Welcome to Willow Class!
Your teacher is Miss Lloyd.
In English this week, we made our own alien out of playdough and described their personality! We needed to decide if they were a nice or not nice alien. Next week we will write a character description about them.
Forest School
Stick collecting for the fire!
1/11
Christmas decoration making!
2/11
Smores!
5/11
Trying to figure out who this message is from! Monsters? Fairies?
10/11
Christmas is coming..... :)
We opened our first day of our book advent calendar on Friday and read the first book!
We also had some fun Christmas activities to do like designing our own Christmas jumper and making a Christmas tree out of blocks!
Week 4
Forest School-
Charcoal tree rubbings!
4/17
Mini Bonfire!
6/17
Large Bonfire!
7/17
A kettle holder!
8/17
Leaf Snow Angels!
10/17
Fishing rod!
13/17
Listen for the sound game!
14/17
In forest school, we played 'listen for the sound' game. The children were blindfolded and they needed to follow the sound of the drum!
Week 3
In RE this week we were looking at the Christmas story! We acted out each section and highlighted the important people involved!
Angel Gabriel visits Mary and tells her she's having a baby!
1/5
Mary and Joseph travelling the Bethlehem on a donkey.
2/5
Mary and Joseph had their baby: Jesus!
3/5
The angel tells the shepherds that a baby has been born!
4/5
The shepherds, the 3 wise men, Mary and Joseph and baby jesus in the stable!
5/5
Forest School- wk3
Chopping wood to make Christmas tree decorations!
1/7
Charcoal face paint!
3/7
Week 2
This week in history we learnt some more about Guy Fawkes and what he did. We went through a timeline of his life and the events leading up to the 5th of November. The role play area turned into the cellar in houses of parliament (which included our gunpowder from last week). This is now a permanent feature of the role play corner! (The tables were the tunnel leading up to the cellar)
Forest School! (Wk 2)
The beginning of a 'Fairy Den' creation!
1/19
We wrote a note to the fairies for when they come to their den!
7/19
Woodland Clay Creations!
10/19
Fun round the camp fire!
17/19
Woodland Crown Making!
19/19
Our new role play area!!
Part of it includes a 'Firework Factory' , where the children can make fireworks out of playdough!
31/10
Guy Fawkes Day!
See the document below for everything we got up to on our Guy Fawkes day!
Week 7 - Last week!
We have had a very exciting last week!
In English we finished our story 'The Last Wolf' and spoke about endangered and extinct animals.
Today during our phonics lesson and little visitor popped by! We placed him back into the pond!
To round up our topic, 'Seasons and Weather Patterns' we filmed a weather forecast. Each group was a different season!
Week 5
This week we did lots of exciting learning!
In English we have been looking at how to construct a sentence! Remembering, capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
In maths we have been looking at comparing groups of objects, using the vocabulary , less than and greater than. We used the crocodile symbols to compare!
This week we had an election for our Year 1 school councilor! Each child who wanted to be a school councilor, stood in front of the class and spoke about why it should be them. We had our very own voting booth and each child made their vote and put it in the ballot box!
Week 2!
This week we had lots of fun learning new things, we started out new topic 'Seasonal Changes and Weather patterns'. We spoke about the different types of weather and what we would need to wear in them each! We even dressed each other!
Week 5
In Art we were looking at spiral patterns and looked at the work from artist Molly Rutland on her circle/spiral making with 2 wooden sticks. We gave this a go outside in the mud!
Some week 1 fun!
7/9- We ordered different things in the classroom, including ourselves!
Knowledge Organisers
Please find below the knowledge organisers linked to your child's learning this term. This document provides details of the key knowledge the children are expected to learn across the sequence of learning. We would encourage parents and carers to look at these with their children and regularly spend time discussing the facts on the sheets.