Year 1 Friday Blog 19th November 2021

Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 10:00am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

In English, we read our new book called Bob's Best Ever Friend. Bob was very lonely and wanted to find someone to spend his time with. He eventually found Barry - an alien dog! We wrote about our own best friends, drew some funny alien pets, learnt all about space, and made some puppets of the characters in the story. We then acted out the story with our friends.

In Maths, we have started our Addition and Subtraction topic and have reintroduced using a tens frame to add two numbers together. We then took it one step further and created 2 addition numbers sentences, as we learnt that we can swap the numbers around! For example, 6 + 4 = 10 but 4 + 6 also equals 10. We have worked well with each other to add bigger numbers together, using our superb mathematical reasoning skills!

In R.E. we have learnt all about Jesus' baptism in the River Jordan. We talked about why Jesus wanted to be baptised and how The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove. We talked about our own baptisms and how our experiences differed from Jesus'.

We loved our P.E. lesson again this week! We learnt a group dance to our 'I am a robot' song and began thinking about our paired dance. We were so proud of all the children's creative ideas and robot movements.

In French, we have recited a new poem called Petit Escargot and added some actions to it. We then drew pictures about the poem to show that we understood the French.

In History, we began learning about Neil Armstrong and how he was the first man on the moon. This linked perfectly to our Bob story in English and we were so excited to find out more! We drew some pictures of Neil in our books and watched the historic moment together.

In P.S.H.E we have been focusing on being a good friend and how one kind word can make a big difference. We loved acting out different scenarios in groups, we definitely have some potential actors in the making!

Everyone looked great in their spotty outfits to support Children in need.

Have a look at the gallery section to see all of our brilliant learning this week.

Home Practice

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. Everyone has got a new set of words. Please just write a note in the diary if you need the next set.

Practice writing simple number sentences (for example 5 + 5 = 10) so that we can be confident when using the addition and equals symbols. Make sure they are in the correct place and the number sentence makes sense.

We have also been doing lots of counting. We have used a number square (to 100) to help with our counting as it allowed us to see the patterns visually.

Sumdog challenges

Phonics - Ew and oo words

Maths - Add within 20