Year 1 Blog - Friday 24th March 2023

Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 8:13pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

English

This week we have been learning through the stories of Scaredy Squirrel. He is scared of everything! He rarely leaves his house in the nut tree.

We discussed and wrote about our fears. We made a list of disdvantages of never leaving our house. We wrote a fact file about Scaredy Squirrel and we also planned a timetable of our perfect day-Scaredy Squirrel likes to know exactly what's going to happen.

We are going to write our own Scaredy Squirrel books next week.

Phonics

Some of us have been revisiting or as in horn and ai as in rain. Some of us have been learning ar in rather and half, plus u in wood and could.

Maths

We have been answering even trickier problem questions about multiplication. This required us to count in 2s, 5s and 10s whilst also reading the writing!

We also practised our times tables on Topmarks.

Click here to play the game.

R.E.

We continued to learn about how we can change. We focused on Ash Wednesday and how it is the beginning of Lent. We revisted our Lenten promises to check that we are keeping them and then wrote about how we can make good changes to our lives.

P.E.

We practised throwing at targets this week. It was very tricky due to the wind knocking our targets over. We also practised throwing and catching in bigger groups, which meant that we had to concentrate more. 

Science

We conducted a transparency experiment to see how many household objects were transparent. We used the torches to test this and we found that actually, many objects are either opaque or translucent.

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History

After recapping our learning about Florence Nightingale, we learnt about another significant nurse - Edith Cavell. We quickly realised that she was very similar to Florence as she also helped soldiers during the war (WW1) and trained other women to be nurses. We then wrote our own ideas as to why Edith is a significant person.

D.T.

We made our healthy smoothies. We had so much fun. We learnt to cut safely and use the blender. Some of us liked our smoothies, some did not!

Outdoor Learning

This week we did a variety of learning. One of our sessions was learning how to use the hammers and screwdrivers safely. We are then applying these new skills to make a hedgehog.

We also made Spring wreaths out of willow. This week was the Spring or Vernal Equinox when there is about the same amount of hours of light and dark.

We took advantage of the sunnier weather on Friday to make shadow faces. 

If we didn't do one of the sessions we will catch up next week.

Computing

We practised our Sumdog learning on the laptops and iPads.

French

 We checked up on our French beans to see how they are growing - some are almost ready for giants at the top!  We listened to a poem about the life cycle of plants and added actions to show our understanding. We finished with a song and a story. 

Home Practice

Phonics -  or and ai words

Maths -  days of the week and months of the year

KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!

SOME CHILDREN ARE CHANGING THEIR READING BOOKS SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK! THIS IS BRILLIANT AND IT IS REALLY HAVING A GREAT IMPACT ON THEIR PROGRESS.