Ten in the Bed and Little Red Hen

We have started learning how to do takeaway sums. We are really enjoying it and finding it a lot easier than we thought! We read the story of 'Ten in the Bed' to begin learning about subtraction. We then made up actions to the song and acted it out. It was lots of fun with everyone falling out of the bed!
This really helped us to learn the concept of 'how many are left?'

       



   

  

We've been learning all about how bread is made from the story of The Little Red Hen. We retold the group all the different steps that are needed from planting the grain to baking the bread.

Another part of the story that we thought was very important was about friends helping each other. The animals in the story were too lazy to help Little Red Hen until it was time to eat the bread!!

We acted out the story with finger puppets and added our twists and endings. We even had twin hens!

We also wrote apology letters to Little Red Hen on behalf of the animals. We discussed apologies and different ways to show others you are sorry and that you care. We felt that writing a letter of apology is a lovely way to say sorry to someone.

      




     

Autumn Fun!

We've been enjoying learning all about Autumn recently. We've been keeping our eye out for all the signs in our environment. We've spotted lots of amazing colours on the leaves, horse chestnuts and helicopters from the Maple tree.
We collected some leaves from different trees in a lovely variety of shapes and sizes and used them to make leaf rubbings to create an autumn tree in art! We also used another body part in our pictures - can you spot which body part?

We also went on our annual school walk to Corkagh Park last week. The weather was a little bit dull, but that didn't stop our excitement. This year we walked around the edge of the park and it was really long. We spotted the old oil mill and the wall of the old house as we walked.We also really enjoyed seeing the Fairy Woods as we passed by. 
Thankfully we still had enough energy for the playground at the end and we had loads of fun climbing and playing with all of our friends.
You can see some of the fun we had in our pictures below.

We also revisited the story of the Owl Babies by Martin Waddell. Most of us knew this story but this time we discussed and wrote about how Sarah, Percy and Bill were 'feeling' in the story. We talked about courage, worry, sadness and fear.
We created our own Owl Babies in art by tearing paper! We then used carrots, apples and our fingers to print the features of the owls. Twit twoo!

Growing Up

We've been learning all about growing and changing in History. We've been trying to remember back to when we were babies and toddlers. We brought in some old photographs of ourselves and we played a game called 'Guess the baby?' We had so much fun seeing who has changed a lot and who we recognised. We also chatted about our old toys that we loved but don't play with anymore. We wrote about one of our most favourite ones we had as babies.

First days of 1st Class!

Welcome to our class blog. We are the Superstars of Room 13! We've all been settling in really well into 1st Class and working very hard. It has taken us a bit of time to get used to the longer days and more challenging work, but we know if we keep trying our best everyday, we will do just great!

In September, we spent a lot of time getting to know each other and telling others about ourselves. 

We learned about a famous artist called Pablo Picasso. He painted very colourful and funny portraits. He inspired us to do make our own self-portraits using oil pastels.

  

                                                                         
Pablo Picasso 

Portrait by Pablo Picasso

        

We also learned about Primary Colours and how we can make so many colours from just blue, red and yellow! Some of us got to squirt two colours into a ziplock bag and squished and squelched it around to see which new colour it made! It was lots of fun.
We all then created a colour wheel to learn which two primary colours made secondary colours!