Wrlands Excitement

Yesterday was our trip to the Wetlands centre in Barnes as part of our science topic on plants and growing.

It was a very hot day and I was pleased that we managed to get water bottles and hats for every child. In this weather it is an essential for our children! Please remember this for our sports day tomorrow as it is not safe to take them out of school without a sun hat and a water bottle. We simply don't have spares so please make sure your child has them!

It was a lovely trip and we enjoyed pond dipping. We discovered lots of different insects - some of them were so small we needed a magnifying glass to see them. We also had lots of fun in the explorer section - some children got very wet! Just what we needed to cool down.

There were lots of ducks around - we especially enjoyed watching the baby ones play in the water. We also got very excited when they came out of the water and walked along the path beside us!

Ask your child what they learnt yesterday. We will be writing a postcard to Barnaby Bear about our adventures which your child will be bringing home soon so question them then!

Another small reminder - school packed lunches are always the sun - cheese and tuna so if you know your child does not like these sandwich fillings please make sure they have a home packed lunch.

Barnaby Bear travels to Gateway!

Hello, welcome back after our half term break. I hope you all had a good holiday and are enjoying the lovely sunshine we are having. Fingers crossed it will last! This final half term in Year 1 our Geography project is 'Where in the world is Barnaby Bear.' The children have all been giving a mini Barnaby and a pack of information about how we can share our Barnaby adventures on Fronter. We will also be taking home a class book and are asking for the children to take photos of their adventures with Barnaby each night and write a little paragraph explaining your fun activities. We would like every child to really get involved with this project so please see me if you have any questions regarding taking photos. Your child does not have to be in them, it is Barnaby we are focusing on!

We would also like for you to bring in your holiday photos of different places around the world. I will scan these in for children to look at in their Geography lessons. It makes it more exciting for them if they are discussing places they have already been to. We are trying to get as many different countries covered in this topic as we can so please help us!

Barnaby also has his own website that we will be using in class but some children expressed an interest in looking at it at home so here is the link!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/

Next week we are looking at the continents of the world - a very brief introduction to give us an idea about how the world is made up. We will be using globes in lessons and looking at some maps but if you would like a sneaky peak before next week here are some games you could play!

http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/continentNames/default.htm

This is for the kids to name the continents and try and test themselves! They will not be looking in too much detail so don't get too anxious. This is something they will revisit in Geography throughout primary school!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/keystage_1/games/geography1.shtml

This covers lots of the activities we will be doing over the next couple of weeks and mostly of them are linked to Barnaby! Ask your child what they learnt today in their Geogrpahy lesson. Can they tell you where Barnaby comes from?

On Friday we will be going to Regents Park in the afternoon with the rest of Year 1 as part of our Science topic of growing. Please make sure your child takes hayfever medicine in the moring if they need it, put on suncream or bring a hat etc if the weather is nice!

Super spellers!

This week our super spellers are:

Jahed, Obade, Mahirah, Zareen, Hanifah, Eddie, Rahatour, Jone Sheng, Amir, Imran, Hajer, Hassan, Astrit and Maryum.

Well done children!

Trip to the Geoffrye Museum

Last Thursday, 1 Peach went to the Geoffrye Museum and we all had a brilliant time. We learnt so much about old Victorian homes. We were lucky enough to have Mr Rossington there who gave us lots of information about how people used to have to do their washing and ironing and how people used to live.

Can your child name all these different items and what they were used for?

As we got there a little early, we walked around the herb garden and had fun smelling all the different plants and guessing what they were. The lemon was very fresh!

We really enjoyed pretending to be young ladies and gentlemen!

We were lucky enough to have a workshop as well. Lots of us knew that there wasn't electricity and we were good at finding other light sources such as the candles and oil lamp. We talked a lot about the types of entertainment there would be within a house. Ask your child for their ideas.... there were some wild and wonderful ones!

Super spellers

This week our super spellers are:
Jahed, Maryum, Sawsan, Bilal, Astrit, Hassan, Hajer, Jone Sheng, Hamza, Yahia, Eddie and Zareen.
Well done children!

Super Spellers!

This week's super spellers are: Naim, Astrit, Zareen, Yasmin, Hamza, Rahatour, Mahirah, Hassan, Maryum, Obade, Mehenaz, Jone Sheng, Eddie and Jahed. Well done children!

Nearly there are: Yahia, Hanifah, Hajer, Sawsan, Amir and Isa!

Please make sure your children learn their spellings every week. It is also a good idea to look at previous week's spellings to make sure they have remembered those and can still spell them! The children use these words all the time in their work not just for a spelling test!

Yahia won the Golden Award this week for always working hard. What a lovely reason to get an award.

Just a quick reminder that 1 Peach are going on their trip to the Geoffrye Museum this Thursday! A big thank you to all the parents who have paid their £2 donation. We are all very excited.

Here is a link to the website if you wanted to find out more about what the children will be seeing and doing on their visit.

http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/

The weather has unfortunately gone quite miserable again. Please make sure your child has their coat!

Literacy this week!

