Year 1 Blog Friday 22nd September 2023

Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 3:35pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.

English

We continued to learn about the Large Family through the story 'A Piece of Cake'.

The Large Family were struggling to stay healthy as they were tempted by a cake given to them by Granny! We drew our own cakes, sorted healthy and unhealthy food, wrote about what the characters were saying, read the Large Family books and wrote sentences about how they were being healthy.

Click here to watch some Large Family videos.

Phonics

Some of us have been recapping phase 3 oi in coin and ear in dear and some of us have learnt phase 5 ea in leaf and oy in toy.

Click here to sing the oi song.

Click here to sing the oy song.

Maths

We learnt about how numbers are made up of tens and ones. We made numbers using bundles of straws, base ten and ten frames. we had a go at marking our own work as this helps us to understand the learning.

We practised counting in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.

R.E.

We learnt all about being a part of God's family. We wrote about how God takes care of us and drew some lovely pictures of Him watching over us.

P.E.

We practised running fast and skipping. This was quite tricky but we persevered. We learnt that it isn't always the girls who are better at skipping, the boys are too.

Science

We learnt all about the human body and our different body parts, such as leg, arm, foot, knee and elbow. We drew around our bodies and labelled each body part. We even played a game of 'Miss Fisher says' (SImon says!) and sang head, shoulders, knees and toes.

Art

We continued learning about the spiral pattern and focused on snails. We drew our own snail shell and used oil pastels to emphasise the colour. They looked great!

P.S.H.E.

We have been celebrating our similarities and differences this week! We read a lovely story together called 'The same but different too'. Listen to the story here.

We played a game, similar to 'Guess Who' where we had to describe someone in our class using 'This person has...' sentences. It was a lot of fun!

Geography

We learnt all about school's address this week and what an address tells us. We found school on Google Maps and answered some questions such as 'how do you get to school?'

Computing

We used the iPads to practise digital painting on Paintz. This time, we made our own version of Piet Mondrian's abstract art. We used the straight line and fill tools to do this.

Forest School

In our first session we read a story about Firey Fox which explained how we need to behave around a fire.  We watched the fire being lit then collected apples which had fallen off the trees in the nature area. We cored them and cut them into segments. We dipped them in sugar and cinnamon and then toasted them of the fire. Yummy! We were sheltered from the rain in our new fire pit area.

Some of us had a go at starting a fire using a flint and steel.

The weather was beautiful for our second session. We went on a leaf hunt and found as many different leaves as we could. We used shape cutters to make holes in the leaves. We had many ideas about how to develop our learning by glueing, colouring, sewing and investigating pattern.

Home Practice (Sumdog)

Phonics - ff, ll, ss, zz sounds OR oi words OR oy words

Maths - Count blocks and objects (within 10)

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!

Thank you to everyone who came to the meet the teacher. Our PowerPoint presentation is below.

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