CAMBRIDGE Mrs Baker
Welcome to Cambridge Class
Class Teacher: Mrs Baker
HLTA: Miss Brown
Oliver's Vegetable
Environment: Outdoor and garden
Find out what we will be learning about this term
Week 6
Well done to Tiffany for being an amazing and supportive friend to all her peers in Cambridge class!
Problem solving with measurements
Activities to help us write our invented story
Week 5
Well done to Oliver for his huge improvement in contributing during carpets times and group activities.
In D&T we made a fruit salad!
We played a guess my fruit game to help us find adjectives to describe our fruits. We have learned all about the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables every day. Our fruit salad was a real success!
Year 1 homework project-Our fantastic castles!
Learning to read scales to solve measurements problems
Week 4
We have had an amazing time at Leeds Castle this week! The children went on a Nature Trail on the castle grounds and explored its maze. We took part in a 'Walk on the Wild Side' workshop where each child was able to make their own clay owl.
We also visited the magnificent castle and its beautiful garden.
Cambridge's Olympians
Week 3
Well done to the unstoppable Marek for his truly amazing imitation work in literacy this week. Marek is writing confidently now and takes great care in his work too!
Cambridge's newsletter
We are getting all fruity!
Learning coins and notes value, making amounts and giving change
Week 2
Well done to all the children in Cambridge for the amazing endeavour they have showed this week during Year 1 Phonics Screening!
They have all made such great progress this year, I am very proud of every single one of them!
Our evolving environment
Watch the Tricky Words!
We are going to focus on tricky words for the rest of the term in order to improve children's spellings.
Tricky words cannot be sounded out correctly. The only way these words can be read and spelt correctly is by learning them and having plenty of practice.
Practising our number bonds to 20
Week 1
Well done Viktoria for her great improvements in her attitude towards her learning this week.
Viktoria is beginning to show more resilience during focus learning, in particular with her writing.
Phonics revision home learning
Vegetables tasting-What adjective describes best your vegetable?
Busy hands and feet creating a vegetable patch in the classroom
We released our beautiful butterflies
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Our last butterfly was born during the holiday in Mrs Baker's garden
BOG BABY:
Can you keep a secret?
Woodland and magic pond environment
Year 1 Medium Term Plan
Week 6
Well done Cambridge class, you are my super stars this week! You have all worked so hard and made amazing progress. You have all 'stuck with it' even when it was hard going! Your teacher is extremely proud of you!
Year 1 trip to Dane Park
Week 5
Well done to Dymitr for surpassing himself this week with his extraordinary addition and subtraction work using the 100 square and partitioning.
Home work challenge
Cambridge newsletter
What it takes to invent a story
Subtraction techniques
Week 4
Well done to Abbie for being an enthusiastic learning this week. She has shown great leadership in her group and her contribution to class and group activities has been excellent!
Learning together afternoon
Bog Baby's cousin in troubles?
Everything is growing...
Year 1 History homework
Week 3
Well done Marek this week for his fabulous reading! Marek can sight read some tricky words now!
Learning together in year 1
Inventing a morale story
Cambridge newsletter
Year 1 home learning
In D&T we made thaumatropes or moving images
We innovated the Bog Baby and created our own pond creatures
In maths we are learning to sequence events using time related words
Week 2
Well done to Riley this week for his relentless efforts during independent and focused learning.
I am very proud of him!
Our environment is evolving
Our active planters!
Week 1
Well done to Marek for working more independently now during writing activities!
Cambridge newsletter and homelearning
Getting our classroom ready for Bog Baby!
Should we keep Bog Baby in our classroom?
Learning about 2D and 3D shapes' properties
Term 4:
Space Poetry
This term we are continuing to venture into Space amongst aliens. The children will explore poetry and write their own alien poems.
In maths, we will consolidate our number skills and practise adding and subtracting two digit and one digit numbers. The children will apply their knowledge to solve problems.
Things to do at home: Help you child practise the 10 and 20 number bonds. Practise reading the hour and half past the hour times.
Week 6
Well done to Jayce this week for contributing with enthusiasm to our class learning and behaving sensibly during independent learning.
Happy Birthday Tiffany!
Pyjama Day and Easter fun!
History of Drapers Day
Our school council members and Miss Williams did a fantastic job and organised a great day, full of history about what Drapers Mills used to be like years ago.
We have had a whole school assembly about the history of our school to start with and ex pupils and teachers visiting our classroom later on during the day to share their past experiences.
we concluded the day with a balloon send off in our field, what a day!
