Foxes
Year 1
March
We celebrated World Book Day today by wearing our cosy clothes and sharing lots of fantastic stories. We were lucky enough to be joined by author Rosie Fable who shared her book 'Bow Visits Earth'.
We have been inspired by the book 'Lost' to create fact files for polar animals. Today we shared these with Squirrel Class.
In Maths we have been measuring the length of different objects using cubes. We carefully recorded the results in a table.
February
We have had a great time in Forest Schools building animal shelters. Take a look at some of our creations!
January
In science, we have been investigating the properties of materials. We tested some different materials to see if they were flexible, strong, waterproof and light. Then we predicted which material would be best for a kite. Next, we made kites and tested them to see which material was the best - it was great fun flying the kites! Ask us about what we found out.
OUR FIRST FOREST SCHOOL IN FOXES CLASS
BRRRRRRRRRR! It was freezing in the woods today but we all dressed up warm with our coats, gloves , scarves and hats. What a wonderful wintery woodland time we had.
We all played a game to keep ourselves warm and went exploring, keeping safe and looking out for hazards on the way.
We are all looking forward to next week.
December
We have absolutely loved making moving pictures in Design and Technology this half term. We created our winter pictures by making our characters move using a sliding mechanism. It was a little bit tricky to do this and we had to remember not to cut from the outside edge but we used Big Brain Bill to keep trying and made some fantastic pictures! It was great showing them off to Squirrel class.
November
Today we had a visit from Mrs McLuckie. She told us all about when she was little. Her favourite things to play with were games. She played snap, happy families, and dominoes. She played with dolls, cars, her bikes, and spirographs. On the playground she played hopscotch, what’s the time Mr wolf, skipping ropes, and ball games. At school, all the childrn in her class sat at wooden desks with the teacher at the front with a pointer to show things on the board. Every day, she had milk in a glass bottle. She loved the job of putting straws into the foil tops of the glass bottles. School dinners were mainly meat, potatoes and vegetables and the puddings were the best part! When she was learning to write, she used a chalk board and chalk and then wrote in a book with a pencil when she was a bit older. Mrs McLuckie showed us a picture of one of the books she liked reading which was called “Janet and John”. Her class enjoyed going for nature walks and collecting acorns and leaves. We asked lots of questions and found out that there was not the same technology we have today. There were small black and white televisions and no phones. Life was very different then. We loved learning all about life in the past.
October
As part of our learning in DT, we have looked at the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who made faces out of fruit and vegetables. His work inspired us to create our own edible fruit faces. We drew our design and then made them. It was important that we used carful cutting skills to safely chop the fruit. I am sure you will agree that they look fantastic!
As part of our superheroes topic, Foxes welcomed some special visitors today - police officers. We had a fantastic afternoon meeting these real-life superheroes and learning how they keep us and our community safe. We also got to see the police van and hear the siren (it was very loud!).
September
Foxes enjoyed another special visit from more real-life superheroes - Firefighters! We found out about the equipment firefighters use and learned about fire safety. The most exciting part was getting to use the hose!
