Year 1 Blog-Friday 19th May 2023

Date: 18th May 2023 @ 10:10am

Welcome to your Friday blog!

We are enjoying Miss Forshaw being in our class. She is learning how to become a teacher and we are all helping her.

English

This week, we have been reading the story of 'The Enormous Crocodile' by Roald Dahl. We have absolutely loved learning about the crocodile's clever tricks (that did not work) and how the jungle animals saved the children each time. We read most of the book and predicted how it might end. We focused on adjectives this week. We highlighted the many adjectives in the story, wrote a beware poster to warn children and identified the crocodile's clever tricks.

We then wrote a recount of our school trip to Martin Mere, describing what we did during the day.

Phonics

Some of us have been learning about the spilt digraph e-e as in Steve and complete.Some of us have been learning about ear in earth and or in work.

Click here to sing some phonics songs.

Maths 

We have been learning about positional language. The learning included the words above, below, between, on top of,in front of.

We have also been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Try counting from different starting numbers. Count in 5s starting at 2. Count in 10s starting at 12.

R.E.

We focused on the words that Jesus spoke to His disciples as He ascended up to Heaven. We spoke about His promise to send the Holy Spirit and we wrote what was said in speech bubbles.

History

We learnt about the various forms of entertainment that were seen at the seaside in the past and in the present day. We examined some real life photographs of the seaside in the past and identified any entertainment that we could see. We spotted Punch and Judy shows, people seabathing, swimming and making sandcastles on the beach. We drew and described two examples of past activities in our books.

Science

We have learnt about the different parts of the plant and the very important jobs that they have. We made our own collage pictures identifying each part and then pretended to be a plant with our bodies - we stretched out tall like the stem and opened our hands wide like the leaves!

Art

We made our final digital seaside picture using Paintz.app. They were absolutely amazing! So much so, that Mrs Robinson came in to see them.

Computing

We had our next lesson using code.org. We learnt to drag and drop instructions so that Scrat could eat the acorn. We did some amazing learning and sharing!

French

We began to learn the vocabulary for clothes with the story Je m'habille et je te croque followed by some games to reinforce the new words. 

Outdoor Learning

This week our fire session was making pancakes. We made the batter and watched as it changed from a liquid into a solid. We noticed the change in the colour of the pancakes as they cooked. We ate them with lemon,sugar, cinnamon or apple sauce.

Our other session was making obstacle courses. We used logs and came up with really imaginative ways to use them.

Martin Mere

We had an amazing trip to Martin Mere. There was so much learning! We saw so many different plants and creatures. Have a look at the photos in the gallery section.

Home Practice

Phonics - split digraph o_e OR ear in dear

Maths - turns

KEEP READING EVERY NIGHT!

Even more children are changing their reading books more often and it's having a great impact on their progress.

Don't forget to keep reading the Tricky words and if your child recognises them on sight they could learn how to write them.