St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 1 Blog-Friday 18th November 2022
Date: 17th Nov 2022 @ 9:55am
Welcome to your Friday blog. Everyone looked brilliant dressed in their spots- thanks for supporting this cause.
English
We listened and discussed a new Traction Man story. In this story he got a new pet but it wasn't as good as Scrubbing Brush! We planned our own story and wrote a book! We are authors and illustrators! We will read the books to children in other classes when they are finished.
Traction Man meets Turbo Dog. Click here.
Phonics
This week we continued to learn about alternative pronunciations, ea as in head and ie as in cookie.
Maths
We have been counting in 2s and 5s. We have been counting groups of objects in 2s and 5s. Please practise this at home, start at different numbers and go forwards as well as backwards.
We have also been checking that we are forming our numbers correctly.
R.E.
We learnt about the symbols used in a baptism. We learnt about the Holy water, oil, white gown, candle and the cross.
P.S.H.E.
We read the story - Giraffes can't dance. We learnt that the giraffe wanted to dance, even though his friends told him that he couldn't. He was special and chose to dance anyway! The moral of the story is - be you!
Art
We made our own world cup flags using collage and cutting skills. We concentrated so well!
Science
We sorted animals into different groups using the toy animals that we have in the classroom. Some of our ideas were - fur/no fur, tail/no tail and legs/no legs.
P.E.
We were amazing in PE! We started to plan our robot dance. We worked so well in our groups that we managed to create half of the dance. We will continue to practise next week.
If you want to listen to the music at home, click here.
D.T.
We made our own prototype of either a slider or lever. The Gingerbread Man was being chased by the character!
I.C.T.
We learnt about another artist this week - Henri Matisse. We focused on his 'The Snail' artwork and recreated it on the laptops. There were some great pictures.
History
We learnt about 'new' toys this week and compared them to the old toys from last week. We wrote about our favourite toy and shared them with each other.
Yellow table did not have chance to play with their toy, so please bring it back in on Monday!
Outdoor Learning
The first session this week was about making shelters for small woodland creatures. Each team had a soft toy animal which we made a cosy and safe shelter for. We used all the available natural materials and found a way of getting moss of the paths to create a soft surface. We described our shelters to the rest of the group. Excellent team work, communication, imagination, resilience and creativity was shown.
Our second session was all about mini beasts and worms. We had a go at worm charming to see if we could get worms to come to the surface by vibrating the ground. We also looked under the logs to see what other creatures we could find. We talked about how we find different creatures at different times of the year.
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Thank you
French
We recapped numbers to 12 with a game then we recapped parts of the body by singing tete, epaules, genoux, pieds (head, shoulders, knees and toes) and a game. We finished with the story of Grand Monstre Vert - Big Green Monster.
Music
We have been practising the songs for our Nativity!
We also got out the boomwhackers and played them. We are getting really good at playing when it's our turn.
Freddy Fit
We had a brilliant session with Freddy. He put us all through our paces and we all had great fun! We all showed him our fabulous golden listening.
Freddy also talked to us about the importance of eating healthily, drinking enough water and getting plenty of sleep.
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - split digraph o_e OR oo words
Maths - doubling
Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.
Please read every night for at least 10 minutes- it really makes all the difference!