Grandparents' Day.

Look who came to visit Room 1 on Grandparents' Day!

Our School Trip.

Room One went to the Howick Historical Village for our school trip.  We saw many things from the olden days.  We played with some wooden toys.  We made our own butter and we ate it on a cracker.  We had an awesome, rainy, tired, cool day!

Maths Slide.

We need to look at the pictures and work out the number sentence, e.g. 2 + 2.  Then we need to figure out the answer.  Last we have to slide the right answer up.  This is a game we can play with a friend in Room 1.

"I am learning about this game.  I know I am good because I am the winner when I play with my friend.  Sometimes I count and sometimes I already know the answer like, 2 + 2 = 4.  I want to keep playing and I can get better!"

Reading Games.

We play games at Reading time to help us to get smarter at Reading!

"I am playing the game where you put the months in the right order, like January, February, March.  I am good at this game because I have played it before.  Next time I would like to play the ladybug game because it is pretty!"

My Shadow Writing.

We read a poem about shadows.  We wanted to make shadows in the sunshine but it rained and rained, so Mrs Kerr brought her lamp to school.  We made shadows on the whiteboard.  If we stood close to the lamp, our shadow was bigger and when we stood close to the whiteboard, our shadow was smaller.  We made a pattern using Kidpix and coloured it in with pastels.  Here is my picture and my story.

"I made a shadow shape in Room One It looks like a crown.  I felt surprised."  

My Scarecrow.

Here is my fantastic scarecrow!  First, I read a poem about a scarecrow.  Then I sketched one and Mrs Kerr blew it up on the photocopier.  I coloured my picture with pastels and glued on his flippy, floppy hat.

Writing About Clouds.

We read a poem about clouds.  We went outside and we looked into the sky to see the clouds.  Some of them were shapes we know.  We wrote about what we saw and Mrs Kerr helped us to publish our writing.

"I saw a heart shaped cloud in the sky and I wrote my story about it.  Then I could pick the heart picture and now my story is inside the heart.  Next time I might try a giraffe shape and write a story about giraffes."

Numbers in Between.

I am playing - Monkey in the Middle.  I have to look at the two monkeys on the card and choose which number goes in between.  I play lots of Maths games in Room 1 because its a cool, fun way to learn new things and to get better and better.

"I am quick at this game.  I would like to make it harder, up to number 32.  I like to throw the dice in the space, and then count the number of dots, and I can jump that many times."

Reading Eggs.

We are learning to use Reading Eggs at school and at home.  I can choose the games I want to play and my friend can choose the same game or a different game.  Some games have alphabet letters and some games have words.  For the really hard games, I have to read a whole sentence.

" I am doing Reading Eggs at school.  I can log in by myself.  I like to play on the ipad the best.  I like to listen to the books."

Sketching a Honeybee.

When we are sketching at school, we do a quick sketch first.  Then we do a very slow, careful sketch with the teacher, and these look amazing!  Here is my honeybee in the hive.

Publishing My Writing.

This is the story I wrote in my book and then I typed the words by myself on the computer.  My picture matches my words.

"It was easy for me to do the work because I did it before.  It was hard before but now it is easy.  My picture is amazing!"

Look What I Can Read!

"I am finding the word-of-the-week and it is - went.  It is easy for me because I listen to the teacher and I can remember the word.  Mum and Dad can help me."

Skip Counting in Twos.

This game is on Sunshine Online.  The monkey and the orangutan and the gorilla are eating all of the bananas and I am counting them too.

"I can count in twos like the orangutan.  The number after eight is ten.  I want to skip count up to one hundred.  I can count with my mum or my teacher."

My Ice Cream.

Counting.

We are learning to write our numbers by ourselves and to put them into the right order.

"I can write my numbers up to 19.  Some of the numbers are a little bit tricky like, 9 and 19.  I need to keep trying so I can do them the proper way.  At my house I write numbers in my learning book."

And Look What Else I Can Do!

I Can Read.

I am learning to read and write the word - can - this week at school.  Here it is in my reading book.

"Reading is easy for me because I know some of the words now.  At home I read to Dad."

See Me Swimming!

I am swimming in the school pool.

My Writing.

This is my first week at school this year.  I wrote a story.  First I drew my picture.  Next I told Mrs Kerr my story.  She wrote the words for me and I copied underneath.

"This was easy for me because I know some of the words.  I am very good at copying the teacher and I love my work.  I am in the picture with my mum.  Everyone else is at home."

Year 1.

Here I am on my first day at Elm Park School in Year 1.

2016

Welcome to my 2016 blog.  This year I am in Year 1.  My teacher is Mrs Kerr.  This is where you can see some of my work. Please take a look and leave me a comment.