Performance Poetry

Years 1 and 2 have worked very hard to learn some poetry by heart to perform in assembly. We think they did very well!

Environmental Art - Natural Sculptures

This term Years 1 and 2 are learning all about the artwork of British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who is famous for his environmental art. We started by looking at the way he uses natural materials in his artwork, matching colours. We used pictures of different fruits and vegetables, and then sorted these according to their colours and used them to create pictures by cutting and sticking.

Then we went for a walk in the school grounds and Sylvia's Garden to find natural objects in our local environment to match to different colours!

Next we took the cameras with us and looked for natural examples of different colours, shapes and patterns. Here are some of the photos we took of what we observed:

Cyan and Lynn spotted a circular shape around the base of this tree and lines of symmetry in the fern leaf.

Elisha, Henno and Rocco spotted a line of symmetry on this branch and liked the bright orange colour of these flowers.

Davi and Harry CD spotted the circular patterns in the tree trunk and liked looking at the reflections in the water of the pond.

Harry J and Wandile liked the texture of the tree bark and the symmetry of the feather.

Ryan and Subhan arranged these leaves in a circle and liked looking at the reflections in the water of the pond.

Rebeca and Samantha liked the bright purple/blue colour of the bluebells and the patterns made by the leaves.

Gabriell and Charlie loved the circular patterns made when stones were thrown in the pond water and liked the symmetry of the nettle leaves.

Johnny, Jonathan and Sean chose the bright colours of the orange and pink flowers,


Check back next week to see us having a go at making some natural sculptures of our own!

Hunting Minibeasts

Years 1 and 2 have had great fun learning about minibeasts, and especially enjoyed spending an afternoon in the school grounds and Sylvia's Garden hunting for minibeasts in their microhabitats!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roald Dahl Day Fun!

Well another new year at Newbold: welcome to the new Year 1s and welcome back to the Year 2s!

Here in Year 1 and 2 we are ready and raring to go, and what better way to start the new school year off than with a fantastic, marvellous, Dahlicious dress-up day to celebrate the achievements of the incredible author Roald Dahl. As you may be able to tell, Mrs Chilvers and Miss Hawker have gone a bit Roald Dahl mad with our curriculum (and classroom!) this term and the children certainly seem to be enjoying getting involved so far! Here are a few photos to let you know what we've been getting up to already...

Mrs Chilvers has recreated Roald Dahl's writing hut in our classroom!

So far we have read Esio Trot . We sorted out Mr Hoppy's tortoises by helping him put them in order of size,

We also thought  about the characters of Mr Hoppy and Mrs Silver and even learned how to write in tortoise! Ew era yrev doog ta ti won!

On Roald Dahl's birthday, Tuesday 13th September, we had a Roald Dahl Day party, and played party games including Boggis, Bunce and Bean (a bit like Duck, Duck Goose!)

We also played 'Pin the Newt on Miss Trunchbull'!

And we got a bit slimy and sticky playing Mrs Twit's Wormy Spaghetti!

 In the classroom we also made our own Dream Jars for the BFG:

Come and have a look at our Dream Jar collection and read about our different dreams!

We are reading George's Marvellous Medicine looking at how Roald Dahl created characters like gruesome, grouchy Grandma. Watch this space as we have a go at creating and writing labels for our very own marvellous medicines!

We spent a very smelly and messy lesson using different items found in the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and laundry to have a go at creating our very own medicines...

Then we wrote some descriptive phrases about the ingredients we put into our medicines...

Our medicines:

Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory will soon be opening its gates as well...