This week we have been learning about superheroes. We started by deciding which superheroes we knew and what their job was. We decided that superheroes are good characters who try to help people with their extra super powers. We also made sure that we knew that superheroes are made up characters in stories and that they are not real ! Heroes obviously can be real but they don't tend to have 'super powers'!
We actually met a real life hero on Monday - Mr Garrod came into school to tell us about his job as a member of the Caister Lifeboat team! He came in his special Lifeboat Suit and told us lots of stories about people he had rescued. He also warned us about the dangers of digging really deep holes on the beach. He even let some of us dress up in his special coat - it was very heavy!
Alexus disappeared under the coat!
Jona the Lifeboat Lady
Taloola ready for action
We designed our own superhero pants or superhero hat or superhero mask and Miss Ball helped us to work from our plans to make our own designs. It is really tricky to work from a design and we did a really good job of trying to stick to our plans.
Look at these fantastic superhero masks!
We have been doing lots of doubling and halving in maths so that we know that there is a link between doubles and halves eg double 4 is 8 and half of 8 is 4. Try practising this at home because it will really help you in Year 1. We have also been doing lots of measuring - we have thought about weight, length, capacity and time and Mrs Young was impressed with how much we had
remembered!
Jona uses the balance scales to compare heavy and light objects
Abigail found out which container holds the most
Rosanna busy comparing different containers
On Thursday we had a go at writing our own Superhero story. We read lots of stories first and discussed the beginning, middle and end. We then wrote the beginning of our story together on the carpet. It was then our job to write the middle and end of the story ourselves. Here is the beginning of the story:
One rainy night the superheroes heard a scream. Someone was in trouble.........
And here are some of our middles and ends !
Eimantas wrote: There was a dog lost in the park. Superkids flew into the park and helped the dog.
Abigail wrote: They found out there was a fire. They used their magic powers to put the fire out.
Mrs Young has been really busy visiting all the Pre-schools and nurseries this week so we've had lots of different teachers popping in to have fun with us.
Daniel will be taking Diggory home this weekend because he has been doing so well in Year 1 with his maths each week.
See you next week.
Grasshopper Class