The children in Year 1 have continued to work exceptionally hard. We have really enjoyed seeing pictures of their work flood onto SeeSaw! Our topic has been based on under the sea. We have learnt lots of new facts! The children have been working hard on completing daily phonics and have showed us how well they have remembered their sounds! Well done everyone, you are all super stars! We even learnt about how whales eat! ![]()
We have now settled into home-schooling life and It's been lovely to see the children's work from home. I have seen how hard both the parents and children have been working and I'm so proud of the work they have been completing! We have moved on from our topic of dinosaurs to a new topic of under the sea. Below is some of the work we have completing since working from home.....Keep up the great work!! We have also been reading stories to our friends in the class!The last few weeks our maths topic has been about measuring. We have learnt about measuring weight, length and height and now our focus this week is measuring capacity/volume. Following the White Rose plans we have made our learning this week very hands on. We have new words that we have been using in our maths talk like;- full, empty, nearly full, half full and nearly empty, milliliters ad litres. We had lots of activites to help develop our leanning. Painting the correct amounts in the cups, making potions to scare off dinosaurs, matching cards and reading a jug scale. Great work MacArthur class! We had our 2nd week at wild wood today. The children had such a wonderful time, they are all so engaged and didn't want to come out! Some of the children made mud soup, mixing together a selection of sticks, stones, pine cones. Others fished in the pond with Mr Childs, they found some frog spawn! We even got to make our own grass seed caterpillars, we are having a competition with reception to see which can grow the longest hair! To finish we had a story on the logs called 'The Tiny Seed'. This morning MacArthur class had their first outdoor learning session.....a little bit of drizzling rain didn't stop us! Today's session was for us to explore the wood and learn the boundaries.
The children were in their elements, we had some fantastic learning opportunities- holding the chickens, swinging in the hammock, making music, painting in mud and water, observing the pond, using sticks and branches to weave. The children worked together really well and some great conversations were had. A gentle reminder that your child will need old shoes/wellies and an old coat every Thursday up until the Easter Holidays! In SPaG today we turned into doctors! This morning on her way into school Mrs Stockdale dropped her sentences and they all got very muddled, so our first job was to order the sentence correctly and then spot the word which needed an 'ed' added to the end. We thought about the past and present tense and how the word changes. We also learnt that even though it ends in 'ed' it sometimes sounds like a 't' 'd' or 'id'. Great Work Year 1! In guided reading this term we have been reading a book called, Look Out, It's a Dragon. This has fitted in nicely to our topic of dragons, princesses and knights. We have daily guided reading sessions where we explore the book. answer questions about it and read it to ourselves and others. It helps us build up the skills we need to be a confident reader and achieve our Year1 reading objectives. We are using great sounding out and are getting very good at reading the tricky words.
Ask me if I can retell what happens in the story to you. If you want to practice some of the skills we have been learning in class at home, try asking some of these questions when reading with your child.
Look out for our reading buddies who will be in class after half term. In science this half term we have been learning about Materials. We have learnt about naming, describing, comparing and investigating them. We have learnt some new key words like waterproof, absorbent, opaque, translucent. We will conclude our topic next week by carrying out an investigation to find out which material is suitable for a dragon's home. We will be predict, test and evaluate. Today was Mrs Matthews' Reading Raffle assembly, there are many books to win, if you read 5 times a week! Our Y1 winner was very pleased with his choice.
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