Basketball coaching

We have been very lucky to have had Lawrence from the junior Breakers come in and take us for basketball. He has taught us how to dribble the ball, how to pass and catch the ball. This week he taught us a fun game of tiggy, where we had to chase our partner while dribbling the ball.
We are looking forward to more basketball with Lawrence next week 😎

When Clifford came to Jump Jam

It was an exciting morning at Jump Jam today. We were busy dancing, when along came Clifford and Geronimo Stilton!

They joined in our morning Jump Jam routines with us which was very exciting.

When we returned to class, we wrote stories about Clifford. The children did a great job, thinking about what they saw and how they felt. These are hanging on the wall so come in and have a look.

Dog safety

Last week, we had 3 very special visitors. The lovely Bark ladies came along with their dogs! We enjoyed seeing the dogs up on the stage and listening to the ladies. 

They talked to us about being safe around dogs, and the importance of asking our grown up,  the owner and the dog before patting them. We also played a game which helped us learn how to act if a dog approaches us. We had to stand still like a tree with our arms wrapped around ourselves. If we do this, we are too boring and the dogs wont chase us. If we fall down, we have to roll up in a ball and put our arms over our ears with our hands tucked away.

A big thanks to the Year 2 teachers for inviting us😍

We have new iPads!

The Year 1 classes and teachers are feeling very lucky. We have got new iPads 😃

Mr Gover bought them in last week for us to have a play. It was great exploring the different apps, from memory games to tracing and colouring to sight word games.

We will be using the iPads in our reading and maths programmes and we are all looking forward to trying out the new programmes.

Making graphs

In Maths we have been learning about how to make a graph and how to understand what the graph can tell us.

Over the last week we have made bar graphs and pictographs to show all kinds of things.

One of our graphs was to show  our favourite ice cream flavour. Each child coloured in their own ice cream and we worked together to create the graph.  Once all the ice creams were in place, we counted each line and figured out which flavour was the most popular, and least popular flavour in Room 3.