We had the most amazing time celebrating World Book Day yesterday. The children's costumes were amazing.

Our focus of the day was poetry, and we kicked off the day by writing a whole school collaborative poem about our school. We then explored 4 different poems and completed some great activities to do with these poems. '

Here are just a handful of the poems we looked at:

The Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll 
Magical Box - Kit Wright
Eye Spy With My Rainbow Eye
Daffodil - William Wordsworth
Thoughts Like An Ocean

Take a look at the photos of our wonderful day. 

Welcome back Keller Class, I hope you had a great break. Everyone has come back very settled and fell straight into a normal routine well done!

Our next topic in Year 1 is The Great Fire of London. We will find out what happened in 1666, how it happened and what changed following this disaster.

In this topic we will:

• Order the key events of the Great Fire in chronological order
• Investigate why and how the fire began
• Learn about Samuel Peyps and why he is important
• Discover what changed after the Great Fire
• Explore ways we can learn about the past.

Are you ready to find out why London started burning?

In science we are learning how to identify and classify animals into groups. Here is a good song to listen to at home to help remember these groups : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VixROiu8Qg

Hello Keller Class!

Keller Class have settled back into their routines really nicely. We are having a great start to the half-term and learning lots already about our new topics. 

So far this half-term we have learnt the four countries and capital cities that are found in the United Kingdom. Starting this week, we began to learn all about London! Next week, we will be taking a trip to London (our school hall) to explore the famous human features found in our amazing capital city.

If you have ever been to London and would like to share something from your visit, you're more than welcome share this with the rest of Keller class!

We have already finished our first project in our art unit! I am so impressed with these masterpieces, and they are up on display in our classroom already! Take a look below for a sneak peek at some of these amazing creations. 

As always, please keep on top of reading three times a week. We have started getting children complete their silver reading award already so keep it up! 
Please also make sure you are staying within the green zone on your doodle maths - this is just as important as reading! Give me a shout if you are struggling to access doodles and I shall help where I can. 

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Miss Sturman

We have had a fun few weeks full of lots of activities including the pant, our Snow Queen performance, Christmas dinner, Christmas jumper day and lots more! The whole class have enjoyed learning about 2D and 3D shapes in maths and can create beautiful patterns using a variety of these shapes! We have also done some sewing and created our own Sleeping Beauty themed hand puppets! We then got to hold onto these whilst we watched The Sleeping Beauty film to create our own puppet shows. 

Take a look at the images below for a taste of what we've been up to this term. 

Over the holidays

I will be sending your child home with a home learning pack to complete over the holidays. Please do not panic if you have not got time to do this, it will just help keep their learning ticking over!

Along with the home learning pack, your child may have been given a selection of phonics QR codes. These QR codes have been selected for your child based on the sound gaps that were spotted during their most recent phonics assessments. All you need to do is scan the QR code then they can access the lesson for this sound (lessons are between 10-15 minutes long).  Please also keep on top of your reading and doodle maths over the holidays!

We had a great week last week in Keller class! Anti-bullying activities, Diwali celebration, our local area walk AND Children in Need day.

We took a field trip around Keyworth village on Wednesday and explored what physical and human features can be found in our local area. We saw lots of human features such as shops, churches, houses, buses and more than 18 cars (we counted)! In our next geography lesson we will be identifying the human and physical features we can find around our school grounds. As a challenge at home, ask your child to count all of the physical and human features they spot on their way to school! I have attached some more home-learning ideas at the bottom of the blog for you to try out at home. 

In RE last week we had a Diwali celebration in the classroom (in our spotty non-school uniform!). We made our own rangoli patterns out of coloured rice, created lanterns and danced to the sounds of Diwali celebrations. It was wonderful getting a taste of how other religions celebrate their important festivals. Between now and December 21st, we will be talking about Christianity and how/why Christmas is celebrated! We have started making our class advent calendar ready to kick off the countdown celebrations next week.