Year 1 Blog 28th April 2023

Date: 27th Apr 2023 @ 10:11am

Welcome to your first Summer Term blog!

English

This week, we have been reading the story 'I want my hat back' by Jon Klassen. We met a bear who had lost his hat who then used his detective skills to realise that actually, he had seen his hat! We predicted what was going to happen in the story, we drew our own hats, we made missing posters for the hat and used speech bubbles to write what was being said by each character.

Then, we read 'We found a hat' and compared it to the first story.

Phonics

We have been learning about oar and our is roar and pour.

Click here to sing some phonics songs.

Maths 

We focused on parts and wholes in number sentences. We learnt that the parts add together to make a whole. Then we looked at the inverse, making the subtraction number sentences using same numbers. We had to remember that the whole comes first!

Click here to play a fact families game.

R.E.

We recapped the Easter story and talked about how Easter Sunday, and Jesus' ascension, is not the end. We read about Peter telling everyone to spread the Good News and wrote about how we can continue to change for the better.

P.S.H.E.

We recapped different forms of money before learning about distinguishing between needs and wants. We defined both of them and sorted objects into each category.

P.E.

We started practising for our sports day, which is on the 11th of May at 2:15.

We practised the relay race and the egg and spoon race together.

Computing

We had an online safety session regarding the internet. We looked at some rules to follow and practised being safe on the internet. We used the NatGeo website to learn about a country of our choice.

Science

We went outside for a lovely nature walk! We spotted lots of different plants and flowers and sketched them in our science books. We learnt a lot of new plant names!

History

We started to learn about seaside holidays, both in the past and the present. We compared the two and stuck pictures into our books under each column.

Art

We had two separate art lessons this week. Our first was a lovely lesson drawing Earth pictures for World Earth Day. Then in our second lesson, we started our Digital Media topic. This is where you create art online. We Googled images of the seaside and sketched what we could see in our sketchbooks.

French

We recapped animals words and began to learn some phrases for the weather through games and a story. 

Outdoor Learning

This week four of the groups leant about fire safety. We watched a fire being started by Mrs Corbett using a flint and steel. We toasted marshmallows-they were yummy!

The last group will do this session next week.

We also checked how our plants are growing and put some of them in bigger pots.

Our summer term class and subject overviews are live on the school website. Please look on the year 1 page and the separate curriculum pages to see what we are learning about.

Don't forget that it is Bank Holiday on Monday. We will see you on Tuesday.

Home Practice

Phonics -  au and aw words

Maths -  counting practise

KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!