Year 1: Blog items
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 3:51pm
This half term we are learning how to use shapes and lines to be able to paint using computers. We began by learning how to use the different tools on 'Paintz' and spent time exploring what we could create using these tools.
Date: 16th Apr 2024 @ 5:56pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed No Pen Day! We began our Science lesson by identifying the different parts of a tree, including the roots, trunk, bark, branches, leaves and crown. We then labelled these parts on a tree independently, either using the text tool on Seesaw or reading the parts and matching them to the correct label.
We then learnt what the words deciduous and evergreen meant. We looked at examples of each and discussed what we noticed about the different leaves. We learnt that evergreen leaves are usually thicker, leathery and waxier than the leaves of deciduous trees. We felt some examples from different trees, including holly, laurel and hazel. We then completed an evergreen and deciduous tree sort.
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 5:55pm
This half term our writing is based around the story 'Zog.' Today we wrote sentences about the main character, using adjectives to describe his main features and linking our Boundary characteristics to Zogs actions at different parts of the story.
Date: 10th Apr 2024 @ 3:38pm
Today we learnt how to measure in centimetres. We learnt how to line the 0 on the ruler with the edge of the object we were measuring and to read across the ruler to find the length of the object. We showed lots of determination to master accurate measing in centimetres.
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 6:51pm
We began todays lesson by thinking about how many different homes we could think of and what types of homes people live in around the world. Together, we then looked at a number of different homes, talking about what kind of home it was, what shapes we could see in the home and what materials the home was made from. We then looked a number of different picture cards showing different types of homes. We read and orally answered a number of different question cards and identified which houses fit each question/description. We also went outside to observe the different types of homes we can see from our school environment, revisiting our local area knowledge from earlier in the year.
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 10:44am
Today we explored how the weather affects different jobs. We began by talking about the different jobs we know people may do and used picture prompts to explore a number of different jobs. We then thought about how the weather might affect these people’s jobs, looking at different examples and sharing our ideas. For each job, we thought about how two different types of weather would affect that persons daily tasks.
Date: 25th Mar 2024 @ 10:25am
Some of our children in Year 1 created some fantastic Easter Eggs at home for our egg competition this week. Have a look at our brilliant creations!
Date: 23rd Mar 2024 @ 2:31pm
This week Year 1 children visitied the Sea Life centre. We enjoyed seeing all the different marine life, including sea turtles, jellyfish, starfish and lots more! We learnt lots about the different animals, their diets, size and where they come from in the world.
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm
Today we held out second Speling Bee of the year and it was another fantastic occasion. 4 children from each year group represented their house and were given three spellings each to spell out loud from a bank of words they have been learning since September. The competition was extremely close, with Rodwell and Elston finishing joint first as the children from these houses spelled all of their words correctly.
Well done to all of the children who took part today.
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 1:17pm
In today’s lesson we began to measure the lengths and heights of objects, using non-standard units of measure, e.g. cubes and paper clips. We learnt that to measure something we needed to use a consistent of measure and not a range of objects. We also learnt that the unit of measure needs to be equal in size. We consolidated our learning from the previous lesion by comparing the lengths and heights of objects we measured, learning that for accurate comparisons we needed to use a consistent unit of measure.
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 1:14pm
Today we enjoyed Science day! We began the day with an amazing assembly from TEACHREX! We met and learnt about Jam the dinosaur, whilst taking part in lots of fun activities! Year 1 were also lucky enough to also meet the baby dinosaurs. We met Sky, Roger and Dinky who all taught us something different about themselves! Throughout the day we also read dinosaur fact files, completed labelling activities and designed our own dinosaur puppet.
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 10:29am
Today Year 1 enjoyed some Comic Relief related activiites. Lots of us came into school with items of red clothing and we then enjoyed creating our own red noses, completing wordsearches and making our own Comic Reflief masks to wear!
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 12:22pm
In todays lesson we explored adverbs to tell us how something is done. We learnt that an adverb gives extra information about the verb. As a class, we looked at how adverbs are formed and that most are made by adding the suffix ‘ly’ onto the end of the word, e.g. kind + ly = kindly. We explored adverbs that describe how an action is happening and chose adverbs to orally use in a sentence. As our independent task, we then matched a range of verbs to the correct picture, before choosing an adverb to describe the action. We then put some of these into our own sentences on whiteboards. Finally, we completed a quiz to identify and recognise adverbs in written sentences.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 11:26am
Today we continued to explore the key question ‘what is the best habitat for an animal?’ We recapped on the key habitats we have learnt about this half term and the four things each habitat provides for an animal; food, water, shelter and space. We looked at a number of different habitats and discussed which animals belonged there and which animals had been placed in the wrong habitat and why. We then worked independently to create our own habitat diorama for a chosen animal. We used drawing to create our chosen habitat, orally explaining why our animal lives in this habitat and what it provides for them.
