Year 1 Blog - Friday 22nd March 2024

Date: 19th Mar 2024 @ 11:43am

Home Practice

Phonics - ou words OR y (ee sound) words OR phase 4 words

Maths - Money

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 our learning has been through a story about Scaredy Squirrel. We have met him before but now he's trying to organise a birthday party.

We wrote some facts about squirrels.

We interviewed Scaredy Squirrel and asked him questions about his party.

Phonics

Some of us have been revising all the /ee/ sounds, ie as in field, ea as in leaf, e as in behave, y as in baby, ee as in meet, e-e as in Steve.

We have been learning ey as in donkey.

Some of us have been learning the final oa spellings - o_e in stone, o in both, ol in cold and oul in shoulder.

We then moved onto learning the different ow spellings - ow in cow, ou in shout and ough in plough.

Maths

We have been revising the different coins and notes that we use in England. We had a discussion about how our coins and notes will soon be changing as the Queen is currently on our money.

We then started to explore equal groups, specifically making doubles.

R.E.

We read the story of The Widow's Mite. This was when Jesus saw a rich man and a poor woman putting money into the Temple box. We talked about how Jesus was happier with the widow because she had given all that she had left, where as the rich man had more money at home.

We also read the story of The Last Supper and had our own version of a Passover meal together on the carpet.

Art

We used the watercolours to make our own weather painting. We used our science knowledge to choose to make either a sun, rain, cloud or lightning picture.

D.T.

We made our smoothies! We had so much fun learning how to safely use a knife to chop up fruit and how to use a blender to blend it together. Some of us liked our smoothies, some of us did not!

Next week the reading books will be changed on Thursday.