Week 5
Well done to Abbie for showing endeavour in everything she does and being such a supportive friend for her group!
Cambridge Newsletter
Year 1 Home learning this week:
Drawing competition; check your child's school bag, a drawing sheet has been included in homework books this week.
Please return your drawings before next Tuesday, if you are entering the competition!!!
Learning to divide through sharing and grouping
Amazing independent writing in Cambridge Class!
Week 4
Well done to Stefania for showing such enthusiasm and enjoyment in her reading this week!
Our second 100th time reader, well done ABBIE!
What a super star!!!
Cambridge home learning
Celebrating Science Week
Exploring arrays to understand multiplication
Week 3
Well done to Nevaeh for settling rapidly and making lots of new friends in Cambridge class!
Nevaeh is already part of the family!
A big well done to Oliver for being the first 100 time reader in Cambridge class!
I am SO very proud of you Oliver!
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Que tiempo hace hoy?
Learning to ask and answer questions about the weather in Spanish
Learning positional and directional language
Our fabulous invented poems
Week 2
Well done to Jayce-Rai this week for improving his learning attitude. Jayce-Rai has been working very hard in class and in intervention groups and this is beginning to make a difference. Keep up the good work!
World Book Day 2017
We had a great day celebrating the beautiful world of books and reading!
We started the day sharing our favourite books with the children in assembly. This was followed by activities in classrooms. all book themed.
Children had fun reading with year 5 Liverpool class and we created some fabulous displays in our school hall!
Japanese visitors
Our Alien poem performed in Japanese
Business as usual in Cambridge!
Week 1
Well done to Tiffany for the relentless efforts she always puts into her work and her consistent contribution to our class learning. She is an exceptional star!
A confident and amazing imitation of our Alien poem
Partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens and units...so clever!
Cambridge newsletter
Week 1 home learning-History
Term 3:
What do aliens think of life on planet Earth?
Come along and join Beegu's adventures on Earth!
This term our topic will be around space and aliens, we will use Pie Corbett's 'Talk for Writing' and 'Talk for Reading' approaches and bring writing and reading to life in the classroom!
To find out more about it follow the link below:
http://www.talk4writing.co.uk/about/
In maths the children will continue developing strategies to help them add and subtract. I wonder who will be our first white badge winner? Come on my little ninjas!
In science, we will learn about materials and explore their properties. Children will then use their knowledge of materials in D&T to help them plan and design the perfect home for Beegu on Earth.
We will also learn about weather patterns in the UK and have a go at saying it in Spanish too!!!
This promises to be a very busy and exciting term indeed. Stay in touch, we will keep you posted!
Year 1 Term 3 planning overview
Week 6
Well done to Marek for all his perseverance this term in his writing. He has come leaps and bounds with his sounding and can now write some simple words!
Alien invasion!
Listening to music and learning about instruments
Exploring mass and capacity
Learning animals names in Spanish
Week 5
Well done to Sarlota for settling so beautifully this week in Cambridge! She also took great care of work and presented it very neatly!
Our new proud RED TED owner!
Year 1 homework challenge week 5
We are inventing our space wishing stories
Halving and doubling is fun!
Week 4
Well done to Nikolas for his truly amazing halving in maths. Nikolas is turning a page and showing superb endeavour in his work and attitude to learning!
Cambridge newsletter
Year 1 Homework
Learning together making rockets and spaceships
Halving shapes / quantities and sharing into equal parts
Week 3
Well done to our new RED TED owner this week!
Well done to Kieran this week for his AMAZING independent imitation of Beegu's story! What a writing wizzard!
Time is of the essence...
D&T-Making a house for an alien to live in
The children designed their 'perfect' home to shelter a lost alien. They thought about the materials they would need to build their houses and what techniques they would use to assemble the different parts.
They then worked in groups to create houses using different materials:
Team 1 built a tall newspaper town house with door and windows
Team 2 built a paper teepee with paper straws
Team 3 built a log cabin with wooden blocks
Team 4 built a cardboard bungalow out of cereal boxes
Next week we will evaluate our houses and test their resistance to adverse weather!
Week 2
Well done to Ethan this week for his much improved behaviour for learning and his great endeavour during focus and independent learning.
I am very proud of him!
Cambridge Newsletter
Our 50 time readers with their RED TED
Year 1's triple whammy!!!
Well done to everybody for getting up and coming to school everyday this week! Our 3 classes have won the 3 attendance trophies this week!
1st Brighton
2nd Cambridge
3rd Cardiff