Class 1

This week, to tie in with our space theme, we have been making our own 'Stary Night' inspired artwork! 

We carefully picked the right colours and tried to copy Van Gogh's swirling and circular brush strokes. 

Reception have been learning more about the phases of the moon and then they created their own phases of the moon artwork using different materials and tools. 

We are having lots of space fun this week in class 1! 

We have been learning all about Chinese New Year in Class One this week!

Our salt crystals are beginning to form! 

Today we started an experiment that will take all week to finish. 

We cut out paper snowflakes and have covered them in extremely salty water. 

We hope to observe salt crystals forming on our snowflakes as the water evaporates, or dries. 

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We enjoyed a winter walk around school searching for signs of winter! We found ice, frozen gloves, salt to melt the ice, frost that we can draw in and melting ice! We felt the cold, hilly frost on our face and wrapped up warm.

Given the frosty weather outside, I thought I would ask the children what they thought the small rocks were that appear on the playground when it's cold. 

Some children already knew that it is salt! We talked about why we put salt down when it's icy, and followed it up with an experiment to…

We want to send a huge thank you to Alex and Kay for cooking us the most delicious Christmas Dinner today! We sat with children from different classes and shared Christmas Crackers with them, before tucking into our food. 

When we'd eaten our fill, we sang the 12 Days of Christmas, then rang…

We have enjoyed making patterns and arrangements with the Christmas loose parts! 

We have enjoyed decorating our class for Christmas!