It's been another busy week of learning in Year 1.

In phonics we have recapped some of trigraphs such as air, ure and ear , as well ast he  ow, igh and oo family. We practised reading these as part of our comprehension and using our sound buttons to decode unfamiliar words.

We worked hard with our English and practised using the plural suffixes ' s' and ' es' when writing about animals. We have been working hard to write independently remembering what makes a super sentence.

In topic time we consolidated our knowledge of the United Kingdom including the countries and seas surrounding it.

During Maths we continued to work on numbers up to 100 making numbers up to 100 using diennes,as well as filling in numbers on a number line adding 1 more/1 less. We thought about 2 digit numbers that have  the same number of 10's using our place value knowledge.

We enjoyed recapping our knowledge of the animals groups in Let's Learn and practically made a map of our class, some of us drew a plan too! We played guess the number on the 100 square.

In Science we compared and grouped animals using what we have learnt this half term.

It's been a busy half term and  we all deserve a well earned sunny half term holiday.

Well done Year 1, see you all in June when it's officially the Summer.

What a wonderful week in Year 1. 

In English the children have been writing sentences about animals. Thinking about where they live, what they look like and what they might eat. We are getting much more independent with our writing.

During our maths sessions we have been working with numbers up to 100. We have counted backwards and forwards. We have thought about place value and partitioned these into tens and ones. We have recorded this in a part- part whole model.

In phonics we have recapped on syllables and compound words. We have used our phonic knowledge to read and spell these in a sentences.

During topic time we consolidated our learning in geography and landmarks in the United Kingdom. We enjoyed making mini 3D models of famous landmarks using different resources. 

In computing we have continued to learn about coding through purple mash. Don't forget you can practise using the 2do activities at home.

In Let's Learn we practised our map reading skills using the compass points NSEW as well as making our mini animal fact books.

We learnt about reptiles in science this week and gave some clues to describe the hidden reptile in our' lift the flap' activity.

As part of Mental Health week we joined in with Joe Wicks Big Workout! That was fun.

Another brilliant week of learning. Well done Year 1.

What a fantastic week Year 1 have had.

In English we have been asking questions .. Such as ' What animal could it be ?  Or ' What can you see ? ' We wrote sentences to answer the questions and describe what we could see using adjectives to describe it. 

As part of our Maths we were learning about turns such as quarter, half and full turns. We looked at position and direction such as left, right, forwards and backwards. 

In Let's Learn the children  sorted animals according to their habitat, they created some transient  art work in the style of Andy Goldsworthy using natural materials.

As part of our phonics work we tried to decide on the correct spelling using our phonic knowledge. 

As part of our topic work we recapped on the countries in the United Kingdom , their capital cities and the oceans and sea's around them. As part our computing topic recently we have been thinking about coding, and algorithms are used to move object and give instructions.

We have been learning about the animal group amphibians this week and their key features. We learn that they can live on land and on the water. They have webbed feet to help them swim. A duck is bird with webbed feet not an amphibian!

Well done to Dragonfly class for a fantastic class assembly.

We have worked really hard and all deserve a good rest.

What a wonderful week of sunshine and learning Year 1 have had.

In phonics we have been busy consolidating our split digraph sounds such as e-e (athlete) a-e ( cake) i-e ( bike) u-e (cube) and o-e (cone). We have practised reading the common exception words, today and school as well as the tricky words looked, called and asked. 

In Let's Learn we have enjoyed classifying animals according their features in science and deciding what animal group they belong to such as birds, fish or mammals. We enjoyed creating animal print patterns using the elements of Art colour and texture. This was really fun! We worked with a partner to using magnetic boards to spell our tricky words. 

In maths we worked hard solving problems with a missing number. We used our addition and subtraction skills, number lines, part -part -whole models and resources to work out which number was missing !

We enjoyed retelling our ' Owl Babies' stories in English using our story maps from last week. We were really motivated and independent with our writing.

As part of our topic work this week we practised our field skills in geography. We used  maps outside in the school environment, exploring co-ordinates and to find animals in their habitats. It was lovely to be out in the sunshine.

We are looking forward to well deserved bank holiday weekend. Well done everyone.

What a busy week of learning for Year 1. 

During Let's Learn we have been writing fact files about animals, drawing and painting wild spring flowers using our colour mixing skills and unscrambling some tricky words for phonics. We have enjoyed listening to the story ' Owl Babies' and making a simple story map to remember it how to retell it.

In maths we have been focusing on multiplication and division this week. We have recorded arrays remembering rows go across and columns go down i.e 3 rows of 2 is 6, and showing this as an image. We have recapped on doubling numbers as well as sharing into equal groups practically.

