Holly Class

Holly Class

Welcome to Holly Class!

Our teacher is Miss Johnson.

Miss Pemberton and Miss Woodsend will be working with us too.

Use the links below to find out more about Holly Class.

Well done again to Holly Class on achieving 100 class credits for fantastic behaviour and amazing work! We had a class disco and played musical statues. Thank you to all the parents that brought in food and drink. It was really appreciated. All the children looked lovely in their party clothes!

SUMMER TERM 2

This half term our topic is ‘Enchanted Woodland.’ We will be researching about woodland animals in the UK and identifying evergreen and deciduous trees in our local area. In English we will be looking into traditional tales such as Hansel and Gretel. We will be focusing on the text as a whole in Beeston Bookworm books. In the last few weeks of half term we will be studying and exploring a book as a whole school called ‘The Quest.’ In maths we will be looking at number bonds to 20 and practising our fluency skills in addition and subtraction. We will also be learning about division as a way of sharing and multiplication meaning lots of. Thanks for all your support. The children are working incredibly hard. Well done Holly Class!

Summer Term 2.pdf

PHONICS!

With the phonics screening just around the corner please read as much as possible with your child at home. Use these games to help children with their phonic knowledge.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html - Buried Treasure Game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/sandcastle/ - bbc sandcastle game

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PictureMatch.html - pick a picture game

https://gb.education.com/game/digraphs-matching/ - digraph matching game

https://gb.education.com/games/phonological-awareness/ - phonics games

Thank you for your continued support! :)

Last day of half term! We celebrated our topic on ‘Paws, Claws and Whiskers’ through arts and crafts. We made paper chain snakes, an octopus and a handprint giraffe! We had so much fun singing along to our song; Lion King I just can’t wait to be king!

Last Friday we followed instructions to sketch our own tigers. We had so much fun! We became artists for the afternoon! :)

Last Friday Zoolab came in and brought lots of interesting animals for us to explore for our topic 'Paws Claws and Whiskers.' We had the most amazing time. We talked about what the animals eat, how they live and how different they feel from each other. It was a great experience for the children to be able to hold and touch the animals! The children were very well behaved throughout and held the animals carefully. The year 1 teachers are very proud! :)

Today we have been coming up with interesting adjectives to describe things that we could have at a jungle party. This is based on our book 'Giraffes can't dance.'

Today we had the PDSA in telling use about how to look after pets. We found out that carrots are not good for rabbits it is like use having a chocolate cake. We also found out that bones are not good for dogs either! We found out lots of new facts about pets and the vets. We had so much fun!

Summer Term 1

This half term our new topic is 'Paws, claws and whiskers.' We will be looking into humans and animals throughout the next couple of weeks. The books we will be reading are 'Giraffe's can't dance,' 'The tiger that came to tea,' and 'Hedgehog's big day!' We will be writing invitations, character descriptions, narratives, changing a character in a story and much more. We will also be looking closely at writing features such as adjectives, nouns and verbs adding suffixes like -ing, -ed, -er and -est. In Science we will be locating where different animals live in the world and how they adapt to their habitat. We will be sorting and classifying animals into groups such as herbivores and carnivores. We will be comparing our human body to animals and how we differ but also are similar. In class we will be focusing on seasons and how this may differ around the world. In Maths we will be looking at length and height and practicing number bonds to 20. We will be revisiting throughout addition and subtraction to 20 to help children have a great number sense.

This week is STEM week and in Holly class we are learning all about birds.

Today we went on a bird watching and found some common British birds. We then created our own nests using natural resources from outside just like a bird!

Today 13.3.18

Partake came in to tell us all about old and new toys. We learnt about the changes over time and how we use toys such as pushing and pulling to make a toy move. We talk about how nowadays we use batteries and technology has grown such as I-pads. We also discussed the difference in materials used over time.

Number facts - 09.03.18

The children have been learning about subtraction. We have partitioned the 2- digit number and taken the ones away from the ones.

We used ten frames and cubes to prove our understanding.

World book day - 08.03.18

The children have loved dressing up as their favourite character for world book day!

Re - Easter 07.03.18

We started our Easter topic today and looked at how we celebrate Easter. We then talked about where Easter originally came from. We discussed the story of 'Palm Sunday.' We made our own palm leaves and re-enacted the story. We had so much fun!

Computing Today 6.3.18

We used the programme paint to make the front cover of our book this week - Jack and the Beanstalk.

We used different strokes and colours. We had lots of fun!

Reading in our reading area!

It is our reading house!

Maths in Holly Class :)

We are learning about subtraction this week. We played a board game but backwards!

We have been using a number track/ number line to help us answer number sentences.

We have changed many of our boards in Holly Class so would like to share with you our new walls!

Maths Wall

English Wall

Reading Area

Science Area

Topic Wall

Spelling Wall

Geography Area

Growth mind-set

This half term our Topic is on 'Memory box.' We are learning about changes over time like old toys and new toys. It would be great for parents and grandparents to talk to their child/ren about the changes over time like technology. They can't believe you didn't have an I-pad! It would be great for them to come and share what they have learnt from you!

Last week as a class we went to the Library. The Librarian read a lovely story to us. We looked at different books and found some books linked to our topic. We really enjoyed sharing books with each other!