Year 1 Blog - Friday 24th February 2023

Date: 22nd Feb 2023 @ 4:34pm

Welcome to your first blog of this half term. 

English

We have started reading a new book - Where the Wild Things Are. We have listened to the story and watched animations of the story- we love the wild rumpus part! We described the settings in the story and listened for the language which is repeated. We looked closely at the wild things and discussed what human and animal parts they had. The puppets we made to re-tell the story were amazing-some of us also came up with our own characters. We are going to plan and write our own version of the story next week.

Phonics

We have been learning about all the igh sounds, focusing on split digraph i_e in slime and i in wild (just like our new story!)

Click here for a phonics song.

Maths

This week we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes in more detail. We have compared the shapes and sorted them into groups.

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

R.E.

We have started our new topic - Special Meals. We talked about a special meal that we have had, ordered the events of Mass and then focused on The Last Supper. We used speech bubbles to learn what Jesus said to his disciples.

P.E.

We have finished gymnastics and started throwing and catching. This week, we recapped how to underarm throw to a partner safely and then played a game to see which group could throw and catch the quickest!

Geography

We recapped the UK capital cities and sorted pictures of landmarks into each one. We found that London was the easiest as it is our capital city and some of us have been there!

Listen to the Big Ben song here.

Computing

We used our maths knowledge to start our new topic of grouping data. We are so good at sorting and grouping objects now! We were given lots of different objects and asked to sort them in different ways. Then, we went on Sumdog on the laptops.

P.S.H.E.

We learnt about personal hygiene and all the different ways that we can remain healthy. We listened to a very funny story called 'Dirty Bertie' and talked about making the opposite choices that Bertie does!

D.T.

We began our food topic this week. We learnt about the differences between fruit and vegetables and wrote down as many as we could think of.

Outdoor Learning

In one of our sessions this week we found a letter in our lodge from the forest fairy. She told us she had left some magic stones in our nature area and we could find them, decorate them and keep them. We had a great time helping each other to find the stones, then we decorated them with acrylic pens.

In another session we chose our own learning, we built dens, played in the mud kitchen, made up games, looked for mini-beasts or climbed trees. We showed great teamwork, imagination and perseverance.

Two groups learnt how to use hammers and screwdrivers safely. We have a volunteer helping in our sessions on a Monday so two more groups will use the tools next Monday.

We wore safety goggles and a glove on our helping hand. We learnt the difference between screws and nails.

French

We recapped the words for some farm animals and added some new vocabulary through a song, game and story. It's lovely to watch the children joining in with enthusiasm - excellent Y1!

Music

We continued to learn The Little Red Riding Hood song wiht Mrs Wood.

Home Practice

Phonics - ie and i_e words

Maths - 10 more and 10 less

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.

Thank you for coming in to the parents' evenings -we value all your support.