Year 1 Blog - Friday 2nd December 2022

Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 3:47pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

English

This week we have been learning through the story of Bob and his best ever friend. His friend is an alien dog called Barry. We drew and described some alien pets-we got ideas from a fabulous picture of the pet shop Bob visits. We wrote captions about all the things Bob and his pet could do together. We also made posters advertising Bob's trips to the moon.

Maths

We have started to learn about fractions and used our existing knowledge of part-whole models to understand them. We learnt that fractions are made up of parts and whole and that these parts are usually of equal size. We starting exploring halves in shapes.

Phonics

We have been learning alternative pronunciations, a as in alien and a as in was. We already know a as in act.

R.E.

We started our 'waiting' topic and explored the meaning of waiting - is it hard or easy? Then we wrote about a time that we have had to wait and then learnt about the liturgical calendar in relation to Advent.

P.S.H.E.

We read an interesting story about about some billy goats who used their phones to intimidate a troll. We learnt that it was a twist on the Three Billy Goats story. We talked about how it was not a good choice to be mean and how our actions have consequences. We wrote our own postitive texts, that included messages such as "you are amazing" and "I am sorry, please could I be your friend?".

D.T.

We finished planning our Christmas card by writing the instructions that we will need to follow. We then wrote the messages to go inside our cards. We thought really carefully about the message and who we would like to give our card to!

Science

We built upon our knowledge from the past few weeks and learnt about how certain animals grow and change. We learnt about life cycles, especially that of a butterfly, and compared it to a human's life. We then drew our own examples of life cycles.

Computing

Our next artist focus was Georges Seurat. We learnt that his artwork was wholly made up of dots. We had a go at creating our own digital sunflower using just the paintbrush and adding dots. It was hard not to use the fill button on our paintings!

Art

We painted our own Christmas trees using the style used by Helen Frankenthaler. We learnt that our painting didn't have to be perfect - it will always be a work of art.

Outdoor learning

Our first session this week started with some active games to keep us warm! We then went on a Winter scavenger hunt. We looked for lichen on a tree, a hole in a tree, a leaf skeleton, a tree stump and shadows amongst other things-we are getting really good at spotting changes.

Our second session started with some free play in the nature area. Everyone had amazing ideas for games and we showed  great imagination and co-operation.

We then revisited an activity we have tried before- making obstacle courses! We used what learnt last time and made really challlenging courses which involved balancing, jumping, running and throwing. Great team work was shown and medals were awarded-made of sticks and leaves of course!

Santa Dash

We had great fun doing our santa dash. The children all looked amazing. Please send in your sponsor money.

Nativity

We are looking forward to performing our nativity in church next Tuesday. We have been trying so hard to learn the songs and actions.

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - high frequency words OR ow words

Maths - halves

Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.

Please read every night for at least 10 minutes.