Blog Author: Miss T Moore

We had a wonderful day observing the animals at Blackpool Zoo. We were able to use our newly learnt vocabulary of herbivore, carnivore and omnivore as well as finding animals that were mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians!

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We are working on sharing and taking turns in year 1. It isn’t slays easy for us! Why not play some games at home to keep working on it?

We have been looking at ways people celebrate Christmas around the world. In Nigerian some families weave palm fronds. We didn’t have any of those so we used festive colours to make a weave picture. The children really impressed me, their weaving skills were fantastic.

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Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed their Christmas Party and really enjoyed their special visitor. There was lots of giggles, dancing and games!

Miss McDermott and Miss Moore would like to wish all the children and their families a very Happy Christmas and New Year. 

Year 1 Sacrament visited the library in Ribbleton yesterday. We listened to stories, learnt about the library and then we had a chance to look at all the books.

If you are not a member we highly recommend joining. Your children followed our rules so well. We were very proud of…

Year 1 Sacrament have been using dance to retell The Three Little Pigs. We have been trying to understand how the wolf and pigs felt and then using our facial expressions and actions to re-enact it.

Year 1 Sacrament were so thoughtful and respectful when we visited the war memorial today. We looked at the memorial, the poppies left there and talked about the significance of the day.

We shared a quiet moment to think of those who have died and listened to a bible reading. We ended our visit…

Year 1S had a great time at our school camp fire this week. We all had a go at toasting a marshmallow and then enjoyed eating our s’mores. 

We even had a nosey cat watching what we were doing so we took the chance to learn about keeping animals, pets and wild, safe around the…

This afternoon we went on a hunt for Autumn leaves. We discussed what happens in Autumn and then we had a challenge: find an Autumn leaf from three different types of tree. Back in class we drew them and wrote about what happens in Autumn.

Words to learn: seasons, Autumn, Winter, Spring,…

We visited church today. Your children were really well behaved and respectful as we looked at different parts of the church. 

We had a really good lesson in music yesterday. We were using the glockenspiels and playing along to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. 
 

We have started reading traditional tales in year 1 this week.

Over the next 6 weeks we will be reading:

• Farmer Duck
• The Gigantic Turnip
• The Little Red Hen

On Tuesday we talked about the farm animals we know, we played with toys and painted our favourite farm animal. 
 

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