Gateway School - Peach Class

Wrlands Excitement

2009-07-01T02:22:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was our trip to the Wetlands centre in Barnes as part of our science topic on plants and growing.

It was a very hot day and I was pleased that we managed to get water bottles and hats for every child. In this weather it is an essential for our children! Please remember this for our sports day tomorrow as it is not safe to take them out of school without a sun hat and a water bottle. We simply don't have spares so please make sure your child has them!

It was a lovely trip and we enjoyed pond dipping. We discovered lots of different insects - some of them were so small we needed a magnifying glass to see them. We also had lots of fun in the explorer section - some children got very wet! Just what we needed to cool down.

There were lots of ducks around - we especially enjoyed watching the baby ones play in the water. We also got very excited when they came out of the water and walked along the path beside us!

Ask your child what they learnt yesterday. We will be writing a postcard to Barnaby Bear about our adventures which your child will be bringing home soon so question them then!

Another small reminder - school packed lunches are always the sun - cheese and tuna so if you know your child does not like these sandwich fillings please make sure they have a home packed lunch.

Barnaby Bear travels to Gateway!

2009-06-01T08:09:00.000-07:00

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!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/

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!

Super spellers!

2009-05-11T01:19:00.000-07:00

This week our super spellers are:

Jahed, Obade, Mahirah, Zareen, Hanifah, Eddie, Rahatour, Jone Sheng, Amir, Imran, Hajer, Hassan, Astrit and Maryum.

Well done children!

Trip to the Geoffrye Museum

2009-05-05T05:28:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday, 1 Peach went to the Geoffrye Museum and we all had a brilliant time. We learnt so much about old Victorian homes. We were lucky enough to have Mr Rossington there who gave us lots of information about how people used to have to do their washing and ironing and how people used to live.

Can your child name all these different items and what they were used for?

As we got there a little early, we walked around the herb garden and had fun smelling all the different plants and guessing what they were. The lemon was very fresh!

We really enjoyed pretending to be young ladies and gentlemen!

We were lucky enough to have a workshop as well. Lots of us knew that there wasn't electricity and we were good at finding other light sources such as the candles and oil lamp. We talked a lot about the types of entertainment there would be within a house. Ask your child for their ideas.... there were some wild and wonderful ones!

Super spellers

2009-05-05T03:06:00.000-07:00

This week our super spellers are:
Jahed, Maryum, Sawsan, Bilal, Astrit, Hassan, Hajer, Jone Sheng, Hamza, Yahia, Eddie and Zareen.
Well done children!

Super Spellers!

2009-04-27T01:28:00.000-07:00

This week's super spellers are: Naim, Astrit, Zareen, Yasmin, Hamza, Rahatour, Mahirah, Hassan, Maryum, Obade, Mehenaz, Jone Sheng, Eddie and Jahed. Well done children!

Nearly there are: Yahia, Hanifah, Hajer, Sawsan, Amir and Isa!

Please make sure your children learn their spellings every week. It is also a good idea to look at previous week's spellings to make sure they have remembered those and can still spell them! The children use these words all the time in their work not just for a spelling test!

Yahia won the Golden Award this week for always working hard. What a lovely reason to get an award.

Just a quick reminder that 1 Peach are going on their trip to the Geoffrye Museum this Thursday! A big thank you to all the parents who have paid their £2 donation. We are all very excited.

Here is a link to the website if you wanted to find out more about what the children will be seeing and doing on their visit.

http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/

The weather has unfortunately gone quite miserable again. Please make sure your child has their coat!

Literacy this week!

2009-04-22T05:58:00.000-07:00

Welcome back after the holidays, I hope everyone enjoyed the break! I can't quite believe we are already in our summer term! The year is just flying by.

It has been an exciting return to school especially for our Literacy lessons as we have been lucky enough to have two visits in two days!

Yesterday we had a puppet show, the Lucky Gingerbread man from the Magic Book theatre. It was excellent and the children enjoyed themselves immensely, especially as they all know the story so well! We are looking forward to making some of the puppets we saw yesterday especially the newspaper puppets. They are so easy to make and hopefully will create hours of fun.

