In Y1, we had a great day celebrating Comic Relief in Y1! We all came as superheroes and people who are heroes to us! We had lots of Supergirls, Supermen, Bat men and Batgirls.
We learned about the importance of Comic Relief and all of the good things it does to help people living incredibly tough lives.
In Year 1 we are comparing our lives today to what life would have been like for Beatrix Potter in the Victorian Era.
We know that Beatrix Potter was born about 150 years ago and we all know that even Mrs Yardley isn’t that old, so it was a very long time ago!
We looked at photographs of what Beatrix Potters bedroom would have been like, the clothes she would have worn (Myla was very pleased that girls don’t wear these bonnets today) and what sort of thing she would have eaten for breakfast – we were all glad that we have lots of delicious cereals today. We know that Beatrix Potter didn’t get taught in a school, she had a lady teach her at home called a governess. Instead doing all of the fun lesson like we would do in an afternoon, she would get taught how to embroider.
We looked at the types of toys she would have played with – they were all made out of wood and tin unlike ours. We were quite shocked that she would not have been able to play with an i-pad or watch television after a day at school! We enjoyed looking at and exploring the artefacts – we looked at the wooden doll crib, the ball and cup, the spinning top and the cannon toy. Although they were interesting we were all glad that we have lots of other toys to play with today!
We have loved being back in our Read Write Inc Phonics groups this week. We love the reading part of our session and really enjoy our partner practise. One of us gets to be the teacher and the other one read a page of the book. Then we swap over! It is great fun!
In Year 1 we have been learning about maps. We have been looking at world maps, maps of the UK, street maps and transport maps.
We used Google Earth and Digimaps to zoom in on our planet, the continent we live in (Europe), our country (England), our city (Hull) and then our school (Christopher Pickering Primary). We all loved zooming in and finding the streets that we live on too – some of us were able to spot our house!
We looked at school and what it looked like from an aerial view – some of us thought that from a birds eye view our school looks like a rabbits head and ears!
We found out that we would be labelling a map of the school and trying to find some of the physical and human features that we have here.
Although we see parts of our school everyday, we decided to go and have a look at some of the features. We found the forest area and knew that this was a physical feature and we found the car park and we knew that this was a human feature.
Once we had been all around school we came back into the classroom and wrote down some of the things that we saw and made a symbol to represent it.
In English this week we are learning how to write instructions on ‘how to plant a magic beanstalk’. Our first lesson focussed on looking at what we must include when writing instructions. We looked at a good example and noticed some interesting language. Each instruction started with an adverbial of time which told us when to do something e.g First, then and next. We then noticed some bossy language ‘get’, ‘put’ etc. Then we played a fun game…
The game was so fun! We pulled a bossy face when we heard an adverb of time and a bossy face for the bossy language. We then gave each other instructions. I have never seen so many bossy children!
We then followed specific instructions on how to plant a magic beanstalk. We have put them on the windowsill so they get plenty of light. We look forward to watching them grow over the weeks.
Year one have noticed some differences in their surroundings from a few months ago. They told me that it “Isn’t as dark at home time or when we wake up”. We investigated that in Spring the sun rises earlier and sets later. We agreed that we much preferred this! Year 1 also talked about the weather getting slightly warmer than at Christmas time. We are looking forward to investigating Spring further next week.
In History, Year 2 have been learning about The Great Fire of London. In English today we started a new writing unit; Diaries. We have been learning about Samuel Pepys and reading some extracts from his diary entries. We found out lots of information from his diary entries. We are going to be writing our own diaries based on his work.
We have been learning about what plants need to grow. Today we started an ongoing investigation to test if our ideas were correct.
We started by discussing how a seed could start to grow.
We learnt new vocabulary to describe the growing process such as dormant and germinate.
Next, we split into groups and were told which condition our plant would or would not have before making a prediction about whether our seed would grow or not.
We planted our seeds and made sure we were conducting a fair test by only removing one of the conditions in each group and having one group with all conditions.
Finally we placed all our our planted seeds in a similar place to gain the same amount of sunlight and air, all except the ones we are testing for not having any light which had to go in the cupboard!
We will keep monitoring the seeds over the next few weeks to see what happens!
This morning Year 2 have started their new unit Fractions. We spent time looking at the whole and parts of the whole. Then we looked at equal parts. We split objects, numbers and shapes into two equal parts.
Year 2 have been learning about plants this term. They have learned the parts of the plant, the things a plant need to survive and have learned about different plants that we can eat. Year 2 used their Computing skills this week to create an informative leaflet all about plants. In their leaflet’s the added text and pictures. They also changed the font size and colour.
