We have had a great few weeks of learning in Year 1!
This week in carousel we have been learning about the story of The Bowerbird. We have been thinking about the different character's emotions, and writing sentences to describe how they might feel. We have also been exploring moving pictures, and have been designing our own moving picture to make next week!
In maths, we have begun exploring parts and wholes. We have learnt about the part-whole model, and have now started writing number sentences for a part-whole model using + and = symbols.
In PSHE, we have continued learning about emotions. This week, we have been thinking about what makes us feel calm or excited, and we practised some guided breathing together. We then shared what we enjoy doing to help us relax.
In French, we have continued learning about greetings. We first did a recap on how to say hell, and then learnt how to say 'my name is' in French!
We hope you have a great weekend!
The Year 1 Team.
Year 1 have been having lots of fun learning about the seven continents of the world and the five oceans. We are learning their names and discovering where they are located around the world. We have been linking this new knowledge to our art lessons, where we painted beautiful African sunsets. We used our colour-mixing skills to mix red and yellow together to create orange, and we experimented with making different shades of orange too.
During carousel, we have been enjoying writing about the five senses and describing what we can see on the tail of the whale in The Snail and the Whale. We are using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops in our writing.
In maths, we have been practising our number formation and have started learning the vocabulary greater than, less than and equal to. We are also learning to use the correct symbols to show our understanding.
In science, we are building on our understanding of the human body and learning about our five senses. This week, we went on a sound hunt around the school to explore the different sounds we could hear. We heard lots of interesting noises, including a piano playing, the wind blowing through the leaves, a lawn mower and an aeroplane!
It has been a busy and exciting week of learning for Year 1!
Pirate day, shield painting and battle reenactments!
Year 1 have had a busy 2 weeks in the heat!
Last week we enjoyed a range of career talks from various parents and the children loved finding out about their jobs!
In English we have been learning all about pirates! We explored facts, sang some sea shanties and also made our own treasure maps. We have also written some quiz cards so get ready to have your pirate knowledge put to the test!
In maths we have been learning about numbers 50-100. We have used a number line and hundred square to find one more and one less and also compared numbers using greater than, less than and equals symbols.
In science we enjoyed planting and growing our own sunflowers. We have learnt about what they need to grow and also the different parts of a plant.
In history we learnt all about the Battle of Stamford Bridge and who became the next king after Edward the Confessor.
In DT we have been learning all about stable structures. We investigated how weight can help keep our structures stable and made small basketball hoops. We have also designed our pencil pots ready to make next week.
Position, Archaeologist and Superheroes!
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Year 1 have had a lovely two weeks!
Last week we had a special workshop led by Accent catering all about the 'Eatwell guide' and we enjoyed sorting food into their food groups.
In English we have been learning about traditional tales. We have read the story of the Hare and the Tortoise and also learnt about the prefix 'un' and the suffix 'er'. We then wrote sentences to compare the hare and the tortoise.
In maths we have been exploring multiplication and grouping counters into equal groups. We then learnt how to draw arrays to match multiplication sentences and have been practising countins in 2s, 5s and 10s.
In geography we have continued learning about the weather and had a lot of fun being weather forecasters, using weather symbols to predict the weather for different parts of the UK.
In science we have been making the most of our school grounds and went to look at the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees.
This week we also started a little bit of French! We learnt 'bonjour and salut' and have enjoyed greeting each other in French.
We are also very much looking forward to our school trip to Hobbledown tomorrow!
In maths, Year 1 have had lots of fun measuring the capacity and volume of different containers. This has been a very practical topic and we have enjoyed going outside and exploring and comparing the different amount of liquid that containers can hold. In English, we have been exploring traditional tales. Recently, we have been reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears to help us understand the features of a traditional tale. We also did a conscience alley to come to the decision if Goldilocks is good or bad. In computing, we have continued our topic on programming bee-bots. This week we have been creating routes for our bee-bots to travel along. In geography, we have been learning about weather. We have explored what type of weather we see in the four seasons.
Year 1 have had a very busy two weeks! A highlight was designing and then making our own fruit salads in class. We carefully chopped our chosen ingredients and were all very happy with the final taste test!
In English we have been writing animal fact books. We compared fiction and non-fiction books first, then wrote about our chosen animal's appearance, animal group and diet. We then went to share these with Reception.
In maths we explored length and height. We began by measuring with cubes then used rulers to measure objects as well as lines.
In geography, we have been looking at our local area. We thought about our home, town, borough, city, country AND continent! We are very much looking forward to our local walk at the end of the week too.
In science we have continued our topic of animals and this week we have been making the most of our school grounds and went pond dipping. So far Hedgehogs and Otters have been successful finding a range of animals including newts. Moles are looking forward to their turn tomorrow.
We also enjoyed singing to you all this afternoon! Have a lovely Easter break.
