Class 3 – Caterpillars 2015-16

Caterpillars Class Blog 8.7.16

‘We have been talking about jobs on a Pirate ship.’ Thomas

‘We did some drama. We acted out Pirate jobs and we heard sounds of what it was like on a Pirate ship.’ Millie

‘I would have enjoyed being a gunner because they have to clean the cannons.’ Laney

‘I would have liked to sail the ship because you can turn the big wheel.’ Nell

‘Pirates didn’t have good food to eat. They only had salty meat and a hard biscuit, which might have had worms in it. They drank rum and their medicine was rum and lemon.’ Jack

‘We made models of pirate ships.’ Owen

‘We wanted to see of our Pirate ship floated or sank.’ Millie

‘Pirates had ships called a Sloop and a Square Rigger.’ Jack and Thomas.

‘A Square Rigger had lots of decks and a Sloop only had one deck.’ Laney

‘A square Rigger was a big ship that could carry 200 pirates.’ Charlotte

‘A sloop was a small ship which meant it could travel faster and catch up with other boats.’ Harry

In Maths we had a challenge from Pirate Pearl.

To solve the puzzle, ‘I got some cubes out and had to sort them into 4 groups.’ Layla

We were all able to use different apparatus to find different combinations of numbers to unlock the treasure chests for Pearl.

We have also been working with maps. ’We used North, South, East and West to find our way around the island.’ Robyn

‘We have made our own island maps. We drew some different things on our maps like cave, ship wreck and a jungle. We then had to find the co-ordinates of those places.’ Millie

Next week we are going on our last trip of the year. We are off to the………..BEACH!!!!!

A PCSO came to talk to us about how we can stay safe when we are there.

‘We are going to wear a wristband with Miss Davenport’s phone number on it in case we get lost. Then we can phone Miss Davenport.’ Albie.

‘If we get lost we can show somebody the number on our wristband.’ Taylor.

‘She also told us that there would probably be a lot of people at the beach if it was a nice day.’ Arabella

‘We need to stay with our grown ups so we don’t get lost.’ Maisie.

Today we are excited about our Summer Fayre.

‘I am looking forward to throwing sponges at Mrs Burt!’ Chloe

We are all looking forward to singing our Pirate song:

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On Thursday it was our Sports Day.

‘We went to different places around the school to play different games.’ Owen

‘When we ran our races we got a sticker.’ Layla

‘One of the stations was called the ‘Drink Station.’ This is where we could have a drink.’ Luke

‘I enjoyed making a flag to go on my back.’ Ava

‘I liked the bouncy hopper race.’ Chloe

‘I liked the hurdles.’ Millie

‘I liked throwing the bean bags into the hoops.’ Chester.

Brody, Phoebe, Casey and Charlotte were all in the winning team, Slovakia.

We went to our new class on Wednesday.

‘We are going to be Otters.’ Harry.

‘We had a story about an Otter because we are going to be the Otters class then we could choose an activity to do.’ Robyn

We did some art work. We used pieces of material to stick on to a picture of an Otter.’ Isabella

‘We used lots of materials to make our otter.’ Laney

‘I went on Silver for my art work.’ Millie

Olivia and Maisie were put on silver for writing about themselves inside an otter template.

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As we have been reading the story of Peter Pan over the last few weeks we decided to investigate shadows this week.

We were able to go outside and draw around our shadows on the playground.

‘To make a shadow you need to have it sunny. A partner drew round our shadow.’ Jack.

‘You can’t draw around your own shadow because when you bend down so does your shadow.’ Robyn

‘It looks like the sun moves in the sky but it is really us rotating.’ Laney

‘They (the shadow) were pointing in different directions at different times.’ Taylor.

‘We found that shadows were shorter at lunchtime.’ Charlotte. ’Because the sun was at the highest point at this time.’ Thomas.

Using the idea of shadows we made our own picture of a Peter Pan scene.

‘We made a picture of Peter Pan and the Darling children by using silhouettes.’ Bella

Why not pop into our class to have a look at our fantastic art work?

Finally this week, we have made our models of Pirate artefacts using junk materials. We have tried to think about making them just like the real thing so when making a telescope we tried to make it slide in order to see further away. The same with a cannon, it needed to be able to slide so the cannon balls were pushed out. A treasure chest needed to have some type of hinges on it so that the lid would not fall off.

Here are some of our completed models.

‘I liked making a treasure chest.’ Millie

Look at all the treasure inside this treasure chest!

A great telescope here and I can see where it can slide in and out.

