Year 1 Blog 12th May 2023

Date: 11th May 2023 @ 10:29am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We are enjoying Miss Forshaw being in our class. She is learning how to become a teacher and we are all helping her.

English

This week, we have been reading the story ' There's a tiger in the garden'. We had some great discussions about whether the tiger was real and also about what we could infer from the story. We created our own story map of the main events in the story.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning about ir in girl and er in her. Some of us have been learning to read words such as shrink, plank, frost.

Click here to sing some phonics songs.

Maths 

We have been learning about finding halves and quarters of shapes and amounts.

We have been counting in 2s,5s,and 10s. Start on different numbers and count forwards as well as backwards.

R.E.

We focused on the term 'Holy Day' and how they are special days that are celebrated. We recapped all the days that we have learnt about, focusing on the Easter story, and then chose one to draw and write about in our books.

P.E.

We had our final sports day practise on Wednesday. 

Thank you to everyone who came to watch us take part in our sports day. The children we absolutely amazing, showing great determination, resilience and physical skills.

P.S.H.E.

We started to think about safety and who keeps us safe. We explored different job roles involving safety (police, fire fighters) and other people like parents and teachers who want to keep us safe. We then drew pictures of them and talked about what they do to help us.

History

We had such a fun lesson learning about past and present seaside clothing. We looked at what is the same and what is different and then we got to try some clothes on from the museum loan box!

Art

We made a great tiger craft each in choosing time using lolly sticks.

Then in our learning, we planned our perfect seaside picture in our sketchbooks ready to paint our final digital seaside picture next week.

French

We practised numbers to 15 and adding two numbers with a game. We recapped weather phrases, then moved on to begin to learn some clothes vocabulary with a story - Je m'habille et je te croque. 

Music

We played the boomwhackers. We really had to concentrate so that we played our note at the right time.

Outdoor Learning

This week four groups cooked on a fire. We used wood and charcoal this time and cooked in the embers of the fire . We rolled bread dough into balls and cooked it in the fire-it was delicious!

We also cut a slit in the skin of bananas and put chocolate buttons in the slits. We then wrapped the bananas in foil and baked them in the embers of the fire. They were so yummy, the chocolate melted and the bananas went soft.

The last group will do this on Monday.

We also chose to build shelters and our own play fires which we could pretend to cook on. Some of us were still very interested in making mouse traps !

Cooking on a Fire

Home Practice

Phonics - ear words OR split e_e

Maths -  quarters

KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!

Even more children are changing their reading books more often and it's having a great impact on their progress.

Don't forget to keep reading the Tricky words and if your child recognises them on sight they could learn how to write them.

Please return your trip slip on Monday if you haven't already!