Foundation-1 (ID 1006)
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Foundation 1
Foundation 1
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What have we been up to in F1?
What have we been up to in F1?
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Foundation 1?
Please check this page for updates of activities which we have taken part in this week at school.
Beside the Seaside
This term we are learning all about being by the seaside. We are exploring sea creatures, pirates, beeches and ice-cream shops. This week the children have been dressing up as pirates and making treasure maps and telescopes. We have been exploring sea shells and painting them using chalk and water colours.
F1 - Sea Side
Taking Photographs
We have been exploring photographs and thinking about the skills we need to take a good photograph. The class decided that we need to hold the camera still so that the picture is not blurry and we need to ensure all of the object we want to photograph is on the screen - we don't want to chop any heads off. We explored old cameras which did not have the ability to preview the photograph. The children then worked in pairs to each have a turn of taking their partners photograph.
F1 - IT
Hungry Caterpillar
In our classrooms this week we have welcomed 5 tiny caterpillars. Over the next few weeks we will watch them grow from tiny caterpillars, to big caterpillars. Then they will make their chrysalis' before becoming butterflies. We have been learning all about caterpillars and have created our own Hungry Caterpillar story books.
F1 - Hungry Caterpillar
St George's Day Celebrations
We celebrated St George's Day today. We made our own George Cross flag, had a parade around our playground - waving our flags and had a picnic lunch. The children were invited to create their own dragon at home and the winners of the competition have put their work on display in the library.
F1 - St George's Day
Learning All About Easter
This week the children have been learning all about Easter and its links to spring and new life. We have been creating eggs with loose parts, explored carrots in the investigation station, learnt about different spring flowers, animals and weather, had a visit from a real rabbit, made Easter nest cakes and helped George the Dragon and the PTA find all of their lost eggs in a super egg hunt.
F1 - Easter
Balanceability
We have been practicing gliding as well as weaving in and out the cones during Balanceability. The children showed excellent control as they moved the bikes around the course. They are gaining more confidence while riding their bikes.
F1 - bikes
Holi Hai!
This week the children have been learning all about Holi the Indian celebration of spring. We have been making our own paint using chalk, mud, crayons, fruit and tea. At the end of the week we used special powder paint to celebrate Holi. We shouted "Holi Hai" and threw our powder into the air.
F1 - Holi Hai
Music Lessons
In music today we explored a variety of different nursery Rhymes. We used the chime bars to tap to the beat of the “magic box” song and each time we opened it,we got to choose an object that linked to a nursery rhyme. We spoke about how we could adapt the nursery rhymes to include our own words and will be continuing this next week!
F1 - music
World Book Day
The children all brought in a prop and wrapped up book for their friends to guess what their favourite book is. They showed excellent oracy skills as they discussed their props, asked questions and responded to their friends.F1 - World Book Day
Snail Exploration
We have had a busy week continuing our learning about snails.
The children have created invisible snail trails, which appear with paint and water, replicated "The Snail" artwork by Henri Matisse, chopped and prepared food for our snails, painted snails on the playground and also took turns to safely hold a snail on our hand (we all washed our hands straight after!).
F1 - Snails week 2
Learning About Snails Through Hands on Experience and Artwork
On Tuesday we were excited to discover we had new pets in our classrooms. Each classroom had their own set of Snails hiding in the curiosity cubes. We have been learning all about where snails live, what they like to eat, that they have 1 foot but no leg and the way they protect themselves from predators.
The children have also been immersed in the artwork by the artist Henri Matisse, in particular his work "The Snail". The children studied the piece of work to decide what they thought it represented and then discussed the different vibrant colours which have been used. Over the next few weeks the children will create their own version of "The Snail" and lots of other snail based artwork too.
F1 - Snails week 1
Mr Wolf's Pancakes
This week we have been reading Mr Wolf's Pancakes, the children have been introduced to lots of traditional tale characters and have created a story map helping them to be able to retell the story.
The children have completed jigsaws, drawn and painted pictures of the different characters. They have practised their number ordering with the help of the gingerbread man, and thought about their favourite pancake toppings.
F1 - Mr Wolf Pancakes
Exploring 4
We have been looking at the number 4 and the different ways in which we can show 4. The children explored 2D shapes and discovered that lots of shapes have 4 sides. There are squares, rectangles, diamonds, parallelograms and kites. The children then went on a shape hunt to see which 4 sided shapes they could find.
