Learning apps for iPads!

A few parents have asked what sort of apps we use at school. Here are some of the learning apps that we use on our school iPads. Some of them are free but others cost a small amount around 69p. Most of them have versions available to use on iPhones.

Dominoes
Subitising (Little Monkey apps)
Number Lines
Line 'em up
Ladybird Maths
Math Bug
Mr Wolf (telling the time)
Math minis
Amazing coins
Summed Up

Funimal phonics
abc spellingmagic (1, 2 and 3)
Wordsmine
Hairy Letters
Blobble Write

Some favourite games...
Toca Hair Salon
Toca Monsters
Angry Birds

Hope that this is useful!
If you come across any good learning games,please let us know :)
Thank you!

Christmas Fair

The Christmas Fair is on Wednesday 12th at 2.15pm.

Last week the children worked together to create these fantastic Candy Cane Mice to sell at the fair.

At 50p each they are an absolute bargain and they are all looking for a new tree to hang from! I know that the children are all hoping to buy one, so if you send 50p into the class with your child, they can reserve a mouse before the fair. The other mice, along with the Christmas gift tags will then be sold at the fair on Wednesday afternoon.

Reading Game

Here is a link to a great game where your child has to read a question and then decide if the answer is yes or no. It is good for checking that children are understanding what they are reading.
Begin with Level 1 and move up the levels when your child is ready. Encourage your child to sound out the words and then read the questions.
Enjoy!


http://www.ictgames.com/tellAtRex_v3.html

Attendance Prize

                                                             We are the champions!
Because we won this term's attendance race, we enjoyed a special treat on Friday afternoon. Miss West arranged for the lovely people from The Showroom on Tritton Road, to lead some very fun activities for us!

We listened very carefully to the instructions on how to play Jedi Dodge-ball.

We had lots of fun!

'Human Hoopla' has to be one of the funniest things to watch! The children enjoyed playing it too! 

   


It was very exciting to have a go with the Nerf Guns!

Well done for the great attendance, let's see if we can win again next term!

On Friday we will be saying thank you and goodbye to our 2 student teachers Miss Taylor and Miss Thornton. 
The children have enjoyed working with them and have taken part in many exciting activities.
We wish them well for the rest of their training and we know that they will make fantastic teachers for some lucky boys and girls in September!

Here is a website that has LOTS of lovely number games, all with a Christmas feel!  Well, as I have recieved my first Christmas card I suppose it's time to get into the Christmas mood!
Click on the different Christmas images to open up a page of different games such as ordering numbers and counting in steps.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/PlayPop.aspx?f=ChristmasYr1

Jungle Dance!

Didn't they do well?  :) We are so proud of their confidence, their dancing and their maturity. To be able to perform to 400 people is no mean feat! The class entertained the audience well, we had lots of positive comments from children around school saying how much they had enjoyed our assembly.

We hope that you enjoyed the assembly too!

Literacy Games

 

  http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/


The Letters and Sounds website has links to lots of useful phonics games that your child could play on over the half term break.

Down the left hand side there are tabs for different 'Phases'. Begin with Phase 2 Games and progress to Phase 3 or 4 whichever is appropriate for your child.

You could comment on this post if you want to let me know which games you have played on, I'd love to know!
Have fun!
Mrs. Bland

Advance Warning!

Just to let you know that it is our turn to do an assembly on Friday 9th November!
Family and friends are very welcome to join us at 9.10am in the hall.


Please could your child wear bright coloured clothes to school on that day, a coloured t shirt would be fine, and bring their uniform in a bag to change into afterwards? Thank you!
Mrs. Bland

A useful link...

To reinforce what we have been learning in school you could visit the Crickweb website. They have lots of interactive games for you to play with your child. Click on the link below to find some animal and baby activities!


http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1science.html#




Have fun!

What have we done this week?

We have learned about animals. Sara
We have played with toy lions, hippos, crocodiles and an anteater in the tuff spot. Jake
My Mum and Dad brought tortoises, rabbits and bearded dragons in to school. Skye
Me and Ellis were playing on the iPads. Justin
I painted a horse. Meadow
We have made clay faces. Blue
We have made clay animals. Lewis
My rabbit came in to school. Byron
We had fun in Golden Time playing with My Little Ponies. Scarlet

What a busy week!
Look out for the photographs from Pet Day!

Animal challenge!

   

Today we have been matching baby animals with their parents and talking about the different names. We know that a baby cat is called a kitten and a baby dog is called a puppy but I have set them a challenge...who can find out what a baby rabbit is called?





Can you find out any more unusual baby animal names?
Spider?
Kangaroo?
Deer?
Goose?

Celebrations!

           

In RE we learn about what is important to us and what is important to other people. We have been talking about who or what we belong to such as our families, school or clubs. We are beginning to understand that people who belong together; celebrate together. We drew pictures of our families celebrating different occasions like birthdays, Christmas, weddings, New Year's Eve and Bonfire Night. 


At home you could look at photographs of times when your family has got together to celebrate. Here are some things that you could discuss with your child...

What were you celebrating? 
Who came?
Did you have any special food?
Did you wear special clothes?
Did you do anything special like play any games or have music? 

We would love to hear about your celebrations! :)

Harvest

 

On Monday we are having our Harvest Assembly in school. All contributions to our Harvest Collection, of tinned or packet foods will be greatly appreciated! We donate all the foods collected to Help The Aged who then make up Christmas hampers for elderly residents. 

     Thank you!                  

Learning At Home

We always encourage children to continue their learning at home. It is great to hear about the children teaching the parents what we learn about in school whether its digraphs or Florence Nightingale! 

Mati has been particularly busy this week! After he has read a book he likes to make something connected to it. This week he read a book called Little Ducklings and he created this fantastic scene from it! We thought it was fantastic! 

Remember that learning at home earns an extra Dojo point! 

What could you do this week?

Weekend Smiles!

I hope that you have all had a fun weekend?
Here is something I found which made me laugh...



Can you see what this is? How many dogs can you see? Now, have a closer look, how many REAL dogs are there in this picture?

What have YOU done this weekend that has made you laugh?  :)

In The Past!

In History we learn about things from 'In the past'. In Year 1 we are learning about Florence Nightingale and everything that she worked hard to change in the hospital that she she worked in. Can your child describe what the hospital was like when she first arrived?
Here is a little clue...

If you follow the link below you can learn about Florence Nightingale at home! 


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/nightingale/index.shtml#focus

Here are some of the things that we have enjoyed doing and learning this week...

"I am learning to count up to 20 in 2's." Lacey

"I can count to 100 10's." Scarlet

"I am learning to count in 5's." Meadow

"We grow from babies into big girls and boys." Justin

"I like playing in our outside area" Matthew

"I like making models with the things on the craft trolley." Sophie

Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Mrs. Bland

Number Hunt!

The 'Best Me' that I can be!

We love listening to Will.i.am sing with the Sesame Street Characters about each of us being special. Here is the link so you can listen to it with your child at home! 

As part of our work on being the 'Best Me' that we can be, we have been thinking about our talents and have created a 'Talent Tree' in the classroom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyVzjoj96vs

New year, new start!

A big welcome to all the children and parents of Class 1AB!
We have got off to a very good start and the children have settled very quickly :)
We are looking forward to letting you know all the things that we are doing now that we are in Year 1!
Watch this space!