Blackacre Class
Blackacre Class 2024-2025
Year 1
Miss Shine
History
This half term we are learning all about the wonderful Mary Seacole. This week we discovered some of the important events in her life, before, during and after the Crimean War. In groups we made a chronological timeline of these events.
Art
This half term we will be creating clay tiles. This week our focus was on textures and what they are. Our task was to take rubbings from different textures around the classroom, using crayons. We created rubbings from things such as Lego, a mat, stickle bricks, toy roof tiles, shells and hundreds squares. They look fabulous!
Geography
We’ve been learning about the journey of a letter and how we send and receive post. We enjoyed writing our own letters and posting them home to our family.
Tennis
Blackacre had lots of fun playing tennis this morning!
In Computing we are learning to know how to use tools to change an image
We are learning to describe what makes a good photograph, we then added them to a PicCollage page
We are learning to use a digital device to take a photograph
English
We learnt about information books and created our own one about bats.
Science
Today we learnt about products that are made of wood. We then did an experiment making a bridge out of paper. At first, the flat piece of paper wasn’t strong enough to hold a toy train but when we rolled the paper, it was strong enough.
P.E.
Today we performed a short dance with a clear start, middle and end. We thought about the scene from The Jungle Book where Mowgli says goodbye to Baloo and how they felt. We then performed some actions with our partner to perform the scene.
English
We learnt what a dictionary is and how to use it.
Art
Today we learnt about an artist from Switzerland called Paul Klee. He also enjoyed using primary and secondary colours to express his feelings through art. We made our very own tint paintings by choosing a colour to paint a strip and for each strip we added a bit more white to make it lighter. Beautiful tint paintings! 🤩
History
We continued learning about The Gunpowder Plot and today we focused on problems that the plotters faced. In groups we acted out some ideas that the plotters might’ve had to get the barrels of gunpowder to the Houses of Parliament. We also enjoyed our workshop where we dressed up as Guy Fawkes, Bodyguards and the other plotters.
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Maths
We learnt to count on from any number (within 10). In pairs we rolled the dice and displayed the correct number of counters. We then moved the number cards from the next number on up to 10.
Art
Today we learnt about the artist Piet Mondrian and that he liked using primary colours. We made our very own Piet Mondrian art using primary coloured shapes. 🤩
