Year 1: What We Are Learning!

Year 1: What We Are Learning 

What a fantastic first full week in Year 1. This week in maths, the children have been learning all about sorting objects. They have been exploring how objects can be sorted by colour, shape, size and other features, while explaining their reasoning and noticing similarities and differences. 

We even took our learning outside and practised sorting natural materials we found in our environment. The children did a wonderful job working together, discussing their ideas and deciding how best to group the objects. 

We are so proud of how enthusiastically the children have approached their first week of Year 1 maths! Well done, everyone!

This week our literacy focus book has been: Beegu, by Alexis Deacon

We have had an exciting start to our Literacy lessons in Year 1!

The children arrived at school to discover that a spaceship had crash-landed in our school! We became detectives and looked for clues to find out what had happened.

We soon discovered that the spaceship belonged to ‘Beegu’, a little alien from our story.

      The children used their imaginations to talk about Beegu and came up with lots of fantastic adjectives to describe her such as small, yellow, cute, lonely and friendly.

 We then used our adjectives to write sentences describing Beegu. The children have been fantastic storytellers and writers! 

In PSHE, we have been learning about how to make our classroom a happy, safe and positive place. We talked about why classroom rules are important and how they help us to learn and play together. We have also been practising active listening, learning to look at the person speaking, listen carefully and take turns. Finally, we explored different emotions, such as happy, sad, angry, worried and excited. We learnt how to recognise our own feelings and understand how others might be feeling too.

Well done Year 1 for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work!