Good morning Year 1,

We hope you are staying warm and enjoying the snow outside. Make sure you stay safe and have a great time today!

Here are some activities you could do today;

• Can you design a snow sculpture and then build it?

As a challenge, once you are finished, can you write instructions on how you built it. Remember our time adverbials, first, next, then and last.

• Go on a winter walk. Can you find any animal prints in the snow? Can you identify the animal?
• Help with wrapping presents! Once they are wrapped, can you sort them by their 3D shape?

Here is a video you can watch that includes some important 3D shapes; 3D shape video - Search (bing.com)

You could also look at which presents are a cube and which ones are a cuboid.

• Watch this winter story of what Peter did when it snowed; The Snowy Day Read-aloud, an animated story - Bing video. Can you write about what you have done on your snow day? Have you done any of the same things as Peter?

We are looking forward to hearing all about your day tomorrow!

Year 1 Team

We went on our first Year 1 trip this week and walked to the library.  We really enjoyed choosing our books and listening to the librarian read us a story.  We learnt all about the different types of books at the library, including non-fiction books which are about real things.  We had a good look around and many of us were able to borrow books to take home.

Today Chestnut Class visited the library. When we arrived, we listened to a funny story called 'Sam's Sandwich'.

The librarian told us all about the library and how it is free for anybody to sign up and borrow up to 30 books at a time! We were shown lots of the amazing books they have including some story books that we recognise and some non-fiction books that link to our topic. We then had time to explore the library and we all found at least one book that interested us.

To finish our visit, we were read another story called 'Rain Before Rainbows'. We really enjoyed our trip to the library today!

Year 1 received a visit from one of our parents this week to help us celebrate Diwali.  Cherry class enjoyed learning how to Bollywood dance and listened to a wonderful story.  They also made diya lights, mendhi hand designs and decorated the outdoor area with welcoming rangoli patterns.

This morning we had a super workshop by Drama4All. We spent time acting and moving in different ways. Our favourite part was playing games, we had lots of fun!

Today Chestnut class had a special visitor in to tell us all about the festival of Diwali. We learnt about why people celebrate Diwali and what they do to decorate their homes. We listened to a lovely story about the day of the festival and what activities people do to celebrate. Our favourite part of the afternoon was dancing! It was great fun and we really enjoyed it!

Today we had a special visitor to help us find out more about Diwali. The children had a fabulous time learning how to create special dances and learning new moves. Yesterday we made Diva lamps and Rangoli pictures.

Look at the fantastic animal projects we made at home!  We have been teaching our friends all about our favourite animals.  There were so many things we found out “Did you know, spiders have eight eyes?” and “Narwhals live for up to 50 years!”

We’re really looking forward to our half term break but can’t wait to come back to school and find out all about Diwali and seasons over the next half term.

The children in Cedar Class have enjoyed the story of Bee and Me so much they have made lots of pictures and there own books to accompany the story.