Up, Up, Up!

In English this week we having been looking at poetry! We found a lovely poem about Hot Air Balloons and, after watching some videos, we decided to write some of our own. Together, we thought of lots of words that might be found in a poem about hot air balloons and then we worked on our own to write these amazing poems! 

Fire Safety

Yesterday we had a visit from a Fire Safety Officer! We talked to us about fires and how we can keep ourselves safe. We asked us all to go home and check our smoke detectors or smoke alarms are working! Lots of people have come into school this morning having checked their alarms last night, well done!
He told us that firemen in Blandford have only 5 minutes to get ready for an emergency call! In that time they have to get to the fire station and get changed and jump on the fire engine! We all had a go at getting dressed into a uniform as quickly as we could. The quickest team got dressed in 50 seconds! Here are some pictures of us dressed up...

We learnt some facts about fire engines too...

• They cost £350,000 pounds each! 
• There are 3 types of fire engine.
• Each fire engine can hold 1808 litres of water, which it can empty in less than one minute!
• The fire man in charge wears a white helmet.
• The driver is in charge of changing the power from the engine to the water pump! 
• Some of the hoses are 120m long!
• The longest ladder is 14.5m long!

In Maths today we used lots of different shapes to make our own fire engines. 

A Lovely Afternoon...

We had a lovely end to our half term in Year One this afternoon! We had two very special visitors come to see us... One was very small, brown and had four legs, and she brought her owner with her -Andrew Burge, a local vet at Damory Veterinary Clinic.

Andrew gave us a lovely talk about being a Vet and we learnt lots of interesting things. He told us about all the animals they see at the vets and some of the problems the animals might have. He showed us some X-rays of some animals and we had to guess what was wrong with the animal! Andrew told us all about microchips and he brought one in so we could see how tiny it was. Bailey let us scan her so we could find her microchip number! Andrew also brought in a model of a heart and a model of a dogs hips, it was great because he also showed us Bailey's hip X-ray so we could see how it all linked up!

Bailey has just had her first birthday and she was very well behaved today! She let everybody listen to her heart with a stethoscope and even let us scan her heart so we could see it beating on the screen!

Bailey definitely enjoyed her cuddles today! Thank you for all being so quiet...she felt so at home in the classroom that she fell asleep!

What a perfect end to our topic 'All Creatures Great and Small'. A big thank you to Andrew and Bailey for coming to visit us!

NEWS FLASH!!!

WE HAVE FOUND REX! 

After a busy week looking for Rex, designing missing posters and hearing about his possible adventures from the other classes we are very pleased to report that we found Rex this morning!!

Year 3 emailed us to let us know they had heard some strange noises over by the tyres on the field. We went to investigate and we found him! Thank you Year 3!!

Here is a picture of us following our clues from year 3!

He wasn't in the hut!

We found a footprint in the mud!

At last we found him hiding in one of the tyres!

We brought him safely back to his nest in our classroom.

Dinosaur Games

Dinosaur Games

An Exciting Morning!!

When we came into school this morning Herman had some very exciting news for us! He told us that over the weekend something extraordinary happened at Blandford St Mary Primary School! He heard lots of thunder and lightening and another noise too... but he didn't know what it was! So we put on our coats and went to investigate! We checked the playground but there was nothing unusual there. We checked the astro turf but there was nothing unusual there. We checked the woodland trail and we found an egg! It was a precious, speckled egg that was much bigger than a chicken's egg! We carefully brought it back into the classroom and weighed it! It only weighed 150grams. We decided we should keep the egg warm so we have put it into some warm water and made it feel at home with some sticks and some leaves. In English we wrote lists about what might be inside our mystery egg, we've had some super ideas!

We can't wait to find out what it is or who it belongs to!

Dangerous Animals

This week we are finding out about Dangerous Animals! Today we looked at how animals can be dangerous and tomorrow we will be looking at where in the world these animals live! Luckily we found out that none of the animals we looked at today live in our country... phew! Have a look at the top 10 most dangerous animals here...

Top 10 most dangerous animals!

National Poetry Day

In Year One today we have been learning about Poems! We decided to write our own poems about Orangutans. Everybody worked really hard to give each other some super ideas.
Here is the picture we looked for ideas for our poems...

Here is a poem we wrote today...

The Orangutan has hair, orange like fire flames burning, 

White rimmed eyes, shiny like the night time stars, 

He has arms strong like a boxer. 

Message from Monkey World...

A big thank you to Monkey World for sending us these photos of the monkeys enjoying our tasty feeding bottles this afternoon! Well done Year One, the monkeys look very happy! 

Monkey World comes to BSM!!

On Wednesday 1st of October Rebecca from Monkey World came to visit us! She talked to us about all the different types of monkey that they have at Monkey World. They have 252 monkeys at the park! There were 20 different species! Some of the gibbons at the park sing so loudly that they can be heard 5 miles down the road! Rebecca told us that in the wild the monkeys live in the rainforest. She explained to us that the monkeys are in danger because the rainforest is being cut down and talked to us about conservation.

We also talked about what the monkeys eat and we were a little surprised! They eat; bananas, raisins, jam, jelly, pasta, custard, cereals, rice, apples, strawberries, oranges, vegetables, cooked chicken, and also hot jacket potatoes in the winter! The monkey are not allowed chocolate or sweets. The monkeys have to work for their food, the keepers hide their food in their pens and also in their bedrooms!

We made feeding bottles for the monkeys. First we had to spray oil into the bottle. Then we put a handful of raisins into the bottle. Next we poked some wood wool into the bottle. Finally we gave the bottle a good shake! Rebecca is going to take the bottles back to the park and take some photos of the monkeys with our bottles! We are looking forward to seeing the pictures she sends us tomorrow!

Thank you so much for everybody who brought in something for the Shoe Box Appeal, we were able to send the monkeys 15 big bags of treats!

What a fun morning in Year One!!