Today we had some visitors in our classroom. They talked to us about Chinese New Year. We found out how and why people celebrate Chinese New Year. Then we had lots of fun learning a song and a dance.

Today in English we read the story of Chinese New Year. In groups we used our speaking and listening skills to act out and retell the story.

This week Year 1 are exploring addition and subtraction. Today we have been using the ten frames and counters to work out the missing numbers in the sums.

Today we learned all about how archaeologists found dinosaur bones and fossils. We learned that this is how we know that dinosaurs existed. Year one used pictures of dinosaur skeletons and dry pasta to create our own dinosaur skeletons.

In science we have been learning all about animals including humans. Today we talked about parts of the human body. Jacob was our volunteer and we took turns labelling the different parts of Jacob’s body.

Today we have been learning about place value. We worked in partners, one of us made a number between 0 and 40 using the number fan. Our partner had to make the number using the tens and ones counters.

Miss Kelsall had hidden three mystery numbers in a bag. Year 1 were given three clues to work out all the possible numbers that could be hidden in the bag. Year 1 worked in pairs to investigate. Super work Year 1!

Today Year 1 have been performing dinosaur poems. We got into groups and rehearsed, then we performed our poem to the class. Your performances were excellent Year 1, well done!

Today Year 1 were very lucky to have an extra PE session with Animalates. We practised different ways of travelling and travelling at different speeds. We really enjoyed all the different games, it was lots of fun!

Our new topic this half term is ‘Dinosaurs’. Today we we’re finding out the names of some dinosaurs. Miss Kelsall had printed some pictures and information about different dinosaurs but unfortunately the names of the dinosaurs had accidentally been cut off and mixed up. Year 1 had to match the pictures and information to the names of the dinosaurs.