Year 1 Blog - Friday 29th September 2023

Date: 26th Sep 2023 @ 11:10am

Welcome to your Friday blog.

English

We started to read the story Dogger, up until the point where Dave has realised that his toy dog Dogger is missing! We are so excited to finish the story next week. I wonder what will happen?

We predicted what was going to happen to Dogger, we wrote about how the characters were feeling, we made lost posters of Dogger and drew amazing pictures of the story so far.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning the trigraphs ure as in cure and air as in chair. Some of us have been learning the phase 5 digraph ue in both blue and argue, ir in girl and aw in claw.

Maths

This week we have been learning about representing numbers using tens and ones. We used practical equipment to make the numbers. We also learnt about one more .We have been singing many counting songs and practised starting at a number and counting forwards and backwards in 1s,2s,5s and 10s. We use the displays around our classroom to check our learning.

R.E.

We have focused on God in our RE lessons. We watched some lovely videos showing the beautiful world that God created and wrote sentences about how we can look after God's world.

P.E.

This week, we focused on bouncing a ball. We learnt how to hold the ball correctly and how to bounce a ball with two hands. We then practised bouncing whilst moving in a straight line and bouncing to each other.

Science

This week, we learnt all about the five senses that humans have - sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. We matched up the senses to the body part that we use for it. We then took it in turns to put our hand in Miss Fisher's feely bag. We weren't allowed to look but we used our touch to describe what we felt. Everyone else was able to guess what they were.

Geography

We used our knowledge of senses to go on a fieldwork walk around school. We went in the outdoor area, on the playground and in the nature area to see what we could hear, smell, touch and see.

Art

Since the weather was great on Friday, we went outside and drew spirals with chalk. We made a tripod out of sticks to see if we could make an even better circle!

French

 We celebrated ‘European Day of Languages’. We discussed what the day was about, who can participate, why we have the celebration and what ways we can celebrate other languages and why this is important. The class shared any languages which they know, any which they have been learning or any which they would like to learn. We then learned how to say hello and goodbye in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

P.S.H.E.

We started our online safety learning by learning about the word 'permission'. We talked about what it meant to give permission and how we need to ask to access online content when at home.

Computing

We learnt about the artist Henri Matisse and how he used shapes in his artwork. We used Paintz.app to recreate his artwork.

Forest School

In our first session we went into the nature area to find animals which have been woven out of willow. These animals were kindly bought by the parents of the Year 6 leavers. We looked carefully to see how the willow had been woven to make different patterns and shapes.

We then had a go at making our own. The first thing to master was how to twist the willow to make a circle as they can be joined together to make the body and head of different animals. We talked about how the younger, green willow is easier to work with as it contains more water than the brown willow.

Some of us made crowns, necklaces, fish and glasses. We really persevered.

For our second session we investigated spinning jennies, also known as helicopter seeds. We talked about how the seeds are dispersed by the wind. We went out to look for them and found plenty on our field. We then made dragonflies with the spinning jennies, pipe cleaners and beads. We made lots of other things as well-bracelets, worry dolls, forest eyes and butterflies.

Thank you for all of your Harvest donations, our box will be in class until Friday the 6th of October.

Home Practice (Sumdog)

We have only set a maths sumdog challenge this week. Please watch the phonics to practise your sounds.

Maths - One more and one less

Counting - Count in 1s and 10s forwards and backwards from different starting numbers. 

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!