Tennis training
Have you been watching Wimbledon? New tennis lessons are starting at Roundhay Park next week.
Ruler rules
Now we can compare lengths and order them, it’s time to get better using a ruler. After comparing different lengths and putting them in height order, we learnt how to use a ruler properly so that we could check whether our ordering was accurate.
Good choices lead to good times
This is what happens when we make good choices – we get extra playtime in the front playground.
Into the woods….
Yesterday, we went for a walk to the top of Shadwell Lane and found a little woodland area. We spent an hour looking at the different trees, finding different leaves and sketching. We’re so lucky that we can find an area like this so close to school.
Perfect planter
Having worked so hard on planting our seeds and making sure they’ve got the best environment to grow, we’ve now planted them outside in our new Y1/2 planter. Come down past the dining room to see how they’re doing. We’ve got nasturtiums, sunflowers, courgettes, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and broad beans growing. Hopefully, we’ll have another planter soon to get all of our seedlings outside.
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.
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!
