Year 1 Blog - Friday 14th February 2025

Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 3:50pm

Welcome to your final Friday blog of this half term!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Counting within 20

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.

Counting - We have been working hard on counting in ones this week, especially when crossing boundaries (e.g. 19 to 20). Practise counting on from different numbers.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We read our last dragon book called 'The Boy Who Dreamed Dragons'. We met a little boy called Albie who had a great imagination. He dreamed dragons!

We described dragons using adjectives, compared different dragons, ordered the story and chose an animal that we would dream about.

Phonics

Some of us have comparing the igh and i spellings, also the oa and o spellings.

Some of us have been focusing on high frequency words and tricky words. We are becoming super tricky word spotters, recognising them more in our reading books.

Maths

We have been recapping how to distinguish between tens and ones in numbers. We have compared numbers using 'more than' and 'less than' but also giving our reason why. For example: 20 is more than 10 because it has two tens and 10 only has one ten.

R.E.

We read about a man called Zacchaeus who was a tax collector. He was not a nice man but he changed when he met Jesus. We wrote some super sentences describing how Zacchaeus changed.

Geography

We compared physical and human geographical features.

Science

We conducted another experiment to see if materials were absorbent. We quickly realised that we were looking for the opposite results to last week as we now wanted the water to soak into the materials. We chose the best absorbent material out of paper, blue paper towel, cling film and a cotton cloth.

Art

We made Valentine's Day cards for someone special at home. Do not worry if you left your card at school, we will keep it safe!

Forest School

We were in our nature area this week. There was a lot of mud inspired learning! Great imagination and teamwork was shown.

Thank you for all of your hard work. We're looking forward to seeing you at Parents' Evening after half term.