Year 1 Blog- Friday 23rd February 2024

Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 12:32pm

Home Practice

Phonics - split digraph a_e OR ie (ee sound) OR ur words

Maths -  Measurement

Counting - Count in 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

English

We have been learning through the story of Scaredy Squirrel. He is scared of everything outside his nut tree. We drew pictures of what he is scared of and we labelled them. We wrote his new and improved daily routine. We also wrote an exit plan for him. We are trying so hard to write in full sentences.

Phonics

Some of us have been revising ie as in tie and learning ie as in chief.

Some of us have been learning some of the different ai spellings - ai, ay, ey and a_e.

Maths

We have been focusing on using the balance scales to measure mass. We used cubes and 10g weights to weigh different classroom objects.

R.E.

First we read the story of Zacchaeus. We talked about how meeting Jesus changed his life and how he decided to give back what he had taken.

Then we read the story of Jesus being tempted in the desert. We talked about how Jesus did not listen to the Devil and how he did not eat for 40 days. Miss Fisher tempted us with marshmallows but nobody gave in!

We also wrote our Lenten promises.

Art

We had so much fun making our own medals! We used our plan to see what we would need and then chose how to decorate it.

See some of our pictures here.

D.T.

We have started to think about the flavour smoothie that we are going to make. We talked about the differences between fruit and vegetables and sorted lots of different objects.

See some of our pictures here.

Forest School

We learnt how to use hammers safely. We used them to knock nails in to wood.

We also went intp the very muddy nature area. The child-initiated learning was briliant-floating and sinking, mixing up mud and water, making a stream, cooking and building dams.

We also explored our new shelters.