Year 1: What We Are Learning
This week in Literacy, the children have been using everything they have learnt about descriptive writing, sentence structure, and poetry to begin planning and writing their own poems based on magical lands. Together, we discussed exciting ideas such as enchanted forests, sparkling ice kingdoms, dragon mountains, candy lands, underwater cities, and floating castles in the clouds. The children were full of imaginative ideas and enthusiasm!
The children used a story map to help the children organise their journey. The map showed the different magical lands they would travel through in sequence. We modelled how to draw and label the journey, adding key ideas, and magical details to each part of the map. The children then used their plans to begin writing sentences about each magical land. We modelled how to keep a repeated sentence structure to create consistency and flow. It has been wonderful to see the children’s creativity shine as they developed their own magical journeys and experimented with poetic language. We are very proud of the enthusiasm and imagination they have shown throughout the week!
This week in maths, we have been focusing on finding a half and a quarter of different quantities. We transformed paper plates into fraction mats by dividing and cutting them into four equal parts. Using cubes, the children practiced sharing totals equally between the sections. This helped them see that finding a quarter means splitting the whale into four equal groups.
We then transitioned into our workbooks, drawing circles to represent the paper plates. This allowed children to use the same sharing process to solve the problems independently.
Next time you are sharing something at home (like grapes, crackers or toys) ask your child if they can find a quarter of the quantity!
This week in Year 1, the children explored the history of letter writing and discussed how communication has changed over time. We learned about the journey of a letter and how the postal system works. The children enjoyed writing letters to Keir Starmer and posting them in the Broadford post box. They made predictions about how long their letters might take to arrive and discussed the difference between first-class and second-class delivery.
Well done Year 1 for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work!
