Nativity Stars, Spooky Stories & Smelly Surprises!

Mary Ellis Class • December 20, 2024

Nativity Stars, Spooky Stories & Smelly Surprises!

Mary Ellis Class • December 20, 2024

Wow, Wow, Wow Year 1. We have had an absolutely fabulous half term. I have seen the children come on leaps and bounds within all their learning and am so, so proud of each and every one of them. 

They all worked so hard to learn the songs for Nativity and I hope that you can agree that it was an amazing production. 

In Maths this past couple of weeks we have been learning how to use inequality and equality symbols to compare numbers. We have also been using part-whole models to represent a whole partitioned into parts. 


In English the children have been writing a short scary narrative based around our text this term ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. They all gave some amazing scary adjective suggestions which has led to some great extended sentences, as well as some of them writing similes. 

In Science we have had fun learning all about our senses. Last week we did a smell test. They all enjoyed trying to work out what the scents were. I think their favourite had to be the sweet smell of chocolate spread. They weren’t so sure of the garlic!


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