Term 5
Here is the overview for Year 1 in Term 5 and the KIRFs
Author: year1
Bedgebury Pinetum
Today we travelled to Bedgebury to explore the pinetum with our senses. The children had fun on their Senses Adventure.
Throughout the day the children took part in a number of activities including which included rainbow chips where they used their sense of sight to explore the variety of colours in the natural environment. The children matched the natural objects to a variety of colours and tones. They used listening jewels to concentrate and listen to the sounds of the pinetum. To encourage care, responsibility and teamwork the children used blindfolds to lead each other carefully to trees and avoiding obstacles and holes. They then used the sense of touch to feel the texture of the bark and smell it and some even decided to hug a tree or two. The children also went on scavenger hunts to develop language skills and to demonstrate the variety of texture and colour in the natural environment.
Planting
In science we have planted sunflower seeds. We decided as a class that they would need to be watered every day and they would need sunlight to grow too. Fingers crossed we end up with some lovely sunflowers.
Who does the trunk belong to and what is inside?
A massive trunk appeared in the classroom but we didn’t know who the owner was? So the children decided to use clues to predict who it might belong to and what might be in there? The only clues were the trunk itself and a tag with a royal seal.
As a class we decided that we would open the trunk to see if we could find more clues. The children were shocked to find so many pairs of Knickers inside! Not only did they find knickers but they also found the book ‘The Queen’s Knickers’ by Nicholas Allan. Of course we had to read it and the children then completed a book review on what they thought of it.
What is colour?
Today the children started looking at colour in art. We named the 3 primary colours (red, blue and yellow) and found out they are special, as they cannot be made by mixing other colours together.
To support this the children looked at the artist Piet Mondrian as he mostly used primary colours in his artwork.
The children then had a go at creating their own version of one of his famous paintings by using geometric shapes mostly using horizontal and vertical lines. Here are just a few examples of their artwork, along with the original artwork.
Term 4 Curriculum overview
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Gymnastics
This term we looked at gymnastics and looked at at being able to balance and hold a number of different shapes. The children learnt, developed and applied these shapes and travelled on the floor and apparatus through focused skill development. These shapes included straight, dish, arch, tuck, pike, straddle and star shapes.
Man on the Moon
We began the term looking at the image of the man above and the children looked carefully at the image, identifying any clues they could find that might tell us something about him. This then led us onto thinking about questions we could ask him if we met him and we all composed letters to him. Thankfully Bob replied and answered some of our questions which allowed us to begin to build a picture about him but luckily he also left the book ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram that we could find out more about him. This all allowed us to understand him more and think about adjectives to describe him.
After reading the whole book we learnt what a day in the life of Bob was like and with the use of a bit of role play to help remember the events of his day in the correct order. The children then looked at writing in the past tense and used this to pretend they were him in order to write a diary entry.
The children were so interested in the topic of space and ‘The Man on the Moon’ so we began to research the FIRST man on the moon. We looked at reading comprehensions to gather information and even looked at the ‘Little People Big Dreams book about Neil Armstrong’. We learnt all the key events of his life and noted this information down. With this information, we then created our own fact files on Neil Armstrong.
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