Year 1 Blog 5th May 2023

Date: 4th May 2023 @ 10:25am

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 "We are Going on a Lion Hunt". The story follows the pattern of the Bear Hunt story which we learnt about in Reception. We went on our own animal hunt in our school grounds. Some of use role played being the lion and answered questions.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning about words where we have to be really careful to sound out all the vowels and consonants, for example smell,grass,smug. We also learnt to read words such as print

Some of us have been learning about ough in bought and augh in taught. We couldn't believe how many 'or' spellings there were!

Click here to sing some phonics songs.

Maths 

We have been learning about finding halves of shapes and amounts. We used practical equipment to work out and check our answers.

We have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, forwards and backwards. Practise counting in odd numbers, 1,3,5... Practise counting in 5s from different numbers, 2,7,12,17,22,.......what's the pattern?

Practise counting in 10s from different numbers, 3,13,23,33,.....what do you notice ?

Click here to play a fact families game.

R.E.

We started to learn about our new topic of 'Holidays and Holydays'. We first discussed the meaning of each and then we focused on our holidays. This tied in well with our history learning! We drew what we need to take on a holiday with us and then we watched a video of Barnaby Bear going on holiday.

Click here to watch more Barnaby videos.

P.E.

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

We practised all of our races and talked about competing in a fair way and celebrating everyone's achievements.

Computing

We have used a brand new website this week called code.org. By the end of the summer term, we are all going to be amazing coders! This week, we learnt to drag and drop objects. We challenged ourselves by using the trackpads to drag each time.

If you would like to access www.code.org at home, our class code is ZQTKZD. Each person has their own password icon to click to access the learning.

Science

We went in our outdoor area to see our bean plants that have been planted by the gardening club. We compared them from when they were in the bags in the classroom to now. Some had grown, some unfortunetly hadn't! We then wrote about how they had changed.

History

We learnt about King Charles' upcoming coronation. We read 'The King's Pants' together and drew our own pants. We hope that he comes to school one day so we can question him!

Art

We have been doing lots of art work this week! We have been sketching the King in our sketchbooks and then we continued with our digital media lesson. We used Paintz.app to digitally draw a seaside picture. It was fun to see how much we could remember from our computing lessons.

French

We recapped the weather phrases and practised them with some games. Then we read a story from the Berthe series about a witch who always has the wrong clothes on for the weather. This introduced the vocabulary for clothes which we will work on next week. Well done everyone. 

Outdoor Learning

This week the last group learnt about fire safety and toasted marshmallows.

In our other session we got out all the shetler building equipment and worked together to make shelters. It was quite windy on some of the days which provided extra challenge! It's great to see such resilience, imagination, teamwork and resilience.

Coronation of King Charles 

We all enjoyed our celebration school lunch on Thursday.

Everyone looked fabulous in their red,white and blue outfits.

Our Golden Assembly on Friday was a lovely celebration - we loved singing our special song. The picnic was great and we are all excited to watch the event tomorrow.

To The Sound Of Trumpets. Click here to sing the song.

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

Home Practice

Phonics - common exception words/compound words

Maths -  halving

KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!

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