As part of our topic work we thought about the habitat of an insect and how we can help them by creating bug hotels in our environment. We enjoyed looking at the bug hotels in our school grounds. We designed our own bug hotels using different resources or drawing our ideas. As well as this we have thought about the birds in the local habitat and ones we might see in our gardens or when we are out and about. We found out some fantastic facts.

We have had a very busy week working hard and enjoying the spring sunshine.

Year 1 are ready and excited to start the summer term. We have started our new topic ‘ Claws, paws and more’, which is a geography and science-focused theme this half-term. We enjoyed exploring the school grounds thinking about what animals and creatures live in these habitats, such as the pond, nature trail and field. We have thought about the animal group mammals in science and sorted wild animals and pets.

During Let’s Learn we independently practised our colour mixing skills with the primary colours. We sorted animals according to a criteria we had chosen for science and used our knowledge of tricky words to make our sentences make sense. 

In English, we were learning about irregular verbs that don’t follow the rules of adding ‘ ed ‘ in the past and‘ ing ‘ in the present tense, such as ‘ eat and ate’.

We wrote some sentences using some of these irregular verbs.

In maths, we practised number bonds to 10 and 20. We worked out the difference between numbers using our addition and subtraction skills.

Phonics this week we learnt our last two phase 5 sounds w(a)  as in wasp/wand and u-o as in won.

It's been a busy first week back. Well done Year 1.

Well done Year 1 for a ‘ Super Spring Term’

It’s been a busy final week in year 1.

We enjoyed maths this week. The focus has been measuring. We have compared objects in height and width and used language such as ‘ longer, shorter and taller’ to explain our ideas. We have measured objects using non standard units (such as cubes, buttons or paperclips)  and standard units using rulers  in cm’s. 

We retold the story ‘ The Enormous Turnip’  and we are very proud of our work displayed in the classroom to ‘ ‘Show how far we have come ‘ so far this year. 

During Let’s Learn we have planted cress seeds to make cress heads and written some simple instructions. We have made a ‘ Healthy Me’ leaflet as part of our Jigsaw learning. We built our own tricky word wall looking for words around the room, then reading and writing them. We enjoyed this challenge.

We enjoyed our walk to Branksome Rec looking for physical and human features in the environment. It was a bit windy and tried to rain but we were really resilient and sensible. Although it's only been 5 weeks this half term we have packed in lots of learning. Everyone deserves a well earned rs

We hope you all have a wonderful Easter break and look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 14^th April ( remember Monday 13^th April is an Inset Day).

Wow, Year 1 have been so busy and enjoying a lovely week of sunshine too.

In English we have been retelling the story ' The enormous turnip' and practised using  the conjunction ' and '  add detail to our sentences.

Maths has been fun as we have continued to explore making equal groups either using practical equipment I lots of different ways such as giving gingerbread buttons and putting cherries on cup cakes. We have recorded our equal groups too! We also thought about how we could halve numbers.

In Let's Learn we did a great job of reading  and sorting real and nonsense words as part of our phonic job, drawing wild flowers using oil pastels and thinking about evergreen and deciduous trees as part of our science work.

In phonics, we have learnt the following sounds le - for candle, mb for lamb, kn for know, gn for gnome and wr as in write.

We have been learning about the Easter story as part of our RE learning as well.

We loved watching Waterlily's Class assembly it was amazing. Well done to everyone. Enjoy a lovely weekend in the Spring sunshine Year 1 you deserve it.

It's been a fantastic week in Year 1.

It's been Science week this week so we have been exploring and investigating. During early morning work we have done some mini investigations; such as finding out what is  'Magnetic or Non magnetic' and ' The Estimation station'.

We did some learning outside using PE equipment and  lose parts to represent the lifecycle of a seed. We worked well  together as a team. As well as this we have enjoyed a live Science lesson and the exploring the ' Big farming question 'live session. This  was so much fun!

During Let's Learn we have made a tree and labelled the parts, we designed our own eco friendly plant pot as part of Design and Technology work and practised our tricky words with a tricky word bingo.

In English we have learnt about compounds words; 2 words that are stuck together to make a new word such as lunchbox or popcorn. We used these to write some super sentences

Maths has been really fun. We have been making equal groups with numbers and learning about arrays.

We have really worked hard and deserve a restful weekend. Well done Year 1.

It's been a brilliant week in Year 1.

We have really enjoyed thinking about our new topic ' Little gardeners' .

In Science we all planted a bean to see how it grows and germinates. We look forward to observing what happens.