F1 - Squares
Chinese New Year.
This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year, we have been reading the story ‘Dragons in the city’. In the story Evie and Bo decorate the house with paper lanterns, received lucky red envelopes, watched a parade including a dragon dance and added a wish to the wishing tree.
We made our own paper lanterns, puppet dragons, red envelopes - including a chocolate coin and a Chinese New Year card. We all worked together to create a giant dragon head, and we then performed in our own dragon dance.
F1 - Chinese New Year
Physical Education
We are lucky to have P.E taught to us by a gymnastics teacher. This week in P.E we revisited our gymnastics shapes, Star, Straight and tuck. We also learnt 3 new shapes, straddle, front support and V-seat. At the end of our busy and energetic PE lesson we had a relax by completing a yoga session.
F1 - PE
Garden birds
The children have been learning about winter UK birds. The children listened carefully to descriptions of the birds and were able to identify robins, magpies, blackbirds and blue tits. We listened to the birds songs and use binoculars to see if we could spot the birds flying around school. At forest school we made bird feeders so that the birds can have food to eat during the cold weather.
F1 - Birds
Winter Fun
Welcome back F1 - we hope you had a lovely break.
This week we have been looking at winter. We have explored the snow, made paper snowmen, counted out marshmallows for hot chocolates, subitised out numbers to 5 to make snowmen.
F1 - Winter
Christmas Fun!
We have been very busy this festive period:
We have performed our Christmas Jingles, had a Santa Dash, watched a festive film, had Christmas dinner, party day, special visitor to Santa's Grotto to have a story and hot chocolate with Santa, and his amazing elves even came into our classroom to say hello!
Our class elf was cheeky and we had lots of fun fixing all the things they broke - pictures of him cut up like a jigsaw, AB pattern bracelets pulled apart, tall towers knocked over and all of our coloured blocks mixed up.
Have a happy Christmas everyone
F1 - Christmas Fun
We have been learning all about a new "ARTIST" this half term. We looked at the work and life of Yayoi Kusama.
She loves spots, and she covers "Everything in dots, and wasn't sorry."
The children learnt how to print spots and dots onto their artwork. They "dip" into the paint, "wipe" off excess paint, "print" onto the paper and "lift" off the paper.
F1 - Art - Yayoi Kusama
We have been learning about hedgehogs this week. Did you know they have over 5000 spines! The children were excited to end the week with a visit from Greer from Jackson's Animal Rescue. She told the children all about the poorly hedgehogs they look after and the children all held a pretend hedgehog and tried to feed it. Thank you to all of the donations for Jackson's Animal Rescue.
F1 - Hedgehog Visit
This week at forest school we have had our first ever fire! The children sat beautifully while Mrs Noakes explained how to be safe and reminded the children to not walk through the fire circle. Mrs Noakes then cooked us all hot dogs, which we ate with out hot chocolate.
F1 - Forest School - Fire
Fireworks
We have been exploring fire safety. We learnt how to stop drop and roll and which number to ring in an emergency.
The children used paint and kitchen rolls to make sparkly firework pictures.
F1 - Fireworks
At Forest School we have been on a natural colour hunt. We looked high and low and found all of the different natural colours. We then used some of the objects to make art by banging the objects onto paper with a hammer.
F1 - Forest School - Colour
Design Technology - Hats
The children designed their own spooky hats. We looked at different styles of hats, thought about which fastening would hold the hat together. The children then drew their designs. We all carefully followed our designs to make our own spooky hat.
F1 Design Technology - Hats
Spooky Week
The children have been learning about rhyming words in a witches kitchen. Would you like to eat beans on toast or a burnt ghost? We explored making potions, and counting the correct number of ingredients.
F1 - Spooky Week - CP
Our Learning Hero this half term is the Little Red Hen. She shows resilience.
The children have been exploring the story, creating story maps so that we could retell the story and making puppets to use alongside our retelling.
We also had a walk to the local shop so that we could buy the ingredients to buy bread. The children made their bread and then ate the bread with butter and jam.
F1 - Little REd Hen
This week we have been busy making new friends, meeting our teachers and having lots of fun.
F1 - Settling in
