How can we stay happy and healthy?

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If we want to be healthy we must clean our teeth.  Also we must avoid sweets and sugary drinks because they make will make your teeth rotten and you will get toothache! 

Finding the difference.

We are learning to find the difference between two numbers by counting up from the smallest to the largest number.  Watch Younes and Luke explain how this is done.

Pirate PE

Pete and Nat from the Boogie Beebies have a pirate dance to show us.  Join in and do a pirate work out.

How can we stay happy and healthy?

To answer our Project Based Learning big question  'How can we stay happy and healthy?'  we have been thinking about the importance of sport and exercise.   Watch Sportacus doing some keep fit exercises.  Can you do them too?

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Robert and Grace decided to make clay models of people playing football for their projects.

What should their next steps be to make their models even better?  They could watch this episode of 'Let's Play' on Cbeebies for ideas to add to their models.

A pirate song

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Today we practised our singing to some pirate music.  We love singing and we love being pirates.

Project Based Learning Homework

This week's homework is based on our project based learning question 'How can we stay happy and healthy?'.  

 

Choose to do one of the following in your homework book:

1) Write the heading ‘healthy food’ and the heading ‘unhealthy food’.  Draw or glue in pictures of foods that fit these descriptions.

2) Write about the hobbies you or people in your family do to stay happy and healthy.  You could draw pictures of these hobbies.

3) Write about what can happen if you do not make healthy food choices and you do not do exercise.

Pirate Adventures

This week we will be reading 'The Night Pirates' by Peter Harris.

What adjectives does the author use to describe the pirates?

Does he use any similes?

Pirate Adventures

So you want to be a pirate?  Let's find out about a pirate's life!

Class Three All At Sea

My favourite place

Can you make a collage of your favourite place like this one?  What materials will you use?  Here are some of the collages that we made:

How can we stay happy and healthy?

Our 'Big Question' for our project based learning is 'How can we stay happy and healthy?'  We can choose how we would like to answer this question and we will present our answer at the festival of learning when we invite our Mums and Dads to come and see our work.

Here are some ideas of how we might present our answer.  

How will you answer the question?  
What research will you need to do?

Find out about staying healthy by playing this game.

Staying safe on the internet

The pirates have landed!

Pirates have landed and they have hidden their treasure somewhere in year 1.  Can you decode the secret message to find the gold coins? 
Click on the picture to enlarge it.

Next week our writing will have a pirate theme and we will be reading 'Class Three All at Sea' by Julia Jarman.

Here is a pirate game to get you in the mood.

Moss Class display

 
What do you think of the new display outside Moss Class?  We think it is wonderful!

We're going on a monster hunt!

We are writing monster themed poetry.  Yesterday we wrote similes to describe our monsters and today we used alliteration.

Phase 5 phonics

Mr Thorne makes phonics fun.  We like practising nonsense words with him.  Can you read these phase 5 nonsense words?

Thinking of a favourite place

Learning objective:  To identify colours, textures, smells and sounds in my favourite place and describe my feelings.

Steps to success:

I can tell you about a favourite place of mine.

I can use adjectives to describe the favourite place.

Favourite place photo collage

Look at this photo collage of a favourite place.  Can you guess where it might be?  What clues are there?

We are going to make collages then sculptures using our favourite places as inspiration.

All about shape

We had all sorts of shapes activities to try today.  We went on a shape hunt around the school and took photos of the shapes we found.  How many different shapes can you see ?

We made 3-D shape models..... 

     

2-D shape pictures........

 and we looked at different photographs to find the 2-D or 3-D shapes.

 

A terrible mess......

The scene of devastation

Evidence wall

When we came to school this morning what a terrible mess greeted us! A monster had knocked over books and pencil pots leaving sticky green footprints everywhere. We collected all the evidence we could from the scene of the crime.  It was awful. Until we find the culprit everyone is on high alert.  Keep your eyes and ears open for clues year 1!

Sculptures

This half term in Art we are going to be learning about and making our own sculptures.  

Look at these photographs of different sculptures.  
What materials do you think they were made out of?
Which is your favourite sculpture and why do you like it?

Shape game

Today we made shape pictures using 2-D Shapes.  Why don't you have a go at making some shape pictures of your own?