Snow week

I hope all the children enjoyed building snow men and having snow ball fights this week! It has all been very exciting.

This week we have been looking at Shapes and Patterns in Maths. Yesterday the children made their own 2D shapes and then had the challenge of describing their shape using words such as "straight" "Corner" "sides" and "Curved". Today they made repeating patterns using shapes and colours.

In literacy the children have been reading stories with patterns such as "The Ginger Bread Man " and "Chicken Licken". Yesterday we did role play to retell the story. Today the children were being story tellers. They were very brave and some were able to tell the story to every one!!

In art today, the children were thinking about light and dark. They used charcoal to draw a portrait of themselves thinking about shading. They were all brilliant artists. Well done 1L!

Here are some pictures of our week.

Excellence and Enjoyment time!

Every week the children try hard to earn marbles in their lessons. If they get 25 marbles they then earn Excellence and Enjoyment time. Here is our class playing during Excellence and Enjoyment time. They have really earned their reward for trying so hard all week!

We are trying hard with Mathematical investigations. In Maths on Thursday, the children had to make as many adding sums as they could using only four numbers.

This term we are learning about Portraits in art. The children have looked at many famous portraits by different artists including Vincent Van Gogh, Picasso and the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. The children then used mirrors to draw a self portrait of them selves.

Happy New Year

Welcome back to all the children in 1L. We have been working hard this week and started lots of new topics.
We will be looking at "Ourselves" in Science, History and in Art. Please can you send in a picture of your child when they were a baby. Thank you.

Merry Christmas!

Dear Parents

Thankyou very much for all the presents, cards and kind wishes. We hope you all have a very happy and peaceful Christmas.
With our best wishes for 2009.

From Miss Mclay, Mr Devereux, Mrs Roberts, Mrs Howlett, Mrs Sainsbury and Mrs Kent.

More fantastic projects

The children have been sharing their projects throughout the week and they are all fantastic!

Today your child should have recieved a certificate for their hard work. Well done 1L!

Here are some more pictures of children sharing their work.

Local area projects

This week the children have been bringing in their local area projects.
They have obviously worked really hard! Today they shared their projects with the class.

Well done 1L!

A day in the life of 1L.

Yesterday, we had a really busy day at school. We started the day with a Science lesson. We were learning about reflective materials. We had to test the material using a torch to see whether it was reflective or not. All the lights were off and the curtains drawn so it was really dark!

Next we had literacy, we were thinking about beginning, middle and ends of a story. We then wrote about the story of Tom Sweep. The children have loved watching the story of Tom Sweep. See if they can tell you the story at home.

After lunch we did Mathematics. The children are learning about division and sharing. They were learning how to find half and even quater of a number using sweets. They did really well with this activity.

After Maths we then had ICT. We have been learning about giving instructions to make a robot move and today we were using a new program on the laptop. The children had to give instructions to a lady bird or racing car to get it to move from one place to another.

It was tricky, but we had Mrs Dupree to give us a hand!

Well done 1L! What a busy day!

http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html - check out this fantastic website with your child. You can track Santa's journey on christmas eve!