In Bumble Bee Class, our topic this term has been ‘Superheroes’. Year 1 have enjoyed welcoming our new reception children and showing them how we do things in our class. We have demonstrated superb learning behaviours and showed them some of the great games we know!

We started the term with the story of Super Daisy, by Nick Sharratt. During this we imagined ourselves as superheroes, thought about which superpowers we would like and which planet we were going to save. We loved learning about the words used in comic books and had a go at writing our own.
This term we have also used the story ‘My Mum is a Superhero’ by Angela McAllister. This time we turned a member of our family into a superhero, and alongside imagining what their super powers would be, we thought about why they are already super. We loved dressing up as superheroes for the day!  

Our final story for this topic was ‘Supertato!’, by Sue Hendra. We came in from break on a wet Monday morning and noticed that a number of vegetables had been captured in our classroom! There was only one explanation, it must have been the Evil Pea!! Supertato arrived to try and save the vegetables, but he was captured. The Evil Pea sent us a ransom message, telling us that if we wanted to save Supertato we all needed to get onto silver by lunch time. We worked extremely hard to be kind, respectful, self-regulated and to take pride in our environment so that we could work our way up rainbow road – and quickly! Thankfully, we all achieved silver and Supertato was saved. What a relief!

      

In science this half term we have looked at our bodies and Autumn! We have labelled our own bodies and matched our senses to different body parts. We also used our senses; we used sight to spot different parts of a picture, we used hearing to decide which sounds we could hear, and we used touch to describe some different fabrics. We noticed during Forest School that Autumn had arrived! We have spent lots of time exploring the things we might see in Autumn, including different coloured leaves, conkers, acorns, pinecones, and of course lots of mud! 

In maths, year 1 have been working hard on getting to grips with place value to 10 and applying this knowledge for addition within 10. We have been practising writing numbers as words, finding one more and one less, identifying tens and ones and comparing numbers and using ordinal numbers. We have been making parts and combining them to make a whole. We are working on becoming more independent during maths lessons, including reading the question carefully.
Reception have had lots of fun matching pairs of socks, sorting objects by colour, singing nursery rhymes (including five little ducks, five little speckled frogs, and humpty dumpty) and are just beginning to look at number 1 and 2.
Bumble Bee Class have continued their love for geography this half term with Mrs Triggs, learning all about the location of our school on a map and what is nearby. We have also worked hard with Mrs Triggs to make our very own superhero capes!