Year 1 Newsletter

Year 1 have discovered a passion for poetry since the whole school poetry fortnight began!  We have enjoyed listening to and watching a range of different types of poems alongside immersing ourselves in an imaginary seaside visit last week!  We did this so that we could collect lots of different vocabulary to help us write our own seaside poems this week.  It was a lot of fun and the children amazed us with their word choices.   We have been busy learning our class poems for the Poetry Slam in a couple of weeks too, trying hard to use clear expressive voices. We can't wait to perform them!

 

In our topic lesson we continued our learning about the Victorian seaside entertainment of Punch and Judy shows.  We discovered that they are still part of seaside entertainment today!  We made our own Punch and Judy characters lolly stick puppets and made up our own little shows in trios. Then we performed them to the class. 

'That's the way to do it!'

In our last science lesson before half term, we revisited our learning about seasonal change.  The last time we made seasonal observations was at the end of autumn and we noticed that our school grounds have changed so much since then!  This time, the trees were full of green leaves instead of brown, red, yellow and orange leaves on the ground, and it was so warm we didn't even need our coats!

We completed a scavenger hunt in pairs and found flower buds, blossom, new leaves growing, insects being more active, feathers, lichen on twigs, leaves that had been munched on and the field was covered in daisies!