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Year 1
Welcome to the Year 1 Blog!
Each week, we will be updating this page to show you what the children have been getting up to in the classroom. You may like to talk about this with them when they come home.
Friday, 13 December 2024
In maths this week, we have been learning vocabulary related to position such as behind, in front of, beside, inside and outside and we have been following instructions to draw seasonal pictures to show our understanding. We have also been learning to find left and right and have been very active demonstrating half, quarter and whole turns.
In DT this week, we have finished making our winter/Christmas cards with moving parts. Once our cards were made, we wrote inside and added any extra decorations, such as glitter and pompoms. We then evaluated our designs and thought about what had gone well and what we would do differently next time.
Friday, 6 December 2024
In English this week we have been learning all about reindeer and how to use question marks. We thought of lots of fantastic questions we would like to ask about reindeer. We have also been writing about what they look like, and where they live.
This week in Topic we learnt about simple maps. We read a story called ‘Martha Maps It Out’ and explored all the different maps she had drawn of the world, her street, her house and even her bedroom! The children then worked super hard to draw their own accurate maps of the classroom.
Friday, 29 November 2024
This week in Topic we have been learning about the countries that make up the UK. The children used playdoh to make the 4 countries of the UK and spoke about which was which. We cut out and made a jigsaw puzzle map of the UK. The children coloured in the different flags of the UK and learnt about their capital cities.
In maths this week we have been continuing our work on place value with numbers to 20. We have been building numbers using ten frames and dienes and then finding one more and one less. The photos show how we built a number and then took one away to find one less using dienes. Finding one less than 20 was a challenge - we had to swap a 10 for 10 ones so one could be taken away. Fantastic maths Year 1!
In English this week we have been doing our independent writing, retelling the story of Stick Man. We have been trying hard to use capital letters and full stops and our sounds for spelling. We have also been trying hard to use lots of adjectives as well.
This week in DT, we have started to make our winter themed cards with moving parts. We have drawn our chosen background on the front of our cards and coloured them in. We have chosen our pictures for our sliders and started to decorate them. We will continue with this over the next week by adding more decoration to our cards, putting together our sliders and cutting a hole in the card for the slider to move along. To complete our cards, we will need to write a message inside.
Friday, 22 November 2024
This week in Topic we learnt about the difference between human and physical geography. The children looked at the location of the school on GoogleEarth and we discussed some of the physical and human features we could see. Then we went outside and drew pictures to show what physical and human features are around our school!
In DT this week, we designed our Christmas/winter cards. We thought about whether we wanted our slider mechanism to go from side to side or up and down. We then drew the scene that we would use for our background and thought about which character/object will go on the slider. We also thought about which equipment we will need to make our cards.
Friday, 15 November 2024
In maths this week, we have been continuing with our work on subtraction. We have been solving word problems by drawing counters and crossing them out.
Friday, 8 November 2024
In our DT this term, we are going to be designing a Christmas/winter card with moving parts. This week we have looked at books with moving parts and investigated levers and sliders. We thought about why we send cards and what makes a good card. We came up with our design criteria and decided that our card needs a Christmas/winter theme, careful cutting, neat colouring and a moving part.
This week in Topic, we listened to the story of Guy Fawkes and found out that he tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder! The children learnt about how he was caught and that we celebrate this with fireworks! We made stick puppets to reenact what happened and drew our own firework pictures.
In maths this week the children have been learning about subtraction within 10. They have learnt the words ‘takeway’ and ‘minus’ and have been doing lots of practical activities using counters, bears and bead strings to find the answers to number sentences.
Friday, 25 October 2024
This week in maths, we have continued to learn about addition. The children have explored lots of different word problems and have learnt how to find the important information. We practiced how to add two numbers on a bead string and how to write a number sentence that matches.
Friday, 18 October 2024
Maths
This week in maths we have started to learn about addition. The children have learnt to read an addition number sentence and have used Numicon to build them. We have continued to use the part whole model to draw counters and add two amounts.