All of the puppets were made out of easily accessed materials such as wooden spoons from the kitchen and scourers etc.

My favourite activity was when we got into pairs and became Pinocchio and the puppet master. One person (the puppet master) had to lead the other (Pinocchio) in his movements. The children were amazing at looking carefully and copying movements.

We have some videos of the day which will be playing each morning at the start of the day so do come in and see what happened! Here is an extract of part of the show.

We have been studying non-fiction texts for three weeks now and on Monday began our big topic of creating an interactive non-fiction text on machines. We were lucky enough to have HSS, a hire company, come in with some of their machines and tools and explain how they work and what they are used for.

We used our science brains to think about why we would need ear defenders when using some of the machines. Hugh is sitting here on the dump truck. He answered all our questions.

The children came up with some amazing questions and lots of them enjoyed sitting on the dumper truck! There were lots of new and tricky words to add to our vocabulary, the teachers learnt lots of new words today as well!

Over the next two weeks we will be creating an information book about machines as a class and in groups. 1 Peach have already begun their book, we are calling it 'Machine Detectives' which Hamza thought of.

This is a pebble dasher and is used on walls of houses. We asked lots of questions about this machine especially as most of us weren't sure what pebbles were.

Ask your child what other machines and tools they saw today!

This is a metal locator. This is used to check there are no electric cables before drilling into the ground. We liked the noise it made to warn us when something was metal.

Next week we have another trip... come back for more details soon!

Working hard as usual!!!

2009-04-01T04:06:00.001-07:00

This is a special blog from Obade, Isa, Naim and Jahed.
We have been working really hard in Literacy this week. Today we tried hard to remember all the features of a non fiction book Here is our list:

Headings

Glossary

Definitions

Labels

Index

Photos

Diagrams

Facts

Aren't they super clever??!!

Also a big thank you to the parents who have brought their reply slips and money in so promptly for our trip to the Geoffrye Museum. We have lots of exciting things planned for next half term.... come back soon for more details!!!!

Question wall and Easter chicks

2009-03-26T05:12:00.000-07:00

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!!!!

2009-03-25T02:24:00.000-07:00

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!!!

2009-03-24T09:59:00.000-07:00

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!!!!

2009-03-24T02:19:00.000-07:00

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:

2009-03-17T07:26:00.000-07:00

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!

Super spellers

2009-02-24T01:22:00.001-08:00

We had lots of super spellers this week, well done children!

They are: Jahed, Yahia, Mehenaz, Tanya, Rahatour, Eddie, Hanifah, Zareen, Yasmin, Maryum, Hassan, Imran, Amir, Jone Sheng, Sebahat, Hamza and Sadia.

An apology to Eddie who I missed off the list last week, sorry Eddie!

Nearly there: Sajidah, Bilal and Rafa.

A big well done to Sebahat and Hassan who have made a fantastic start to this new term. I am very pleased with their hard work!!!!

This term we will be doing lots of exciting learning, see the front door for all the different topics we will be covering!

Ask your child about our class challenge for wow words. We are trying to make a big word bank of interesting words to use in our writing.

Literacy writing!!!

2009-02-09T05:09:00.000-08:00

Last week was very exciting with all the snow we had in London! It was lovely to wake up and play in the snow, but not so great to walk in the ice!

Some children came in both days and we tried our best to carry on with work! On Tuesday we did some fantastic news writing about our adventures in the snow! Look out for that wonderful work to be updated onto the school website at the end of the half term.

This is Mahirah's work she sounds like she had a wonderful time!

By Mahirah

We have been working really hard in Literacy learning about traditional and fairy tales. We ahev done lots of acting and role play, some of which has already been put on the blog.

On Friday we did some really hard work where we could only write what the character was saying. This was very difficult as we are used to retelling a whole story!!! See outside our classroom for some excellent pieces of work.

