What an exciting week we’ve had in Year 1. This week we have been participating in our school’s Book Week with the theme of ‘magic’. On Tuesday we met Pippa Goodhart who has written the ‘Just Imagine’ series and some of the Winne the Witch books. She told us about her life as an author and shared some of her stories with us.
On Wednesday we participated in a ‘Shakespeare’ workshop where we learnt the story of ‘The Tempest’. We then performed the story as a school in the hall.
On Wednesday we also had a special visitor in the form of a baby condor! It was really exciting to learn lots of facts about condors and to see one up close. A huge thank you to Leon’s dad Mr Bloch for organising.
In class we have read the book ‘Flotsam’ by David Wiesner. In the story a young boy finds an old camera discarded on the beach. He decides to develop the photographs and when he looks at them he realises that the camera has taken photographs of magical underwater worlds.
We used various materials to make our own magical underwater setting. We then used Miss Luetchford’s old polaroid camera to take a photograph of our setting.
Using the poem ‘The Sound Collector’ we imagined what sounds we would hear in these magical settings. We then wrote our own version of the poem.
In the story ‘Flotsam’ the boy finds various items left on the beach. We investigated which items would float and which items would sink. We then conducted an experiment to learn about density. We poured washing up liquid, honey, oil and water into glass and observed carefully what happened to the liquids.
In maths we have been learning about how to divide a shape into a fraction. We have learnt that fractions is the same as ‘equal pieces’.
Tomorrow we will be participating in a whole school activity day to close our exciting Book Week. The children need to arrive at school wearing their P.E kit.
We hope you have a lovely half term,
The Year One Team.