Topic
We have continued our ‘Come Outside’ topic by thinking about the seasons of the year and what happens in each season. We sorted pictures together, thinking about the weather and what we see in each season.
Art
In art this we learnt about hedgehogs and how they hibernate in winter. We really enjoyed making our own little hedgehogs, using layers of tissue paper to create the prickles.
Friday, 11 October 2024
Maths
This week in maths we have learnt about how all numbers can be made up of smaller numbers. First, the children used Numicon to find all the number bonds to 10. Then, we learnt about what the words ‘part’ and ‘whole’ mean and used a part-whole model to spilt one whole number into two smaller parts using counters, bears, cubes and pom-poms!
English
We wrote sentences about the book Funny Bones and unscrambled words and sentences. We looked at sentences about the book and decided whether they were correct. We looked for a capital letter at the beginning, finger spaces between words and a full stop at the end.
Topic
Following on from our lesson last week where we explored different leaves and named the trees that they came from, this week we have been looking at leaves that are still green in autumn and those that have changed colour and have fallen from the trees. We learned the new vocabulary ‘evergreen’ and ‘deciduous’. Together, we decorated 2 trees using different colour leaves. We learned that pine and holly are evergreen and that horse chestnut, oak and sycamore are deciduous.
Friday, 4 October 2024
Maths
This week in maths, the children have continued to develop their understanding of greater than and less than. We have used lots of different resources and worked hard to practice how to write the greater than and less than symbols. The children have also learnt about odd, even and ordinal numbers!
English
In English, we have been continuing our work on The Lumberjack’s Beard. We have unscrambled sentences, improved sentences by adding more information, including adjectives, and written sentences independently.
Friday, 27 September 2024
Maths
This week in maths, we have continued to develop what we have learnt about more and less. The children have compared sets of objects and have now learnt how to use symbols to show which is greater and which has less. We learnt that the crocodile loves to eat the greatest amount!
English
In English we have been unscrambling words and sentences. We have been holding a sentence in our heads and writing it independently. We have been thinking about what different capital letters look like and trying to include a capital letter at the beginning of our sentences. We have also been practising our letter formation and drawing patterns to develop our pencil control.
Topic
In topic we have been learning about the difference between an object and the material it is made from. This week, we have been thinking about the properties of the different materials. In pairs, we sorted materials according to their properties using lots of different objects we found in the classroom. We discovered that some were soft, others were hard, smooth or rough.
Friday 20 September 2024
English
In English this week, we have continued to use the book ‘The Tree’. We have practised counting words in a sentence and holding the sentence in our head, so that we can write it down. We have also been unscrambling sentences and then writing our own independent sentences with a capital letter, full stop, finger spaces and adjectives.
Maths
This week in maths, we have developed what we learnt last week about one more and one less. The children worked with a partner to make numbers with objects and then decide who had more and who had less. The children learnt about a new word ‘fewer’ and worked hard to compare quantities.
We had lots of fun in forest school this week. We practised climbing trees, we made mud pies and we found interesting leaves, including one which was transparent! We even made a log drum and a forest sculpture of a lion!
Friday, 13 September 2024
Maths
In maths this week we have learnt about more and less. The children have looked at what more and less means and have compared amounts of objects. We have used practical resources to find more and less of a number and have drawn pictures in our books to help us write number sentences.
English
In English we have been using the story The Tree as our inspiration. We enjoyed listening to the story and saying what we could see in the tree, as the seasons changed. We learned about adding ‘s’ to make some words plural. We unscrambled words in a sentence and we wrote sentences about the animals in a guided write, remembering to start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.
PHSE
In PSHE this week we have been learning about our feelings. We watched the Colour Monster and discussed how we have been feeling since starting in year 1. We coloured our colour monster different colours to show our feelings: yellow for happy, green for calm, pink for loved, blue for sad, and red for angry.
