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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!

12 June 2015

All the spellings this week contain the letter string ough. It’s important to practise reading these words as well as writing them down as there are a variety of sounds that the ough words can make.

The sound which the ough word make are shown in bold in the list eg ‘uff‘.

12 June 2015

The homework this week is talk time and is related to our SEAL theme: changes.

I can change my learning / behaviour for the better.

Children should talk at home about what they can do to improve either their learning, behaviour or both.

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.

12 June 2015

This week’s spellings are nouns (singular to plural).

For some of the words, you have to drop the y and replace it with an ies in order to pluralise the word. Can you spot any other spelling patterns or rules in these words?

‘Join our Club’ girls football

Fourteen of our Year 3 and 4 girls took part in the Wigton Moor ‘Join our Club’ festival at Immaculate Heart Primary. This followed a series of curriculum training sessions at school as part of the Join our Club initiative.

The festival involved three local schools, with over 60 girls taking part, providing the opportunity for the girls to play in friendly matches and demonstrate their skills.  It was great to see so many girls getting involved, especially in the heat and after a three day residential for some!  Well done to all our players.

Girls from Years 3, 4 and 5 are now invited to attend the Wigton Moor girls team trials on 28 June.

12 June 2015

This week’s homework is creative.

I know what grows in my local environment.

As always, be as creative as you like. 

We would like children to look around the local environment to find particular flowers, plants and trees. 

• Do they know the name of them?  If they don’t, how can they find out? 
• Have they found any unusual plants?  If so, where were they?
• What do they notice about leaves from different trees?

12 June 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 19 June.

Dance at Allerton Grange

This morning we visited Allerton Grange High School and were taught a few dance routines by the students there. A special mention to Brandon, Edward and Matthew who all demonstrated some great moves.

Volcanoes

Our topic this half term is ‘Extreme Earth‘. We’re studying how the earth is made up of different layers and tectonic plates. Our focus has been volcanoes and what causes an eruption.

Work has begun on our very own volcanoes using plastic bottles and papier mache. We had lots of fun creating these and are really looking forward to our very own eruptions later in the week.

Take a look at our progress so far.