Welcome back after the holidays, I hope everyone enjoyed the break! I can't quite believe we are already in our summer term! The year is just flying by.

It has been an exciting return to school especially for our Literacy lessons as we have been lucky enough to have two visits in two days!

Yesterday we had a puppet show, the Lucky Gingerbread man from the Magic Book theatre. It was excellent and the children enjoyed themselves immensely, especially as they all know the story so well! We are looking forward to making some of the puppets we saw yesterday especially the newspaper puppets. They are so easy to make and hopefully will create hours of fun.

All of the puppets were made out of easily accessed materials such as wooden spoons from the kitchen and scourers etc.

My favourite activity was when we got into pairs and became Pinocchio and the puppet master. One person (the puppet master) had to lead the other (Pinocchio) in his movements. The children were amazing at looking carefully and copying movements.

We have some videos of the day which will be playing each morning at the start of the day so do come in and see what happened! Here is an extract of part of the show.

We have been studying non-fiction texts for three weeks now and on Monday began our big topic of creating an interactive non-fiction text on machines. We were lucky enough to have HSS, a hire company, come in with some of their machines and tools and explain how they work and what they are used for.

We used our science brains to think about why we would need ear defenders when using some of the machines. Hugh is sitting here on the dump truck. He answered all our questions.

The children came up with some amazing questions and lots of them enjoyed sitting on the dumper truck! There were lots of new and tricky words to add to our vocabulary, the teachers learnt lots of new words today as well!

Over the next two weeks we will be creating an information book about machines as a class and in groups. 1 Peach have already begun their book, we are calling it 'Machine Detectives' which Hamza thought of.

This is a pebble dasher and is used on walls of houses. We asked lots of questions about this machine especially as most of us weren't sure what pebbles were.

Ask your child what other machines and tools they saw today!

This is a metal locator. This is used to check there are no electric cables before drilling into the ground. We liked the noise it made to warn us when something was metal.

Next week we have another trip... come back for more details soon!

Working hard as usual!!!

This is a special blog from Obade, Isa, Naim and Jahed.
We have been working really hard in Literacy this week. Today we tried hard to remember all the features of a non fiction book Here is our list:

Headings

Glossary

Definitions

Labels

Index

Photos

Diagrams

Facts

Aren't they super clever??!!

Also a big thank you to the parents who have brought their reply slips and money in so promptly for our trip to the Geoffrye Museum. We have lots of exciting things planned for next half term.... come back soon for more details!!!!

Question wall and Easter chicks

This week we have been doing lots of fun things in our learning but these two activities are my favourite!

1 Peach now have a question wall where we can ask any question we like about a picture and then at the end of the week we will try to answer them!!!

In R.E. the children made Easter chicks in their nests, they should be bringing them home today. I was amazed at how independently the children completed this task. They are growing up very quickly... you parents should be very proud of them! Here are some photos of our beautiful chick nests!

By Mahirah

By Imran

Hello Farah-Noer!!!!

Last night I was in Sainsbury's doing my shopping when I met Farah-Noer and his mum. He has been off school for what seems like a long time. 1Peach misses him a lot and we have decided to write him a message!!!

Dear Farah-Noer,
Get well soon, I miss you so much love from Mahirah

Dear Farah-Noer, we hope you get much better love Hamza

Dear Farah-Noer, I miss you a lot, you are my best friend. Love Eddie

Dear Farah-Noer, I wish you were in school today because I told some exciting news about what I did at Rainbows last night. I made a tiara... do you know what that is? If not I can tell you when you come back to school. Love Tanya

Dear Farah-Noer, We miss you, we like playing with our new equipment. Yesterday I played tennis with Omar and Bledion. It's your turn on Friday, hope you are back by then! Love Obade.

Dear Farah-Noer, I hope you get better. Come back soon love Rahatour.

Dear Farah-Noer, Everyone in the class misses you, love from Yahia

Dear Farah-Noer, I wish you were better today, love from Hanifah.

Dear Farah-Noer, we made pinwheels in Science. It was fun, you can look at the pictures on the blog. Love from Omar.

Remember you can also log on to fronter at home and chat with your classmates in the discussion area. Yesterday we also planted our seeds at the back by the nursery. We can't wait until they grow.

Love Miss Sullivan and 1Peach!

Work today!!!

We have been really hands on today. We have been finding the difference using counters.... we know this is just another way of subtracting!

Tanya and Naim were especially good at this, my marvellous mathematicians of the day!

Then in science we were looking at the force of wind and made our own pin wheels. They are all colourful and bright! Did your child bring theirs home? Some of us needed to think a bit more carefully about where we placed our straws so that the pin wheel will still move. Later on in the week we will also be using bubbles and making kites!!!!

In Literacy we have been asking lots of questions.... ask your child about the question wall.... more details to follow!!!

Super spellers and scientists in 1 Peach!!!!

This week we have lots of super spellers, I am so pleased!!!!

Hanifah, Zareen, Nabil, Sadia, Tanya, Amir, Yahia, Obade, Rahatour, Mahirah, Hassan, Jone Sheng, Sebahat, Mehenaz, Eddie, Maryum, Yasmin and Omar.

