Avenger Training Day

Year 1 had the time of their lives at Avenger Training Academy today! We all waited in anticipation to see which super hero would be coming along to train us, and were thrilled when Iron Man arrived. He came to deliver the very exciting news that he was going to oversee the Avenger Training Academy today and gave us top tips on how to carry out each of the activities in order to become the best Avenger we could be. Iron Man was an inspiration as he put us through our paces. He marvelled at our shooting skills, he gazed in amazement at how well we could aim and he was blown away by the strength and speed of all of the children. In fact, he was so impressed by every single child that he gave us all a certificate proving that we had what it takes to be an Avenger. We all passed Avenger Training Academy with flying colours!

Smeds and Smoos

In Year 1 we have been reading The Smeds and The Smoos by Julia Donaldson. The Smeds (who are red) never mix with the Smoos (who are blue). So when a young Smed and Smoo fall in love, their families strongly disapprove. But peace is restored and love conquers all. Year 1 really enjoyed this book and wanted to read it again and again. They loved the settings and characters and were inspired to draw and write about their own aliens and planets. Once again they enjoyed the wonderful language that Julia Donaldson uses and were thrilled to learn lots of new vocabulary too like “vivid”, “neon” and “periscope”

“This teaches us that everyone can be friends with each other” Beti

“I like that they have a purple baby”. Liberty

“ I liked it so much, I have watched the movie at home”.Masie

“ I like the Smoos, I love the colours blue and red”.Denley

“Janet and Bill get married. They sneak off from their family homes and they sneak off to the rocket because Janet’s grandfather forgot to lock it”. Isla

Alien Day

Year 1 had a brilliant time, celebrating the end of our theme - To Infinity and Beyond. We had Alien Day! We spent the morning making rockets and flying saucers out of junk modelling. We also had great fun painting some pictures of our aliens. Alien dance time was also a great hit. We dressed up in space costumes and danced our way around space. What a great way to end a wonderful term.

Leaf Man

 We have been reading the book "Leaf Man", so we went outside and made our own leaf men. We also went out onto the playground to throw some leaves to see how many verbs we could come up with to describe how they moved. We came up with the words.....

swinging, twisting, falling, turning, looping, sliding, swaying flipping, twirling, spinning, gliding and flying.

We shall be using these incredible verbs to write some sentences about Leaf Man.

• Little Animals Activity Centre 
  The fun way to play and learn at home.

Here are some phonics websites for you to try. Please try to practise your phonemes as often as possible. Year 1 children should be looking at phase 3 and 5 phonemes. 

• Phonics play
• Phonics games on ICT games

Below you will find a useful link to the Oxford Owl website. Here you can find further information about reading for pleasure, supporting readers, reading at school, eBook library and an online book shop. 

• https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-at-home/