Class 3

Class 3

Bath Literature Festival

We went to the Bath Literature Festival to meet the authors and illustrators of ‘Adventure Mice’: Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve. They read us some of their new adventure story and showed us how to draw one of the characters, which was really good fun. They then asked us to come up with ideas for a board game which they mapped out whilst we were there. We then played this game in teams. We won! Sarah and Philip taught us that creating a board game where good and bad things happen is the basis to creating a story.

Apple Crumble

Mrs Peacock and some other friends of Miss Gammon’s generously gave us an abundance of apples from their gardens so that we could make apple crumble. In class we learnt to peel and chop the apples. In the kitchen we learnt to rub the margarine and flour into breadcrumbs and then mix in the sugar. This made a delicious topping which we spooned onto the apple. We cooked it at school and then all got to take home our own individual apple crumbles to share with our families. They were YUMMY!

History

In History we learnt about Mary Anning; a famous fossil hunter. Mary grew up with her father and brother finding shells and fossils on the beach at Lyme Regis. As they had little money she set up a little stall on the beach to sell what she found. Over time Mary read a lot of books about fossils and became quite an expert in them. She was the first archaeologist to find a full Ichthyosaurus fossil! We learnt a little bit about how fossils are made and then enjoyed fossil hunting ourselves in class. Miss Gammon had hidden shells, stones and fossils in sand and we had to carefully dig them out and brush them off. We loved being archaeologists! 

Art

In Art we learnt the three primary colours; red, yellow and blue. We learnt that all colours are made from mixing these colours together. We were challenged to create as many different colours as we could using powder paints. We dipped our paintbrushes in water, then dipped them into the powder paints and then mixed them in the palettes. We learnt that red and yellow make orange, blue and red make purple, yellow and blue make green and red, yellow and blue mixed together makes brown. We enjoyed painting our colours into different shapes on the paper.

Free Play

We have had a lot of fun exploring the new construction toys in Year One. We have enjoyed creating magnetic structures, using cogs and gears to create moving parts, making patterns with beads and telling stories with the huge assortment of puppets in our classroom.