The Year 1 children have been visiting North Herts College over the passed few weeks to learn about plants. They enjoyed planting seedlings and creating a potato head to grow cress in. They listened to stories and got to taste different foods that the college students had grown! What a treat!
We all absolutely loved geography week! All the children in year 1 were able to visit different classes and learn about Australia, France, Egypt and Mexico.
As a special treat, Christina from the music service, came in and taught us an Australian bush song.
On Wednesday, Year 1 went out and learnt how to light a fire. The children were given a safety talk about how campers might prepare to build a fire, the equipment they would need to help them do this and then they were then showed how to light one. We then cooked marshmallows on the fire and enjoyed some hot chocolate made by Mr Steedman. We are now looking forward to pitching tets with the children next week!
Welcome to all the parents of Elm class, to our first school blog of the new school year. The children have done remarkably well settling in to their new environment and new routines. Both Mr Mari and Mr Steedman have been been really impressed by the way in which the children have taken it in their stride and really engaged in their learning this week. We have been doing lots of fun activities in Maths, when comparing numbers up to 10 and also Literacy where we have been on "Bear hunt" around the school grounds. In addition to this we have also learnt how to build a campfire as well as enjoying Mr Steedmans lovely hot chocolate and Mr Mari's carefully roasted marshmallows.
The Year 1 children have been busy this week creating some amazing fish artwork. We have developed our drawing and sketching, used water colours and explored different techniques for shading. Look forward to seeing the results!
We had a GREAT science lesson on Friday! Our topic is Looking at animals, and we were asked to create either a reptile or an amphibian out of clay. It was VERY messy but our models look fantastic. We cant wait to take them home.
Oh my goodness! We came into school today to find that a pirate had left his locked treasure chest in our class. We had to follow the clues by working out the riddles which finally led us to the key.
When we opened up the chest it was filled with gleaming shiny coins. What an exciting way to start our new topic!
Bottoms, burps and body parts!
Year 1 children have been taste testing healthy foods this week. We are ready to design and cook a healthy dinner as part of our new topic.
A massive thank you to all the parents that attended the Year 1 fantastic finish for our Space topic last week. We all enjoyed a fun packed afternoon creating some amazing space crafts including rockets that blasted off into the air, alien hats and some brilliant flying saucers. The children always absolutely love these afternoons working alongside their families!
Wow! We woke up on the 1st of February to snow!
This was perfect for our science topic which is 'Winter'.
We wrapped up warm and put on our wellies and went off to explore...
We were so lucky to find different tracks in the snow and tried to guess which animals would have made them. We also saw a big magpie nest and watched the bird fly to and fro collecting things to make his nest warmer.
What an exciting day!!
What on Earth has happened here?
On our first day back to school we were absolutely amazed to find a space craft had crashed into our outside area! There was green slime all over the playground, nuts and bolts scattered, and PANTS hanging from the tree.
We went to investigate the evidence and found a letter that had been written by an alien!
What a shocking start to the term... hopefully if we learn enough about Space and the planets, the alien will find his way back home again!
What a 'Super' afternoon!
We had an amazing afternoon celebrating the WOW starter for our new topic HEROES!
We couldn't believe how many families attended and helped to make the afternoon such a success which was thoroughly enjoyed by all of our children and staff.
Whilst Spiderman played on the big screen, we got busy with a whole host of Superhero crafts. There were shields, masks, cuffs, capes, some wonderful puppets and some colouring in! What a great way to get our children fired up for our new topic, Thanks so much for coming!
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