Yr. 1 enjoyed the use of the chrome books for the first time, this academic year, today.

They learnt how to log on and explore the different learning apps available to them. 

Their knowledge of using the chrome books was amazing. What an extremely technologically minded year group they are!

In our Numeracy lesson today, 9th October, Yr. 1 explored number bonds to 9. Their aim was to find different number bonds to 9.

Persevering with their challenging task, 
all Yr. 1 managed to find 4 different ways to make 9 using the Part/Part > Whole structure.

During our Yr. 1  Art lesson, 7th October, we created puppets of our family members.

Do you recognise anyone?

Today, we explored our listening skills.

We used a ‘hot potato’ to track sounds and guess who had the hot potato. 

After that, we played a safari game, listening to our animal’s name and moving when it was said.

Finally, we played the ‘Fidget Card’ activity to practise one of our listening skills – sitting still.

Our Purposeful Play session focused on practical activities for the pupils to participate in. The theme of the session was building. Some chose to be builders, building the tallest towers out of mega blocks, whilst others chose to be architects, designing buildings that they would like to live in.

Our favourite challenge was the carpentry sector. Pupils hammered in nails to create designs of buildings, also refining their fine motor skills.

Sarah Morris led an engaging and interactive communication session for LB 1 on Monday. The focus was on listening and the class played many games centered on listening, retrieving as well as taking turns.

 LB 1 2019 have arrived on the blog!

So … our first blog of 2019/20.

Today, as part of our phonics session, we explored our letter sounds by creating letters in foam. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the experience with laughter and smiles all around. 

Before Easter, LB1 planted some potatoes and today we went to check on them. They have shot up and are looking quite leafy now but we found that we had some weeds to clear away. Everyone worked together hoeing and pulling up weeds, even clearing some of the other beds ready for planting.

Afterwards, we planted some flowers seeds in pots. We can’t wait for them to pop up in a week or two!

Here is our close-up photo game – click on the link and have a go yourself. (Absolutely no peeking at the answers before you study the photos!)

CLOSE UPS

Here are the answers – can you match them to each picture?

apple                                cornflake                         

lipstick                            orange                           

ball-point pen             spaghetti (dried)         

sugar crystal                 fingerprint                   

  tea bag                          edge of book pages      

In LB 1 & 2 we had a circus of activities where we had to use our different senses to say what things were. We had feely boxes, played a sounds game, looked at very close-up pictures of everyday objects (this was tricky) and smelled some very pungent smells and had to guess what they were.