Making a Time Machine takes time itself! Time to think about what it will look like. Time to draw that plan and label the important features. Then time to investigate the best shape to use for a possible dial. Learning about 2D and 3D and how to create a 3D machine from 2D net. Wow, this was a complex process with oodles of learning taking place, involving DT, art and problem-solving skills. 

  This term we are learning about history and time and part of our focus is on the Stone-age period and how the Stone-age people may have lived their lives. 

In September a visiting coach from the Nottingham Tennis centre came to teach us some specific tennis skills. Just look at the size of the tennis rachet he brought with him! It was such great fun and it got our hearts pumping, all at the same time.

In Olive Class the children have been busy getting their fingers dirty and planting a variety of things for our Year 1 allotment. They have grown sunflowers from seed to see the change from beginning to end and have planted some seedlings, including runner beans, tomatoes, strawberries and a variety of herbs. We've been learning all about the different features of a plant and talking about what they need to help them grow and how we can care for them. We are looking forward to seeing our plants grow!

This half term we have also looked at instructions.

We had a visit from our old friend 'Moon Rabbit' who told us that he was bored of eating carrot cake. He wanted the children to tell him how to make toast as he could often smell it during Breakfast Club. 

We started off by ordering a set of instructions to make sure that we were making the toast in the correct order. We talked about why it is important to make sure that instructions are in the correct order. 

We enjoyed retelling the instructions over and over again using the pictures to help us.

We worked on our own, in partners and in small groups to tell each other the instructions. 

Here is the map we used to help us! Once we were confident we start to make changes to our map to make it our own!

For own independent write, we wrote out a set of instructions on how to make rice crispy cakes. We really liked thinking about what topping we would put on the top! Hmmm marshmellows, chocolate chips or some fruit ...

Some children even went home and made their own rice crispy cakes. They looked delicious :) 

We have set up our classroom environment with links to our theme of journeys. 

We have lots of books in our classroom about journeys. We also have pictures from our Moon Rabbit story that we like to use to help us sequence the story. 

We have transport in our small world and water areas! 

 We really enjoy drawing our own maps when exploring the environment. Here is Moon Rabbit's journey :) 

Please see above a couple of our wonderful maps which show journeys from home to school.

We have also drawn maps of Dunkirk Primary School. I wonder if you can recognise any parts of our school?