Class 1 Blog

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  14

  Dec

  Reindeer Crafts

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  We have started creating our Christmas crafts! That means Christmas is just around the corner, how exciting! The first thing we made was a reindeer Christmas card. The children were all tasked with painting their hands and putting that onto a piece of Christmassy green card. We used our thumbs for Rudolph's nose. We added some googly eyes and by chance I found some fantastic stamps which the children used to decorate their card further. These were sent home yesterday and I hope you enjoyed them.
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  14

  Dec

  Mini Marines

  Posted by Mr A Hart

  Today, Tyndale have had the opportunity to train with the mini marines. The children were given a range of activities and put through their paces from real life Marines! Congratulations to Tyndale for being this terms housepoint winners! Great effort.
• 11

  Dec

  Poems!

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  We have begun looking at the main features of a poem so that we can think about writing our own ones by the end of the week. I was so impressed by their knowledge of rhymes and that they had managed to understand the aabb rhyme scheme we are going for. We identified the features (adjectives, rhymes, similes) and then decided upon a success criteria which we will all work from when we are writing our poems. I am very excited to see the outcome for this fantastic topic.
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  11

  Dec

  Dance

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  Thank you for coming to the dance today. It was great to see everyone - I think they all did a fantastic job, and I hope that you did too. They had all put in a lot of effort, and I think it showed. I apologise for the quality of the photo, it is taken from a video recording.
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  10

  Dec

  Costumes

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  Thank you to those children who have brought their costumes in today. Please can anybody who has not brought theirs in ensure it is in tomorrow please! Many thanks, Miss Fitzgerald.
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  08

  Dec

  Comparing Numbers

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  After learning all about tens and ones I set the children a challenge. I wanted them to start comparing the numbers. They had to once again use < > and =. This meant we were also once again able to watch 'Number Gator' which I for one was very excited about. When we had practiced using < > and = we put it to use with our numbers that had tens and ones.We used bead strings to create numbers in pairs which were then compared. Last time we did this some of the children struggled with it, but this time they all breezed through it! I definitely have superstar maths whizz in my class!
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  07

  Dec

  Poetry Performance

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  To go alongside our poetry topic in literacy we had a go at performing some poems. On Wednesday, we performed a poem as a whole class. To do this we listen to the poem and spotted the rhyming pattern - once again aabb. We then story mapped our poem and thought of actions and pictures which would help us remember. On Thursday we split up into three groups and created - in our groups - a story map, again with pictures and actions, to perform to the class. It was great fun!
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  07

  Dec

  Using dienes

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  In numeracy this week, we have been looking at tens and ones and thinking of numbers mostly between 10 and 20. This means that in a two digit number we have been asking what each number actually means for example in 13 what does the 1 mean and the 3. We used dienes blocks to help explore the idea that the 1 actually means 10.
• 04

  Dec

  Poetry!

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  Across the school, until the end of term we are planning a fun-filled and exciting poetry topic. I'm sure with our woodland poetry under our belts we will be amazing at this. We started thinking about rhyming patterns and words that rhyme. We had a challenge - we had the letters 'satopine' and two minutes - the children (and adults) had to think of as many words as they possibly could just using those letters. I can honestly say that I was amazed, a lot of the children did better than me thinking of four letter words such as 'open' 'into' 'pine' and some five letter ones such as 'stone'. A great start to an exciting project :)
• 04

  Dec

  Production.

  Posted by Miss E Fitzgerald

  Our production is now in full swing with rehearsals going on here there and everywhere - every spare few minutes we have we'll practise a song or some actions! Now the stage is up we can really get things moving! Letters have gone home confirming the date and the time (Tuesday 18th December 6pm) with the children being asked to arrive at 5:30 so we can get them ready. Please, please, please can you practise their words with them!