We have been practicing our Art skills. We have been shading and creating tone with different types of pencils. We have also learnt about different techniques that we can use with oil pastels which has really brightened up our new sketch books! Our work will...
What a fantastic first week we have had settling into Year 1! During our Maths lessons we have been practising the skill of comparing quantities and measures. Here we are comparing the weight of objects from around our school. First we used our hands to...
In Writing, we are exploring a new book - 'Romans on the Rampage'. To immerse ourselves into the book, we pretended to be Romans and took part in a chariot race on the playdeck!...
We have been looking at the number 1000. We have used different types of measures to explore the number, looking at capacity, length and mass....
In Art, we have been looking at how to use shade and tint to change the colours we use when painting. In this picture, the children are using the watercolours to experiment with adding those techniques to the pictures in order to really bring to...
We have been writing a character description of a vile creature from the myth of Beowulf. In groups we created our own mythical creatures by drawing a part of the creature each....
In Maths, we used a Gattegno Chart to help us understand the powers of 10. This chart is extremely useful in helping us decompose numbers....
In Art we have been learning new techniques with water colours. We did a watercolour wash, blending colours together to create different mood effects. This will help us when making our backgrounds of our final piece of artwork....
In our Art lessons, we have been developing our watercolour skills. We have been using white, grey and black to add tint, tone and shade to different colours. By next week, we will all have created a piece of watercolour artwork inspired by Paul Klee....
In the Baby Room, we have been enjoying practicing our fine motor skills by collecting balls and pouring water using different size containers. We felt the water in-between our fingers whilst splashing each other in this nice, hot sun!...