Our Job Role and Wonder Questions

I am a Firefighter

I wonder why we need firefighters.

I wonder how we stay safe.

I wonder how fire safety has changed.

Adding -ed endings

We have been improving our writing by adding -ed endings to our words to change the tense. Sometimes this is tricky because the words don’t always sound like they end with an -ed.

Adding within 10

We have been exploring adding within 10. We started off with simple number sentences to 10 before exploring that the number sentences can be swapped around so that the equals comes first.

Children in Need

What a lovely day celebrating Children in Need. We were really lucky that lots of bears came to visit us and spend the day in Year 1. We read stories, drew picture and took lots of photos with them in our Children in Need photo booth.

Visit to Church

We have been learning about the Christmas story in our RE lessons and exploring why Jesus is important to Christians. We visited Church to learn some more about the story and why Christmas is such a special time.

Our Job Role and Wonder Questions

I am a Cartographer

I wonder what makes us a village

Would I like to live in a village or city?

I wonder what Hansel and Gretel saw in their local area

Gymnastics skills

In our gymnastics lessons, we have been exploring the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

We used our climbing skills to climb the beanstalk and rescue Jack and Daisy from the Giant.

We had a lot of fun exploring the different ways we could climb using the climbing frame. Some of the routes we chose were trickier than we expected but with some problem solving, we were soon able to master it.

Retelling stories using music

In our music lessons, we have been exploring how to retell stories without using words. We have been using the story of the Three Little Pigs as our stimulus. We started by listening to a story and deciding how each of the characters sounded different. We soon realised that the wolf had a low and scary voice and the pigs were much higher.

To add an extra challenge to our lessons, we weren’t allowed to use our voices at all. We could only use the instruments we had been given to represent each section of the story. We had to work as a team to create a short sound scape.

Making bird feeders in Forest School

During one of our RE lessons, we read the story of the baby bird. This story is used in the Islamic religion to teach the importance of looking after animals.

We decided that we wanted to look after the animals that might visit Forest School by making bird feeders.

Dinosaur Day

We had an amazing day when some students from Burnley College visited. They needed our help finding a dinosaur that had escaped.

Classifying animals

We have been learning about different animals in our science lessons. We started by sorting animals into different groups by creating our own criteria before exploring different animal groups such as amphibians, mammals, birds and reptiles.

Then we explored herbivores, omnivores and carnivores by first exploring some (fake) poo and deciding what the animal might have eaten. Once we knew what the animal had eaten and which group it fit in to, we tried to decide which animals poo we might have found.

Our Job Role and Wonder Questions

I am a Nutritionist

I wonder where our food comes from.

I wonder if all plants need the same thing.

I wonder what my body needs to stay healthy.

Our Job Role and Wonder Questions

I am a Weather Reporter

I wonder why the weather changes.

I wonder if the weather is different in different places.

I wonder which climate I would like to live in.

Our Job Role and Wonder Questions

I am a Museum Curator

I wonder what an artefact is.

I wonder what has happened in my lifetime.