What a wonderful start back to school it has been for the Year 1 children!
In the past two weeks, we have based our learning around on the story ‘Pete the cat rocking in my school shoes’. To begin this topic, we had a special box. Inside the box, we found different items such as, school shoes, pens, paper and a school uniform. The Year 1s made some brilliant guesses about what our topic story would be. Following this activity, we read the story and sang a song all about rocking in our school shoes. We discussed how it felt to start a new school year and what we could do to make school fun and exciting. Every class made some amazing guitars that were taken on our special hunt to find Pete the Cat who was hiding around the school. We found him in playground, the Performing Arts class, in the lunch hall and in many other places.
This week we have begun to write sentences all about Pete the cat. We discussed what Pete likes to wear, what he likes to eat and what special activities he enjoys doing. The children were very enthusiastic and they used their creative skills to write amazing sentences that even included adjectives! To end our week, we made our very own Petes, out of toilet tubes.
By Dionne Tyghter
Year 1 Jaguars Class Teacher
