Year 1 Blog - Friday 20th January

Date: 18th Jan 2023 @ 5:42pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

English

We have continued to learn through the story of Hansel and Gretel. We wrote some sentences about how the characters might be thinking and feeling. We described the setting of the story in terms of our senses... I can see, I can hear...  We listened to a different version of the story - 'Trust Me, Hansel and Gretel Are Sweet' and compared the two.

Phonics

We have been learning about all the ee sounds again.We also revised oo as in zoo and moon and learnt ew as in screw.

Maths

This week we have been learning about measuring time. We have learnt about seconds, minutes and hours, days of the week and months of the year.The vocabulary we have also been using is before and after.

We have continued to practise counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s from different starting numbers.

R.E.

We learnt about the special people that work and volunteer in Church. We identified them in pictures and built our own Churches our of lego!

P.E.

We learnt two new gymnastic movements (crab walk and bear walk) and learnt to star jump effectively. Our confidence is growing each week!

Girls - please try to wear long socks on Wednesdays so that they can be taken off for gymnastics.

Geography

We learnt about the four countries that make up the UK in more detail. We labelled each country on a map and added on their capital cities. This was quite tricky for us, especially the spelling!

Computing

We are becoming whizzes on the laptops! We remembered how to open up a Word document and we typed our own lost poster for the teddy. We've learnt how to use the space bar, enter key, backspace, caps lock and even the arrows to navigate around the document.

P.S.H.E.

We learnt about medicines and how they help our bodies. We talked about moderation, different types of medicine and who can give us medicine.

Science

We continued to learn about materials. This week, we described their properties - are the materials opaque? Transparent? Strong? Light?

Each night, Patch the class teddy will be sent home as a part of our Science lessons. This is to test seasonal change. If you are chosen to take the teddy, please write the time that the sun goes down (Patch needs to go to bed then!). Hopefully we will see a pattern and a change in the times.

Outdoor Learning

One of our sessions this week was to make a spotter. These help us to really focus on what we are looking at. We looked at the buds on the trees and we used the picture on our spotter to identify the trees. We realised that we have a great number of different trees in our grounds.

Our other session was to investigate bubbles. We made a bubble mixture and tried to blow bubbles through a shape made from string. The first group realised this wasn't  working and started using willow.... this worked brilliantly! We also tried blowing bubbles by making shapes with our hands.We showed great perseverance!

Click here to see some photos.

We also had some free play in the Nature Area. We noticed there is a lot of new growth and we found ice!

French

We played games and sang songs to reinforce the vocabulary of fruit.

Music

We have been learning about another traditiional tale called Little Red Riding Hood.

Click here to listen to the story and sing the songs.

Home Practice

Phonics - oo words and ew words

Maths - Sequencing events

Please continue to read for at least 10 minutes every night with your child, it really will make all the difference to your child's progress.