Year 1 Blog - Friday 17th January 2025

Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 12:58pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Recognising coins

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week

Counting - Count in twos up to the biggest number that you can.

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

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We continued to read 'Dragon Post'. We designed our own dragons and wrote letters explaining what they got up to!

Phonics

Some of us have been comparing the or and aw sounds and the ue and ew sounds.

Some of us have been learning that a 'y' can make the igh sound in cry and an ee sound teddy. Also, that 'ou' can make an u sound in touch and an oo sound in soup.

Maths

This week we have been using various coins to make amounts. We focused on using the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p coins and how we can add them together to make amounts. For example to make 4p, we could use two 2ps.

The children enjoyed playing the 'Toy Shop Money Game' on Topmarks. If you would like to play it at home, here is the link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money 

R.E.

We sang two songs this week: Shine Jesus Shine and This Little Light of Mine. We talked about how both of these songs are showing that Jesus is the light of the world.

We then designed our own candles in preparation for Candlemas.

Art

We explored different materials and identified their pros and cons. We decided that felt would be a perfect material to use when making our medal.

Geography

We started to learn about the four countries that make up the United Kingdom.

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