Year 1 Blog - Friday 15th September 2023

Date: 13th Sep 2023 @ 5:15pm

Welcome to your Friday blog. We were all more comfortable in the cooler weather.

English

This week, we have been reading '5 Minutes Peace' by Jill Murphy. We learnt all about a mum who just wants some peace and quiet from her children! We learnt the names of the characters and labelled pictures of them, we have ordered the story, made puppets, wrote our own independent sentences about the story and wrote about how the characters are feeling. (Furious was one word that was mentioned!)

If you have any of the Large Family books at home, please read them together!

Phonics

Some of us have been recapping phase 3 igh in sigh and ear and dear and some of us have started phase 5 and learnt ay in day and ou in shout.

Click here to sing the igh song.

Click here to sing the ay song.

Maths

We learnt about making numbers from 10 to 20 using a 10 and some 1s, "one 10 and 6 ones is 16'. We used ten frames and counters, straws and blocks to represent the numbers. 

In our counting we sang songs which practised counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. 

R.E.

We started our 'families' topic this week and learnt all about different families. We found that lots of people can be in a family! We drew a picture of our family and labelled them.

P.E.

We focused on our hopping and jumping skills this week. We are so good at this already!

Art

We had an amazing art lesson! We started our 'spirals' topic. We watched a video on how to draw a spiral and then made two of our own - one on a big piece of paper and one in our sketchbook.

P.S.H.E.

This week, we talked about likes, dislikes and how we are all unique. We learnt what unique means and put our finger print into our class PSHE because, we have unique finger prints!

Geography

We continued to learn about Longton, focusing on our school and our classroom. We learnt about aerial plans and photographs, and drew our own birds eye view map of our classroom.

Science

We started our animals including humans learning this week. We compared different animals by how they look. We learnt that humans are mammals and how we are similar/different to other animals.

Forest School

In our first session we played a game around the log circle and talked about we are looking foward to.

We went for a walk to see what is growing. We also heard bird song. We sat around our new fire pit - we can't wait to use it!

It was all about team-work in our second session. We worked together to build an obstacle course using logs and branches.We tested the courses to make sure they were safe and we had a go on each others. Some of them had quite challenging balancing and jumping elements.

Thanks for sending in wellies.

Home Practice (Sumdog)

Phonics - ay (day) OR ear (dear) OR revision words

Maths - Numbers to 20

Counting- Count in 1s forwards and backwards from different starting numbers. Try to go beyond 20.

The log in for Sumdog is on a white laminated card in the reading book bag.

Please try to read every night, even just for five minutes!