‘I created an ocean habitat for the clownfish – ocean habitats are very wet and very big! The ocean habitat is the biggest habitat’
‘Camels live in the dry desert habitat. They store fat in their humps so they can survive without lots of food. They have flat feet so they don’t sink in the sand.’
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:23am
We have all been looking forward to celebrating World Book Day! Alongside our assembly with Mrs Hamilton, we also completed word searches, designed reading bookmarks and shared our favourite stories/characters. We all enjoyed coming to school as our favourite book character and celebrating our love of reading.
Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 7:17pm
This half term our Reading into Writing journey is all about instructions. Today, alongside reading and identifying imperative verbs to turn sentences into a command or instruction, we played an imperative verb game to follow imperative verbs. We worked collaboratively to practise being bossy and giving bossy commands and instructions to our partner. We were all able to identify the imperative verbs and create bossy sentences both orally and written down.
Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 7:11pm
To explore our question for this lesson, ‘what is the best habitat for an animal?’ we visited our forest school area. We recalled what we already learnt about woodland habitats…
'They are covered by trees’
‘It is shady on the ground’
‘Lots of plants and animals live there’
We also recapped the names of animals and where in the woodland they might be found. Finally we looked specifically at animals that we might find on the woodland floor before going out into the forest school area to make observations to answer our key question.
We found lots of different mini beasts such as slugs, snails, wood lice, beetles and spiders. We orally discussed why this is the best habitat for each animal using the STEM sentence ‘I think it is the best habitat because …’
Date: 26th Feb 2024 @ 5:29pm
Today we learnt about finding the difference and exploring this as a form of subtraction. We worked to make comparisons between two amounts, asking questions such as who has more? How do you know? How many more does _ have? We used our skills of counting back and counting on to help us to find the difference. Some of us made both amounts to visually see how many more or less a number is.
Date: 26th Feb 2024 @ 5:08pm
This half term we are exploring yoga in our PE lessons. This week we practised the basic principle of yoga and mindfulness. We learnt what it meant to put our bodies into a yoga pose and how this felt for us. Throughout the lesson we began to learn a number of simple positions through fun games and activities.
Year 1 Our 100th Day in School!
Date: 19th Feb 2024 @ 6:19pm
Today we celebrated our 100th day in Year 1! We began the day with a special assembly with Miss Hooson, who introduced us to a very interesting Maths story! We enjoyed reading the story ‘One is a snail, ten is a crab’ and tried our very best to work out some of the questions in the story! When we went back to class we read and discussed the story again, to deepen our understanding of some of the calculations used in the text. We then used the animals in the story to find ways of making 10 or 20. Some of us began to think about working systematically to find all the possible options. We then chose a number between 2 and 20 and found how many legs could add together to make this number.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:44pm
For our second RSE lesson we explored how we grow and change. We recapped on our ground rules before our lesson and practised our feeling faces. We all remembered how to listen respecfully to one another and use our talking object on our turn. Today we read another story and discussed key questions about the events. Our story enabled us to discuss how and why babies need more help and care than older children. We tallked about lots of things we can now do that we couldn't do when we were babies. Finally, we created a lifecycle for a human being. We ordered the cards from youngest to eldest and labelled each picture.
In our third lesson we explored trust, who our trusted adults are and who to talk to if something happens that we don't like. We each identified at least three adults we can each trust in school and at home.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:03pm
This week we have enjoyed our three RSE lessons. Our first lesson included reading the story 'It's Okay to Be Different' by Todd Parrs. We all took part in a circle time session to discuss the story and its key themes. This story helped us understand an important message of acceptance and understanding through a fun story with some silly scenes! We celebrated our individuality through acceptance of others and self-confidence. Through our circle time we then explored how we are all different! We drew and wrote about an imaginary friend who is different to us. Some of us drew friends with different skin colours, different hair colours, friends who were a different size to us or friends who moved differently to us.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 5:15pm
Today we learnt how to group animals based on what they eat. We learnt that all animals need to eat so that they can stay alive. We understood that this is because food is the main source of energy for all animals! We learnt that different animals eat different types of food and we discussed the scientific vocabulary to explain how to sort these animals into groups. We went through lots of examples together, naming the animal, discussing their diet and then identifying the diet group they belong to. Working with a partner, we then sorted a number of common animals into groups based on what they eat. We used the correct scientific vocabulary when discussing our choices and explaining our reasoning.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 5:09pm
Today we explored fruit options to use in our healthy fruit salad. We began by talking about different fruits, our favourite fruits, fruits we don’t like and fruits we haven’t tried yet. We also discussed which of our five senses we will be using to find out more about each fruit. We decided we could use four out of five senses to investigate the fruits. We needed to smell it, touch it, look at it and finally taste it! We discussed the different words that we can use to describe taste and smell before trying each of the different fruits. We enjoyed taste testing!
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 6:07pm
Today we created our final product to bring our designs to life! We followed our design to safely cut out the pieces we needed to create our mechanisms and put them together to make our final picture. We all showed lots of perseverance and determination to create our moving pictures.
