Year 1 Blog 14th January

Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 12:33pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We have had a super week of learning again and started to notice a bit more daylight.

English

In English we have finished our Hansel and Gretel story. We've been so busy with our learning! We have thought about how Hansel and Gretel were feeling, explored our senses whilst in the forest setting and compared the original story to a different version - Trust Me, Hansel and Gretel are Sweet!

In phonics, we are still learning phase 5 sounds. Miss Fisher's group have been recapping ou, ie and ea words. Mrs Corbett's group have recapped split digraphs u_e and e_e.

Maths

We have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have been looking at the patterns in the numbers on a 100 square.

We have also been looking at repeating patterns. We made our own repeating patterns. We are also trying really hard to write our numbers correctly.

Science

This week we carried out an investigation to answer a question. Our question was-do children always have bigger feet than their hands ?

We measured our hands and feet and then collected all our data together. We found a pattern and this gave us the conclusion that most children in Year 1 have bigger feet than their hands.

PSHE

We talked about all the different ways we can keep our body healthy with exercise. We talked about what we do at school and at home to exercise. We found out what happens to our bodies when we exercise.

P.E.

In P.E. we have continued with our gymnastics lessons. We learnt to egg roll, frog jump and how to move like a caterpillar. It was so much fun. Please see the pictures below!

Art

In Art, we finished experimenting with paint. We dabbed, splatted and mixed our paint to see what will happen. Next week, we will be looking at primary and secondary colours.

Geography

In Geography, we have started to learn about the countries that make up the UK. We seemed really confident when learning about England and learnt some new information about Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. We talked about the different places that we have been to in the UK such as the Lake District, Centre Parcs and London. We then drew pictures of our trips!

History

We learned some facts about Isambard Kingdom Brunel. We talked about and drew some of the things he designed and made.

WELLIES NEEDED NEXT WEEK

As part of our outdoor learning every child in the school will be planting a sapling in our school grounds next week. Please send in a pair of wellies with your child in a named carrier bag on Monday.Your child will bring them home next Friday.

Home Practice

Read for at least 10 minutes every night. This is so important. please sign the diary so we can change the books. Keep practicing reading the Tricky Words on sight. Please just write a note in the diary if you need the next set.

We have also been doing lots of counting. We have mainly been focusing on counting in 10s up to 100 (0, 5, 10, 15...) Please practise these at home. If you want a challenge, start from a different number that is not in the 5x table (e.g. 2, 6, 8...) We use a number square in class to help us with this, feel free to search '100 square' in Google to find one online.

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - oi and oy words

Maths - counting in 10s to 100