We have also finished our first Tigger book - everyone in the class has taken him home and written a story about their adventures with him. Tomorrow, there will be a friend of Tigger coming to Peach class and we will be starting a new book. The children love Tigger so much that there is a second book of his adventures that will be coming home as well!! Look out for your child bringing him home!

Super Spellers!!!

2009-02-09T04:57:00.000-08:00

This week the following children got all their spellings right:

Isa, Maryum, Sawsan, Hajer, Hamza, Farah-Noer, Tanya, Hanifah, Mahirah and Sadia. Well done children!

Next week more names please!!!!

Little Red Riding Hood - A play by the Rabbits

2009-01-29T06:50:00.000-08:00

This week we have been busy learning about some of the fairytales. We have read Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood. We have all been trying hard to act out the stories as well as doing fantastic writing and reading, the weekend will be a good chance to rest our busy brains!!

Here is the video of the Rabbits performing their play. I hope you enjoy it!

Dress Up Friday!

2009-01-23T05:21:00.000-08:00

At last our book week is sadly nearly at an end. The children have all been excited to wear their costumes and have enjoyed guessing who everybody is!!!

(By the way I was Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl!)

We finished off our week with a science experiment to find which material would be best to keep the big bad wolf away from us and a Gateway premiere of our Three Little Pigs play. We especially liked the popcorn while we were watching! We also did lots and lots of reading as you can see!!!!

We made a special book describing our friends in the class and why we liked them! It is in our classroom if you would like to come and see it.

We also had a special assembly where we looked at Reception and Year 2's costumes. The year 2 children knew Mrs Pieris was the Snow Queen from the Narnia stories; I think the other children are too young to be familiar with the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, although they all know that character now!!!!

Book Week activities

2009-01-22T09:02:00.000-08:00

Here are some photos of our trip to both Church Street Library where the librarian read use some lovely stories and our school library where we were lucky enough to have some storytellers come in. They read us a story and then we did some acting and role play for some of the characters.

I also hope you have seen your child's worry doll we made after reading Silly Billy! They were all very good! Tomorrow we will be reading about pirates and making a treasure map, I wonder if we will find any treasure!

Please do ask your child what we have been doing this week, we have done so many wonderful things; the lessons I have been talking about on here really are only a snapshot of what we have been doing!

The Three Little Pigs

2009-01-22T07:32:00.000-08:00

The children have been working so hard this week with all our book week activities! Here are some photos and videos of our acting work of the Three Little pigs. We have incorporated drama and art and writing into our day... I know I'm certainly very tired!!!

The videos do have some background noise from the audience so don't have it up too loud! The children practised these with hardly any help from the teachers. I was so impressed with how well they worked together! Enjoy!

The class split into groups of 4, the three little pigs and the big bad wold. We really enjoyed huffing and puffing!

Can you guess which character I am? I was huffing and puffing and trying to blow down a house of bricks. I got very cross when I couldn't especially after I blew down the house of straw and sticks so easily!!!

We all sat very nicely watching each other perform!!! Come and see our dispaly outside the classroom, it has lots of our excellent work on the board. I will also scan in our writing for our next blog!

I can't wait to see the children tomorrow with all their outifts... we will take lots of photos so come back soon!!!

Hello and welcome to half term 3!!

2009-01-20T02:09:00.000-08:00

Hello and welcome back!
I'm sorry it has been a while since Peach class's last blog but we have all been very busy getting ready for Book Week. I hope you have had a chance to hear about some of the exciting things we are doing this week. Yesterday we met the author Hiawyn Oram which was very exciting. She wrote the Mona the vampire stories and lots of children in the class enjoy watching the program.

We are also visiting Church Street library tomorrow and will be lucky enough to have a storyteller in our class library slot tomorrow afternoon. We have been reading lots of books every day even in subjects like Maths!

Come back soon for our worry dolls which we made this morning after reading Silly Billy by Anthony Browne. We all tried really hard to make a doll that could do our worrying for us. Ask your child what they made their doll for!

