Class of 2021

We continued exploring our senses by looking at the sense of touch. We described how things felt in the feely bag and we tried to guess what they were. 

We enjoyed using expression to retell the story. We tried to change our voices to re-enact the the characters’ feelings. 

Over the past few weeks, we have been learning about Harvests from around the world, trying different foods that have been grown and harvested from many countries and continents.

We have also looked into how the Harvest is celebrated within another religion: Judaism! We learned the story of the…

We performed our own version of a nursery ryhme. We enjoyed listening to the different rhyming words.

We looked at using the sense of hearing to listen to sounds all around us.

We enjoyed going to Dorrington Woods and using our senses to look at different habitats. We even made some of our own minibeast habitats ! 

 

We enjoyed looking for signs of autumn in our school garden this week. We found lots of items for our ‘Investigation Area’. We looked at the objects closely and drew the detail closely. 
We looked at the school horse-chestnut tree to see what changes we could see. We will look at it throughout…

We have been looking at portraits drawn by various famous artists. We have enjoyed making our own portraits using natural materials too. 
 

We have been learning to “count on”. 

We have enjoyed tasting fruit from other countries and finding where it was on a globe. We discussed how the various fruits would have journeyed from country to country. 
 

We loved meeting Harold the giraffe today! He was telling us all about our wonderful bodies and how to keep healthy. 

What a brilliant couple of days we have had settling into Y1. Here are just a few photos to show what we have been up to.