Year 1 Blog - Friday 3rd March 2023

Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 10:10am

Welcome to your Friday blog.

English

We have been very busy this week! We have planned and written our own stories based on Where the Wild Things Are. Some of us have written up to 7 pages! We are becoming such good authors and illustrators. We then read our stories to years 3 and 4.

Phonics

We have been learning about all the igh sounds, focusing on split digraph o_e in stone and o in go.

Maths

This week we have been learning how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. We searched for the patterns on a hundred square and counted groups of objects. Then, we used this knowledge to recap all the coins that we use. We realised that we do a lot of counting when paying with money. 

R.E.

We have been learning to write The Our Father prayer this week. We know this off by heart now so found it really easy to write it down. We then wrote our Lenten Promises down and took them into Golden Assembly.

P.E.

We recapped the underarm throwing technique and practised aiming at a hoop. This was quite tricky! Then we practised throwing and catching a beanbag in the air. Some of us needed a challenge and tried throwing and catching with one hand!

History

We started our new topic this week - Significant People. We talked about what it means to be significant and how we remember people who have made a difference to our world. This week, we focused on Florence Nightingale and how she changed the world of medicine and nursing.

Computing

We went on Sumdog to practise our phonics and maths.

Art

We each made a month of February piece of art surrounding love. We used different object to print with - cotton buds, paint brushes, even our fingers!

Outdoor Learning

In one of our sessions this week we talked about Japanese folklore. We have a professor from Japan and four of his students visiting us for two weeks.There are stories about tree spirits which protect the trees. We made our own creations out of clay, leaves, sticks, moss and stones. We could use our imagination as no-one has ever seen them!

Two more groups learnt how to use the screwdrivers and hammers safely. There is just one more group to learn how to do this. Then we will be making something by using our new skills!

French

We listened to the story of Jaques et le haricot magique (Jack and the Beanstalk) and joined in with the repetitive parts. Then we set up some French beans to germinate to grow our own beanstalks. We chose where to put them to grow - I wonder whose will germinate first! 

Music

We continued to learn The Little Red Riding Hood song with Mrs Wood.

Home Practice

Phonics - oe (toe) and ow (grow)

Maths -  coin recognition

Please continue to read for at least 10 minutes every night with your child, it really will make all the difference to your child's progress.