Our super spellers from last week were:
Jahed, Isa, Maryum, Sawsan, Rafa, Bilal, Astrit, Hassan, Sajidah, Hajer, Amir, Jone Sheng, Yahia, Mehenaz, Farah-Noer, Rahatour, Eddie, Hanifah, Zareen, Mahirah, Yasmin and Sadia.

The children that were nearly there were:
Sebahat, Hamza and Tanya

Next week I would love to see everyone's names up!

If your child has a favourite book from home they would like to share in class, put bring it in and we will read it together. Thanks.

2008-12-19T01:57:00.001-08:00

Yesterday we had our class Eid and Christmas party. Thank you to everyone who brought in such delicious food. We really enjoyed eating it!

The children looked beautiful in their outfits, we even created a video of their fashion parade which the children really enjoyed watching!

We also saw Santa and he was good enough to bring us some board games to enjoy in our class. The children have already started to play with them.

Everybody had a good time and all the teachers were amazed at what fantastic dancers we have in Year 1!

Here are some photos of our fantastic afternoon!

At the end of the party we gave Mr Fitz his cards as he is leaving us to go travelling. We will miss him very much! Good luck and come back soon!

2008-12-17T05:56:00.000-08:00

This week we have been making our classroom look beautiful. 1 Peach have shown all the teachers how well they can follow instructions by making some super snowflakes, they are on our windows and paper chains which are hanging all across the classroom. We have also made alien masks for our home corner which is going to be a space station next half term and animal masks for our jungle reading corner. I am amazed at how artistic all the children in the class are; it's fantastic!

We also wrote some super sentences by writing to Father Christmas and telling him what presents we would like! Here are some great examples of work, we have sent all of them to Lapland and will see after the holidays if any of us were lucky enough to get some of these presents!

Tomorrow is going to be our class party to celebrate Eid and Christmas and the New Year. The children may wear their own clothes all day. I will put some more photos on tomorrow so you can see all their lovely outfits. Please make sure you bring in food that can be easily shared out between the children as the food will be served in class and we won't have any cutlery etc.... And please NO NUTS!

Super scientists

2008-12-10T03:47:00.001-08:00

This half term we have been learning about light and dark. The children have been working extra hard to became super scientists and carry out experiments to find which materials let light in and which ones don't. They have been busy sorting out materials and are now creating a health and safety light booklet armed with all their information from the lessons! We ahave been very impressed with Hamza who has a very scientific mind!

Happy Eid!

2008-12-10T02:41:00.000-08:00

We had a lovely day yesterday looking at all the children in their party clothes. I especially loved seeing the boys in their suits! Everyone looked very smart. I hope you all had a happy Eid or enjoyed your day off on Monday and thank you to all the parents who made sure their children came back to school on Tuesday.

Busy bees!

2008-11-26T07:44:00.000-08:00

In 1Peach we have been super busy bees this week. We have been learning and doing lots of exciting things in class and out!

Yesterday was our trip to the Toy Museum, we took so many photos it has taken us two sessions to look at them all! A selection are on the blog here but please feel free to come in and look at the slide show on the computer. I will put it on at the end of the day for the next week!

We have also started doing a spotlight session each Wednesday on a different child. Last week was Sajidah and this week it is Jahed. The children have been helping me with this as they did it last year in Reception, it is just a nice opportunity to have a chat and find out more about each other. That is also hanging up in our classroom for you to come and see anytime. At the end of their turn, the child will bring their 'spotlight' home with them for you to see and maybe display somewhere! A warning though, they are quite big!

The children may have told you about Miss Ashworth, we have been lucky enough to get her and she will be here every day until Christmas and then will be coming back again after the holidays. She is doing lots of different work with groups so ask your child if they have worked with her yet?

A big thank you to all the parents in Peach class, everyone paid their £2 to contribute towards the cost of the coaches! Thank you all so much!

It was lovely to have a go on the rocking horses, although the queue was quite long! Lots of children from other school wanted a go as well!

All the children enjoyed dressing up!

We enjoyed our spotlight session with someone from the museum, we got to play with some of the old toys and find out more information about them!

