Year 1 Blog - Thursday 19th October

Date: 18th Oct 2023 @ 3:43pm

Welcome to your last blog of this half term.

English

This week we have been learning through the story of Winnie the Witch. We learnt about her house, her family and her pet cat, Wilbur. Our ingredients for our magic potions were very imaginative. We also learnt about rhyming words and we drew a story map.  We worked together in small groups to design a new house for Winnie.

As part of our poetry day celebrations we learnt a poem called The Grass House by Shirley Hughes. We devised all the actions ourselves and performed it as a class in Golden Assembly. Ask your child if they could perform it for you.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning about words such as string, spring and splat where we have to say each sound.

Some of us have learnt au in launch and a_e in cake.

We have been learning to write tricky words.

Click here for a spooky tricky word song.

Maths

We have been using practical equipment to learn about subtraction. The whole is 12, we subtract 5, how many are left? 7 and 5 are the parts and 12 is the whole. We recorded this in a number sentence.

Please practise counting in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.

We have also been learning about the number bonds which make 10.

Sing the number bond song. Click here.

Science

This week, we learnt how to keep our bodies healthy. We watched a cool video about how washing our hands keeps us clean and free from germs. We then did a 'germs' experiement to show that germs do not like clean hands, they run away from them! We also did a Joe Wicks video to raise our heart rates.

R.E.

We continued to learn about belonging and learnt that we all belong to our school church. We started to learn about a baptism and who is present. We labelled a picture of a baptism and talked about what happens.

Art

On Monday, we painted a physical version of our digital sunflower (from Computing last week). We hung these around the classroom as they were great!

Then on Thursday, we sketched different objects from around the classroom. We started by sketched toy animals and then we chose our own object to sketch.

French

 We recapped the numbers 1-10 again. We then counted our Pirate friends’ treasure and matched some counting cards with their coins or parrots to the correct digit. We could all do this in French with each other! We have worked really hard this half term, recapping and learning French Greetings and numbers 1-10. Next half term, we will be ready to have some new sessions about classroom labels, family, fruits, colours and farm animals (after we’ve learned about French Halloween!).

Music

We did some warm up games, clapping rhythms of our favourite foods. We sang Hey You, learning all the actions and choosing which instruments to play. We played the boom whackers to Incy Wincy spider. 

Forest School

This week we used a new piece of equipment,our Kelly Kettle. We talked about being safe around the fire. We went into the nature area to collect sticks and twigs to fuel our fire. We made sure the twigs were dry and not too big. The water didn't take long to get warm and we all enjoyed some delicious hot chocolate.

In our other session we had a go at building shelters. We used ropes, traps, tent pegs, mats and clasps. We showed amazing teamwork and resilience as well as great communication.

Click here for photos.

Home Practice (Sumdog)

Phonics - Split a_e words OR ee words OR tricky words

Maths - Problem questions

Counting - Practise counting in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s, forwards and backwards from different numbers,

Thank you to everyone who came to Parents' Evening. We enjoyed talking to you about your child. Thanks also for all your brilliant support.

Have a lovely half term and we'll see you on Monday 30th October.