Year 1 Blog - Friday 4th October 2024

Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 7:40pm

Home Practice

Sumdog challenge

Maths - Place Value - Representing objects

Sumdog log ins are in the front of your brown reading book.

Counting - Count in tens, forwards and back from 0 to 100.

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

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

Our story this week was How to Grow a Dragon by Rachel Morrisroe. We’ve had lots of fun exploring the book, creating our own dragons and writing some amazing sentences describing them. The children couldn’t believe that Miss Fisher’s own dragon came to visit school!

Phonics

We have focused on our phase 3 and phase 4 tricky words. We practised writing them and wrote them in some super sentences.

Maths

This week in Maths, we started to learn about measurement and the different ways in which we can measure objects. We measured objects practically using cubes, and compared them using the words taller, shorter and longer.

R.E.

We continued to explore what ‘prayer’ means to Christians.

We wrote our own personalised prayer to God, which acknowledged His actions and purpose.

Science

This week, we focused on our sense of smell. We conducted a smelling experiment, guessing what was in the jars by using our sense of smell alone. The children pulled some funny faces as some of the smells were not very nice!

See our pictures here.

Computing

We continued to learn about different forms of technology. We identified the parts of a computer and compared them to a laptop. Then we had a go at dragging and dropping objects on the iPads and experimenting on the Paintz website.

French

This week in French, we recapped some greetings: bonjour, salut, au revoir, mademoiselle, madame and monseiur. Then we learnt bonsoir and à bientôt.

Forest School

What beautiful Autumn weather for our session. We harvested the seeds from the sunflower heads. We were amazed that one sunflower produces hundreds of seeds which we can plant next year.

Mr Corbett lit a fire for the Kelly Kettle, and we knew the water was boiling when we heard the whistle. We followed all the instructions to keep safe around the fire.

We had a lovely hot chocolate with marshmallows.

We also had time for our own learning - balancing, building, climbing, jumping, bug hunting and running were just some of the things we got up to.

Super teamwork, communication and resilience was shown.