Year 1 Blog - Friday 31st January 2025

Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 12:41pm

Welcome to your Friday blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenges

Maths - Months of the year

Phonics - Sounds learnt this week.

Counting - Choose a number to start on. Count 10 more and 10 less in ones. For example: 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. Then 52, 51, 50 etc.

Reading - Please try to read each night, it makes a big difference!

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We continued to learn about Edgar the dragon this week.

We wrote a feelings timeline for Edgar, a list of reasons for how Edgar could be helpful and we re-wrote the story in our own words.

Phonics

Some of us have finished learning the split digraphs and learnt the 'wh' and 'ph' sounds.

Some of us have finished learning the different ways to spell the 'ee' sound, focusing on e in medium and y in penny. 

Maths

We have been learning how to measure time. We learnt that we measure time in lots of different ways: using seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. We had lots of fun using the timer on the iPads to measure how quick or slow we can do an action.

See our pictures here.

We have also continued our learning for the months of the year, focusing on the order and special events that happen within them.

R.E.

We learnt about Jesus preaching and teaching in the Temple. We described how we could help others, like He taught us, and painted how the light guides us.

Geography

We labelled the countries that make up the United Kingdom. Then we identified their capital cities, major cities and flags.

Science

We conducted an experiment to see whether objects were transparent or opaque. Some of us even identified translucent objects! We used torches to see if the light passed through and our eyes to see if we could see through them.

See our pictures here.

P.E.

We learnt how to travel in different ways, including bear and crab walk. We also practised egg, tuck and pencil rolls.

Art

We planned our medal, identifying which materials we wanted to use and how we wanted it to look. We will start making them next week!

Forest School

This week we were in our log circle area. We noticed some damage to the trees that last week's storm had caused. We looked for mini beasts, played our own games, made some concoctions in the mud and made dens.