Our trip to the museum!

We had a lovely time on our visit to the museum today! We all learnt lots about the Victorians and we got to have a go at doing lots of things too! We are going to have a Victorian afternoon tomorrow to make some of the things we learnt about today.  Here are some of the pictures we took, I'm sure the children can tell you some of things we learnt about using the pictures.... 

Targets

This week we have thought about targets and what we can do to achieve them. We have a class writing  target and a class numeracy target, which both involve handwriting and the formation of letters and numbers. In our class assembly we thought about how we can achieve these target and stuck them around the edge to remind ourselves. Each group has their own targets for writing, reading and numeracy. These are looked after by the groups 'target monitor' whose job it is to remind the group of their target each day. 

Topic Houses and Homes

In our topic this week we are going to be learning about the Victorians. We will begin by identifying differences in houses through time. On Wednesday we are going to the Dorset County Museum which I am very excited about! Inside they have a Victorian cottage and lots of victorian artefacts for us to see and learn about! We will be thinking of questions before we go and looking and listening for the answers at the musuem. Click here to learn more. 

Numeracy - 3D Shapes

In Numeracy this week we are starting to investigate 3D shapes. There are lots of games on 'mycity' to support learning at home. Can you find any 3D shapes on your way to school or in your home?

Literacy - Traditional Tales

In Literacy this week we will continue to look at Traditional Tales. We looked at lots of tales at the end of last week and noticed lots of common features. Most had good and bad characters, most took place in a forest, farm on in the countryside, most had a happy ending and most had a repeated line for example 'run, run as fast as you can, you cant catch me I'm the gingerbread man!' This week we are going to have a go at writing our own traditional tale!! 

Here are some of our poems from last week on display in our classroom. 

An exciting week...

This week has been a very busy week in year one! We have made our model street and it looks excellent! Mason brought in a book from home about model villages, and we noticed all the other things that are found on a street. Miss Burge gave us 2 pieces of cardboard and we had to sort everything else out ourselves (we realised that things don't always magically appear and we have to find things ourselves - and put them away again...) We then made houses details for our model houses to go in our estate agents - a great week in year one! 

Amazing writing

This morning we did some independent writing in year one. Lucas wrote such an amazing poem that I wanted to share it with you all...

Sounds

The tiniest sound in the world is a mouse squeaking. 

The spookiest sound in the world is the trees crashing in the night. 

The noisiest sound in the world is a girl screaming. 

The quietest sound in the world is a person whispering. 

The best sound in the world is a person saying well done. 

The loveliest sound in the world is a bird tweeting. 

Well done Lucas!