Welcome to Year 1 

Your teacher is Mrs McDonald

Our Topic

Our Wonderful World 

This week, we began our exciting new topic: Our Wonderful World. We stepped into the shoes of explorers and used our photography skills to capture the beauty all around us. From colourful flowers to interesting textures and patterns, we found wonder in the everyday. We then learned how to edit our photos, changing colours and enhancing details to make our pictures even more stunning. Next, we turned our focus to our school and realised just how special it is. We listened carefully to the unique sounds in our environment and used layering techniques to create our own music. We even experimented with making these sounds using only our mouths and turned them into lyrics, setting them to the tune of The Wheels on the Bus. Our song went like this:

The birds in the trees go tweet, tweet, tweet,
Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet.
The birds in the trees go tweet, tweet, tweet,
All day long.

The rain in the puddles goes drip, drip, drip,
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.
The rain in the puddles goes drip, drip, drip,
All day long.

The children at school go ha, ha, ha,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
The children at school go ha, ha, ha,
All day long.

The wind in the leaves goes swish, swish, swish,
Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish.
The wind in the leaves goes swish, swish, swish,
All day long.

We ended the week by investigating different seeds and how they grow. With everything we’ve seen, heard, and discovered, we’re truly beginning to feel like little David Attenboroughs!