As part of Safer Internet Week, Year 1 Puffins read a story about Digiduck who shared pictures he shouldn’t have had of his friends online and the importance of being safe on the internet.
“Don’t share silly pictures of your friends it might make them embarrassed”. Elias
“Always ask before you share a picture of your friend”. Reva
The children were also able to tell me how to be safety online giving me lots of important tips.
The Puffins are very confident in staying safe on the internet.
The Puffins have really got stuck into their art lesson this afternoon. Whilst listening to calm African music as they selected the correct thin or thick paintbrushes to paint an African picture.
For RE today the children learnt able the Christian story of Jonah and Zacchaeus. They learnt how Zacchaeus dishonesty led him being accountable for his actions and Jesus.
We then discussed as a class times we had to be accountable for our actions.
Today the Puffins have been using all the taught strategies of how to put subtraction into action. They have all chosen the correct method for the questions and used their knowledge to complete all the problems. I was very impressed with how most children were able to create their own number lines to support their subtracting.
Today Puffins have discussed how we can preserve using things in class such as editing toolkit, words on the walls, maths partner teacher etc. We then played a game of pass the hoop, in which they had to pass the hoop around the circle but they were not allowed to use their hands. The children were all fantastic at encouraging each other and persevering when it got tough. We finished circle time with the story Giraffes can’t Dance by Giles Andreae about a giraffe who couldn’t dance but preserved and in the end he could.
Today in music the Puffins were able to practise a piece of music which gradually built up quicker to improve on their pace of hitting the notes. They also explored different instruments and tune within Latin music genre.
Today before moving onto our new learning behaviours, we practiced our previous learning for behaviours ‘concentration’ and ‘listening’. To demonstrate good concentration the child had to complete some spot the difference. For listening skills the children had to guess the noise the noisy neighbours were making. Finally we played the game Miss Coghlan says.
Today the Puffins have learnt how to play a basic tune using the glockenspiels. They learnt about how each note sounds different starting low ranging up to high also understanding how to hold onto their beater to ensure they make the correct sound.
As part of our Geography the children have been able to identify the 7 continents using an atlas and moving on to exploring the equator and hot and cold countries around the world.
As part of our ERIC this week the Puffins have been exploring different features of traditional tales. They have done paired reading, listening to their teacher read in small groups and independent reading. The children have really enjoyed choosing their own traditional tales.