This week in English Year 1 have been learning a new text called Beegu, written by Alexis Deacon. It is a beautiful story about an alien who crashes on planet Earth. We have enthusiastically acted it out, using expression and emotions. We have learnt some emotional adjectives to help describe how Beegu (the main character) was feeling including sad, despondent, lonely, loved, relieved. We ended the week by writing a postcard in character as Beegu to the children she met on planet Earth.
In maths, we have been revisiting how to add and adding using our new knowledge of partitioning numbers into tens and ones. We have also learnt about odd and even numbers and looked at patterns of odd and even numbers throughout the 100 hundred square grid.
In science, we really enjoyed investigating the property of materials. Which material was the most waterproof and would be best for an umbrella for Barnaby Bear? We decided it was plastic! Tissue paper was definitely not very waterproof! We have continued learning about the religion of Judaism - this week we looked in more detail at Shabbat and how this is celebrated in Jewish homes.
Year 1 have been incredibly busy in their first full week back. We have been so impressed with their whole class writing where we have written the beginning of the story of 'Where the Wild Things Are" in the past tense and using sentence openers as well as with accurate punctuation! In maths, we have been learning about place value in numbers - tens and ones. We began this module by counting in tens and ones all the pencils, pens, rulers etc we could find in our classrooms and sending Mr Holmes an inventory in tens and ones. He was so impressed! We started our new science topic on 'materials'. This week we investigated what things felt like, and what they were made from, using a feely bag. We worked in science groups learning to record our findings and take turns too! It was so much fun.
We have had a lovely final week of term in Year 1. We enjoyed writing our instructions for how to make a Christmas potion using bossy verbs and adjectives. We also tried to include some time words in our writing to make it more exciting.
In maths, we practised writing our numbers in words to 10. We used some spell well activities to help us. We have also been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We used a hundred square to count and noticed some patterns as we were counting.
In science, we made our own snow and had lots of fun playing with it!
Finally, we have been enjoying some Christmas activities such as designing our own Christmas jumpers and decorating Christmas decorations as well as seeing what our cheeky elf has been up to each day!
This week Year 1 have been busy having lots of fun making Christmas potions! We read Room on the Broom and then thought about what we would put into our own potions using bossy verbs ready to write instructions next week.
We have continued our learning about measures in maths, with a focus weight. We enjoyed ordering objects from heaviest to lightest and measured object in the classroom using cubes and a balancing scale.
We have also been exploring the continent of Australasia, in particular the country Australia. We learnt about some famous landmarks and then created our own aboriginal artwork. In science, we enjoyed going on a Winter walk and discussing seasonal changes. We thought about the changes we saw in winter including bare trees, frost and colder weather.
We also felt very festive making our Christmas crowns ready for our singing and were very excited to perform for you all!
