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 ‘pure imagination’.
On Tuesday as a school, we participated in various activities. With Miss Dyer and Miss Luetchford we used the poem ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright as inspiration and drew various items that we would put into this magical box. With Miss Manhire and Mr Stocking we played exciting games on the field. Mr Peck and Miss Radi organised some fabulous music and drama workshops where we learnt the poem ‘Nobody Loves, Everybody Hates me’ and finally with Mrs Warner and Mrs Bibby, we made our own Jabberwockys from plasticine. It was such an exciting day.
On Wednesday we participated in a ‘poetry and drama’ workshop where we learnt the poem ‘The Jabberwocky’. We then performed the poem in the hall.
On Friday we met the poet Stewart Henderson who has written the ‘Poetry Emotion’ series. He told us about his life as a poet and taught how to write different poems. Ours was about a lost gorilla!
A huge thank you to the PTA for funding the exciting workshops and author visit for us. It really helped to make the week such a fantastic experience for the children.
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. 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.
Thank you to all of the children who brought in a book to share during Book Week. It was so wonderful to hear about the different books the children enjoy reading at home.
This week we have enjoyed learning about Lenny’s encyclopedia, Ben’s football, Marcus’s seal, Caroline’s seal and postcard, Eliza’s teddy and Theo’s rubix cube and slinky.
After half term, it is the turn of the jellyfish table for Show and Tell (Lily, Elizabeth, Eddie, Jan, Matilda and Lucy).
We hope you have a lovely half term,
The Year One Team.
