What a trip

We all loved our fantastic trip to Margate last week. We played in the sand, built sandcastles, paddled in the sea, had ice cream and spent our pocket money in the souvenir shop. Such fun. 

What was your favourite bit on the trip?

Margate

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

We are all so excited for our trip to Margate tomorrow. We have been doing lots of learning about Margate now and in the past and are really looking forward playing on the golden sands.                                                                                                                 

What are you most looking forward to doing at the beach?

Punch and Judy

What have you learnt about Punch and Judy shows?

Chris Riddell

Well done to Chris Riddell, the author and artist who has taken over from Malorie Blackman to become the 9th Children's Laureate.

Chris has said that over the next two years he wants to encourage everyone to draw something everyday.

What have you drawn today?

Estimation

Capacity

This week we have been learning all about capacity and investigating different ways of measuring liquids.

What's your top tip for measuring capacity?

Sumdog contest; how are you doing?

We're doing so well Year 1. 

There's not long until the Sumdog Lambeth Maths Contest is finished so keep on playing the Sumdog maths games to earn precious points for our school.

Sumdog

How are you doing in the Sumdog Lambeth Maths Contest?

Have you answered your 1000 questions yet? Log on here to check. 

Remember you get double coins if you play at home. 

The world is wide

"The sea is deep and the the world is wide. How I long to sail." Said the Tiny Snail.

Where would you sail to if you had an itchy foot like the snail?

How would you feel when you were sailing on the ocean waves?

Strawberries

When we came back from our half term holiday lots of green strawberries had grown on our strawberry plants in the outside area.

                How many strawberries can you count in our red strawberry pot?                                                    How many more would we need so that every 

                                child in Year 1 could have a strawberry?

The Snail and the Whale

Our literacy book this half term is The Snail and the Whale.

What do you think will happen in the book?

Half term reading

It's almost half term so we have been re-organising our reading corners. We swapped books between classrooms and chose our  special books to read at the end of the day for next half term.

We even found out that we have lots of books by the same authors. 

What books will you be reading over the holidays?

Runner bean update

Thinking about our learning

Now it is almost half term we have been reflecting and evaluating our learning during our Green Fingers topic. There have certainly been lots of exciting bits! I think my favourite thing was when we saw all the trees in Brockwell park and ate our lunch in a circle in the dappled sunlight; very special. 

This is one child's likes and dislikes.

What have you liked learning about this half term?

What have you disliked learning about this half term?

The best bits

The best bits of our trip to Kew Gardens

Written by three Year 1 children

"The best bit of the trip was when we went to the tree top walkway. High up. Because I thought I would fall and when we reached the top I saw very lovely trees. The trees had leaves on it. The best tree I liked was the beech tree because you can eat it. But not alot. It tastes like lettuce. It taste like one normal leaf."

"Yesterday when we went on the trip it was fun because when we went in the playground bit I liked it. We got to go down the slide. I liked when we had our lunch in the wigwam and I liked when we was walking. We was looking around the trees. When I went on the tree top I got freaked out. The floor was see through! I didn't like when it was down. I didn't like to look down."

"I liked about how we climbed up that high place. And how we was up to the trees. I feeled like I was stretching that high. I saw some birds flying in the tree. I also liked about the part, let me think, when we went inside that play place because it was fun. I saw some geese at the gardens. And some ducks. I also liked when we looked at that statue because it looked kind of famous. Because it from another famous artist."

Kew Gardens

What an inspiring and engaging place! We loved all the different trees at Kew Gardens. The Rhizotron and Xstrata walkway was a particular highlight as we felt like monkeys high up in the canopy. The views of the arboretum and gardens below were spectacular!

 Watch this space for the children's highlights about the trip !

What tree is this?

We have been doing lots of learning about trees this week.

We investigated the trees that grow in our playground examining their leaves, bark and size.

What do you know about our playground trees?

Growing runner beans

What have you learnt about how runner beans grow?

Runner bean update

Runner bean watch

Here's what our runner beans looked like on the 16th April when we had just planted them.

What do they look like now?

Name that plant

Here's a photo of some flowers and plant leaves that three Year 1 children collected in Brockwell Park. 

What can you tell me about them? 

What are you reading?

