Year 1 Blog - Friday 6th December 2024

Date: 6th Dec 2024 @ 3:29pm

Welcome to your weekly blog!

Home Practice

Sumdog challenge

Maths - Quarters

Counting - Count forwards and backwards to the biggest number you can!

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

Please remember to bring book bags in each day.

English

We read the story 'The First Hippo on the Moon' which is all about a hippo called Sheila. She really wanted to build a rocket and fly to the moon!

We described Sheila, sequenced the story and wrote speech bubbles for the different characters.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning the ou and ie sounds.

Some of us have been learning the alternative pronunications. We have learnt u in human, ow in elbow and ie in chief.

Maths

We finished learning about halves and moved onto quarters. We learnt that we need 4 equal pieces for quarters. We found a quarter of shapes and even used a slice of bread to visually make quarters.

R.E.

We started to read about the birth of Jesus. We talked about how Mary had waited for the birth of Jesus and how it is important to wait and be patient. We made an Advent promise each for our prayer table.

Science

We sorted animals into different groups: herbivore, carnivore and omnivore.

See our pictures here.

Art

We have been very busy this week!

We drew flowers onto our handprints to add more detail (see our pictures here). Then we painted our Christmas card for Booths and some of us started to make our calendar.

My Happy Mind

We recapped the term 'neuroplasticity' and talked about how we need to practise skills to learn them. We had a go at writing a sentence with our non-dominant hand to see how hard it is to do something that we haven't practised!

We are looking forward to seeing you all at our Nativity on Tuesday. The show times are 2pm and 6:30.

Please drop your child off at the hall by 6:10 for the evening show.