Welcome to Year 1 Class 3 (Mrs Balmer)

Our teacher is Mrs Balmer. Our teaching assistant is Mrs McGlinchey.

Spring 2020

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Week of 08/03/2020: 1.3 made Beetroot Brownies in class. The looks and smelt delicious!

Week of 08/03/2020: 1.3 were learning about Palm Sunday. They made palm leaves and truly enjoyed reenacting the story

Week of 08/03/2020: 1.3 looked for similar features of non-chronological reports.

Week of 08/03/2020: 1.3 had lots of fun on world book day, and all the children looked amazing.

Week of 01/03/2020: What an exciting morning. 1.3 had with a visit from our local fire fighters.

Week of 23/02/2020: 1.3 explored aerial maps to find famous landmarks in London.

Week of 09/02/2020: 1.3 have made tuna pasta today we have some wonderful chefs in training

Week of 09/02/2020: Congratulations to 1.3 on passing level 1 of balanceability.

Week of 02/02/2020: 1.3 used the magnifying glasses to take a closer look at evergreen leaves.

Week of 26/01/2020: 1.3 showing off their amazing mathematical skills by using a range of manipulative and their knowledge of tens and ones to represent numbers to 50.

Week of 20/01/2020: 1.3 sorted leaves, we decided which were deciduous and evergreen. Then we looked at different shapes and textures.

Week of 13/01/2020: We have been learning to play the C chord in time to Three Blind Mice this week in Music.

Week of 13/01/2020: We toured aroung the school taking photos of all our displays, and we are now editing them together in iMovie as wella s adding videos of ourselves and soundtracks.

Week of 13/01/2020:1.3 had fun acting out the story of The Enormous Turnip.

Autumn 2019

Week of 25/11/2019: 1.3 have had a busy art week already. We have learnt about drawing different shapes, shading pictures, mixing primary colours and exploring the artist Kandinsky.

Week of 18/11/2019: 1.3 made Pudsey buns to celebrate children in need day. We had a great time.

Week of 22/10/2019: 1.3 performed lowrider on ukulele and percussion instruments in our Arts Assembly.
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Week of 22/10/2019: 1.3 explored a range of resources to find out which would make the best fastener for a coat for our teddies. We recorded our results identifying which was the best.

Week of 15/10/2019: 1.3 have been learning to sing Lowrider, and have been playing percussion instruments and ukulele in time to the music.

Week of 15/10/2019: 1.3 used iPads to simulate a Beebot and navigate a map successfully. We used the Beebots last week to get used to them, and next week we will be using them to navigate a real map!

Week of 15/10/2019: 1.3 The children made their own number track, then practised adding numbers to 10 by jumping on the right amount of steps

Week of 10/10/2019: 1.3 used iPads to simulate a Beebot and navigate a map successfully. We used the Beebots last week to get used to them, and next week we will be using them to navigate a real map!

Week of 10/10/2019: 1.3 have been learning to clap in time as well as tap and strum a ukulele in time to the song ‘Lowrider’. We have been having fun making the sounds of a car in between the spoken lyrics.

Week of 30/09/2019: 1.3 had a great time on our trip to the Albert Dock and the museum

Week of 24/09/2019: 1.3 used  a 10 frame to find number bonds to 10

Week of 24/09/2019: Art – Experimenting with colours

Summer 2019

Week of 01/04/2019: RG had a fantastic day in the sunshine visiting Chirk Castle

Week of 01/04/2019:  It’s a busy day at the Monksdown car wash. Lots of bikes and scooters are out on the road today

Week of 26/03/2019: Gymnastics in the hall

Week of 18/03/2019: Reception having lots of outside fun

Week of 18/03/2019: Reception having lots of fun during choose time

Week of 03/03/2019: RG have had a very busy week this week. On Tuesday we wrote instructions “how to make a pancake” then made pancakes and had a go at pancake tossing. On Thursday we celebrated world book day. We enjoyed learning about a new book “Tuesday” by David Wiesner. We all dressed up as frogs just like in the story.

Week of 03/03/2019: RG love phonics and guided reading. We do it every single day!

Week of 11/02/2019: RG had a fantastic day at Croxteth Park on their winter walk. We noticed that all of the leaves on our favourite tree had gone. To warm up we had a hot chocolate before going to play amongst the trees. We had a lovely picnic for our lunch and finished off our day playing on the slides. We are already looking forward to our spring walk.

Week of 11/02/2019: RG working hard practising their letter formation

Week of 04/02/2019: Writing our tricky words during phonics

Week of 04/02/2019: RG celebrated Chinese New Year by making Chinese lanterns and decorating dragons. We had great fun reading “The Story of Nian” about a strange and ugly beast who lived in the mountains. The beast is scared of loud noises and the colour red. So decorate your doors red and bang your drums!

Week of 28/1/2019: The children in RG have been learning the story of Little Red Riding Hood using the Talk For Writing approach. Today we made cakes for Little Red Riding Hood to take to Grandma’s house.

Week of 28/01/2019: Practising their handwriting and letter formation on National Handwriting Day

Week of 21/01/2019: Ordering Numbers

Autumn Term 2018

Fabulous fish at Christmas time