Week Five

This week we have been using our phonics to help us write independent sentences! We have been creating story maps and re-telling the story 'The Lion Inside'. They're almost finished, and Year 1 have been so proud of their hard work so far! We also painted some super lions this week! We've been working on full stops, capital letters, letter formation AND describing words! In maths, we have been learning all about 3D shapes! We have been naming, building and sorting!

We had great fun in science this week, spotting signs of autumn and winter! We headed outside and made seasonal crowns with our amazing findings. In Jigsaw, we learned about 'bullying', and designed T-shirts to help us remember to show love and kindness to our friends. We enjoyed yoga for P.E with Mrs. Harding, and in R.E this week we learned all about the special time of 'Advent' and what this means for Christians. Talking of Christmas... we have been super busy preparing for our nativity performance! Not long to go now...! Please can we have costumes in on Monday, if not in already - thank you!

Week Four

This week in phonics we have been learning the  long /oo/ written as 'ue', and 'u-e'. In English, we started reading 'The Lion Inside' - exploring the text and writing simple sentences to describe what we can see. We have been superstars in maths - mastering our number sentence and symbols, and even writing perfect number sentences into our books! We were super proud of how great these were!

In history this week, we learned more about Thomas Percy from The Gunpowder Plot. We created 'wanted' posters for the King, using information in his famous proclamation from 1605! We enjoyed our last yoga lesson for P.E with Miss. Glenister this week, and in art we enjoyed painting little penguins! For our Jigsaw lesson, we learned about 'differences' and created our own gingerbread men characters to celebrate all the things that make us special. We developed our 'select' and 'drag' skills in computing, and did some super handwriting to finish off the week before our busy learning time on Friday. 

We said a sad farewell to Miss. Glenister at the end of the week, who we will miss so very much! Good luck Miss. Glenister in your next adventure - thank you for everything! 

Week Three

This week we have been reading 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers. We identified our phonics sounds in words from the story and did some amazing sound button work! We have also been learning the target phoneme /oo/ written as 'ew'. 

In maths, we have been using a number line to solve subtractions. We found the backwards jumps tricky at first, but got there with some practice but we were superstars by the end of the week! 

We learned about the seasons and autumn weather in science, and in P.E we enjoyed yoga skills with Mrs. Harding. For art, we used acrylic paints to create some amazing poppy paintings that we were really proud of!

Friday was lots of fun celebrating 25 years of Children In Need. For our class challenge, we tried 25 balloon bounces and had lots of fun doing it! 

Every child should now have taken home a letter for their nativity part and costume requests. Please let me know if it didn't make it to you! Have a great weekend!

Week Two

This week in phonics we have been learning the phoneme /oa/ written as 'o' and 'oe'. We have also been identifying and using sound buttons to segment and 'firework' words. These were helpful for our amazing poetry writing in English this week. We wrote acrostic poems which Year 1 were so proud of! 

In maths, we have been finding 'fact-families', writing number sentences linked to part-whole models. We have also been subtracting by crossing out, and working on explaining our reasoning. 

In history, we have been really excited to learn more about The Gunpowder Plot and how it ended! We worked in groups to re-tell the story through 'freeze frames', then sequenced the photographs to make our own timelines of events. Some amazing acting skills! 

We had lots of fun salt-painting firework displays in art, enjoyed developing our yoga skills in P.E and creating firework art in computing with our super mouse skills! In Jigsaw, we began our new unit all about celebrating difference. We learned about 'similarities' and found lots between ourselves. We have started singing our Nativity songs this week - the countdown is officially on!... 

Have a super weekend everybody!

Week One

This week in phonics we have been learning the  /oa/ written as 'ow' and 'o-e'. In English, we have been reading 'Room on the Broom' by Julia Donaldson. We have been writing character descriptions for the witch, using amazing describing words and phrases! We also enjoyed making 'nature wands' and watching the animation version of the story at the end of the week.

In maths, we have been working on subtraction within 10. We have been building, reading and writing subtraction number sentences, and even learning to 'check' our answers with a calculator for the first time.

We enjoyed our first yoga lesson for P.E this week, and our first music lesson of the term introducing rhythm and pitch.

In art, we made some super silhouette cats using stencil, sponge and acrylic paints. They look meow-velous! 

This term we have swapped geography for history, and enjoyed learning about who Guy Fawkes was, and why we celebrate bonfire night! We explored items Guy Fawkes might have used - and how they are different to objects we might use today. 

Friday was bubbling with excitement for Halloween - hope everyone has a great time later!