Hedgehog Class 2023-2024
Welcome to the Hedgehog Class page.
Here you will find out about what we have been learning each week. Every week in Hedgehog Class our P.E. day will be on Tuesday afternoons, our amazing Forest School outdoor learning will be on Fridays and our Library day will be weekly on Wednesday afternoon.
We hope you enjoy looking at our page as much as we have enjoyed the activities we have been doing.
Year 1 Curriculum Meeting Autumn 2023
This week in Hedgehog Class we have been busy in Literacy helping Mr Wood, by writing a diary entry from the perspective of a character in 'The Storm Whale' text. In Maths we have been working hard on adding tens and multiples of tens to two digit numbers. On Friday during Forest school we used stethoscopes to hear trees absorbing water and carrying nutrients. We had lots of fun and even used string and natural materials to create something useful.
We have had a very busy first week back at school after the Easter holidays in Hedgehog Class. We found a poor creature stuck in our Woodland and write letters to Marwell Zoo to help rescue the lost Seal. We have been describing and naming 2D and 3D shapes and their properties in Maths. In PE we had lots of fun learning how to play Adventure Golf. We all had the chance to use a putter and a chipper and learn how to hold golf clubs properly and begin to use them. It was a lot of fun!
What an incredible last week of term we have had had in Hedgehog Class. We have learnt all about measures, including weight, length, capacity and time in Maths. On Thursday it was our special Easter day! We all went on an Easter egg hunt around the school and followed the clues to find a delicious chocolate egg. In literacy we listened to a special story and wrote what makes us all unique and why we are so special. We had such a brilliant day designing eggs and making a special Easter basket. Look at all the amazing fun we had!
We has a super week this week in Hedgehog class and loved St Lucia Day on Friday. We met Jim a brilliant steel band expert and got the chance to make some rhythms using them. We made amazing Carnival streamers and masks and then made our own rainshakers. What an incredible day and experience we had!
What a brilliant week we have had this week! We have all been so busy writing a story on Rapunzel, some of us use innovation to make up a new evil character in the story. It was Red Nose Day on Friday and we all had such fun dressing up, telling jokes and helping to raise money for people in need. We got to design our own red nose in Art, persuade children to raise money to help Bluey and solve some tricky Maths challenges. We all enjoyed trying to pin the red nose on Deefur.
It has been the third week in Hedgehogs class and we have been very busy writing a diary entry as Rapunzel. We have also been having lots of fun learning Boccia. This is an inclusive sport and we all loved practising our aim to try and hit the Jack! Later in the week we will be heading to Basingstoke Woods.
This week was the incredible World Book week! We met a famous Author Andy Seed and heard all about his special books. We designed and made our own Tranimalators so we could talk to animals. We also made our own magical creatures and wrote descriptive sentences using expanded noun phrases. We are very excited to be dressing up as our favourite characters on Friday!
In Hedgehog Class this week we have been looking at 4 new books in the Library award challenge. Today we completed a news report on a missing penguin from the zoo! This was based on the book 'Nabil steals a Penguin'. The children have loved learning all about the different books and tomorrow they are voting for their favourite.
In Hedgehog Class this week we have been very busy writing stories about the Sleepy Sloth and learning about multiplication in Maths. In PE we have been practising our skills of throwing and catching with balls and beanbags. We had lots of fun trying to defend the ball and learning to play some basic netball skills.
This week we have been learning a lot about different animals. We found a lost Cameleon and helped him return to the zoo! We also have been classifying animals into groups; Fish, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles and Mammals. We found out many interesting facts that makes these animals similar. We even learnt that a bat is a mammal even though it has wings.
What a super first week back at school we have all had after the Christmas holidays. We saw a pantomime 'Aladdin' and it was really funny. We were also very lucky to meet a real firefighter on Thursday who taught us all about fire safety. We learnt lots of safety tips and what to do to prevent a fire or deal with a fire correctly. It was very informative!
We have loved our special Arts this week after half term. It was all about Fireworks! In Art, we experimented with different paint and oil pastels. In music we sang a Bonfire Song in rounds and in PE we performed a fantastic firework Dance. The best part was making edible fireworks and having our parents visit us all in school to make a rocket using different Art materials.
We have had a very busy week in Hedgehog Class this week. We have learnt all about different materials in Science and what they can be used for. Here is some of our wonderful work!
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