Year 1 Blog- Friday 17th May 2024

Date: 15th May 2024 @ 3:41pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.

Home Practice

Phonics - ear words (air sound) OR aw words OR e_e words

Maths - Quarters of shapes and amounts

Counting - Count in 2s, 5s and 10s starting at different numbers, 12,22,32 and so on.

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

English

This week we continued our learning through the story of The Enormous Crocodile. We loved discussing all the wonderful adjectives used by Roald Dahl.

We planned and wrote our own version of the story. We are concentrating really hard at making our writing look beautiful on the page and using correct spellings.

Phonics

Some of us have been revising ph as in photo and or as in thorn and aw as in prawn.

Some of us have started to learn the different air spellings: air in chair and ear in bear. We have also been revising the split digraph sounds. 

Maths

We continued our learning about halving. We also learned about quarters of shapes.

R.E.

We read the story of Pentecost and learnt about how the Holy Spirit is represented in the Bible. We talked about how the disciples witnessed blowing wind and how flames appeared. We then used the iPads to search for the word 'hello' in different languages, as the disciples began speaking in new languages.

Art

We made our birds! We chose a piece of cardboard for the body, sketched feathers and glued them on, then twisted paper clips for the feet. We were all so resilient, especially when it got a bit tricky!

Computing

This week we have been learning how to code. We learnt how to log onto the code.org website using our new passwords. We then began following simple coding instructions. 

Forest School

In one session we used the new slack line and rope ladder.

We also looked closely at a wasps nest which was given to us by a local farmer.

We played a game in two teams, one team had to hide and then get back to base without being spotted by the other team. We quickly developed some effective strategies to win!

In our second session a dragon called Sneezy had left us a letter. We had to help him find all the wool from his house which he'd sneezed away. We then had a bug hunt and demonstrated fabulous problem- solving and teamwork when making obstacle courses.