We thought about what a plant needs to grow and be healthy.

In phonics we have been learning the soft c sound with spellings c(i)  scissors, c(e) space c(y) cyclone as well as the spellings stl (castle) sc ( muscles) and se as in horse.

In English we described the character Jack from Jack and the beanstalk. We imagined we were Jack using' I' in some  descriptive sentences.

In maths we continued to work on our knowledge of numbers 0 -50 and used the part, part whole model and resources to understand the place value of these numbers.

In Lets Learn we thought about the seasons, cracked the code to write tricky words and mixed colours in nature.

We loved celebrating World Book day with some amazing creative costumes.

As well as this learnt how to be safe on the roads with a road safety talk. Some of us went out for a walk to remember what we had  learnt.

We look forward to another jam packed week of learning next week.

It's been a busy and fun packed week in Year 1.

We have started our new topic ' Little Gardeners ' .

In science this week looked at and tasted different parts of some vegetables thinking about the parts of part such as root, stem and flower.

In phonics we have recapped the sounds c, k. ck. We practised writing words and sentences using these sounds in different words.

We have practised the formation of the following letters Tt, Ll, Ii, Ee and Ff.

In maths we have started counting from 0-50. We counted larger groups of objects and found efficient ways to check the amount using equipment or by grouping them in 2's, 5's or 10's.

In English we have been retelling the traditional tale Jack in the beanstalk and produced some fantastic writing. 

Let's Learn has been fun, we have made and labelled a flower using different materials, made mini beanstalks and practised our joining skills and gone on a tricky word hunt around the classroom.

We enjoyed our 'Forest School Friday 'to end a fantastic week!

 

Wow ! Well what a busy week. 

This week in maths we have learnt about money. We explored the value of the coins using pre money counters and practised making amounts to buy items from a toy shop. We  then ordered the coins according to their size and value.

In English we practised using all the skills we had learnt to write a super sentence and sounded out words using her phonic knowledge.

In Art we applied all the skills we had learnt to create our final piece inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. We chose which media we wanted to use, paint, oil pastels or collage. They looked fantastic. We enjoyed creating our own sunflower inspired artwork too!

In phonics we learnt some new alternative graphemes ; for the ear and air family. These were eer (for deer ) ere ( for here) are ( for square ) and  ear ( for pear).

In Let's Learn we independently wrote instructions tell someone how to make a  fruity surprise!

We practised writing our numbers from 0-9 in handwriting making sure they were carefully formed.

As part of computing we thought about how to keep safe online for Internet Safety Day on Tuesday.

We have worked really hard and are looking forward to a well earned rest in half term.

Wow ! Well what a busy week. 

This week in maths we have learnt about money. We explored the value of the coins using pre money counters and practised making amounts to buy items from a toy shop. We  then ordered the coins according to their size and value.

In English we practised using all the skills we had learnt to write a super sentence and sounded out words using her phonic knowledge.

In Art we applied all the skills we had learnt to create our final piece inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. We chose which media we wanted to use, paint, oil pastels or collage. They looked fantastic. We enjoyed creating our own sunflower inspired artwork too!

In phonics we learnt some new alternative graphemes ; for the ear and air family. These were eer (for deer ) ere ( for here) are ( for square ) and  ear ( for pear).

In Let's Learn we independently wrote instructions tell someone how to make a  fruity surprise!

We practised writing our numbers from 0-9 in handwriting making sure they were carefully formed.

As part of computing we thought about how to keep safe online for Internet Safety Day on Tuesday.

We have worked really hard and are looking forward to a well earned rest in half term.

 

What a busy week in Year 1 !

We had great fun making our' Fruity Surprise' with some of the fruits from Handa's fruit basket. We practised using the bridge and claw methods to cut our fruit. They tasted delicious!

We learnt to use adjectives to describe the fruit in 'Handa's Surprise'  and those naughty animals.

In Phonics we have learnt two new phase 5 alternative  graphemes ' ou ' for house and 'oy 'for boy.

In maths we have been learning to double to 20.

We are trying so hard with our handwriting and practised the diagonal letters v, w,k, x and z this week.

In Art we explored the element of texture using different methods such as printing, scrunching, dabbing and scraping. 

That was fun! Another jam packed week of learning.

Well it's been a busy week!

We have had fun during Let's Learn this week from making bird feeders, exploring the primary colours to make new colours, practising reading words with our phonics and number bonds to 10 and beyond.

In phonics we have been learning more sounds from the 'ur' family such as er, ir and ear. We practised saying, reading and spelling words with these sounds. 