Friday 12th July
This week in English we have been enjoying the book Sam’s Sandwich. First, we made our own disgusting sandwiches. Then we made a plan for our instruction writing. We had to include adjectives to describe the things we had put into our sandwiches. We thought of lots of amazing adjectives!
Friday 5th July 2024
1H went on their library trip this week. We had a fantastic time looking at lots of books with our friends. The friendly staff showed us where all the different types of books are kept, and we learned that audio books can be borrowed too! We used the machine to scan our very own library card and take out a book. Don’t forget to renew or return at a local library in three weeks time!
In topic this week, we have been learning about amphibians. We found out that amphibians can live on land and in the water. We named some different amphibians, such as frog, toad and newt. We also learned about a frog life cycle and put the different stages in order.
This week in DT we evaluated our salad plates. The children looked back at photos of what we had made and decided what worked well and what could have been improved. We discussed what salad items we had used, the mixture of colours and what tasted nice! Then some children recorded their evaluations on the IPads.
Friday 14th June 2024
We are really proud of all your children for how hard they have worked during the Phonics Screening check this week. Thank you for your support with this. The children do not have any phonics or spelling homework this week. If your child was given mini flashcards to practise with at home, or a pack with pen to use at home, please could these now be returned to your child’s teacher.
In topic we are learning about animals. We thought about what we already knew about animals and then shared our ideas. We then looked at different types of pets. We talked about which pets we have, and we described them. Then we matched pictures of pets to descriptions of their features.
This week in DT we have learnt about salad in preparation for when we make our own salad plates. The children explored various salad items and discussed their appearance, texture, colour. We then sorted them into 2 areas: grown above and grown below. The children then looked at lots of pictures of prepared salads and decided which ones were the best.
In English this week we have been reading The Tiger Who Came to Tea. We retold the story using our story map and we thought of actions for each part of the story. We have been learning about past tense verbs and we are now really good at sorting and matching present tense and past tense. We have also been looking at Sophie’s diary entry and identifying the who words, past tense verbs and time words.
This week in maths, we have been learning about fractions. First, we explored half by cutting pictures of different foods into two equal parts. We then worked on finding half of a shape, by colouring half, cutting them out and folding them, or by drawing a line through the middle. We know that two halves make a whole and the two halves must be equal.
Friday 24th May 2024
The Phonics Screening Check will take place directly after the holidays. Please practise sounds regularly with your child over the holidays using the sound mats you have been given, the sounds in the middle of your child’s reading record or using the mini flashcards if you have been given those. This will really help to prepare your child. Thank you for your support with this. There is another sound mat on your child’s phonics holiday homework in case you need one.
Here is reading activity you could play together at home during the holidays. Draw a grid on paper or card. Write sounds on the grid. Using small toys, take it in turns to move the toy and say the sound. Who will get to the end first? If you are feeling creative, you could make a dice with the sounds on (or stick sounds on an existing dice) and roll the dice and only move if you roll the sound you need. Have fun!
This week in maths, we explored mass and volume. The children used balance scales to compare the mass of two objects and find the heaviest. We discussed how we could estimate which object would be heaviest and found out that sometimes smaller objects weighed more. We then found out the definition of volume and filled lots of containers with different amounts of pasta, rice and water. Then we learnt how to compare the volumes of different containers and we explored which could hold the most.
In English this week, we have been looking at spring poetry. We read poems about spring and came up with our own ideas together. We learned about a noun being a name of a person, place or thing and we made a list of spring nouns. We then thought of adjectives to describe the nouns and we put our ideas into our own spring poems.
Friday 10th May 2024
Who would like to play a Hide and Seek phonics game?
Write some words on pieces of paper or card and hide them in simple locations at home. The words could have a theme such as space, things you need to plant a seed or things you find at the beach or park. Write the locations of the words in a table on a piece of card. Your child reads the first location clue and goes there to find the word and then writes the word they find next to the location in the table. Can you find them all? Can you guess the theme? Have fun!
