Strawberry fun.

On Thursday we planted our strawberries.  Have a look at our video to listen to the stories the children wrote about it and see what we did. 

Flying. By Seth

Seth is flying in an aeroplane, can you guess what he does once he's landed?  Listen to his story to find out if you were right.

The Crash, By Jasraj

A car has crashed! Listen to the story to find out what happened next.

Gardening

On Wednesday we started to get our garden bed ready for the plants.  First we took out the weeds, then we put newspaper down and wet it.  This was to stop more weeds from growing.  Once the newspaper was really wet we started to fill up our garden with dirt.  It was a very messy job but lots of fun.  We were all very tired at the end but we can't wait to start growing strawberries so we can eat them all up! Alex wrote a story about what we did to make our garden, have a look:

Take a look at this slide show to see what we did.

Welcome Rachel

Rachel turned five on Friday.  Today is her first day of school and she had a great day.  She loved looking at the books and playing with her new friends. Welcome to A3 Rachel.

The big cage. By Jaida

Jaida is trapped! Have you got any ideas on how she can escape?

Welcome Tevita!

Tevita turned five on Friday and has joined our class.  He loves playing on the computer and playing with the cars.  Welcome to our class Tevita.

First time movie makers!

This is the first time that Patrick and Esther have read their stories for our blog.  I think they did a great job!  Have a listen and let them know what you think.

Insects

Some of the children have been learning to write descriptions this week. Since we have been talking about insects we decided to write descriptions of insects.  The children used a writing checklist  to make sure that their description had the name of the insect, its colour and a word describing the size of the insect.  They used the books that we had been reading to find the words they needed.  Take a look at the photos of these amazing writers at work.

Here is the video of the children reading their descriptions.  They each drew a picture of their insect on kidpix which you can see at the start of each clip.

The snail. By Katie

We have been looking at snails this week.  Here is Katie reading a story about a naughty snail.

The shark and the puffer fish

Last term we learnt about puffer fish and some of the children are still very interested in them.  Here is Charin reading a story she wrote about a puffer fish and a shark.

Table Tennis. By Simon

In the holidays Simon got a new table tennis table.  Here is Simon reading a story he wrote about it.

The Praying Mantis


 Today the lions read 'The Praying Mantis' by Pauline Cartwright.  The book was really interesting, here are the children telling you what they learned and what happened in the story.





Do you have any interesting facts about the praying mantis? Please let us know!



Praying mantis, by Avnish



Our puffer Fish

We have been working hard for about five weeks to make these wonderful puffer fish.  First we had to cover our balloons in layers and layers of newspaper and glue. After that we had to cover the balloon in white paper and wait for it to dry before we could begin painting it.  It's taken a long time but the results are great and all of the children are very proud of their fish.

Year one barbeque

On the last day of term we had a barbeque with all of the year one classes.  We got to play with the sports equipment and the parachute.  It was heaps of fun.  Take a look at our photos.