Year 1 Blog

When experimenting it is always important to dress the part!

The children loved observing the bouncing raisin.

We found out raisins can float and sink using secret ingredients.

Cookie Monster explained how to plan an experiment using cookies. First you ask a question, next you plan it by getting everything you need, after that you do it and then tell someone what you have found out. Sometimes you need to do it again.

We charged up our rulers with static energy and made our tissue paper snakes come alive. We found the smaller the snake the better behaved it was.

Well done Libby and Nathan for your extra effort in your handwriting this week. Keep up the monster effort in all your work.

Today we will be entering the science bus and carrying out our scienctific missions. Wish us luck!

The children dip dyed kitchen roll in blue and yellow food colouring to create the feathers. They then used art roc to cover balloons to create the 3D eggs. Our Blue Tit certainly shows evidence of new life at St Stephens. We are very excited as the bird boxes near our classroom are housing a…

Check out the ICT games website and select the time section. Try playing the hickory dickory dock game. We love using it in class.

Julian asked the question "Why does o'clock have that line in the air?"

Did you know that it is because it's an abbreviation of 'of the clock'. We didn't but now we do and so do you!