Cedar star writer is.....

Aimee Borrell! Congratulations Aimee on a fantastic piece of diary writing.

The Smartie Challenge in Cedar!

Pupils in Cedar Class have been engaging with their data handling learning with big grins this week. The class were asked to record the frequency of colours within a party size box of smarties. So what was it that created the wide smiles:

Could it be their grasp of organising raw data into tally charts? 

Could it be their pride as they transfer this into pictograms? 

Or...could it be the delight of eating the smarties after the data is collected?

Whichever way we have had great fun in Maths!

Festive snowflakes

Children in Pine class began to get into the festive spirit this afternoon as they made paper snowflakes during their independent learning time. This really tested their motor skills as they had to carefully cut out patterns in the paper - which can be more difficult than it sounds, particularly as when folded up the paper is quite thick. They then unfolded the paper to reveal their designs. Some of them were so engaged with the activity that they made multiple snowflakes to take home and put up as decorations!

Materials

During the Autumn term, the children in year one have been busy learning about different materials. They have distinguished between an object and the material from which it is made. They have had to identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock.

Throughout the term they have enjoyed several activities investigating and describing the simple properties of materials using a range of forced alternatives e.g.  stretchy/stiff, shiny/dull, rough/smooth, opaque/transparent. 

To conclude this topic we have set up an enhancement in the classroom to encourage the children to sort the objects that are hidden and to place them in the labelled boxes.

Winter artwork

No wonder Evie looks so pleased with herself. Look at the fantastic picture she has created using the art programme on the computer. She started by using the fill icon to create a dark background and then used various tools to create the winter scene. Good job, Evie!

Seasonal Changes

In year one, we have been observing seasonal changes and the weather associated with different seasons. Wrapped up in our coats, wearing our hats and gloves we went for a walk around the school to observe how the season has been changing from Autumn into Winter. During our walk we collected lots of leaves and twigs to creature structures and artwork on our return.

Chloe led a group of children with the great idea of making the alphabet out of twigs. Another group decided to decorated the reading den with an arrangement of leaves.

I wonder what differences we will notice over the coming weeks!

Cedars Smarties pictograms

Cedar have been using smarties ( not to eat ) but to make graphs and pictograms. First they had to make a tally chart showing how many of each colour smarties they had. Then they put them onto a graph. We labelled the vertical axis number of smarties and the horizontal axis colours. Next we recorded how many of each colour smarties they had. Finally we could eat them. Yum!