In English this week, we have looked at the story of Iris and Isaac. We enjoyed learning about the Northern Lights and used a light projector in the classroom to help us to imagine what they would be like. We learned the text map for the story and acted it out, to help us to remember the key events. We pretended to be Iris and Isaac and thought about the things that they saw in the Arctic. We shared our ideas, using adjectives to add detail and conjunctions to extend our sentences.
This week in maths we have continued our exploration of division. The children have drawn pictures to help them share amounts into equal groups of 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s and even 6’s! We then practiced how to count, share and write division number sentences to match the counters we had drawn.
In art, we had a really fun afternoon creating our own pieces of Pop Art! We used a range of pastel techniques and made our artwork colourful, bold, bright and unrealistic- all the fun features of Pop Art. They look amazing on display in our classroom.
Friday 26th April 2024
Watch out for the words!
Watch out next week for the morning reading challenge as you come through the gate into school. The children need to look for the words, then say the sounds and read the words. Which word will they be able to remember and tell their teacher when they reach their classroom? Watch out for them- they might be chalked on the ground or they might be on a flipchart!
Fancy a fun phonics activity to do at home? You will need some paper or cardboard. The children love this game because they think they are drawing but sneakily there is a lot of reading! The children have to read the words and draw the relevant pictures. Have fun!
In art this week, we have been learning how to use pastels. We have learned lots of different techniques and looked closely for how they have been used in works of art.
We also began to learn about ‘Pop Art’, sharing our thoughts and feelings about famous pieces.
This week in Maths, we have learnt all about arrays. The children have learnt how an array is lined up in rows and each must be equal. The children have explored lots of different types, we talked about what we could see and then we made our own with lots of different resources.
In English, we have been writing the beginning, middle and end of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We used the pictures to help us to order the events and we used conjunctions (and, but, so) to extend our sentences.
In topic this week we have been looking for the signs of spring. On Monday we went for a walk around the school grounds looking for signs of spring, such as blossom, buds, spring flowers and nests. We have also been describing the differences between deciduous and evergreen trees.
Friday 19th April 2024
Welcome back everyone, we hope you have all had a good holiday.
Following the Phonics Screening Check meeting, we have added the PowerPoint to the school website. It can be found in Key information – Curriculum – English – How you can help your child with their reading – then Yr 1 Phonics screen meeting 2024. The screen takes place directly after the half term break from Monday 10th – Friday 14th June. I have copies of sounds mats and links to websites which would be useful to use with your child, especially during the half term break! If you would like a copy, please let Mrs Holden know on the door or speak to your child’s teacher. The children really enjoyed all the activities in the ‘Come and See Phonics’ this week. They are so proud to show everyone their developing reading skills!
This week in maths, we have learnt about repeated addition. The children have used lots of recourses such as counters, multilink cubes, numicon and shapes to build equal groups and then add them together to find the total amount. The children have also practiced how to draw representations and write number sentences to match lots of different equal groups.
In English, we have been learning the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We listened to the story and then used a text map to help us to learn the story. We made up actions to represent the pictures and re-told the story verbally. We then sequenced the events in the story on a story mountain and thought about what happened in the beginning, in the middle and at the end. We also thought about some of the language in the story and sorted words into different word groups.
In topic this week we thought about what we already know about the seasons, plants and trees. Then we talked about the different parts of a tree and what they do. We then worked in groups and used twigs and leaves to create our own tree collages, including the roots, trunks, branches and leaves.
Thursday 18th April
It was lovely to see so many parents this afternoon for our Come and See Phonics event. You will find the PowerPoint Mrs Holden shared with you below. If you need a sound mat, please just let us know on the door in the morning.
