Year 1 loved coming into school in their pyjamas on Friday and even though they were dressed ready for bed they were still enthusiastic in their learning and showed high learning zones!

To celebrate book week, we spent the afternoon listening to stories in our pyjamas! We particularly enjoyed Julia Donaldson’s Monkey Puzzle and it inspired us to do some writing. We thought we could use some of our knowledge collected in our ‘Growing’ project to write about a daffodil looking for its Mum!

Here are some photos of us listening to stories and working in groups to write:

you’ll find hedgehog dens!

1e had a wonderful time at Rushmere yesterday morning when they went to do some learning in the forest!

We had such a busy morning focusing on the different animals that lived in the woods. Herons were first on the list, we got to see how big herons had to build their nests and even looked through a telescope to look at the herons and their nests which were high in the trees!

A big congratulations to Renee and Dylan from 1e as they were awarded their Determined Pins this week!

Dylan is always opening his heart to others and has been very determined to grow his writing and reading. Renee is always ready to learn with a positive attitude and gives excellent eye contact!

You are both fantastic determined year 1 role models! Well Done!

1e were very lucky to go to Forest School at Rushmere this week!

We wrapped up warm and headed for the woods. We learnt lots about trees, and played a game in partners where we took in turns to be blindfolded and had to feel the tree to describe it, was it smooth or rough? Did it have lots of branches? Was it thin or big?

We also learnt how to tell the age of a tree! We had a go at counting the rings inside the tree!

After warming up and having a snack in the visitor centre, we used the sticks we had collected to make different shapes. We were even challenged to make a pentagon!

Finally, we did a quiz. All the answers were numbers, for example how many legs does a spider have? We created a number line using all the numbers!

It was really fun learning outside in the woods!

Congratulations to Sarina in class 1e who was awarded her Determined Pin today! Sarina is a great year 1 role model who always opens her heart to others by helping her friends take their next steps in their learning! Sarina has also been very determined to grow her own learning, especially in reading! It was lovely to share this achievement with her family!

I wonder who will be the first determined pin in 2016!?

The Determined pins keep on coming in class 1e as we awarded two more to very determined year 1’s. This week Olivia and Emily both achieved their pins by being very determined in every aspect of Open, Grow and Believe. It was lovely to celebrate your achievements with your families. Well done on being so determined and being great Year 1 role models!

Year 1e have been growing their knowledge of trees this week- we read the story the Giving Tree to start thinking about all the different things that trees give us! We have been collecting lots of facts, which we will use to write an Acrostic Poem! Acrostic poems were a bit tricky at first, but we have been very determined and we are starting to get the hang of them now!

We have also been thinking about what we can give to other people, so far we have come up with:

Presents

Gotcha Smile

Love

Friendship

Eye contact

Listening ears

Cuddles

We have also been focussing on Peer Reviewing our work in trios, using success criterias to gold things that have been done well and we have even had a go at giving some next steps. We are really helping each other to grow our learning!