What a brilliant week Year 1 have had being artists! Daring Dragonflies have been creating their own splatter paintings inspired by our artist of the term, Jackson Pollack. They finished their art pieces by replicating the silhouette of a New York skyline through collage.
The Curious Caterpillars looked at examples of collage and the key skills involved in tearing and overlapping pieces of paper to create a collage. They all came up with such beautiful ideas that Miss Crawford is going to display them in the classroom! See photos attached for both classes.
In English, the children loved getting into character as Orion from our Power of Reading Text, Orion in the Dark. We used hot seating to explore what happened in the story and summarise the main points, see photos attached. Then the children used this to write diaries from the perspective of Orion. Miss Crawford and Miss Betts are so proud of how far the children have come with their writing and cannot wait to see what we can achieve this year!
The Curious Caterpillars have started a reading competition where your child gets a sticker for every read they have done at home and recorded in the orange reading record. Then when children get 5 stickers they get to choose a prize from Miss Crawford’s special jar! We have had so many winners that she needs to re-stock her supplies already!
In maths, we have been using number lines to answer subtraction equations. We have also been comparing subtraction equations by using the correct symbols.
In phonics this week the Daring Dragonflies have been learning the ‘ou’ sound (ou, ou, look out, bears about!). The children went on a bear hunt outside to find the bears that had gobbled up our ‘ou’ words. When they found a bear, they had to sound out the words from inside their belly! See photos attached!
The Curious Caterpillars decided they didn’t want to waste Miss Crawford’s flipchart paper after she had filled one side. So, we have been using the reverse side to practise our fine motor skills on a giant scale with some children even designing giant robots together! See photos attached of their masterpieces.
Quote of the week: Creativity is messy.