Year 1 News

This week in year 1, we have been learning all things superheroes! We have been writing our own comics, thinking of a superhero and villain character and what powers they should have, writing speech bubbles and writing using comic book language. Some words we chose to use were 'suddenly', 'crash' 'blast' 'smash' 'boom' 'power' 'duel' and 'battle'. We then illustrated our comics and made a front cover. Parents, you are welcome to come and see our comics, along with our story books and our finger puppets straight after school on Tuesday. The children are very excited to share these with you!

In numeracy, we have been measuring using non standard units, with cubes, bead strings and our counting sticks.

In the afternoons, we have been learning about the artist 'Andy Warhol'. We learnt that his style of art is called Pop Art because he liked to paint things and people that were popular at the time. We even found out that he painted a can of soup and he printed it 32 times! We then found out all about printing and what it means, and then we had a try ourselves. We decided to print a city skyline for our superheroes and worked with a partner to make our creations. We also found out he liked to print famous people, like Elvis but we noticed he used unusual colours on his prints! We then made our own Andy Warhol inspired art piece with pictures of ourselves, which was lots of fun!

This week's super learners wearing our Superhero costumes are Louis, Austin and Megan. Well done Superheroes!