Thursday 28th March 2024
This week in English, we have learnt all about Pandas. The children planned for their non-chronological report and sorted lots of picture facts about Pandas into three sections. The children have all worked so hard and have written some wonderful reports full of lots of fun facts and super adjectives!
In maths, we are continuing our leaning of numbers up to 50. We are learning to count in 10s and have been practising counting forwards and backwards to 50. We have been building numbers up to 50 using dienes and comparing them. We then moved onto drawing dienes, thinking carefully about which digit represents tens and ones.
This week in art we used different materials to create our island collages. We used different techniques such as tearing and cutting to create the features of our islands. We worked really hard and we are very proud of our artwork.
In topic we have been learning about maps. We moved a compare bear to different places on our maps. We used position and direction language to describe where our bear was on our map. We wrote sentences to describe the bear’s position and also thought about how to describe a journey on a map, using compass directions.
Congratulations to 1D and 1SM for such a lovely performance in your assembly this week. The children know so much about continents, climates, maps and compass directions. Everyone was very proud of all the children for taking part. We especially loved the singing! Well done everyone!
Friday 22nd March 2024
This week in English, we have learnt about lots of bears but polar bears in particular. The children have found out lots of new facts and worked as a team to sort them under different subheadings. We then used all we had learnt to write some wonderful sentences and we included some brilliant descriptive adjectives! The children have also learnt about plurals and found out that some plural nouns need an added ‘s’ and some need an ‘es’ instead.
In topic this week, we have been thinking about maps. We have looked at maps online and maps in an atlas. Then we made our own maps of our school playground. We thought about the features in the playground and how we could draw them. We also talked about what a key is and how we use it to explain what the map symbols mean. We then created our own, imaginary playgrounds, with all of the features that we would love our school playground to have!
Well done to all the children in 1H and 1M who so confidently showed their geography learning in their assembly this week. They know the continents song so well and made wonderful maps and compasses. We are so proud of you all. We are excited to see the assembly for 1D and 1SM on Wednesday morning next week.
We enjoyed an Easter Hunt in Forest School this week. We searched high and low for all the pictures and ticked them off on the sheets. We wonder whether a chocolate bunny hopped away because we couldn’t find it anywhere!
Friday 15th March 2024
In topic this week, we have been learning more about the continents. We found out about the equator and worked out which continents are in the Southern Hemisphere and which are in the Northern Hemisphere. We talked about climate is affected by the equator and sorted animals by whether we thought that they would live somewhere hot or somewhere cold. We placed the animals on a world map, either near to the equator or far away from it.,
In art this week we have been designing our own island collage. First, we thought about what features we want our island to have. Then we drew our design and thought about the different materials we will use to create our collages.
Friday 8th March 2024
This week in English, we used Language Through Colour to plan our character description. The children identified some of their teddies important features and wrote down some wonderful adjectives to describe them. The children then used their plan to write down all their ideas.
In art this week, we experimented using a range of recycled materials to explore cutting, layering, tearing and fixing different materials together. We looked at some collages of islands and sketched our favourites.
In ICT this week we used 'I animate' to create a short animation. We learned the new words ‘animation’ and ‘image’. We worked with a partner to create a short animation, moving our character a tiny bit each time as they went on a journey.
In maths, we have been counting all the way up to 50 and building numbers using dienes.
The children (and adults) really enjoyed dressing up in their pyjamas for World Book Day this week. They shared storied with the Year 6 children and enjoyed making bookmarks. They also enjoyed meeting Paul Deslandes, author of The Garden Monster, and hearing him read to them. We were also very grateful to have some adult visitors who came and read to the children. The teachers also swapped and read a story to each other’s classes. We hope that your children enjoy their free World Book Day books and enjoy using their vouchers!
Friday 1st March 2024
In art this week we have been continuing our work on collages. We looked at lots of collages of islands and talked about what materials there were made from and what features we could see on the islands. Then we chose our favourite island collages and carefully sketched them in our art books. We had to look really carefully so we could include all of the details.