We have also got a new addition to the class. Tigger is our class puppet and every night he goes home with a child and they write what exciting things they do with Tigger at home and draw a lovely picture! Each child will get a turn and then we will have a lovely class story book about Tigger! The children want to add to the collection so by the end of the year we may have a family of puppets!

Wonderful work and Super Spellers!

2008-11-17T08:27:00.000-08:00

Our super spellers from Friday were:

Jahed, Rafa, Astrit, Hassan, Hajar, Amir, Jone Sheng, Sebahat, Hamza, Kaan, Farah-Noer and Eddie. Well done children.

Our star of the week was Bilal because he always tries his best.

Here is some star work of the week:

Mahirah

Kaan

Astrit

We have been learning about time and lots of the children found it tricky. This is something you can practise with them at home, looking at the clock and saying the times together or asking them what time it is during familiar daily routines, e.g. when you leave the house in the morning, when their favourite tv programme is on etc...

Hajer

There was a bit of a sad start to the week this Monday, lots of children hadn't done their homework. Please make sure you do it with them over the weekend, it shouldn't take very long. A big thank you to the parents who make sure their child hands in their homework every single week!

Amazing artists

2008-11-03T00:54:00.000-08:00

Your child should have come home with their final piece of art work before half term ended. I am so impressed with the standard of our mini Kandinsky's!

We used paint and charcoal over the half term and worked very hard to make sure the shapes were bold and stood out. Here are some pictures of us creating our masterpiece. Don't they all look wonderful together on the carpet at the end of the lesson?

I hope you have displayed your child's piece somewhere in the house. They are all beautiful!

Pizza Express Round 2!

2008-10-21T03:39:00.000-07:00

This morning the other half of the class went to Pizza Express In Abbey Road. Again we were extremely lucky with the weather and walked there and back in glorious sunshine. The children were so well behaved and lots of passers by smiled at us and one even commented they were a lovely group of children!

We were given squash again and a lovely activity book to fill out which the children will be bringing home with them this evening along with the delicious pizzas!

I think there maybe some budding chefs amongst the class because the standard of the pizzas was excellent! What a talented class we are!

Here are some snaps of our trip out!

Pizza Express Round 1!

2008-10-17T06:07:00.000-07:00

Yesterday half of the class visited Pizza Express in Abbey Road as part of our learning about Food in D.T.

I was so impressed by the way everyone walked to and from the restaurant and how nobody complained they were tired, especially as it was quite a long walk!

The manager Joanna was so welcoming and they gave the teachers and children a drink when we first arrived. They also had an activity to make a pretend pizza on paper so the children were sure about which toppings they definitely wanted!

Then we had to wash our hands and get ready to make our pizza. We made out thin crust by pushing the dough with our hands and then a small bit of tomato sauce was put on the pizza base. We had to shake it all over the pizza which was fun! Ben the chef showed us how to do it.

Then we added our toppings and they were put in the oven. It only took four minutes - a super hot oven!!

The finished pizzas were delicious! Did your child share theirs with you when they got home?
I can't wait to go back next Tuesday!

Anansi the spider!

2008-10-17T04:54:00.001-07:00

This month is Black History Month and in Year 1 we have beenlooking at some of the Anansi stories. We will be finding out more about slaves and the traditional stories they used to tell and doing some exciting activities. We have already started our learning by making a collage of Anansi in art using coloured paper. Here are some of our brilliant pieces. The rest will be shown in a special assembly!

By Omar
By Kaan

Super Spellers this week!

2008-10-17T02:47:00.001-07:00

I am super happy with the wonderful scores we got in spelling this week. Well done children!
They are: Jahed, Isa, Sawsan, Rafa, Bilal, Astrit, Hajer, Imarn, Jone Sheng, Kaan, Yahia, Mehenaz, Farah-Noer, Tanya, Rahatour, Edrin, Zareen, Mahirah and Yasmin!

A big well done to Isa who was awarded this week's golden award for learning and getting all his spellings right. Well done Isa!

Super Spellers!

