This afternoon we have looked at the work of David Hockney and how he used Ipads to create artwork. We have then created a piece of artwork in the style of him. We glitched our images and placed them in a different order to look just like David Hockney’s artwork – we are so proud of them!
In our experience lesson we wrote a Christmas card for Baby Bear and posted it to him just like the Jolly Postman.
In Y1 we have started looking at numbers bigger than 10. Ready for our learning after Christmas. We have been looking at how numbers bigger than 10 are made up of 10 and a bit. 10 and 1 more, 10 and 9 more etc.
In RE, Year one started to explore how God is represented and what they think he is like. We discussed that no one knows for definite what he is like but we all have views and ideas about him. We discussed and shared our thoughts and views.
In addition to our RE unit, we have been learning about some well known Bible stories. Today, we learned about David and Goliath. This taught children the following things – be bigger than your fears, size doesn’t matter, make use of what you have, believe it is possible and never underestimate your own abilities.
In Crew Barber, we have been looking at the artist Paul Klee and looking at how he uses colours in his artwork. We have learnt how to mix primary colours (red, blue and yellow) to make secondary colours (orange, purple and green). We have also learnt about hot and cold colours and how that creates mood in our artwork. Look at our fab Florence Nightingale in the style of Paul Klee.
In Crew Barber we created our own poppies to take home to remember the soldiers who fought in the war.
We have moved on to our next computing unit which is understanding an algorithm. An algorithm is a clear set of instructions that we give to a computer to fulfil a task that we need it to do. Unfortunately, if the instructions aren’t clear then the computer will become confused. To help with their understanding, the children had to help Miss Shields make a jam sandwich but unfortunately this didn’t go to plan. The instructions Miss Shields received resulted in questionable jam sandwiches.
First, she was told to spread the butter on the bread then spread the jam on the bread. So children were quite surprised when this happened.
Another set of instructions was to get out the bread, get out the butter and get out the jam but children weren’t happy when I plopped these on the table and not the actual bread.
After a couple of failed attempts, children refined their instructions, however, they forgot to tell Miss Shields to use a knife so they were quite surprised when she spread the butter and jam with her hand. They then remembered to tell me that I needed to use a knife.
By following the unclear instructions, children were able to start understanding that an algorithm has to be clear instructions so that a computer knows exactly what to do and doesn’t get confused.
Building on from our last computing lesson, Crew Barber created an invention all together. We discussed the type of invention that we’d like and how we could modify it to suit everyone. We worked through and discussed the shapes we could use and how we would like the machine to work.
Our invention was a food and drinks machine at would allow you to order anything you wanted. You would type in what you wanted and the machine would make it automatically. The crew decided that this invention would be best suited in their bedroom so they could have food whenever they wanted. The winning requests were chicken nuggets, cupcakes or chips.
In Re, Year 1 have been learning about creation. Last week, we learned about what Christian people believe about creation and how God created the world. To start our lesson, children recapped what God created each day before we started looking at what some Hindu people believe. We watched a video about Hindu people’s beliefs and then discussed the similarities and differences to the Christian creation story.
Before starting our addition and subtraction unit we have been looking at part whole models. We used our counters to show how a part + another part creates the whole one.
