Wedding of the year

As a culmination of our RE topic on weddings we attended the wedding of Josh and Tilly.  What an amazing day I loved seeing you in role and you had a great understanding of the ceremony and why people want to get married. 

The church all ready for the celebration.

The vicar welcoming guests to the church.

The bridegroom and his trusted best man!

A nervous wait with the parents of the bridegroom.

All the guests in place including an emotional bride's mother!

The lovely bride and bridesmaids waiting to leave for the church.

The proud dad.

The wonderful wedding photo.

Cutting the cake at the reception.

The wedding reception.

What an amazing experience thank you year one.

Toys galore

We have been making peg dolls and moving vehicles using the knex. It was a challenge to make the vehicles as we had to plan them first before making. I was impressed at how much the vehicles looked like the plans.

I love the way the peg dolls were used to put on a play.

Our phonics challenge of threading the letter beads to make a word was a big hit.

Maths quiz trail

We made the most of the sunshine and had our maths lesson outside last week. We had a quiz trail and worked in partners to answer the questions. It was a chance to apply all the maths skills we have learnt over the year. Well done everyone you were all maths superstars.

Using sharing circles to divide.

French food lesson

We were so lucky to have one of our parents who is a secondary languages teacher to come in and teach us about French foods and which part of France they come from.  We first learned that France has a nickname of l'hexagon as it is shaped like a hexagon.  We then named different foods in French from a variety of regions. After that we set off tasting all the foods and writing wow words to describe the taste, texture and smell.  I was so impressed with all the children who gave everything a go even the stinky blue cheese! Thank you so much Madame Rogers for all your help we had a brilliant time.

Some of the foods we tried.

The honey was popular and the moutarde was very spicy!

This young man found out he loved olives!

Tour de playground

Today we learnt more about the Tour de France by taking part in our own scooter race.  Like the real tour riders we competed in teams ( the sports day teams) and traveled around the key towns in the first Yorkshire stage. All the children showed great team spirit cheering on every one and showing great determination in racing.  It was so much fun we had another set of races in the afternoon!

Super sports day

Have a look at your great sports day pictures. I think you all did a great job.

  

Kirkstall Abbey House Museum

Take a look at our photos from our trip last week.  We had the opportunity to explore the Abbey and understand how the monks lived there.  We then played games and practised our egg and spoon race for our sports day before lunch.  After lunch we visited Abbey house museum where we took part in a toys through time workshop and looked at the old and new toys on display and the Victorian streets.
WE were very proud to receive a  behaviour excellence award from the staff at the museum for our outstanding behaviour on the trip.  Well done year 1 you all deserved this award your behaviour was amazing.


Kirkstall Abbey House Museum Visit on PhotoPeach




Kirkstall Abbey House Museum part 2 on PhotoPeach

Kirkstall Abbey House Museum part 3 on PhotoPeach

Kirkstall Abbey House Museum part 4 on PhotoPeach

Big Write 27.6.14

This week our Big write will be to write a recount of our trip to Kirkstall Abbey.  We have practised writing recounts and we have found out that they have a clear structure.  These are our success steps for recounts.

I can write in the first person –
me, I, she, you, her, him.

I can write about events in the

order that they happened.

I can use time openers to start my
sentences and order what happened.

I can write a title and an introduction that tells
the reader who, when, where.


These are examples of time openers - First, next, then, after that, in the end and finally. 

Talking over the children's trip and asking questions like; 
What did you do first? 
After that tell me what you did?
What was the last thing that you did?
will really help the children's recall of events.

How old is a toy?

We have been looking at the age of toys by thinking about the materials that they are made of. We then ordered the toys on a timeline. These skills will come in useful when we visit Abbey House Museum and take part in our toys workshop.

Making toys

As part of our science topic on forces we have been making boats and working out how to move the boats using push and pull forces. Have a look at our super boats.

Bean planting

Everyone in the class got the opportunity to plant a bean seed last term and to keep a diary of how the bean grows. This term we brought the plants and diaries back into school to plant in the school gardens. Have a look at how much fun we had in the school gardens.

I hope that the slugs and snails don't have too much of a feast!!

Art in the style of David Hockney

We have been looking at the art of local artist David Hocknrey.  We visited Skelton woods and took pictures ourselves of the woods.  We then used these images to make pictures using a collage technique. The end result are fantastic and I hope you enjoyed them when they came home.  We also looked at a painting called Garrowby Hill by David Hockney.  This painting is a landscape picture of North Yorkshire where Hockney used bold colours and defined lines to show the patchwork of hills. We painted the road and outline of the hills first and then used bright colours to show the patchwork of hills.  I was really pleased with everyone's careful work, they looked fantastic.

Year 1 PE this term!

This term we have been developing our ball skills in our Games Topic.

We have used basketballs and footballs to practice our throwing, bouncing, catching and dribbling skills as well as trying to score in our opponents target. We also worked on our attacking and defending skills.

We then moved on to using smaller balls practicing similar skills but we found it much more tricky!

Finally we used rugby balls, trying different passes. 

Have a look at our photos

Big talk 14.5.14

Who do you think lives behind this tiny door?  Can you imagine what their house looks like inside?

Cress investigation

To find out the conditions that seeds grow best in we have been running a cress investigation.  We have been growing cress in four different sets of conditions and observing how they grow.

Cress investigation on PhotoPeach

To find out what you have learnt take this quiz.

PCSO's visit year 1

We have had two visits recently from our local PCSO's Michelle and Lisa.  The first visit was on Stranger Danger.  We talked about who a stranger was, what a stranger might say to you that would be unsafe and learnt some rules to follow if we felt unsafe.  Our rules were if a stranger approaches you
1. Shout no
2. Run away
3. Tell an adult.

After the PCSOs had left we made a safety poster to help us remember the rule and to identify which adults we could tell if we felt unsafe.  PCSO Michelle likes our posters so much that she has taken some back to Seacroft police station to put on display there.

On the second visit we covered road safety rules which was a good reminder from our work in the Autumn term. We also got the chance to try on the uniforms which everyone learned.


PCSO Visit year 1 on PhotoPeach

Adding and subtracting

We have been adding two 2 digit numbers together by adding the tens first then the units. We have used our 100 squares to help us.

 

Try out this game to get practise to adding 10 to a number.

 

 

 

Fairy habitat

A new fairy habitat has appeared in our classroom!  However there is no sign of any fairies so year 1 are writing information texts to hopefully entice the fairies into the classroom!  Have a look at what we have been getting up to.

Exploring our playground habitat

Today we all went outside to explore the living things that we have in our playground habitat.  We were looking for flowering plants, trees and living creatures.  We used a range of information texts to identify what we found. 

Exploring our school habitat on PhotoPeach

Big talk 30.4.14

Big talk

Where are the ants going and what are they doing?  Can you tell a story about the ants adventures that has a beginning, middle and end? 

Leeds United

Everyone had great fun today with the Leeds United academy players.  The focus was on dribbling this week so we did a number of drills and also playing a 6 a side game.  I bet you can't wait until next week.