A spot of gardening
Thanks to Zeewa and Edward for volunteering to help Mrs Edwards tend to the front garden. Clearing out of weeds and watering to do done!
Butterflies!
Last week we said goodbye to our five Painted Lady butterflies. Some children have reported seeing them in their gardens!
Plants all around us
We’ve had some great homework this week, looking at plants in the local environment.
Can you remember the names of these herbs?
Free tennis lessons
Free tennis lessons (for children and adults) are available locally at David Lloyd and Roundhay Park over the next few months.
Plant Puzzles
We had a puzzling afternoon on Friday. There was a challenge given to the Year 1 children – they were given seven pieces of a beanstalk. Their challenge was to create a beanstalk as close to a metre as possible but they were only allowed to use five pieces altogether. This was not as easy as it looked!
Where does our food come from?
Lots of our food comes from plants. We are hoping to make something to eat using home grown produce. Along with tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and courgettes, we also planted some herbs and different flowers.
Class photograph
A quick reminder that the photographer will be in school on Tuesday morning to take our class photo – smiles at the ready!
What’s happening this week?
Our plant topic continues and we’re starting to see the fruits of our labour.
This week, we’ll see our plants moving outside into planters so see if you can spot them and see how they’re progressing.
Maths – As we’re watching our plants grow, we’re going to practise our ruler skills so that we can measure the height of our plants and continue doing so as they grow. Additionally, we’ll be looking at temperature. When do we measure temperature? How does temperature change throughout the year? How does temperature affect us and the world around us? We shall also look at reading scales on thermometers which will involve our being introduced to negative numbers.
English – After two weeks of writing non-fiction, our creative juices will be flowing again as we take on the character of The Hungry Caterpillar and perform, discuss and write poetry. Help at home by talking about poems you know or like and seeing how much of it you can learn and remember.
Planting and more planting
So far in our new topic, Green Fingers, Year 1 have been getting their hands dirty. We’ve been following instructions for planting cress seeds and broad bean seeds and also planting a range of vegetables, herbs and flowers. It’s been great to hear that so many of the children are growing some of their own plants at home.
What do plants need to grow? This was a question we considered this week and we set up some experiments to test this.
As we continue to work on our writing targets in English, we’ve been writing descriptions of plants. This is also helping us to remember the names for the different parts of plants.
We’ve also been reading stories about plants – Jack and the Beanstalk, Jasper’s Beanstalk and Tiny Seed. Are there any other books about plants that you can think of?
Finally, here is our best crop so far!
Getting into position
In our latest session with Dan from Leeds United we looked at where to position ourselves to receive a ‘ball’. For a change, we used balloons to test this.
