Fantastic home learning....

Neve emailed me some great pictures of her completing her home learning! What a lot of tools! It was lovely to see the amount of effort that went into home learning this week, we had some really fantastic pirate objects! Well done year one!

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We've had great fun learning about Pirates! We started by thinking of some questions about pirates that we wanted to find out more about. There were a few giggles in the classroom as we turned ourselves into pirates!! We have written Pirate Codes, and found out where the pirates sailed and what treasure they collected on their way. We then made our own treasure islands out of salt dough and then had the tricky job of creating a treasure map of our island using a key! 

Fun with Phonics at Home

Thank you to those of you who have sent me some pictures of you practising your Letters and Sounds at home! It's lovely to see you busy working hard at home, remember you can always send me pictures on the class email account; year1@blandfordstmary.dorset.sch.uk!

Turtle mania!

Wow! What a busy week for everyone across the school! This week we have been celebrating Arts Week by getting creative, imaginative and being very resourceful to make lots of turtle related masterpieces! We started the week off by watching a video about a turtle and coming up with some super adjectives to describe their looks and movement. We then turned these words into a poem and presented them very neatly! You could have heard a pin drop in the classroom whilst everyone was busy thinking carefully about their letter formation and making sure the tall letters were taller than the rest and that every letter was sitting on the line! This week we have been developing our printing skills by drawing our own turtle design onto a foam tile and then using rollers and printing ink to create some repeated print designs. This was very tricky but they turned out really well. We also got given a lump of clay and had to create a turtle - which turned out to be a lot harder than expected! It was tricky to get the shape of the body and the shell but with some perseverance and with some advice from our friends we managed to create some great turtles and then we added detail into the clay too. We worked independently at making some turtles using paper bowls, tissue paper and card. We had to find a way of attaching the fins and the head and draw them ourselves remembering to leave a tab to help us attach it all together. We worked together to make two fantastic papermache turtles which everyone was very proud of, and these will make an appearance on display on the hall wall soon! I hope you have all had a rendition of the song we have learnt this week at home too. It's definitely one that gets stuck in your head! 

Enjoy looking at the pictures below, we will bring lots of this along to our assembly on the 19th, so you will be able to share your learning with your family then too. 

Finally, a big thank you/sorry to the washing fairies at home for the amount of blue, green and generally sticky children that were sent home this week... if it's any consolation, we are still picking papermache out of our hair too. Joy!