This month’s theme in Mr Smyth’s Class is Weather.

We have been learning all about weather, storms and hurricanes. Each day we check the weather forecast, the temperature and wind.

Check out some pictures below.

This week we had a surprise visitor from the North Pole pop in to say hello to the children.

Check out Mr Smyth’s 1st Class meeting Santa. Happy Christmas to all the children and their families.

This month the children in Mr Smyth’s First Class have been looking at print in Art.

The used stamps and rollers and even created their own stencils.

Check out their cool art below

This month in Mr Smyth’s First Class the children were learning about static electricity.

The children carried a number of experiments using balloons.

Check out what happened when they rubbed a balloon on a wool jumper and brought it close to running water. We made it bend magically!

It shows the power of static electricity!

This months Art theme is Paint and Colour and 1st Class have being studying the art of French Artist Henri Matisse, who loved colour. When he was old and no longer able to hold a paint brush he began his famous cut-out art, where he cut and arranged pieces of coloured paper in wonderful arrangements. Check out the children’s Matisse inspired creations below.

It has been a busy week in First Class and around the entire school with Maths Week. In Mr Smyth’s 1st Class it has been all about Maths. We measured our heights this week, had Maths games in class and a mega Maths Games morning in the hall with parents. In Maths Class we have been looking at categorising and sorting objects and in PE we even had our Maths eyes on with an Orientation activity. Its been Maths all round. Check out the pictures below! Later in the week we will survey another class about how they get to school for our geography lesson and make graphs of the results.

Here is a Recount piece of writing by 1st Class about our afternoon yesterday.

Painting Autumnal Colours

Yesterday, our class did some painting in class.

First we put on some painting bibs, got paint, brushes and paper ready and we mixed different colours together to make new colours.

After that, we painted some leaves using autumn colours- yellow, brown, red and orange.

In the end, we left the painting dry, tidied up, washed our hands and took our bibs off.

That was the best day ever!