Wow! This is a large treasure chest. I like the fact it can be locked with the special key too.

This is an amazing cannon. An appropriate choice of materials and it has wheels too. Amazing!

Year 1 Home Learning – Pirates

Year 1 Topic Web – Pirates

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This week we have been practising our times tables and multiplying numbers, particularly by 2, 5 and 10.

‘We have been using arrays.’ Macy

An array is when, ‘you change the number sentence into dots and arrange them in rows and columns.’ Taylor

‘This morning we played bingo with the 5 times table,’ Mrs Burt drew an array and if it matched the multiplication on our board, ‘we had to put a cube on the number sentence. We had six of them.’ Harry

‘I was the first one to win.’ Ava

‘On Monday, in Literacy, we acted out the part of Peter Pan where they flew out of the window.’ Thomas

‘We had to think of our own ‘happy thought.’ Zac

‘I enjoyed playing Peter Pan in the role play area.’ Isabella

Click on this link to watch the ‘You can fly!’ clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf00mEe9EOs

‘I liked making a wanted poster for my own Pirate. She was called Pirate Ella and can make her hair go shorter.’ Charlotte

Here are some more of our Wanted posters.

We have also been learning about the ‘10 Commandments’ in RE and we have come up with our own rules we think people should try to live by.

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Monday was ‘Pirate Day.’ We all came to school dressed as Pirates and a man called Adrian came to school as a pirate to do map activities with us.

‘We used maps to find treasure.’ Jack

‘Before we went treasure hunting we looked at directions. North, South, East and West.’ Thomas

‘I enjoyed making a cutlass using a template and wrapping tin foil around it.’ Chloe

‘I enjoyed making a flag.’ Brody

In English this week we have been looking at the story of Peter Pan. We all watched the Disney version of it and thought it was really good.

‘I wrote about Nana.’ Robyn

‘Mrs Chaplin found a treasure chest in the cupboard. We picked out some of the bits inside and thought they looked like they were from the story of Peter Pan.’ Owen

‘We had to match the objects in the treasure chest to the character pictures.’ Layla

We are looking forward to more work with Peter Pan next week.

We have also begun thinking about floating and sinking.

‘If something floats it will be on top of the water, if something sinks it will be under the water.’ Laney

‘If something floats it means it has air in it. If it sinks it means it has no air in it.’ Thomas

‘We dropped an egg into water and it sank.’ Maisie

‘When I put an orange in a tank of water it sank.’ Isabella

Today we said good bye for a little while to Miss Claxton as she is leaving to have her baby. We had a big circle time with the Crickets and all gave Miss Claxton a compliment. We wish you all the best with your new baby, we will miss you.

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We had a very exciting ‘fabulous finish’ to our topic this week because we went to Cambridge Botanical Gardens.

Ava enjoyed hunting for minibeasts while she was there because she found 3 caterpillars and 3 woodlice.

Luke enjoyed sketching some flowers.

Jack liked that we could use the special schoolroom because it was nice and clean.

Nell liked looking under a big tree at the tree’s roots.

Albie enjoyed visiting the Rainforest glasshouse. There was a river in the middle and it was steamy and hot inside.

Layla sketched a beehive and some flowers and then sketched the water fountain.

Harry and Taylor sketched the glasshouses whilst they sat on the grass.

Charlotte enjoyed sketching the water fountain and noticed that it had parts that were different heights.

When Zac touched a caterpillar it tickled his hand.

Lyla enjoyed hunting for minibeasts.

Thomas liked walking through the Rainforest glasshouse. It looked a bit spooky with all the big plants.

Isabella liked the glasshouses and particularly liked looking at the cactus.

Laney enjoyed listening to the sound of the water fountain. She said it was relaxing to listen to it while she was sketching it.

Phoebe enjoyed trying to spot the pictures from the list.

Brody’s favourite part was seeing different coloured dragonflies near the little stream.

Caleb liked looking at the stepping stones on the pond.

It was a thoroughly enjoyable day and all the children were extremely well behaved. Thank you.

Here are a few photographs from our visit but you can see many more in our gallery.

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We all sketched a tarantula which was as big as a hand.

To do that well we needed to use our eyes and a sketching pencil. Mrs. Blogg was impressed with the results.

Arabella really enjoyed drawing food chains.

The story called The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle was retold by us and recorded to check if we are able to retell a story in an interesting way.

In maths we have been trying to improve our skills with money. We would all love to have a pot of coins at home to play shops with.