Year One - Week 7's Celebration Certificates

Week 7's certificates

Well done to Evie in Beech Class for her excellent effort in literacy. Evie has been working hard learning her sounds and applying them to her writing. Keep up the great effort, Evie 

Ava in Apricot Class for her hard work and determination in Maths this week. Ava used her 10 frame to add together two single digit numbers. She grew in confidence and was able to complete the task independently, well done Ava!

Paige in Walnut Class, for her super effort in Maths using a 10 square to add two single digit numbers together. Paige has consistently shown kindness and a positive attitude to learning. Well done Paige.

George in Apricot Class for his fantastic effort writing a diary entry from Beegu’s point of view. George was able to successfully sound out his words in order to spell them. Brilliant work George!

Blake in Walnut Class, for his fantastic effort in writing a diary entry in character as Beegu. Blake described how Beegu felt when she was trying to make friends and related this to his own experience. Well done Blake!

Aayan in Beech Class, for using new vocabulary we have been learning in class and including it in his own writing.

Resilience award for Jack, for his concentration and focus during Maths. Jack carried on despite finding the activity challenging. Well done!

Resilience award for Charlie in Beech Class. Charlie always works hard and tries his best, even when things are challenging

Resilience award for Elliot in Walnut Class, for his effort in listening during the group work to write a diary entry even though he initially found the activity challenging. Well done Elliot!

Reflectiveness award for Lemar in Walnut Class for completing his Literacy and Maths activities this week. Lemar also made the right choices after reflecting on the week. Well done Lemar!

Well done Year One for a fantastic half term.

See you all soon, keep safe! 

Year One - Week 6's Celebration Certificates

 

                                          

Week 6's certificates

Congratulations to Roman in Apricot Class for his fantastic effort this week using 10 frames in Maths. Well done for persevering Roman, keep up the good work!

Billy from Beech Class for his excellent attitude towards his learning. Billy has been working hard in all areas and has shown incredible resilience. Keep it up Billy!

                                

Lily in Walnut Class for her fantastic effort in using the 10 square to answer mathematical questions. Lily confidently shared her learning with the other children and worked collaboratively with other children to create her own sums.

Well done to Nasrat in Apricot Class, for his fantastic storyboard writing this week in Literacy. Nasrat independently sounded out his words to spell them, great job Nasrat!

Well done to Siana from Beech Class for her retelling of the story Beegu. Siana used her sounds to write her story independently.

Well done to Connie in Walnut Class for re-telling the story of Beegu using the skill of story mapping and writing about how Beegu tried to phone her mum and dad. Well done Connie!

Year 1 make dens in the rain!

 

Den making 

A wet week didn't stop the children from exploring and learning outside. If fact, it inspired them to get even more creative! They have spent the week making and improving their waterproof shelters.

Creating dens gives children the opportunity to think outside of the box and problem solve in order to create a structure. The children have been developing their communication and language skills as they worked as a team to create their den.

Our outside area is part of our everyday learning environment and we use it whatever the weather. Therefore, can we ask that on the wetter days, the children wear a waterproof coat if they have one? 

Many Thanks 

The Year One Team 

Year 1 - Some of our learning this week!

 

This week we've been working hard and learning lots of interesting things!

Maths

In Maths, we've been learning how to use 10 frames to make number bonds to 10 and quickly add up numbers. We've been loving this Number Bonds song. 

Literacy

In Literacy we've been creating storyboards of our book, Beegu. We've been making sure to use our capital letters, finger spaces and full stops! We've also started to use conjunctions such as 'and' and 'because'.

Other Learning

As usual, we've been learning skills through play in our environment. Here's some examples of us building our team working skills, reading and working on our fine motor skills!

Many thanks,

The Year One Team

Year One - Week 5's Celebration Certificates

 

Week 4's certificates

It's that time of the week again when we celebrate so of the hard work we have seen this week. Check out these amazing children:

Arnish, for his brilliant use of the Maths area this week, Arnish has been creating patterns and building structures, well done!

Flynn, for his super effort in writing a question for Beegu and independently practiced the red words during choosing time. Flynn demonstrated a positive attitude to learning, well done Flynn!

Pragya, for her wonderful work in maths. Pragya listened carefully during our group work and then was able to partition numbers independently using the 'part-whole model' method. Great job, Pragya!

Teddy, for creating a fantastic story at the writing table, Teddy used the sound mat to spell his words independently, keep up the great work!

Veer, for his great effort in writing about the timeline of Neil Armstrong’s journey into space in History. Well done Veer!

Dhriti, for her amazing writing this week. Dhriti came up with some interesting questions she would ask Beegu, if she ever met her! Keep it up, Dhriti!

Well done Year One, keep up the amazing work!

What Year 1 have been learning this week!

 

Our Learning This Week!

Literacy

This week in Literacy we have been learning all about questions! We have been looking at how we can identify them by spotting the question mark and question words (who, what, where, when, how). Why don't you try this spot the question game with your child at home? 

Maths

This week, in Maths, we have been looking at our number bonds to 10 and the part, part, whole model. The children have loved singing the number bonds song and using Numicon to work out the pairs of numbers that make 10. 

History

In History this week we are learning about Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon! We have read the 'I am Neil Armstrong' book and written about his life. Take a deeper look here. 

Many thanks,

The Year One Team

Year One Science Walk

Year One Science 

This week the children asked questions about the things they wanted to find out about the Autumn season. The children were curious to find out more and their questions included: 

- How do leaves change colour?

- Why do leaves fall?

- How do leaves grow back? 

Through our science walk we explored the answers to some of their questions while we looked at the leaves. 

The children like to collect acorns and enjoyed watching the video exploring the lifecycle and inhabitants of an oak tree. Click here to watch the video and talk about the learning with the children. 

Many thanks

The Year One team

Year One’s Celebration Certificates

                                               

 

Week 4's certificates

It's that time of the week again when we celebrate so of the hard work we have seen this week. Check out these amazing children:

Well done to the following children who have impressed their teachers with their work this week:

Well done to Merlyn in Beech Class who has been awarded an E for Excellence award for his maths this week. We have been looking at ‘greater and less than’ and Merlyn used the numicon to show his mathematical thinking. 

Well done to Lily-Mae in Apricot Class who has been awarded an E for Excellence certificate for her concentration and effort in Maths this week. Lily-Mae used numicon to help her work out 'greater than and less than' number sentences.

Well done to James in Walnut Class, for his effort in Maths using numicon and multilink to find 'greater than' and 'less than' a given number.

Congratulations to the following children who have worked super hard with their writing:

Well done to Safiyyah from Beech Class who is this weeks Star Writer. After a creative art session using clay to create an alien friend for Beegu, Safiyyah wrote a description using a range of adjectives. 

Congratulations to Teo in Apricot Class for his excellent description of the friend he made for Beegu. Fantastic use of adjectives Teo!

Well done to Laynie-Rae in Walnut Class, for her effort in using adjectives to describe the friend she created out of clay for Beegu.

 

Also, well done to Kemar in Apricot Class for his Reciprocity Award! Kemar has used his teamwork skills while working with other children inside and outside of the classroom this week. 

Well done to Stephania in Walnut Class for her Reflectiveness Award! Stefania shared her learning with the class in History talking about the first lady to visit space.

Well done to Elsie in Walnut Class for her Resilience Award! Elsie made a real effort in her literacy writing using adjectives.

Well done to Eesa in Walnut Class for his Resourcefulness Award! Eesa used the Maths resources to show the class the different ways in which they could show one more and one less.

Many thanks,

The Year One Team