if it would return back to the original state. Whilst waiting for the chocolate to cool down we completed another experiment involving us melting chocolate in our hands! We timed the experiment and measured the chocolate pieces against one another so that the test would be fair. We then had great discussion on which chocolate we thought melted the quickest- milk or white chocolate.

Yesterday, Year 1 have been busy looking at magnets. We discussed which materials are magnetic and how not every metal is! We then went on a search around the classroom to find which items are magnetic we found lots of things including the table and scissors. Then we had to complete a test to find out how we can get the paperclip out of the cup without getting the magnet wet, this encouraged lots of scientific language in our classroom.

Today we completed fitness Friday! We spoke about the importance of staying fit and healthy and how we can do this at home and in school. Ministry of sport set up an obstacle course for us to complete with a mixture of stations. We had one minute to complete the station before we moved on. The obstacle course included star jumps, sit-ups and even weights! We were very tired afterwards.

This week Year 1 have been very lucky to have the Year 4 children come and share a story with us. The children have picked a story that they want to share with Year 1 and are doing a super job at reading to them!

Last week Year 1 were very busy cooking in the kitchen with Mrs Barnes. To link it to our animal topic they made bread mice and a harvest wreaths using all different techniques. Then in English we wrote our own instructions on how to make the bread mice.