St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 1 Blog- Friday 25th November 2022
Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 10:16am
Welcome to your Friday blog!
English
This week we have been learning through the story of Bob. He is an astronaut but he doesn't believe in aliens - they don't exist.......do they?
We have been writing in sentences. We have tried really hard to use finger spaces, our own ideas and to make sure our writing is on the line. We have also been really careful with our handwriting so that our writing looks beautiful on the page.
We also visited Year 3 to read our Traction Man books. The children and Mr Campbell were really impressed. The Year 3 children gave useful and thoughtful feedback.
Phonics
We have been learning about alternative pronunciations, ch as in Christmas, ch as in chef. We already know ch as in chunk.
Maths
We have been learning about repeating patterns. We have been describing the patterns and finding the part that is repeated. We have also been sorting objects using different criteria.
R.E.
We learnt about Jesus' baptism in the River Jordan. We answered some tricky questions about it and some of us even acted it out during choosing time!
P.E.
We are now half way through our robot dance. We split off into groups and began thinking of ideas for our dances. We worked so well together!
P.S.H.E.
We compared two families and wrote about how they are the same and different.
D.T.
We looked at the DT Christmas cards from last year and talked about how they were made. We then planned our own cards - how they were going to move, what they will look like and what we need to make it.
I.C.T.
Our next artist focus was Kandinsky. We made our own circles on the iPads, it was a bit trickier than using the laptops!
Science
We read lots of fact files about animals and their diets. We then sorted them into whether they were a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. We were so impressed with their knowledge!
History
We sorted toys into 'new' and 'old'. We drew our own pictures in our books.
Outdoor Learning
Nearly every time we go out for our learning we see a robin on the fence. This lead us to a discussion about birds around school and where they find food in Winter. We made bird feeders using lard, meal worms, bird seed, raisins and oats. We had fun mixing it together!. We also practised tying knots in string so that we could hang the feeders on a tree.
In our second session we went for a walk to find places to hang our bird feeders. We also noticed some more changes-some of the trees have hardly any leaves left so we could see the nests. We also saw a few trees with unusual bark on them so we are going to try to identify them. For the last part of this session we all got a special listening stone out of a velvet bag. The stone helps us to listen as we feel its smoothness. We lay on a tarp to just listen and look at the clouds as they changed shape.
Music
We have continued to learn the songs for the nativity. This will be in church on Tuesday 6th December. All costumes will be provided by school.
French
We began to learn the words for pet animals. We sang songs, played games using these words and listened to our favourite story, Aboie Georges about a dog who has lost his bark because he has swallowed all sorts of different animals!
Home Practice
Sumdog challenges
Phonics - Split digraph u_e OR oo (book) words
Maths - True or false questions
Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Start at different numbers. Count forwards and backwards.
