Express Yourself!

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Oct 2, 2013 ... and write speech bubbles and captions to accompany different scenes from the book. Autumn 1. 2013. Express. Yourself! Ways to help at home.
Ways to help at home How about creating your own Wild Thing foot print? Can you cut it out and then fill it with addition and subtraction number sentences? Choose some objects in your house that the Wild Things might like to play with. Use these to make your number sentences! How big you can make it? Will it look like the ones we found in our classroom? Bring it into school to display in our maths area. Don’t forget to challenge yourself and check those numbers are written correctly.

Outcome As a class, we will perform the story with actions and music to the parents.

* Important Dates: * You are invited to watch our performances of “Where the Wild Things Are”. Peaches: Wednesday 2nd October 9.10am Lemons: Thursday 3rd October 9.10am Grapes: Friday 4th October 9.10am

Express Yourself! Year 1 4 week study

Autumn 1 2013

What’s it all about? The children come into a messy classroom and find giant footprints all over the floor. The book “Where the Wild Things Are” is lying open on the floor. After hearing the story, the children will explore, using various drama techniques, the range of emotions that are portrayed by the story characters. They will learn some new vocabulary in order to express and manage their own feelings, and empathise with other people. The children will learn the story by heart, compose actions and music and write speech bubbles and captions to accompany different scenes from the book.

Curriculum Focus: PSHE, English, Music, ICT, Maths

Our Learning Values for this project are: Thinking Use thinking tools to generate explore, extend and represent ideas: As a class, make a bubble map of different emotions to use as a word bank. Justify their thoughts and understand that others have different opinions when expressing their ideas about the story.

Over the next 4 weeks your child will be learning: English: Speaking and Listening: • Explore story characters and their feelings, through talking and drama. Tell and perform a story from memory, using actions. Writing: • Write simple captions, letters and speech bubbles. Reading: Share texts and think about relationships between characters.

Maths: • • • •

Count reliably to 20 and beyond, read and write the appropriate numerals. Find 1 more or 1 less than a number. Create and solve addition and subtraction number stories. Describe simple patterns and shapes.

Spirituality

ICT:

The children will start to develop their own set of personal values by exploring the behaviour of characters in the story and relating them to our own core values and school rules. Through expressing their own ideas and opinions they will begin to understand and accept that other people have their own values, beliefs and experiences.



Learn how to communicate ideas by using a digital camera, text packages and talking postcards.

Science: •

Investigate how sounds are made, how they travel and how they can be blocked out. (This will be taught later on this half term during our 2 week mini- project called “Sounds Good”)