Materials introduction - Stick Man

Year 1 have had a very busy first two weeks back to school! For the first two weeks of the new year, Year 1 have been reading Stick Man for our class story. We have been discussing some of the wonderful vocabulary, 'freeze framing' our own facial expressions for Stick Man at various points in the story and practising our own, very best, 'story tellers' voices. The children have been experimenting with some brilliant expressions!

Our current learning theme is 'materials' and we very much enjoyed exploring our school grounds as an introduction to our science based topic. The children were able to describe properties of different materials they could see and feel outside. We were fortunate to find some of the trees which had recently been taken down which meant we could count the rings inside to see how old the trees were. We did some excellent counting! Thirty seven was the highest number of rings we could see. We were also able to discuss the differences in the textures between the outer bark on the tree, the inside of the logs which had been chopped, and the little piece of wood which had been through the chipper. All before selecting our own materials to create our very own stick person!

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