Blog Author: Mrs Boyle

We enjoyed our buddies coming to share a book with us today. We chose a book that we enjoy and they read it to us. 

We have been discussing the features of different houses and we have been designing our own dolls house. We have looked at houses from the past and the present, comparing features on older houses and more modern houses. Then we designed our own dolls house and started making them using materials…

We have been looking at everyday materials and sorting them in different ways. We discussed their material name and their properties. 

We have been looking at everyday materials and sorting them in different ways. We discussed their material name and their properties. 

We have been looking at everyday materials and sorting them in different ways. We discussed their material name and their properties. 

Coach Louise is teaching us dance this half term and we are looking at different styles of dance. We were looking at salsa style of dance this week. 

We enjoyed following a recipe to make a strawberry and banana smoothie for Mrs Aylott. We followed the instructions carefully spotting the features of all the instructions. The following day we designed and wrote our own smoothie recipes using all the features we had seen.

During our topic, we also looked at keeping our bodies clean and discussed the importance of brushing our teeth. We watched a video and got a new toothbrush and toothpaste to take home. 

We then sequenced instructions on the best way to brush our teeth. 

During our topic of ‘Ourselves’, we had discussed the importance of washing your hands thoroughly and why. We read instructions on how to wash your hands and they are in the toilets to remind us.

During our ‘Ourselves’ topic, we have been learning about foods which are healthy for us. We designed a fruit salad using healthy fruit and tried to use different varieties. 

We enjoyed using good chopping skills to cut the fruit into small pieces and some children tried some fruits that they…

We started learning about ‘Instructions’ by going on a ‘bossy verb hunt’. We discovered they were all actions that we could do. We wrote them down and used some of them to start our instructions.

We drew around a member of Year 1 and enjoyed labelling the different parts of our body.