Year 1 Blog- Friday 11th November

Date: 10th Nov 2022 @ 9:58am

Welcome to your Friday blog. This morning we had a minute silence for Remembrance Day.

English

This week we have been learning through the story of Traction Man. He changes his outfits depending on his mission! Some of us even became Traction Man.....or Traction Girl! The pictures in the story are very detailed and we described the one where Traction man is diving in the sink.

Phonics

We have been learning about alternative pronunciations, o as in mother,

Maths

We have been doing some checks to show our skills and knowlege about all the learning we have been doing.

R.E.

We continued to learn about the sacrament of baptism. We watched a video of a baptism and drew our own version in our books.

P.E.

We learnt about mirroring in PE. This is where you copy a partner. We made up our own robot dance moves and copied each other.

French

We looked at French customs for Remembrance Day.  French people add cornflowers to their wreaths as well as poppies because the blue reminds them of the soldier's uniforms. We made a wreath with red poppies and blue cornflowers to remember.

I.C.T.

We learnt about the artist Pier Mondrain and copied his artwork on the laptops. We learnt to use the line tool on paintz.app and made our own versions.

History

We began our toys topic in history this week. We focused on old-fashioned toys, such as yo-yos, dominoes, tiddlywinks and kaleidoscopes. We had the chance to play with them and choose our favourite.

Next Friday, the children will be allowed to bring one of their toys into school to represent 'new' toys. A letter will come home on Monday regarding this.

See some photos. Click here.

Science

We continued to look at animals and how to group them. We learnt about mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. We then compared the animals with questions such as: can all birds fly? Do all mammals have 4 legs?

P.S.H.E.

We read the story - All about families. We compared families and spotted the differences.

Outdoor Learning

This week we have been building shelters. We used ropes, tarps, pegs and clips. We showed great determination, resilience and team work. We used our knowledge of knots to secure the ropes. We built shelters in both our sessions this week to see if we could improve on our first attempt. The shelters kept us dry when there was a bit of rain!

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - split digraph i_e OR oa words

Maths - one-step word problems

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!