Base 1 News
Mrs McGhie: April 2017
Welcome back Base 1 after the Easter holidays!
The children were very excited to tell me all about their Easter Break and how many Easter eggs they had eaten! It was also lovely to see that our bulbs have grown in the outdoor area. We have some beautiful tulips and flowers in our pots. We had to wait a long time, but it was worth the wait.
This week we began our new topic all about 'Africa'. We talked about all the different things we would be learning about — landscape and landmarks, people, animals, languages, art to name but a few. The children located Africa on a world map and we learnt that there were 55 countries that make up Africa and that the landscape in the North is very different to the landscape in the South.
In Literacy we have been reading Handa's Surprise. We have been sequencing the story and learning all about adjectives (describing words). We picked them out of the text and then had a go at writing our own adjectives to describe different types of fruit.
In maths we have been consolidating place value. We have been practicing one more and one less, counting in 10's and spotting missing numbers in number sequences. Next week we will be working on division.
In PE we have been practicing our ball skills and playing team games. We have even started practicing for sports day!
Year 1 took home maths homework this week concentrating on one more and one less. Please have this back for Thursday Year 1.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs McGhie and Mrs Griffin
popular recent articlesAlso in the news
What a lovely treat Base 3 had this week. On Tuesday, we visited Broomhall Chapel to enjoy an Easter Hope Journey. We leant about the Easter story through hands on activities, art and craft, drama and we were even lucky enough to see and stroke a lamb. Thank you to everyone who made this possible for us- it was a lovely...
It's our final ACHIEVE of the spring term! Well done to everyone who received an award this week. It was lovely to see so many We All Matter awards from the friendship buddies.Yellow team won the team points this week but were very closely followed by green team who were just a few points behind.Well done to Base 1 who won the attendance this week. Base 2 are still winning the whole year...
We have had a busy few weeks...We have been searching for giants, helped Jasper to grow a bean seed, used our story map and actions to recall and retell the story, 'Jasper's Beanstalk', explored height, developed our gross and fine motor skills, shown good attention and listening skills during our phonics and rhyme time sessions, explored spring and have had lots of fun searching...