Abbey House museum
We have had a fantastic time at Abbey House museum today. All of our learning links with our current History topic.
Class novel : The Bog Baby
As our class novel, and focus book for reading and writing learning, we have been reading The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis.
It is a lovely story and has enabled us to infer the characters’ feelings from the pictures and text. We have also talked about wild animals and nature.
We have used extracts to work on our reading fluency, identify conjunctions and use our phonics to spell words. The children have also written some sentences using conjunctions too.
Help at home by talking about The Bog Baby story. What would you do if you found a beautiful little creature? There is a video version here, read by the author. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
Living and Learning – Dside visit
This week we had a visitor in our school from D:side. D:side often visit our school to talk to us about a number of things, such as how we can be healthy. This week, D:side spoke to us about how to look after our bodies.
Science – animals
This half term in KS1, we are learning about animals in Science. We started the topic last week by discussing what a mammal is.
‘A mammal is an animal that has fur or hair and gives birth to live offspring.’
Examples of mammals include: dogs, cats, elephants, whales and bears.
This week we have been learning about fish and birds. We labelled the features of both types of animal so that we know how to identify them. We also know what these features are for.
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”Most birds have wings to fly, but not all birds can fly, like penguins.’ (2C)
” Fish have fins and a tail to help them swim in water” (1A)
Bog Baby
This half term, KS1 are reading Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis. In the book we meet a cute creature called the ‘Bog Baby’. The Bog baby is discovered in a Magic pond, by two young sisters. The children decide to take the Bog Baby home to look after him and keep him as a pet. At first he is very happy, He has his own home, gets to eat cake crumbs each day and even gets to go to school. But then he starts to feel scared and homesick, and wants to go back home. This week, Year 2 wrote some sentences about how the Bog Baby might be feeling. They used their inference skills to draw information from both the illustrations and text. Some of the children even used conjunctions such as ‘because’ to explain their answers. Here is some of their work.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year! Welcome back everyone! We hope you’ve had a lovely, restful break and that you’re full of energy for another busy and exciting half term at school.
A New Topic For Key Stage One.
This half term is all about History and we will be looking at how shopping has changed for people over time. We will be looking at Briggate High Street and we have an exciting trip to Abbey House booked to support our learning in school.
Our new Topic was kicked off this week by thinking about the past and by introducing timelines. We thought about the things that have happened in our past and thought about the order in which they happened. In groups, we sequenced events from our own lives and discovered that a timeline can be different for different people depending on the order things happen to individual people.
Help at home: by talking about the past and the present. You could talk about your childhood and how it may be similar or different to now. What was your house like? Which TV programs did you watch? What kind of toys did you play with? What kinds of foods did you eat? Can you compare the things that are in your child’s living memory, your living memory or even the living memory of the oldest generation in your family?
New member of staff in 1,2B
We said goodbye to Mr Goodwin before Christmas but we’re now saying Hello to Miss Gilliland, who will be with us until July
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM KEY STAGE 1
We would like to wish all our families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all the staff in Key Stage 1. We’re also wishing Mr Goodwin good luck on his next placement at one of our sister schools. We will miss him!
Christmas lunch
We had a lovely lunchtime yesterday. We visited the ‘Mrs Pennock inflatable display Christmas grotto’ and then had a lovely Christmas lunch together in the hall!
Christmas in 2C
This week we have been very excited about the run up to Christmas. We’ve done lots of lovely activities such as made cards, calendars and crafts. We’ve done 2 Christmas productions for the adults, seen some special Christmas decorations and today we had a lovely Christmas lunch. See what we’ve been getting up to!
We can’t wait for our Christmas party tomorrow (9am)! Remember to send your child in their own clothes, some snacks for after the party and a bag to send all of their bits and bobs home!
