First Grade had great fun today celebrating Halloween. We did a fantastic job singing in the assembly and went trick or treating in the afternoon. 
Happy Halloween everyone!

Spooky Number stories

Today we have been writing and solving spooky number stories. 
Practice adding here:
http://www.smartygames.com/igre/math/halloweenMath.html

Beware of the bats!

Clicking castanets

This week our spelling words have the ck sound. We have to remember there are 2 letters but just one sound at the end of the word.
Practice reading ck words here:
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html
Click on Phase 2 + ck

Wild Things

This week we looked at 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak. We imagined what the characters were saying in each picture and wrote it down on speech bubbles. We painted our own wild things and shared what we like to do when we feel wild.
I hope you're having a wild time at home!
Watch the wild things here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOEFnppm_A

Fantastic field trip

We had a wonderful trip to the Pobal on Thursday. We saw how they grind flour in the old mill. We saw the water wheel turning. We saw Luisma making different things with metal and learned how iron is made from iron ore. We were such good listeners that we got a piece of iron to take back to class. We also sang songs and spotted animals on the way.
Good job First Grade!

Show your mummies and daddies the pobal web-site here:
http://www.bizkaia.net/home2/Temas/DetalleTema.asp?Tem_Codigo=3030&idioma=CA&dpto_biz=4&codpath_biz=4|296|3022|3023|3030

Material matters

We started our new Science unit on grouping and changing materials this week. We have been naming and searching for different materials around the class and school and are doing a great job at recognizing the different materials that things are made of. 
Test your sorting skills  of different materials here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/grouping_materials.shtml

I i inky

This week our sound is i.









Match the i words here:
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/spelling_games/short-vowel-games/short-i/short-i-audio-word-match.html
Make i words here to match the picture:
http://www.starfall.com/n/short-i/ds_si/load.htm?f

Have fun!

Crazy 'a' game

Play Chicken Stacker to help you learn words with our sound this week. Click on the egg with an 'a' then click on 5 eggs that have words with 'a'.
Have fun.
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html

Baby baby

We have been talking a lot about babies this week in First Grade as part as our Science unit 'Health and Growth'. We even had a baby visit our class (Sofia) and Ms. Jessica explained how she looks after her and the things she needs to grow up happy and healthy. Today, the first graders did amazing baby pictures by looking very carefully at photos from when they were babies. And we even took a visit to Nursery to see how the children there play and learn. 
We are now baby experts.
If you would like to listen to a story about a baby, read one here:
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/Ebooks/Where_is_Baby/#

Number bond fun

Practice your number bonds for ten by helping save the whale. Can you find the missing pipe that makes a total of ten?
http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html

Ants on your arm?

Our sound this week is a.

Have fun making words with 'a' here:
http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/an/load.htm?f