In maths we have been continuing our learning around subtraction. We have been reading ‘subtraction stories’ and thinking carefully about how to solve mathematical problems. We can draw dienes to represent objects in the story and cross some out to show ‘taking-away’. We then counted how many were left (not forgetting to count the tens too!).
This week in English we have continued our work on the book ‘Dogger’. The children have shared lots of wonderful adjectives and written some brilliant description sentences about Dogger’s face and body. The children have also started to plan a character description about their own teddies from home, which was lots of fun!
In our topic lesson, we learned about the compass points North, East, South and West. We made our own compasses, using arrows and split pins, and used them to direct our friends around the room. We then used them to explain how bear could get home, by giving instructions on a map.
Friday 23rd February 2024
In maths, we have revisited subtraction - taking away small amounts from 2-digit numbers. First, we built the number using dienes and subtracted by removing some of them. We then counted how many were left. After lots of practise we began to draw the dienes and cross out the amount to be subtracted. We are confident to read subtraction number sentences.
This week in English, we have learnt all about the book Dogger. The children listened to the story and we used Language Through Colour to sort different words from the book. The children worked hard to create and learn actions to recite a character description. The children have also revised capital and lowercase letters and have sorted lots of words into the correct alphabetical order.
In Art this week we looked at collages made by the artist Kurt Schwitters. We learned that collages are artworks made from different materials, such as pictures, newspaper, photographs, patterns and found objects which are stuck and displayed together. We worked in groups to create our own collages. We practised cutting, tearing, layering and arranging the images in different ways to create different shapes and patterns.
Friday 2nd February 2024
This week in DT we evaluated the wonderful toys that the children made from recycled materials last week. The children the discussed the toys that they had made and revisited their design criteria to think about what worked well and what could have been improved.
This week, in English, we have enjoyed the story ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’. We have explored rhyming words from the story and matched them together. We have unscrambled sentences about the characters and we have written sentences to describe what is happening. We have continued to work on our pre-cursive handwriting, as well as writing capital letters.
In maths this week we have been solving different types of addition problems. We have been using lots of different strategies, such as drawing dienes, counting on from the biggest number and using a number line. We are really confident with addition to 20 now!
Friday 26th January 2024
This week in English, we have continued to look at the story, ‘Nothing’. We have been practising our pre-cursive letter formation, as well as learning to form capital letters correctly. We have used our language through colour displays to help us to write sentences using ‘who’, ‘what doing’, ‘what like’ and ‘where’ words. We have talked about the terms nouns, adjectives and verbs. We have also continued to look at past tense verbs and have used these in our independent writing.
This week in DT we used all of the different recycled materials we have collected to make our toys with help from lots of our friends and families. The children worked hard to collect all of the materials needed and follow their design criteria to make some fantastic final products!
In maths this week we have been using dienes to add 2-digit and 1-digit numbers. First, we had to think how many tens and how many ones were in each number and then we made the numbers using the 10 dienes sticks and the ones. We have also been drawing the dienes to help us add. We had to put the biggest number in our head and count on. We’re becoming really confident adding to 20!
Friday 19th January 2024
This week in DT the children drew diagrams of the toy they will make from recycled materials. We thought hard about our design criteria and listed all of the tools and materials we would need. The children have made some fantastic designs and look forward to sharing them with you!
This week in English, we have been learning about the story ‘Nothing’. We have been unscrambling sentences and writing our own sentences about the story. We have used our language through colour displays to help us to sort words into different word groups. We have talked about nouns, adjectives and verbs. We have also thought about how to change some words into the past tense by adding the ‘ed’ suffix.
In maths this week we have been look at numbers to 20. We have used dienes to how many tens and how many ones are in each number. We have also drawn dienes to represent different numbers and we have been plotting numbers on a number line.
