Class 1

Class 1

Forest School
Class 1 have thoroughly enjoyed their Wild Wednesday sessions so far. We have focused on the seasons, specifically Autumn. We looked at different types of trees and discovered that some leaves turn different colours during Autumn. Deciduous trees lose their coloured leaves and evergreen trees keep their leaves. We have been to visit the park where we collected Autumn objects to create art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. We have also explored our forest school area. 

Expressive art and design
We have been working hard to develop our art skills. We learnt to use the powder paints and used our very important rhyme: water, powder, pallet to help us remember what do to. We then used this skill to paint poppies. We have also practised our painting skills to create self-portraits. We had to use a mirror to see what colours to use for our facial features as we wanted to make then as accurate as possible.  During music, we have been developing our understanding of pulse and keeping a steady beat. We listened to Vivaldi’s composition of the four seasons. We are currently learning about dynamics. 

Busy Time
Busy time is our favourite time in Class 1 and we are very creative. We are naturally drawn to activities where we can express ourselves and embed our skills that we learnt during carpet learning. We are keen to use our imagination to create on the art tables and build using the wide range of construction we have available to choose from. Our favourite construction is the marble run. We enjoy problem solving and developing relationships and teamwork through making huge projects together. 

PE
In our PE lessons, we have been focusing on our ball skills. We practiced rolling, making sure we keep our bodies low and move slowly to control where we want the ball to go. We have also learnt a chest pass. We hold the ball with two hands and push the ball off our chest to our partner. Our partner needs to be ready holding both hands out ready to catch. During a bounce pass, we need to have two hands on the ball and push the ball down between ourselves and our partner. Our partner will have two hands out ready to catch. Class 1 have been working hard on their skills and you can see this in their passes. 

Phonics 
We have been very busy learning lots of new sounds. We have loved learning the little rhymes to help us write them properly. We look forward to learning more new sounds and get very excited to use them in our writing. We are so enthusiastic with our writing, we all like to be first to write and enjoy practising them during our busy times!  Now that we know lots of sounds, we have been getting better at our reading too! We like to share reading books with each other in busy time and get excited to get new reading sheets.