Question wall and Easter chicks

This week we have been doing lots of fun things in our learning but these two activities are my favourite!

1 Peach now have a question wall where we can ask any question we like about a picture and then at the end of the week we will try to answer them!!!

In R.E. the children made Easter chicks in their nests, they should be bringing them home today. I was amazed at how independently the children completed this task. They are growing up very quickly... you parents should be very proud of them! Here are some photos of our beautiful chick nests!

By Mahirah

By Imran

Hello Farah-Noer!!!!

Last night I was in Sainsbury's doing my shopping when I met Farah-Noer and his mum. He has been off school for what seems like a long time. 1Peach misses him a lot and we have decided to write him a message!!!

Dear Farah-Noer,
Get well soon, I miss you so much love from Mahirah

Dear Farah-Noer, we hope you get much better love Hamza

Dear Farah-Noer, I miss you a lot, you are my best friend. Love Eddie

Dear Farah-Noer, I wish you were in school today because I told some exciting news about what I did at Rainbows last night. I made a tiara... do you know what that is? If not I can tell you when you come back to school. Love Tanya

Dear Farah-Noer, We miss you, we like playing with our new equipment. Yesterday I played tennis with Omar and Bledion. It's your turn on Friday, hope you are back by then! Love Obade.

Dear Farah-Noer, I hope you get better. Come back soon love Rahatour.

Dear Farah-Noer, Everyone in the class misses you, love from Yahia

Dear Farah-Noer, I wish you were better today, love from Hanifah.

Dear Farah-Noer, we made pinwheels in Science. It was fun, you can look at the pictures on the blog. Love from Omar.

Remember you can also log on to fronter at home and chat with your classmates in the discussion area. Yesterday we also planted our seeds at the back by the nursery. We can't wait until they grow.

Love Miss Sullivan and 1Peach!

Work today!!!

We have been really hands on today. We have been finding the difference using counters.... we know this is just another way of subtracting!

Tanya and Naim were especially good at this, my marvellous mathematicians of the day!

Then in science we were looking at the force of wind and made our own pin wheels. They are all colourful and bright! Did your child bring theirs home? Some of us needed to think a bit more carefully about where we placed our straws so that the pin wheel will still move. Later on in the week we will also be using bubbles and making kites!!!!

In Literacy we have been asking lots of questions.... ask your child about the question wall.... more details to follow!!!

Super spellers and scientists in 1 Peach!!!!

This week we have lots of super spellers, I am so pleased!!!!

Hanifah, Zareen, Nabil, Sadia, Tanya, Amir, Yahia, Obade, Rahatour, Mahirah, Hassan, Jone Sheng, Sebahat, Mehenaz, Eddie, Maryum, Yasmin and Omar.

Well done children!!!!

Here are our photos of our science lesson when we investigated pushes and pulls.

A weekly update:

As usual we have been super busy in 1 Peach this week!

Our Super spellers this week are:

Sadia, Tanya, Rahatour, Hanifah, Astrit, Zareen, Jone Sheng, Omar, Maryum, Sajidah, Bilal, Mehenaz, Eddie, Yahia, Nabil, Isa, Yasmin and Amir.

Well done to those children but next week I would like to be able to say the whole class got full marks!!!

We have been doing lots of fun things in class this week. In Science this afternoon we went to the playground and investigated all the different pushes and pulls that happened as a result of using the playground equipment. It really helped the children think about whether they were pushing or pulling plus we enjoyed having our lesson in the sunshine!!! In the morning I will have all the pictures on a slideshow so please come in and look at them!

In Numeracy we have been thinking about halving and quartering. We have been using fruit as a practical example of how to halve and quarter an object. Some of us have also tried to create shapes on pegboards for our friends to halve. That was really tricky!!!!

In Literacy we have started our non chronological unit of work. We are learning about the different types of non fiction books and this week are focusing on the dictionary. Ask your child if they know what definition means.... they should all know!!! I have been very impressed with how well the children know their alphabet. Most of the class knew it from the beginning of the week so it has been an easy job teaching them! Well done children! This will be leading into a special report on machines... more details about that to follow! Be careful if you come into our class though because we have already begun transforming our home corner into a building site!!! Hard hats are needed!

If you do have a dictionary or special non fiction book at home try and look at with your children or bring it into class for us to share.

Also if you get a chance come and look at our lovely spring time display around our whiteboard. The children have been working especially hard in R.E to consider new life and spring and why Christians celebrate Easter. We have decorated some beautiful eggs to symbolise new life and written some thoughtful and sensitive spring time messages.

A final note about fronter. If you are reading this at home with your child why not log on to fonter with them and leave a comment on our discussion board. The children all know how to do this as it was our topic in ICT last half term. I look forward to reading all your comments!