Year 1 Blog - Friday 7th October 2022

Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 10:05am

Welcome to your first October blog!

We have had a super week of learning with all the children putting in so much effort to produce their best work!

English

We continued with the story of Dogger - fortunately it had a happy ending and Dogger was found!

Ask your child to talk about what's happening in each of these pictures from the story.

Phonics

We have been learning ue as in glue, ir as in girl and oy as in boy.

Sing an oy song. Click here.

Maths

This week we have been learning about addition using a part whole model. We have also used 10 frames and been counting on from 10 to find a teen number.

We have also been learning all the pairs of numbers which make 10. We need to be able to recall these quickly.

Friends of 10 song. Click here.

R.E.

We wrote some super sentences about people who care and love for us. It was lovely to see how lucky we are to have so many people in our lives.

Science

We did an investigation to find out if children who have bigger hands have bigger feet. We drew some interesting conclusions!

Geography

We used our Computing skills to research facts about our school on the laptops and iPads. We answered some very tricky what, when, how and where questions.

See our pictures here.

P.E.

We focused on hitting targets this week. We practised rolling a ball through a target and kicking a ball to knock a target over. 

Art

We looked at leaves this week ready to learn about our new artist - Miranda Lloyd. We felt the texture of the leaves and created leaf rubbings. They turned out really well!

PSHE

We focused on sorting ourselves into groups. We looked at how we might have a different hair colour, eye colour, gender and even interests to other people in our class. We then put our name in the group that applied to us.

See the pictures here.

Outdoor Learning

We have now joined with Year 2 to do our outdoor learning in small groups. We always start our sessions with a game- one of our favourites is called IF......If you have a pet hamster swap places now........the children now come up with their own statements!

We have been looking for fungi in our meadow, making log paths and mazes and also making fairy /elf houses using natural materials.Some of us harvested beans which we will save to plant next year. We showed great resilience, teamwork, problem solving and communication skills as well as super imaginations! We persevered when it was raining and just carried on!

Please make sure your child has a pair of named wellies in school. 

We had a very special visitor! Mrs Stone came to see us with baby Matilda-she's so lovely and we asked some great questions.

We are looking forward to meeting you all next week on either Wednesday or Thursday.

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - oi and oy words

Maths - add within 20

We will soon be introducing counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. This week, please focus on counting in 10s from 0 to 100. If this is too easy, start at a different number, such as 22, and count in 10s - 22, 32, 42, 52...

Please read every night for at least 10 minutes- it really makes all the difference!