Blackbirds | Sudley Infant School

Welcome to

Blackbirds Class Page

We are a Year 1 class

Our class teacher is Miss O'Kane

20 Year 1 Newsletter 19.2.18.doc

Follow the instructions to log onto Bug Club to read lots of fantastic books

log onto bug club.docx

Phonics websites.docx

Purple Mash

Magic Key Adventures Lots of fun and games while learning about words and writing.

As a class we have written this list of class rules:

Always be kind to other children.
Always tell the truth.
Try our best with all of our work.
Tidy away our own things.
Sit sensibly on the carpet.
Put our hand up to ask or answer a question.
Line up quietly and sensibly.
Behave sensibly in the toilets.

We had a lovely end to the term with a visit from The Easter Bunny! He hid clues around the playground which we had to follow to find the bag of chocolate eggs at the end.

We return to school on Monday 9th April. Our topic will be musicals for one week and then dinosaurs for 4 weeks. You could take a trip to the World Museum over the holidays to learn about dinosaurs before our topic.

If you havent already, please remember to bring an empty plastic bottle into school.

I hope you all have a lovely time off school with your friends and family.

Miss O'Kane

Easter egg hunt with the Easter Bunny

Science investigation - making 'plastic' out of milk

Designing and making our own bags

Investigating which type of bag is the strongest

Writing instructions for making a jam sandwich

Blackbirds breakfast assembly is on Friday 9th March at 9am. Please help your child to practise their lines.

We had so much fun at the gymnastics competition. We did lots of activities including balancing on the benches and learning a floor routine. Take a look at our pictures below.

Gymnastics morning

Wilfred's Mum came in to tell us all about life in New Zealand

WIDER WORLD WEEK

w.b. 5.2.18 is wider world week in school. Blackbirds class have chosen to learn about New Zealand. We have been practising the traditional Haka dance to perform to other children in the school.

Thursday 8th February is the next year 1 homework awards at 2.40pm. The children will be performing a song, dance and poem as well as receiving awards for brilliant homework. Come along to join in the celebration!

This week in our maths lessons we have been learning about 3D shapes. We investigated how we could sort them into different groups and learnt new words like faces and sides to describe them.

3D Shapes

We had a VERY exciting day today! We had a visit from Santa in the Christmas Grotto, along with 2 of his elves and reindeer. Santa asked us all what we wanted for Christmas and he gave us some toys to keep in class. We got some new Lego and Mobilo. The reindeer were so funny because they were trying to eat everything and we learnt some cool facts about them.

Santa's Grotto and reindeer visit

On Monday we did lots of activities around the theme of 'food'. We made fresh fruit jelly pots and wrote instructions describing how we made them. We also read The Tiger Who Came To Tea and made some paper pizzas with our favourite ingredients for our tea party.

Making fresh fruit jelly on Food Day

The Christmas fair will be on Friday 1st December from 5.30pm . Come along for lots of Christmas crafts, food and fun!

Remember to keep practising your Christmas show lines using brilliant expression.

Well known, local artist Ian Fennelly recently came into school to work with the Year 2 children and to help the teachers learn some new watercolour skills. The children had to read clues to guess which member of staff created each painting. We will be using these skills in class throughout the school year.

Looking at Ian Fennelly style artwork

Investigating the transparency of different materials

Nature trail and bulb planting at Sudley House

Sponsored obstacle course

We had so much fun doing our sponsored obstacle course this week! Thank you so much for helping us to raise money for Woodlands Hospice. Could all sponsorship money please be returned to school by Monday 16th October.

We will be visiting Sudley House to do some bulb planting on Thursday 19th October. Please ensure your child has a warm waterproof coat and a pair of shoes that you don't mind getting muddy! (Wellies or old trainers are great)

On Thursday it is also our homework awards where we are inviting parents and carers into class at 3pm. Could all homework please be returned to school on Monday 16th please.

Hello Blackbirds,

We have had a very busy week writing stories, adding numbers together and learning about aeroplanes and seaside holidays from the past. We also went on an Autumn nature walk around the school playground to see how the leaves have changed throughout this season. To finish, we had a visit from a lady who works in the Natural History Museum who brought in lots of animals for us to learn about. We even got to stroke a snake, frog, leopard kitten and look at an Australian stick insect and a hawk.

Take a look at our photographs.

Library day is Monday so remember to return your book in order to get a new one.

Natural History Animal Visit

Autumn Leaf Hunt

Homework will be sent home each Friday on the back of the newsletter. Please encourage your child to complete this as independently as possible. We ask that you mark it and leave a positive comment and then file into the green homework folder. This should be returned to school on Monday 16th October for me to have a look at. Parents and carers are then invited into class on Thursday 16th October at 8.50am for the homework awards to be given out.

Making fruit kebabs

Fruit faces inspired by Arcimboldo

We made our own rain gauge to measure rainfall over a week.

Hello Blackbirds,

We have had a brilliant first week in Year 1. We have been learning all about our class bird, the blackbird and made some fantastic bird collages. Next week we will be learning about the famous artist Arcimboldo. He painted pictures using shapes of fruits and vegetables. We will also be learning about how to stay healthy by eating fruits and vegetables and making our own fruit kebabs.

Remember to bring your reading books and water bottles into school every day.

Please make sure that everybody has a P.E kit in school.

Have a super weekend,

Miss O'Kane