Year 1 Blog- Friday 4th March

Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 10:05am

Welcome to your blog for this week.

This week we talked about how we are in the month of March. We have also been writing the short date on our work i.e. 2nd March is 02.03.22. We have been talking about what the numbers mean and how they change.

English

We continued learning through the story of Where The Wild Things Are. We watched and talked about different versions of the story and also looked at other books written by Maurice Sendak. We wrote and illustrated our own books and read them to the children in Year 3. They were very impressed!

Phonics

We have been looking at ee as in tree and ey as in monkey. Phonics songs. Click here.

Maths

We have been very busy this week in maths. We have been learning about adding and subtracting 10. We looked at the 100 square and talked about the patterns of numbers. We represented numbers with practical equipment, Base 10, 10 frames, bead strings, bundles of straws and Numicon.We had a go at representing numbers with lines and dots, a line for tens and a dot for ones.

We also looked at the pattern of 2s and 5s.

Shark numbers game. Click here. Choose numbers up to 99.

Science

We talked about what kinds of plants grow in our school grounds. Next week we will be going to have a look. Have a look at what's growing around where you live.

P.S.H.E.

We continued to talk about precious items and how they are of value to is in a sentimental rather than monetary way. We had a look at the story about the girl who took her mum's ring to school without permission and discussed what she should have done to make the right choices.

R.E.

We learnt about Shrove Tuesday and what Lent is. On Ash Wednesday we went to church and Father Michael blessed us with ashes. We made our Lenten promises and took them to Golden Assembly.

D.T.

We have started our food topic in D.T. The class are very excited as we are going to be making our own smoothie in a few weeks! This week, we learnt about how our food is made - where it starts and how it ends up on our plates. We made a simple flow diagram to show this.

P.E.

We continued to learn how to throw a beanbag using an underarm throw. We are quickly becoming experts! We were challenged to aim at a target (a stop sign and a hoop) and we were very successful. We loved playing the throwing games in our groups.

French

Read for at least 10 minutes every night. This is so important. please sign the diary so we can change the books. Keep practicing reading the Tricky Words on sight. Please just write a note in the diary if you need the next set.

We have also been doing lots of counting. We have mainly been focusing on counting in patterns of 2s and 5s so please practise counting in ones and tens at home. Don't always start from 1, we encourage starting from different numbers. We use a number square in class to help us with this, we have learnt to move left/right one place for counting in ones and up/down for counting in tens. Feel free to search '100 square' in Google to find one online. Highlight the patterns on the square.

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - split digraph o_e

Maths - counting in multiples (2, 5, 10)