Exploring our senses!

Last week in our Science lesson we had great fun exploring our senses. We explored our sense of hearing by closing our eyes, listening to various instruments being played and trying to guess which instruments made the sound.
We explored our sense of taste by getting some children to close their eyes and taste various strong flavours.
Our sense of smell by covering up foodstuffs with powerful scents and trying to guess what they were. Items included lemon juice, coffee, crips, vinegar, barbecue sauce and popcorn.
Finally, we explored our senses of touch and sight by looking at objects such as seashells and Weetabix with our magnifying glasses.

The children then wrote up this lesson using the vocabulary learned in last weeks literacy lessons.

Maths, Dancing and Art

Poetry In Motion

Last week in 1D we were looking at poetry. All the children wrote beautiful poems about sea creatures. We have written them up in our best handwriting and we are going to make a display based on this hard work.

When creating the poems, the children had to think about a sea creature and use 'WOW' words to describe the creatures' actions and appearance. The poems also contained repetition.

Here is a selection of verses taken from poems:

Here comes the big dolphin,
See him twirl in the sea,
Here comes the hungry shark.
Listen to him chewing in the sea.

Here comes the cute dolphin,
See him splashing in the sea.
Here comes the ugly shark,
Watch him diving in the sea.

Here comes the angry whale,
Listen to him swimming in the sea.
Here comes the big shark,
Watch him playing in the sea.

Here comes the blue dolphin,
See him dive in the sea.
Here comes the clever seahorse,
Watch him float in the sea.

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Well done 1D for all you wonderful work !!!!

I will endeavour to upload more photos by the end of the week.

Mr Devereux.

Happy New Year

Our first week back in the New Year was fantastic.

In R.E. we started a new topic entitled journeys. We spoke about journeys that we took alone and with other people. We spoke about good times we had on journeys such as trips to Southend and trips abroad to meet up with family and friends.
We also spoke about modes of transport used to reach our destinations and the fun things we did when we got there.

In numeracy we looked at tens and units. We looked at ways we could add big numbers together e.g. 13 + 24, 14 + 25 etc.
The children found this very difficult be we will be practicing more.

This is the method we used when adding:
Question: 13 + 24 =
Answer:
10 + 20 = 30 (Add tens)
3 + 4 = 7 (Add units)
30 + 7 = 37 (Add answers)

In literacy we worked on rhyming poems with some great results.
We also looked at some strange fish and wrote sentences to describe them.
Below is one of the peoms writted by the children. I have also got them to read it out:

When I Was One
When I was one I had fun,
When I was two I said moo,
When I was three I ate some peas,
When I was four I was poor,
When I was five I was alive,
When I was six I was sick,
When I was seven I went to heaven,
When I was eight I learned to skate,
When I was nine I felt fine,
When I was ten I found a hen.