We had so much fun on languages day celebrating everything about Bulgaria! We learnt how to say some Bulgarian words and had a visit from Boris's Dad who told us loads of amazing things about Bulgaria. We made Bulgarian flags and learnt about traditional Kukeri masks and had a go at making our own! What do you think?
We have had an amazing start to Year 1! So far we have been learning about nouns in English and lots of different number representations and shapes in maths. We have looked at different materials in science and used some printing and rolling techniques in art. We have looked at some toys from the past in history and listened to some great pop songs in music. We can't wait for the rest of the half term to learn even more!
We were so lucky last week to have a visit from a Punch and Judy show. The show itself was so funny and we also learnt some really interesting facts about the show...
Did you know?
The show was originally from Italy and when it came to the UK, Punch was actually called Punchinello, and eventually got shortened to Punch!
That's the way to do it!!
During seaside week we were lucky enough to have Hemel Hempstead brass band come in to play for us. We were able to clap, march and even sing along! We had a brilliant time sitting on the mound listening to the band 😃
In PE this week, Mr Higgins transported us to the seaside for a round of crazy golf! We had a variety of different, challenging holes to navigate using our tri-golf skills we have learnt over the past few weeks. Even though we were battling a sea breeze in Hemel Hempstead, we had so much fun!
Keep your eyes on our blog for more fun seaside week activities...!
As part of our 'Seaside Rescue' topic, we have learnt a lot about the RNLI. This week is seaside week and for our science lesson we had a go at making our own boats. We had 3 attempts and then tested our boats in water to see how many 'crew members' (cubes) our boats could hold before sinking.
Miss Gamble was SUPER impressed because some of our first attempts held more than 40 crew members!! We think we have some future boat designers in Year 1!
We are looking forward to some more fun activities during our seaside week!
We have been learning fractions in maths recently. We have learnt that to split something in half we need two equal parts, and quarters is four equal parts. We put this into practice today using playdoh. We made some different shapes and then had a go at splitting them into halves and quarters. We did a brilliant job and it's something we can practice at home too!
We have been looking at fractions in maths. We have learnt that when we are finding a half we must split it into two equal parts, and when we are finding a quarter, we must split it into four equal parts. We have been practising with cubes and sharing circles, cuisenaire and bar models. Next week we will be finding half and quarter of some different shapes!
In science we went for a nature walk to look for signs of spring. The trees in our orchard are starting to blossom and we even found some buds which are about to flower. We saw lots of daisies and dandelions in the grass and even found a moth on a tree which was really well camouflaged. Some trees have lots of leaves and some are just beginning to grow. We really enjoyed seeing the signs of new life and we are exited for the weather to get warmer too!
As I'm sure the children have told you, we have spent the past 5 weeks incubating, hatching and raising baby chicks.
We have been so good at looking after them and the children have grown very attached to them. We are really going to miss them when they go to their new home next week.
Here are some of our favourite chick pics to remember them by.
Today in D&T we were practicing our cutting, peeling and juicing skills ready to make our very own fruit skewers! We did a fantastic job and we think there might be some budding chefs in year 1!
We did our computing day this week and we became digital artists. We learnt how to make different sized and style lines using the brush tool, how to make different shapes and change their appearance, and how to delete any mistakes we made. We then made our own farm picture using all of the different tools and Miss Gamble was SUPER impressed with our work!