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?