Year 1 w/b 16th September 2024
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 11:10am
We have really enjoyed our third week in Year One.
This week we have started to read part of our text ‘Major Glad, Major Dizzy’, this has helped us to find out more about the key characters. After stopping at a key point in the text, we have made our own predictions as to what will happen next. The whole class are very excited to read on and find out more next week. We have also, very excitedly, received a letter from Major Glad himself which was delivered by Mrs Henderson. We couldn’t believe it! We obviously had many questions for him, so we looked at how to write question sentences using capital letters, question words and question marks. Next week we will be looking in more detail at our letter written by the solider and we will be learning our first text map of the school year.
In phonics we continue to review some of the teaching from reception and this week we focused on ng and nk or air and ir. Thank you to everyone who has already returned their spellings and sentences. These weekly sheets are a great opportunity to work on phonics, handwriting and sentence writing.
In maths this week we have been focusing on the following:
- Representing real-life objects such as apples, leaves and sweets using manipulatives such as counters and cubes.
- Recognising each numeral as a word.
- Counting on from any number while staying within 10 using ten frames and number tracks.
- Learning that 1 more is the number after. Children have used their counting skills and a number track to help them.
In art, we began to look at textures and patterns found in our Major Glad, Major Dizzy text. These were often seen in the changing room décor, wallpaper, and curtain styles. This week we built on this skill of rubbing which we had practiced last week and introduced printing. We could see in some of the pictures that patterns are often repeating so had a go at creating our own prints with a selection of everyday objects. What impressive artists we have in Year One!
In history this week, we focused on an important local train station, Crewe. We looked at a newspaper article about the rise of Crewe station and discussed what it would have been like to work there when it opened in 1937.
In music, we enjoyed playing some warm up activities before practising our new song ‘Bonfire night’. We then got into groups and carefully chose an instrument that sounded like a firework. After a little bit of practising in our groups with our instrument, the conductor of the group then decided when each musician would play. Year One demonstrated that they can work brilliantly as a team!
In our RE lesson this week, we focused on the gifts of harvest in the United Kingdom and thanked God for our plentiful harvest. However, we discovered that some countries have poor harvests and their harvest fail because of climate change. We explored the effect of too much water and too little water in parts of the world and were shocked to see that crops had failed to grow in parts of Africa in particular.
I hope you all have a great weekend.
Miss Roxburgh
