Monthly Archives: March 2014
HAPPENING HISTORY!
On Tuesday this week Year 1 were lucky enough to have a workshop all about knights and castles to link in with this term’s topic!
The boys had a wonderful time learning about what it was like to be a knight and castle life.
We magically turned cream into butter!
We used the quern to grind wheat to make flour and talked about what flour was used for in cooking.
There was a great selection of dressing up clothes to transform the boys from school boys into a lord, knight or squire!
The boys became medieval doctors grinding and mixing herbs to make medicine. Their favourite part was learning about how the doctors used to use urine samples to diagnose illness. They even smelt and drank it!!
A full suit of armour was laid out for the boys to touch and try on. It really gave them an understanding of how heavy the armour was and made us wonder how they actually fought in it.
The boys had a wonderful interactive and hands on session, a great time was had by all.
Mrs Alton and Mrs Wormald
Maths – ‘Time’ games
Here are links to ‘Time’ games to support our maths topic this week,
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/time/index.htm
http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec1.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/telling_the_time/play/popup.shtml
Lucas and Tigerlily
On Wednesday, 25th March Lucas brought in Tigerlily, a mini daschund, to visit 1B. We learnt all about Tigerlily and Lucas’ other three dogs at home. Everyone really enjoyed asking lots of questions and learning all about looking after a dog. Tigerlily was very well behaved and we loved meeting her.
Matthew and Twiggy
On Monday, 24th March Matthew brought Twiggy the stick insect to school. Matthew told us that Twiggy eats privet and thorns. The boys all enjoyed trying to spot Twiggy.
Pet Week
Next week Year 1 are having a pet week to link in with our topic on animals.
On Tuesday Mrs Demetriou came into school with her dog Cally. Cally is a PAT dog. She visits people in hospitals and residential care homes. It is very beneficial to people who are feeling under the weather to stroke and talk about her.
On Thursday morning Mrs Poulter brought in Casper, a mini daschund. William talked to the class about caring for Casper and the boys got to ask questions.
Please let a member of the Year 1 team know if you would like your son to bring in his pet next week. The start of the day or just before hometime are the most appropriate times.
We hope you enjoy looking at the photos.
The LHS chicks visit our 1B classroom
This morning the three chicks visited us and each boy was invited to have a little hold. Look at the pure delight on some of our faces!
Odds and Evens
We have been learning all about odds and evens.
Try these fun games at home,
http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/oddandeven-fullscreen.html
World Book Day
What a great day was had by all in 1B.
The costumes were AMAZING and a lot of effort had gone into them.
The boys produced a wonderful comic book titled
The Knight who was afraid of ……..
The boys each produced an illustration, a piece of written text and speech bubbles!