Hi all,
We had a busy day at the country park looking for different minibeasts and plants. We really enjoyed ourselves and, as always, our children were a credit to both their schools and family.
We hope you enjoy our pictures.
Hi all! Chestnut class have been busy outside for outdoor learning!
We started the day with PE outside and had a 5-a-side football match. Then we had maths and learned about quarters using natural objects and drawings on the floor. After lunch, we wrote about a diary of a spider and acted out our day outside as a spider. Then we drew trees from observation using charcoal pieces. Chestnut Class finished the day with their pebble treat of extra Golden Time. Well done to everybody who worked hard in Chestnut Class to earn pebbles for their jar. We are building up to our next treat of a water fight on the field when the weather is much, much warmer! Good luck Chestnut Class!
Check our other posts for more about Outdoor Learning Day as they appear!
Hi again!
Today we walked down to the pond and collected some tadpoles!
Usually we are able to collect hundreds of them to keep in the classroom but due to the colder weather, we could only collect about 15 between the two classes!
We are keeping them safe and we may even feed them some boiled cabbage when they get a bit bigger. They may eat each other, as this is what happens in the wild. The children think this is disgusting!
We watched this video that you may wish to share with your children again about how tadpoles develop into frogs.
Can you spot the tadpoles in the round bowl? There is one to the bottom left corner if you look closely! They love to hide and swim around! Look at all the delicious algae and leaves they have to eat!
Pretty soon, we will be receiving our caterpillars in the post!
Mrs Toms xx
Hi all,
We are currently learning about an exciting book called ‘Diary of a Spider’.
Before we start the diary, we have been researching some facts about spiders that your children may have told you!
Did you know:
Female tarantulas can live for 20 years……
A spider has special oil on its body to stop it from sticking to the web
The wolf spider carries the spiderlings on its back
Spiders eat the silk from their unused webs and recycle it- turning it into more silk!
Spiders always have 8 legs but can have up to 12 eyes depending on the species.
We researched these amazing facts through websites & Youtube videos. If you would like to watch them with your child at home, please click the links below!
Once we had researched the facts, we wrote them in neat in our own words on our own spiders. Then we attached the head, cut out some eyes and fangs and stuck on 8 legs, 4 per side.
We think they look amazing and the children worked hard to remember lots of facts!
We have had some amazing homework so far!
Lots of children decorated lovely t-shirts in their homework books so well done to everyone!
We wanted you to see these spectacular t-shirts, decorated by hand! We hope your children will wear them after!
Good work, Year 1!
Mrs Toms xx