The Cottingley Fairies

In our topic work this week we have been looking at the real story of the Cottingley Fairies.
Click on the picture to find out more about the story.





After learning about the Cottingley Fairies we made our own fairies and photographed them in our class woods.  Have a look and see if they fool you.

Fieldhead Fairies on PhotoPeach

Fairies come to Fieldhead Carr

This week a new fairy habitat was found in our challenge area.  We also received a letter from Fairy Twinkletoes that told us that the Whinmoor fairies were looking for a new home as their homes at the bottom of the garden were being destroyed by too many trampolines!!!!  Year 1 got to work writing information texts to the fairies to let them know about the fairy habitat that they could have if they came to Year 1's classroom. 

I have left the information texts in our school garden. Hopefully the fairies will like the information that you have all written and we may have some new visitors next week.

Fairy land on PhotoPeach

minibeast sorting

Can you play this game sorting minibeast.  You have to decide how to sort the minibeast and label the sets.

Click on the spider to play the game.

Sumdog Competition

There a new sumdog competition running until Friday 18th May.  Have a go and lets see if we can get Fieldhead Carr on the sumdog leader board.

Click on the logo to log on.

Laptop excitment

WE have been so excited to use our new laptops.  In our ICT lesson Mrs Longhawn demonstrated how to use the laptops by plugging one into our class Interactive whiteboard.  Groups of children then worked using the laptops to create an information text about minibeasts.  Big thanks to Bobby who took the photos of the class demonstration without any adult help.

laptop excitement on PhotoPeach




Next week we will be using the laptops in our literacy lesson to work individually on our minibeast information texts

Identifying 3D and 2D shapes

This week we have been playing games and using an identification key to identify 2D and 3D shapes.  Have a look at the slide show to see how much fun we had.

3D Shapes on PhotoPeach

Skelton wood trip

This week we visited Skelton woods as part of our geography work.  Each group made a journey stick during their walk through the woods.
 

When Australian Aboriginals went on long journeys they tied objects to a stick. They

would start at one end of the stick and work along it as they travelled. The objects would help them to remember events and experiences on their journey and to tell others of their
adventures.

By making our own journey sticks we were able to map what we could find in our local environment.  Each group carried a leaf bag as well into which they put lots of different leaves that they found.  The journey sticks and leaf bags are now on our challenge table so that they can be investigated using our non fiction books.


Can you find out what tree the leaves came from????

 Skelton Wood Trip on PhotoPeach

Can you remember what tree a conker comes from?????