Year 1 Blog 2024/25

 This week in computing we continued to practise out mouse skills. We used a painting app on the laptops and had a go at creating a picture. We experimented with changing the colour and the thickness of the paintbrush. 

We have completed another RE day, and fitting with the time of the year, we have looked at the Nativity story and the journeys that are involved in the Nativity story. We also looked at journeys we’ve made ourselves, how we feel about the journeys and if journeys always have a good ending!

 Today Pear class enjoyed having a Christmas art afternoon. We made collages of snowmen and used a drawing tutorial to draw both Santa Dan his elf. 

As part of our No Outsiders this term we looked at the book ‘Going to the volcano.’ Wee looked at how all the children and characters were different but they were all allowed to join in on the journey to the volcano. We talked about how we like to include everyone in our games and we don’t leave anyone out.  The children then drew their own volcanoes and a range of characters going on their journey. They came up with their own headings including “We can all join in”. “Everyone can join in” and “Everyone can come.” 

We’ve been practicing all the sounds we’ve learnt so far in Year 1 and the children have been playing some games to practice reading words!

  For the last couple of weeks of term we are using this advert ‘The bear and the Hare’ as a stimulus for our writing. So far we have enjoyed watching the video, and thought about what is happening and how the characters are feeling at different points. We all have admired the kindness of the Hare and found the ending to be heartfelt. I wonder how it will inspire our writing next. 

 Today we thought about the people that are special to us. We considered what made them special, how they make us feel and what qualities they have that make special to us. We then considered what happens if we have a falling out with that person.  We then made a card for our special person to ensure they realize how special they are to us.                    

 Today we talked about the concept of being 'fair'. We tried to explain what fair meant and then considered why we would want things to be fair. We then talked about times when we saw or felt things were 'unfair' and how this made us feel.                                                     We then looked at how to be kind to others and how in doing this we were making others feel that things were fair.

The children were very excited to see the classroom had been decorated when they came in this morning. There are lots of Christmas challenges around the classroom and a new Santa post box. The children are enjoying writing letters to Santa and making Christmas cards for their friends and family.