Hello, welcome back after our half term break. I hope you all had a good holiday and are enjoying the lovely sunshine we are having. Fingers crossed it will last! This final half term in Year 1 our Geography project is 'Where in the world is Barnaby Bear.' The children have all been giving a mini Barnaby and a pack of information about how we can share our Barnaby adventures on Fronter. We will also be taking home a class book and are asking for the children to take photos of their adventures with Barnaby each night and write a little paragraph explaining your fun activities. We would like every child to really get involved with this project so please see me if you have any questions regarding taking photos. Your child does not have to be in them, it is Barnaby we are focusing on!
We would also like for you to bring in your holiday photos of different places around the world. I will scan these in for children to look at in their Geography lessons. It makes it more exciting for them if they are discussing places they have already been to. We are trying to get as many different countries covered in this topic as we can so please help us!
Barnaby also has his own website that we will be using in class but some children expressed an interest in looking at it at home so here is the link!
Next week we are looking at the continents of the world - a very brief introduction to give us an idea about how the world is made up. We will be using globes in lessons and looking at some maps but if you would like a sneaky peak before next week here are some games you could play!
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/continentNames/default.htm
This is for the kids to name the continents and try and test themselves! They will not be looking in too much detail so don't get too anxious. This is something they will revisit in Geography throughout primary school!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/keystage_1/games/geography1.shtml
This covers lots of the activities we will be doing over the next couple of weeks and mostly of them are linked to Barnaby! Ask your child what they learnt today in their Geogrpahy lesson. Can they tell you where Barnaby comes from?
On Friday we will be going to Regents Park in the afternoon with the rest of Year 1 as part of our Science topic of growing. Please make sure your child takes hayfever medicine in the moring if they need it, put on suncream or bring a hat etc if the weather is nice!
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