Year 1 and 2 are doing dance and yoga in PE this half term. We have started with dance and have talked about moving at a low, medium and high level and using our bodies to make interesting shapes. We are listening to different types of music – from Kate Bush to The Planets by Holst. Dance is just another way of moving our bodies (to music) and we have really enjoyed it!
We had a very full classroom yesterday. Thank you for coming to see what your children are learning and how you can support them at home.
Orally rehearsing (talking!) is so important and modelling how to make sentences and phrases interesting helps children to implement this in their writing.
Counting, grouping and partitioning everyday objects at home can also help consolidate their understanding of number and patterns.
We’ve had a fabulous day at Lotherton Hall today. We visited the Wildlife World and learnt all about different animals and their habitats. We saw penguins, wart pigs, so many birds, bats, rats and wallabies.
We also had fun on the adventure playground and of course, eating our snacks and lunch!
We have read Here We Are (Notes for Living on Planet Earth) by Oliver Jeffers this week. We have enjoyed reading and discussing the book, picking out the main themes and messages.
We will link the book to our geography learning about our local area and science learning about plants, animals and habitats too. We will be learning about our locality, Scholes, and the city and country we live in.
Help at home
There is a link to listen to it here. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from 1,2B.
We had a blast at our party today. See you all in 2025!
Before our delicious Christmas lunch today, we went to the winter wonderland Christmas inflatable display created by Mrs Pennock and her crew. Thank you so much for this amazing spectacle for Christmas! We loved it.
We all had a blast at the Christmas Disco last week.
Please consider joining FOSP (Friends of Scholes Primary) – they’re always looking for new recruits to help organise special events like this!
This week, 1,2B have been using their food preparation skills to create their latest product – fruit smoothies.
This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to create a product each term.
The recipe was taken from this healthy eating website. We read it so we could understand the instructions before we made our smoothies.
First, we got ready to cook by washing our hands.
We used lots of different food preparation skills including peeling, chopping, measuring and pouring.
Then, the best part, children got to enjoy their smoothies.
We always evaluate our product afterwards to see how it could be changed next time. In a link to our learning about adjectives (words that add information about a noun), there were plenty of adjectives used to describe the smoothies – yummy, flavoursome, sweet, creamy and delicious.
Help at home by encouraging your child to demonstrate some of their food preparation skills by making this again at home, or a different smoothie recipe!
This half term, we are learning about art – both practically and some art history too.
We are learning about Georges Seurat, who used pointillism (dots), and Bridget Riley, who is an optical artist (uses shapes, pattern and colour to create illusions).
We have created dots using cotton buds and bubble wrap and are beginning to use them as backgrounds to add shapes, exploring which colours go well together.
Help at home by talking about your preferences for certain artists or colours and shapes.
After adjective day, we have been trying to use interesting vocabulary instead of always using ‘everyday’ words.
We tried to put words in order from the strongest to the weakest.
