Big Pedal

This week we had the opportunity to work with some Bath Spa teachers during PE in the upper school hall. It was great fun!

This week in Numeracy we have been learning to tell the time. We have been reading the time to the hour and half past the hour on analogue clocks. We have been remembering to look at the hands of the clock and use the numbers on it. We had great fun timing ourselves using a sand timer to see what we could do in 1 minute. For example we went into the play ground and timed how many star jumps, skips, hops etc we could do in a minute. Ask us how many seconds there are in a minute!

In Literacy we read a ‘The Kiss that Missed’ and used the story to create our own fantasy story. We realised that some stories have problems that the main character needs to solve. We worked with a partner to think of a problem for our story and how it could be solved. After discussing characters and settings we took on the role of the main character in our story and re-enacted the story. This gave us lots of good ideas for story language to use in our stories. As we were acting we also thought about are setting and how our character might be feeling.

In Science we have been thinking about pushes and pulls and finding objects that move by applying one or both of these forces. For example, toy cars, boats in water with string attached and scooters. Perhaps we could look at home to find other objects that move by using pushes and pulls.

We have continued to think about Islam this week and what it Muslims believe. We know that know that Allah is the Islamic name for God. Muslims believe that Allah created all things and that humans have a responsibility to care for Allah’s creation. We learned that Muslims pray five times a day to say thank you to Allah.  We enjoyed looking at a prayer mat and seeing the beautiful designs on it which includes things like flowers, temples and patterns from the world but not people. We then had the chance to design our own prayer mat.

This week school started The Big Pedal where we will be cycling and scooting to school as much as we can for 15 days.  More of us would like to be involved please! Perhaps if we live too far away, we could bring our scooters in the car, park a few streets further away from school and scoot the rest of the way? What do you think? That way we can take part. It would also ease some congestion around the school! See http://thebigpedal.org.uk/ for more details.

Good luck to all Year 1 parents taking part in the marathon on Sunday!