Number Bonds and the Cuckoos in Action!

Number bonds have been the focus for Year 1 in maths.

We have been using all sorts of equipment to work out our number bonds and playing lots of practical games. Most of us were working on our number bonds to 10. 

We helped each other and checked our puzzles and games carefully to make sure we were putting the right two numbers together to make 10.

The Cuckoos had loads of fun doing this in their maths groups. 

"We liked making new things with all the numbers."

 - Elise, Cuckoos-

"I was doing the bus game and you have to write down the  numbers to make 10."  

- Isabella, Cuckoos-

Our Amazing Assembly

Today we had an assembly in Year 1 and together we wrote this blog post.

Our assembly was about all of the things we have done that were exciting.

We had a look at our blog and our map.

We saw all the people all around the world who have seen our blog on the map.

We are really excited to share our blog with our family and friends.

Can you leave us a comment?

Spotlight on Sparrows English

Check out what the Sparrows have been doing in English over the last couple of weeks. They have been learning to sort objects by their initial sound. Can you see what objects they have sorted? What are their initial sounds?

Other Sparrows were working hard at writing CVC words on whiteboards in continuous cursive style. They had to use their phonics skills to segment the word they were writing. Can you read what Lara has written on her board? 

Mindful Jars

Recently in Year One we have made mindful jars.

The jars help to calm our amygdala, which is like the guard dog in our brain. When things are really crazy and we feel a little jumbled up, stressed or unsettled our guard dog is on guard. To get our amygdala and our brain calm again we can use our mindful jars.

We made our mindful jars so that we can do this at home and we have a special class jar for in school. We shake our jars up and then mindfully watch them only focusing on the pretty glitter in our jars as it settles and as it settles so does our brain.

We watched this youtube video that further explains what is happening in our mindful jar. Take a look if you are interested in these jars.

Here are some photos of the Cuckoos making their jars.

Creativity Assembly

On Thursday in assembly we learnt what it means to be creative. We had some great examples of creativity shared by our Year 5 and 6 students. We listened to some instruments and a singer, we looked at some artists working and we all thought how we could be creative.

What do you think creativity is? Comment on this post and let us know.

Smelly Science

At the moment in Science we are doing experiments to test our sense of smell. We had to smell mystery cups and see if we could work out what was in each cup, some of them smelt delicious and others were not so great.

In the Larks class some of the children were heard saying, "It smells like cupcakes." "It smells like nesquick powder." "It smells like chips." so they had to think what was in each of those things that the smell might be. Can you guess?

We learnt that it is our nose that does the smelling for us. It was difficult to justify why we knew what we were smelling like chocolate, vanilla, vinegar, fish, perfume and lots of others so we started describing the smells and then it became a little easier.  It was great to be able to talk our learning through and be challenge by our friends and teachers with tricky questions.

Check out our pictures of our science experiment. Sometimes we made funny faces when we didn't like the smell!

Year One Parent Picnic

Sometimes learning is so exciting you just have to show it off! So on Thursday afternoon we asked our mums, dads, nannies and special adults to come in and share in our learning to finish off our marvellous topic 'Marvellous Me'.

During english last week we had designed fruit faces, first we drew our fruit faces, then we labelled each part and finally we wrote a shopping list for the supermarket.

Then on Thursday afternoon we were so excited to share the task of making our fruit faces and enjoy eating them with our visitors. Some of the cutting was tricky, we had help from our adults to learn a new DT skill of cutting with safe knives. Our picnic was so exciting that other adults from the school came to have a look at our amazing faces.  We loved showing off our learning and loved having visitors to our learning space.  Have a look at our wonderful picnic photos below.