Year 1- What we have been learning

 

Welcome back! We hope you have had an enjoyable half term. Now it's time to get back into school and learn! Please could you make sure that  you are completing the reading each week and practicing your child's spelling for the test on Friday. The children have also been given extra spelling sheets to help them to not only remember the spelling but to put the word into a sentence, this will then help with the understanding and meaning of the word. 

Literacy 

Children in Year 1 had been on a Bear hunt this week. They got on their wellies and raincoats and acted out the story. The children enjoyed bringing drama into literacy this week. It also helped them to write descriptive sentences of each setting in the book. Exploring different vocabulary to make the writing interesting.

 

Next week, the children are going to be reading The Queen's Handbag and looking at different London Landmarks. 

Maths

This week, the children  had the opportunity to further develop their subtraction skills by finding out the difference using Ten Frames and  counting back on a number line. Additionally, they learnt to use the correct mathematical symbols in their number sentences.

Next week, they will be learning to count to 50 and solving problems within 50.

Topic

Science 

This week in science ,Year 1 has started a new topic all about Animals. Over the next few weeks children will be learning about different types of animals including Mammals, Fish, Reptiles, Amphibians and Birds. This week they learnt about Fish and different creatures that can be found in the sea. Children completed a fact file worksheet of what they had found out. 

Are you a monster?

On Thursday children took part in a world wide webinar.The children were read a story by  author Guilherme Karsten called Are you a monster? The children really enjoyed the story of a little monster who was trying to train children to be a monster. But at the end someone gets a little fright! 

Forest School 

Apricot class has started Forest school this term. They were exploring different textures and making rubbings of the materials onto paper. It was also a chance for children to look at books and read together in the outside reading area.