 

What have you been reading at home?

 I've been reading Sam Silver Undercover Pirate. Initially I was intrigued by this book because of the front cover; it looked adventurous and swashbuckling (which as a big pirate fan was a major plus!) However, the more I read of the book the more I realised that the cover was just the beginning...

 The real excitement began on the first few pages when the main character Sam discovers he has a pirate captain as his ancient ancestor and then discovers a message in a bottle and a magic gold doubloon. He is whisked back in time to join a pirate crew aboard the pirate ship Sea Wolf for a rip-roaring adventure on the high seas. It had me gripped from the first few pages and I literally couldn't put it down. I would highly recommend that you read this book and let me know if you see any good pirate stories around the school that you think I may enjoy reading next.

Holiday reading

Over the Easter holidays I went to Venice in Italy and used it as a good opportunity to catch up on reading my book.

The book I read was, 'The Wartime Princess'

I really enjoyed this story because I really like History. This book really helped me to understand what life was like during WW2 and how people lived.

It also describes what life was like in London at this time and how they had to use the land in the parks to grow vegetables to feed the people of London.

Brockwell Park

What a lovely day! It really feels like summer has started after a very sunny day learning about trees and making sculptures in Brockwell park. 

We spotted beech, oak, birch, willow and lots of other trees in the park and identified them using their leaves and bark. We all chose our favourite tree and were photographed in front of it so we will remember it. 

What was your favourite tree like?

Andy Goldsworthy Art

This blog post is written by two Year 1 children (Hope you enjoy it!).

I liked when I was making the mobiles because it looks like it was sticks from a blossom tree. But it was actually a blossom tree with sticks and string together. I think it looks like a tree because you see they hang from stuff. The sticks hangs from tree. You see the Andy Goldsworthy. His sculpture, I love it because it looks like a spider web. That's it. 

 Today I sculptured the mobiles and the leaves and the string. I used the string to tie the sticks together. I tied the sticks and the leaves. I used the leaves to tie on the mobiles. I like it because it is cool. It made me feel calm. How did Andy Goldsworthy be an artist? I mean how did he be an artist? How can he make stuff? 

Flowers

Lots of people love gardening as much as we do in Year 1. Here's a song from Sesame Street about their flower show.

What flower names can you remember from the song?

Andy Goldsworthy

Welcome back! 

We hope you had a super holiday and are excited as we are to start our brilliant Green Fingers topic.

This half term we will be learning about, comparing and creating art work in the style of famous artist who are inspired by the natural world.

The first artist we are going to learn about is Andy Goldworthy. 

What do you see, think and wonder about this picture?

Sweet Peas

Pluto Sweet Peas

This half term we are going to be planting lots of flowers and vegetables in our outdoor area. 

Which sweet pea plant would you like to plant? 

There are three choices: candy, velvet or Pluto.

Candy Sweet Peas

Velvet Sweet Peas

The Gigantic Turnip

I am really looking forward to this half terms book The Gigantic Turnip.  Here is a picture from the book of some of the characters.

What do you think will happen in the story?

What do you think the different characters will do?

Holiday reading

Whoop! The holidays are here! 

Well done everyone in Year 1 on a great learning filled term. 

We hope you're all enjoying an action packed break but when you do get a chance to sit back and relax what will you be reading?

Miss Davis has been enjoying having the whole reading corner to herself to do a spot of reading! 

Has anyone been reading in ridiculous places?

Fly Me To The Moon

Wow! What a trip. 

We all loved returning to the Science Museum to visit their Imax cinema which is one of the largest 3D cinemas in Europe. It was great to watch Fly Me To The Moon. 

In the film the story of Apollo 11 and the first moon landing was told by three house flies; Nat, IQ and Scooter. With Nat tagging along with Neil Armstrong on his legendary moon walk. Although the flies face close calls, the mission to the moon is a success with the brave trio of flies hailed as heroes when they return to Earth. 

                                 What was your favourite bit in the film?

      What did you learn about the Apollo 11 mission from the film?

P.S. We are definitely underground experts now with all of Year 1 confident navigating the Victoria, Circle and District tube lines to South Kensington. We were superstars in the large crowds at Victoria and we always remembered to stand on the right in single file on the escalators!