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Devonshire Infant School

Our Vision: To be an outstanding school, where all our children develop a lifelong love of learning.

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  2. Year 1 Autumn 22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Autumn Term 2022

We have had a very exciting half term and learnt lots of new skills.

 

Animals

Our first topic was ‘Animals’. We looked at the similarities and differences between a wide range of animals and learnt about the characteristics of different groups. In particular we really enjoyed making our own non fiction books.

 
 

 

Zoolab

We were very excited when Zoo Lab visited bringing lots of animals for us to see.

This included a frog, a snake and a giant hissing cockroach!

 

 

 

Toys and Materials

Our next topic was all about toys and the different materials they are made from.
We found out the properties of different materials and thought of adjectives to describe them. Then we sorted materials according to different criteria.

Making a Waterproof Coat

As part of our topic on materials we were given the challenge of making a coat to keep a teddy dry.

First we had to test different materials and then decide which would be best for the coat.

Then we worked together like the Together Twins and made, tested and evaluated the coat

  

The Three Little Pigs

The children really enjoyed watching the adults act out the story of The Three Little Pigs.

Then it was their turn! They enjoyed taking turns being all the characters, especially huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf!

We all created our own wolves and wrote about them.

 

Journey to the Moon

We were all very excited to learn about the space explorer Neil Armstrong.

We wrote questions for him and found out lots of information.

We also tried to move like an astronaut, which was very tricky.

 

Finally we had a space party!

We played lots of games such as cotton wool space floaters and ate some moon rocks, space buggies and flying saucers!!

 

Christmas

For Christmas we learnt how to make cards and calendars using a variety of moving mechanisms.

We used split pins, levers and pop ups. It was great fun!

We also had fun at our Christmas party!

 

A big thank you to all the parents who came to Santa's workshops