This week, our focus book is Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. Today, we found out that the witch had lost her things so we decided to walk around school to see if we could any find them. In the end, we found a hat, a wand, a cat, a broomstick, a bow and a cape. The children were all really excited to find the lost things and they are looking forward to continuing our writing the rest of this week.  

This week, year 1 had the opportunity to walk around Kexborough for our Where I Live topic. Our main focusses were to recognise different places and types of houses in the local area. As we walked around, the children recorded the places and the types of houses that they saw on a clipboard. All the children were very sensible throughout the walk and they really enjoyed going out into the local area. Have a look below to see some pictures. 

This week in maths, we have been looking at recognising and making equal groups. We first focussed on the vocabulary equal, unequal and group. We then discussed what we could do to ensure that all the groups were equal. As a class, we then used a range of resources to create a range of equal groups. I was so impressed with how the children used all the resources to make their groups in different ways. Have a look below to see some examples of our work. 

Last week, to mark National Poetry Day each class had to perform a poem with a theme of environment for our whole school assembly. To link with our topic, we decided to perform an autumn themed poem called The Nut Tree by Julia Donaldson. The children worked so hard to make sure they were ready for the performance and they did such a fantastic job. Here is a copy of the poem and  the audio link so you can have a listen to the performance below.