Stories Jesus Told: The Prodigal Son

Christians believe that Jesus was a good storyteller who told some of the most well-known stories in the world.  His stories are written in  the bible.  Jesus used stories to teach people about God and how they should live.  These stories are called parables.  Watch the parable of 'The Prodigal Son'.  What do you think Jesus was trying to teach people with this story?

The Prodigal Son

Monster on the loose!

You will need to read the poem Help! by Jack Prelutsky. Use the poem  to find as much evidence as you can to feed back to the police in 3 days.  Add your interesting monster words to the evidence wall.

Phonics fun!

Some phonics revision for us.  Sing along to the phonics songs and have a try at reading the nonsense words!

Mr Toffee's Sweet Shop

Let's play shops!  Lots of us find problems involving money hard so this is a good way to learn the skill of finding the correct money to pay.

Math arcade

Why don't you give this game a try?  You can choose how hard or easy you want it to be and put your maths skills to the test. If you love arcade games then you will love math arcade!

How milk is made

As part of out door week we are learning about farms.  In this video you can see how milk is made.

Seaside Holidays in the Past

We have had a fantastic learning experience thanks to a Victorian lady who  visited us to tell us all about  seaside holidays.  She showed us artefacts from the past and photos too.  We did a drama workshop and pretended we were going on a  steam train to the coast.  We imagined playing in the sand, eating ice cream, getting ready for a swim in a bathing machine and other seaside fun.

Thank you to TEACH-IT through DRAMA.  We had a wonderful morning!

Farm yard fun en français

What are these French songs about?  Do you recognise any of them?

The Kiss That Missed; Jordan's Story

Task: Rewrite the story of 'The Kiss That Missed' independently.
Written in test conditions.

Once there was a prince and the king was in a hury, and the king kiss him good night said the king.  It "missed the prince told the Queen the Queen told the King, and the Queen said to the night.  Then the house galapt away.  Then the night sor a big wood and it was scary it was nary it was.......... snowing  Wolvs were dribly.  Ows are swoopy.  Once the kiss kiss the animals wolvs stop beeing drably.  bears stop beeying growly!.  Ows stop beeping swooy and the night sat on a rock but it wisent a rock it is a dragen!  and the kiss went in the dragens nose and it sneset! and the kiss went out  and the knight was trighying to run but the dragon said I want to kiss you good night said the dragon.  and they walkt back to the castle  the Queen or king read a story to the prince and went the king or Queen  the king or Queen fel asleep

Jordan has made a great effort to try use description and interesting  punctuation.

Next steps:  Read your work to check it makes sense.
Keep practising using speech marks so that you can start to use them in the right place.
Here is a punctuation game for you to play.

Art work from 'The Kiss That Missed'

Outdoor Week

Next week is Outdoor week and we are getting excited because it is going to be so much fun!  Lots of outdoor activities and adventures to come.......

Come and visit this virtual farm to get a taste of what we will be learning about.

The Kiss That Missed; Grace's Story

Task: Rewrite the story of 'The Kiss That Missed' independently.
Written in test conditions.

The king sed to the Queen fin The kiss see king get on the at huos see the king go fnee the huos Theay sour anmlls her went hoowm to see dad.  he suo a dragoon  The kis went up The drago nuos and The dragon woos hapee her bruot im back The anmls stop drillbin  The a wen to sleep and The hes and The nit and the nit sed we go hom.

Grace worked hard to retell this story and has remembered the main events.

Next steps:  Read your work really carefully when you have finished to check it makes sense.

Words to practice:

kiss        happy         said         saw   

Games to try:
Full stops game

Year 1 Assembly Reminder

Both year 1 classes have assemblies this half term with opportunities to find out what they have been learning and all the fun activities that have taken place.

Friday 16th May, Fern Class Assembly at 9am.
Friday 23rd May, Moss Class Assembly at 9am

Moss Class Fruit Salad Evaluations

Moss class have been using some fabulous adjectives to describe their fruit salads.  They look and sound delicious!

Some fruit salad singing fun.

Holidays Past and Present; Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy Shows are part of British seaside history.  We have watched some performances on youtube and we thought they were quite funny.  Why don't you try making your own Punch and Judy theatre?

Using a number square; A game for Luke and Riley

  
We are practising using a number square to add and take away.  Here is a game especially for Luke and Riley to try but everyone is welcome to play it as it is really  good fun.

Our special treasure hunt

 This half term we have a special visitor called Craig who comes to teach us our RE topic.  We are finding out about the parables of Jesus.  Today we went on a treasure hunt to find valuable jewels.  We  thought about the people and things that are most precious to us.  Craig showed us a treasure box with many special things inside.  When we opened the box the best treasures we saw was ourselves in  the mirror because we are all precious! Here are some pictures of the treasure boxes we made.

You can find more parables here.

Ava's Fantasy Story

Learning objective: To write my own story in a fantasy world.

Steps to success
I can write my own story about  a fantasy world.
I can use different types of punctuation.
I can think of adjectives to make my story interesting.

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess.  Evry lovely night she whood strock her warm kitten but one night her kitten climed out off the door.  Her kitten got super cold.  Mum said the Beautiful princess.  My kitten is lost.  Will find your beautiful warm cat said Elsa the queen off Erandall.  She got on her white horse and wolfs ran around the queen but saw the kitten.  They got the kitten and went back to the castle.  Elsa gave the princess her kitten had a good story and lived happly ever after.

Ava used some lovely description in her story! How many adjectives did she use?  Can you count them?
Next steps:  Next time we are going to focus on using different punctuation e.g. exclamation marks, question marks  or speech marks.

Story Writing Help Mat

Telling the time

Stop the Clock 1 and Stop the Clock 2 are fantastic games for practising telling the time.

Making a House for The Three Little Pigs

Do you know the story about The Three Little Pigs?  We designed a new house for them.   First of all we looked at some model houses and thought about the features that they had.  We got some ideas from lego houses like this one opposite.  Next we drew a picture of our own house design.

 We thought about the materials we might need to build our house.  Then we made them out of things we had brought in from home.

Making a fruit salad

We read Oliver's Fruit Salad then we had great fun making our own fruit salads and eating them.  Which fruits can you see the our bowls?

Counting in 2s and 10s

Some counting fun!  

Can you try counting in 2s on the number splat?
What patterns do you notice?

Look at the 10s on the number splat.
What do you notice?

The Kiss That Missed

This book is a great read!  We have looked at the story and thought about adjectives to describe the characters.  We  studied  the  plot and now we are going to use it as inspiration to write our own stories.  We are going to write a story with four parts.

The story plot can be divided into four main parts.

Making a fruit salad

We love eating fruit so we have been taste testing our favourites.  We are going to make fruit salads and we know that writing clear, careful instructions is really important.  We have drawn pictures of our fruit salad ideas and written how we are going to make them.

Holidays Past

In History we are learning about holidays in the past. We have started to find out about holidays in Victorian times and compare them to our own holidays.  For the first lesson we watched some videos and read about the seaside.  Then we sorted photos and sentences into past and present.