This week we have been looking at old toys from the past. We have explored what materials they are made from and how the toys are different and similar to the toys children play with now in the present. We had lots of fun and would like to have some to play with in our classroom.
Friday 12th January 2024
This week in DT we started to think about which materials would be best for our project. The children explored lots of different materials and we learnt about their properties. We also looked at how we could join different materials. The children worked super hard and found that some adhesives worked much better than others.
In maths this week we have been looking at numbers from 11 to 20. We have been making numbers using counters on a tens frame, drawing counters, and using numicon. We have practised saying how many tens and how many ones are in each teen number.
Friday 5th January 2024
This week in DT, we have explored lots of the toys found in the classroom in preparation for when we make our own out of recycled materials! The children discussed which materials the toys are made from, how they work and what they like/dislike about them. We decided on which toys we would make and talked about our design criteria.
This term we are very excited about our new topic- Let’s Play! First of all, we discussed what we already know about toys- new or old. We created a mind map to show the different types of toys we like to play with. Next, we drew a picture of our own favourite toy and wrote a sentence about it.
In English we have been learning about the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. The children enjoyed listening to the story and acting it out in the forest school. We have been unscrambling sentences from the story and practising writing sentences, using a capital letter and a full stop. We talked about prepositions and identified them within the story.
This week in maths we have been looking at numbers to 10 and numbers to 20. We have been doing lots of practical activities making numbers in different ways using cubes and Numicon, ordering numbers and reading and making numbers on tens frames.
Friday 15th December
In English this week we have been writing our own fact files all about reindeers. We tried really hard to remember all of the interesting reindeer facts we have learnt. In our independent writing, we tried to use full sentences, capital letters, full stops and adjectives.
In DT, we made our Christmas cards based on the plan and design drawn last week. The children did a fantastic job of constructing their moving part and used a range of materials to make their cards look fun and festive. Glitter was a favourite! Everybody shared the resources and helped one another, and we all worked together to clean up the classroom afterwards. Here are just a few of our fabulous creations…
This week we had lots of fun at our Christmas party making hats, playing games and watching a Christmas panto. We also had a super special visit from Father Christmas!
Friday 8th December 2023
In maths this week, we have been having lots of fun with 2D shapes! We have been naming and describing the shapes, by talking about the number of sides and corners that each shape has. We have worked on our fine motor skills whilst cutting around shapes to make shape pictures. We have then talked about the shapes that we have used. We have also enjoyed making shape patterns and continuing repeating shape patterns.
This week in Topic we have learnt all about maps and have used them to describe the location of lots of different features. The children then drew or built their own maps of the classroom. We also had lots of fun when we used a map to find the location of a set of Stickman clues hidden around the whole school! The children worked super hard and used the key they drew to help them.
In English this week we have been learning about reindeers. First, we thought of questions to find out facts about reindeers. We learnt about question marks and practised using them at the end of our own questions. We discovered that reindeer live in the tundra, and they have hollow hooves. We wrote our sentences remember to use capital letters and full stops.
Friday 24th November
In maths this week, we have been using all of the knowledge and skills we have gained so far to solve different maths problems. Some of the problems were number and place value, some were addition and some were subtraction. We had to think carefully about how to solve each problem.
This week in English we have been continuing our learning reading Stick Man. We have been sequencing the story, thinking carefully about the order of Stick Man’s adventure. Then we retold the story in our own words. We tried really had to use adjectives in our writing.
In DT we have been designing a Christmas card with a moving part. We looked at our design criteria and thought carefully about the tools and resources we are going to need to need to create it. We have some really fun ideas: Santa going up and down the chimney, snowflakes falling outside, presents appearing under the tree… we are so excited to start crafting!
This week in ICT we have learnt all about algorithms. The children explored what an algorithm is and we discussed the importance of the order of instructions. We then sequenced instructions to tell a robot how to make a jam sandwich. The children have also used Beebots to create precise instructions to move from one place to another, which was lots of fun!