Well done children!!!!

Here are our photos of our science lesson when we investigated pushes and pulls.

A weekly update:

As usual we have been super busy in 1 Peach this week!

Our Super spellers this week are:

Sadia, Tanya, Rahatour, Hanifah, Astrit, Zareen, Jone Sheng, Omar, Maryum, Sajidah, Bilal, Mehenaz, Eddie, Yahia, Nabil, Isa, Yasmin and Amir.

Well done to those children but next week I would like to be able to say the whole class got full marks!!!

We have been doing lots of fun things in class this week. In Science this afternoon we went to the playground and investigated all the different pushes and pulls that happened as a result of using the playground equipment. It really helped the children think about whether they were pushing or pulling plus we enjoyed having our lesson in the sunshine!!! In the morning I will have all the pictures on a slideshow so please come in and look at them!

In Numeracy we have been thinking about halving and quartering. We have been using fruit as a practical example of how to halve and quarter an object. Some of us have also tried to create shapes on pegboards for our friends to halve. That was really tricky!!!!

In Literacy we have started our non chronological unit of work. We are learning about the different types of non fiction books and this week are focusing on the dictionary. Ask your child if they know what definition means.... they should all know!!! I have been very impressed with how well the children know their alphabet. Most of the class knew it from the beginning of the week so it has been an easy job teaching them! Well done children! This will be leading into a special report on machines... more details about that to follow! Be careful if you come into our class though because we have already begun transforming our home corner into a building site!!! Hard hats are needed!

If you do have a dictionary or special non fiction book at home try and look at with your children or bring it into class for us to share.

Also if you get a chance come and look at our lovely spring time display around our whiteboard. The children have been working especially hard in R.E to consider new life and spring and why Christians celebrate Easter. We have decorated some beautiful eggs to symbolise new life and written some thoughtful and sensitive spring time messages.

A final note about fronter. If you are reading this at home with your child why not log on to fonter with them and leave a comment on our discussion board. The children all know how to do this as it was our topic in ICT last half term. I look forward to reading all your comments!

Super spellers

We had lots of super spellers this week, well done children!


They are: Jahed, Yahia, Mehenaz, Tanya, Rahatour, Eddie, Hanifah, Zareen, Yasmin, Maryum, Hassan, Imran, Amir, Jone Sheng, Sebahat, Hamza and Sadia.

An apology to Eddie who I missed off the list last week, sorry Eddie!

Nearly there: Sajidah, Bilal and Rafa.

A big well done to Sebahat and Hassan who have made a fantastic start to this new term. I am very pleased with their hard work!!!!

This term we will be doing lots of exciting learning, see the front door for all the different topics we will be covering!

Ask your child about our class challenge for wow words. We are trying to make a big word bank of interesting words to use in our writing.

Literacy writing!!!

Last week was very exciting with all the snow we had in London! It was lovely to wake up and play in the snow, but not so great to walk in the ice!


Some children came in both days and we tried our best to carry on with work! On Tuesday we did some fantastic news writing about our adventures in the snow! Look out for that wonderful work to be updated onto the school website at the end of the half term.

This is Mahirah's work she sounds like she had a wonderful time!

By Mahirah

We have been working really hard in Literacy learning about traditional and fairy tales. We ahev done lots of acting and role play, some of which has already been put on the blog.



On Friday we did some really hard work where we could only write what the character was saying. This was very difficult as we are used to retelling a whole story!!! See outside our classroom for some excellent pieces of work.

We have also finished our first Tigger book - everyone in the class has taken him home and written a story about their adventures with him. Tomorrow, there will be a friend of Tigger coming to Peach class and we will be starting a new book. The children love Tigger so much that there is a second book of his adventures that will be coming home as well!! Look out for your child bringing him home!

Super Spellers!!!

This week the following children got all their spellings right:

Isa, Maryum, Sawsan, Hajer, Hamza, Farah-Noer, Tanya, Hanifah, Mahirah and Sadia. Well done children!

Next week more names please!!!!

Little Red Riding Hood - A play by the Rabbits

This week we have been busy learning about some of the fairytales. We have read Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood. We have all been trying hard to act out the stories as well as doing fantastic writing and reading, the weekend will be a good chance to rest our busy brains!!





Here is the video of the Rabbits performing their play. I hope you enjoy it!

Dress Up Friday!

At last our book week is sadly nearly at an end. The children have all been excited to wear their costumes and have enjoyed guessing who everybody is!!!

(By the way I was Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl!)

We finished off our week with a science experiment to find which material would be best to keep the big bad wolf away from us and a Gateway premiere of our Three Little Pigs play. We especially liked the popcorn while we were watching! We also did lots and lots of reading as you can see!!!!

We made a special book describing our friends in the class and why we liked them! It is in our classroom if you would like to come and see it.

We also had a special assembly where we looked at Reception and Year 2's costumes. The year 2 children knew Mrs Pieris was the Snow Queen from the Narnia stories; I think the other children are too young to be familiar with the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, although they all know that character now!!!!