St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 1 Blog- Friday 4th November 2022
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 10:01am
Welcome to your Friday blog.
It has been lovely to see the children back in school this week after half term.
English
We have been learning through the story of Aliens Love Underpants. It is a rhyming story and we enjoyed spotting all the rhyming words. We designed our own pants and read some fiction and non-fiction books about Space. We drew our own alien and wrote about it. We tried really hard to make our writing look beautiful on the page.
Phonics
We have been learning about split digraphs, o-e as in mole and u-e as in cube.
Maths
We have been learning about 2D and 3 D shapes. we have been using vocabulary such as vertices, sides and faces to describe them.
R.E.
We have been focusing on our 'Journey in Love' topic. We talked about how our families love us and how it is important to say 'please' and 'thank you' to them for looking after us. We wrote a lovely thank you prayer to a special person in our lives.
P.E.
We started our dance P.E. lessons this week! We are going to be performing a dance in small groups, pretending to be a robot. We did some robot dances together and heard the music that we are going to use for our final dance.
I.C.T.
We started learning about digital painting in computing - how we can paint, on a laptop. We used the paintz.app website again to paint portraits of ourselves.
Science
We started learning about animals and went outside to see if we could find any around school. We managed to find lots of worms, woodlice and birds. Some of us even used our imagination and found our plastic animals and identified them!
History
We learnt all about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. We talked about his reason why he made the plot and started learning the 'Remember, Remember the fifth of November' song.
Art
We made some amazing fireworks based on the Gunpowder Plot. We chose the medium that we wanted to use, either paint, pastels, pencil crayons or tissue paper.
Outdoor Learning
We go outside whatever the weather and we had to dodge a bit of rain this week! We don't mind though- it just makes us more resilient!
We went for a walk to look at the changes,much of the fungi we have spotted previously has gone. We collected leaves, berries and sticks on our walk. We used these to make a picture. Our pictures showed great imagination-there were flowers ,trees, faces, even a football shirt!
We also had a competition to see who could make the biggest leaf pile.
We went in the nature area. We chose to do different things. There was tree wrapping, bridge building, leaf threading and even zip wire making. We are showing that we can apply skills which we have learned in previous sessions.
French
We listened to a Halloween song. Then we did head, shoulders, knees and toes in French to revise words for parts of the body. We played some games involving skeletons to help us remember the words!
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - split digraph a_e OR th words
Maths - 2D and 3D shape
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!