2008-10-14T01:03:00.000-07:00

I am very pleased with the amount of Super Spellers we have this week!
They are:
Jahed, Bilal, Hajer, Amir, Jone Sheng, Sebahat, Yahia, Mehenaz, Farah Noer, Tanya, Rahatour, Eddie, Hanifah, Zareen, Mahirah and Yasmin!
Please make sure you learn your spellings at home with the children, it really does make such a difference!

A big well done to Astrit who won the golden award last Friday for always looking and listening. He always tries his best and works very hard in school. Well done Astrit!

Our trip to Pizza Express is nearly here! The first half of the children will be going this Thursday morning and the rest of the class will be going next Tuesday morning! I'm really excited about making pizza, look back for photos soon!

Finally in R.E we are looking at precious things and need the children to bring in something precious they have at home. It does not have to be something religious, just something they think is really special, like a favourite teddy bear. Please only bring them in on Monday as I would hate for anything to happen to them. Thanks you for all your help!

Church street library

2008-09-30T02:12:00.000-07:00

Last Wednesday we visited Church street library and had some lovely stories read to us. We all had a good time and brought a book back each to enjoy as a class. We like to finish each day off with a story so have lots of books to choose from now!

Farah-Noer's birthday!

2008-09-30T01:58:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday was Farah-Noer's birthday and his mum very kindly brought in a party cracker and some biscuits for everyone to have so we had a little party at the end of the day for him!

A big happy birthday to Tanya and Zareen who also celebrated their birthday's last week!

We are learning about shapes!

2008-09-30T01:46:00.000-07:00

1Peach are being magnificent mathematicians! We started studying space this week and have already created a shape display to help us remember the names of all the shapes. Some children also created some brilliant patterns using shapes! The whole class contributed towards making the giants posters above our whiteboard!

Ask your children the names of shapes of things around the house or when you are out and about! You will be amazed at how many shapes they can name! Some children even knew what an eight sided shape was called... ask your child, do they know??

Another reminder... some children are not bringing in their Games and P.E kits... children have to do these subjects and it is not fair if they are coming into school and getting in trouble for not having them. GAMES is on a MONDAY and P.E is on a FRIDAY! Your help with this matter is greatly appreciated.

I have also put a note on the door inviting parents to come in to class on school next Monday 6th October. It is just a short meeting to show parents how to help the children learn their spellings. If you would like to come along to this please turn up or come and see me if you have any questions.

Finally thanks to the parents who have returned their library and website permission letters. There is also a note on the door of the children who haven't yet returned them. I have been trying to catch parents in the morning, it's really important as the children can't take library books without this permission slip being returned.

Hopefully all the admin stuff should settle down now we are getting into a routine! I am really enjoying teaching 1Peach and I hope your children are coming home and telling you all about the fun things we are doing in class!

Super Literacy work!

2008-09-25T03:51:00.000-07:00

Today in Literacy we became authors and wrote our own ending to the story 'Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose!' I think the children's endings were better than the real ending of the story!

By Edrin

By Tanya

By Mahirah

By Hanifah

Hello!

2008-09-22T00:49:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to our new Peach class blog!

It seems like ages ago since the summer holidays and Peach class have had a busy start to the new term.

We are already half way through our Literacy topic of a narrative unit, looking at familiar stories. We have been reading Where's my teddy? and the Rainbow Fish. The children already know these stories and have been helping me to read them and doing lots of fantastic writing!

In maths we are learning our numbers to 20 and counting one more and one less. Most children can do this easily but they would all still benefit from practising this skill. You can do it in the supermarket or while you are walking down the road together!

We have made our class rules - ask your children what they are so we can all have a happy and fun classroom to learn in.

We have also created our first class piece of art work. Here is a picture but please come into the classroom and have a look at the real thing, it's amazing!

We have also started a reward system where children get stars if they do something well. If they get 20 they get a prize. They can then bring their smiley face with all their stars on it home to show you!

Please come into the class anytime and look at the work we have been doing, we also have an excellent work board where I will be putting up good work done that day!

FINALLY.... Please, please remember GAMES is on a MONDAY and P.E is on a FRIDAY... Children MUST have their kit!