This week we have used story mountains to help us think about the key events in a story - this will make it easier to retell stories!

We used 'Where the Wild Things are' and drew and then wrote about what happens at the beginning, middle and end.

We have been representing numbers this week in different ways - thinking about ordering and finding 1 more in Year 1 and focusing on the value of each digit in 2 digit numbers (tens and ones) in Year 2.

On Wednesday we talked about 'consequences' and decided that there are both good and bad consequences for behaviours! We decided on suitable consequences for lots of different behaviours and what would be 'fair'.

Thank you to all who came to our Harvest Festival today - and for all of the generous donations of food!

Don't forget to practice your spelling words and read your reading book to an adult over the weekend!

In our maths this week we have been practising counting accurately and representing numbers in different ways.

Our English work has been based on the book 'Where the Wild Things are' by Maurice Sendak - we have been getting to know the story this week (including some great role play!) and talking about the images in the book and what clues they give us.

We have been learning about maps in geography and talked about the directions on a compass and what they might be used for. We looked at the difference between a normal photograph and an aerial (or 'birds eye') photograph and then we had a go at building a model map of the classroom from above!

Please remember to practice your spelling words and read your school reading book to a grown up over the weekend.

Don't forget - our Harvest assembly is next Friday 27th September at 08:45am in the hall. 

We would love to see lots of you there!

This week we have been doing lots of practical maths to help us recognise numbers.

In English we have been thinking about story settings to tie in with our Enchanted Woodlands topic and have been describing different settings. 

We have also been creating our own fantasy setting pictures and used these to think about what we could see, hear, smell and touch if we were there.

I am already so impressed with the effort everyone is putting into their writing!

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Well done to all the children that made it onto our recognition board this week for showing us that they are ready to learn!

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The spelling words we have learned this week are stuck into your reading journals, please make sure you take some time to practice over the weekend, as well as reading your reading book to a grown up and talk about the story you have read afterwards.

Welcome back!

We hope everyone had a fun and restful summer break.

We have been getting to know each other this week and settling in to new routines and a new classroom for Year 1!

"My name is .... and I like ..."

We have launched our topic 'Enchanted Woodlands' by thinking about what an enchanted woodland might be like.

We then created some pictures of enchanted woodlands using our ideas....

....and drew some woodland creatures using pictures to help us add detail.

Some of us also made some fairy and elf stick puppets.

Thea had a super idea during her choosing time and made an enchanted woodland out of lego! Amazing!

"There are some trees and plants and the different greens are because some plants are all different colours and some can be brownish green too!"

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