In maths we have been practising counting to add to numbers, using visual prompts, practical resources or number lines. We consolidated our knowledge of number bonds to 20.

In Jigsaw during our Dreams and Goals session we thought about ' stretchy learning ' which helps to makes steps towards our goals.

PE has been really fun. We have  enjoyed exploring the equipment safely using the large apparatus and climbing frame. We have practised transitioning from narrow to curled shapes travelling across the apparatus.

As part of our DT  we have been  designing our own Fruity surprise  ready to make on Tuesday next week. The children have  choose from up to three fruits they would like to add to make this delicious healthy treat.

In Computing  we have been  looking at the children's first page of their animated story on purple mash and learning how to add a background and animation to their story. 

We have tried really hard in handwriting and been practising formation of the tunnel family making sure we start in the right place using our special yellow lines.

Well done everyone for working so hard again this week. Enjoy a relaxing weekend.

Wow what a week! We are already half way through this half term it's whizzing by.

Another jam packed week of learning in Year 1. We have enjoyed all the activities in Let's Learn and been thinking about how we impact the environment and can help improve it by recycling, reducing and reusing different items and materials so they don't end up in landfill. We enjoyed developing our skills in art to create a torn art seascape using a collage technique, scissors were not allowed! It was really fun creating this artwork and so effective overlaying coloured paper and tissue paper. 

We have been marvellous mathematicians using blank number lines to estimate where number from 0-10 and 0- 20 are placed. We used our place value and number knowledge to help us and were able to explain our ideas using mathematical language such as 'it's greater  or less than'  or ' it comes after 10 because 10 is half way between 0 and 20''. We used the skill of estimating to guess the closest position of the numbers on the blank number lines. We compared numbers and practised our knowledge of place value practically.

In phonics we have been learning about the phase 5 sounds in the ' or' family. We have learnt aw as in straw, au  as in astronaut and al as in ball. We practised spelling and writing sentences using these words. Our tricky words this week are ' here' and ' there'. We noticed some similarities in the to help us how  to spell these words ? Can you spot them ?

We really enjoyed learning about Grace Darling and her heroic act of saving 9 sailors on a very stormy night. This was as incredibly brave thing to do. We used our knowledge of the 'ed' suffix and to write sentences  about this amazing brave event in  history.

In Science we thought about how to help look after and show respect for our planet by litter picking. We learnt how important it is to put our rubbish or recycle it when we are  out and about.

During gymnastics this we focused on curled shapes which included tucked rolls and jumps off the of the apparatus. We were demonstrating being champion gymnasts by landing safely and holding clear shapes. We are really enjoying our gymnastic sessions.

Well done on a fantastic week Year 1. We hope you have a lovely weekend.

What a fantastic week we have had in Year 1.

We have enjoyed learning more about the countries that are part of the United Kingdom and the seas and oceans that surround our islands. 

During phonics we have been learning some more sounds in the long vowel oo family ; ew , ue, split digraph u -e and u and oul. We have practised learning to spell words using these sounds and put them into sentences. Our tricky words are put, pull and push and we realised that the 'u' makes the wrong sound when we sound it in these words.

In maths we have continued to explore place values of numbers to from 11- 20.  We have enjoyed playing different games making numbers to 20 using 10 frames to race to 20, as well as snap games that show the teen numbers in pictures. We have used number lines to count backwards and forwards and worked how 1 more and  I less when the numbers have been missing!

During Let's learning with have looked at artwork by Vincent Van Gog and been detectives looking for the element of colour in his artwork. We have enjoyed playing number snap with our teen numbers and phonic bingo. We have enjoyed exploring how to plant seeds and understand what they need to grow. Our English focus this week was to learn about 2 new suffixes er and est that are added to the end of adjectives to compare two things. We learnt that er compares 2 things ( tall and taller ) and est compares 3 things ( tall taller tallest) . We wrote some supper sentences using these suffixes .

We have been trying really hard to practise our weekly spellings and become ' Super Spellers'. Keep up the good work. 

During computing we learnt about animated stories and are looking forward to creating our own on purple mash soon.

We have loved our PE this week. In gymnastics we were 'moving like a champion'  creating high and low shapes on while moving on the equipment. We have focused on making wide, narrow and curled shapes with our bodies.

We very lucky enough to have a workshop with some people from AFCB who talked about how to keep healthy and look after our well being. They talked about the importance of healthy eating, exercise and getting a good's night sleep.  This was a lovely surprise which we enjoyed very much especially if you are ' Cherries Fan' like Mr Coakes !

Well done Year 1, what a busy week it has been. You deserve a rest ready for a new week.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.