Numeracy - Counting on...

This week in numeracy we will be looking at counting up in 2s, 10s and continuing to learn about money.  

Here are some links for you to try at home... You will also find some in 'mycity' on education city! 

Counting up in 2s

Counting up in 10s

PSHE - Anti-bullying week...

As part of Anti bullying week we have been thinking about how we play nicely in the playground... We made our own friendship pictures and wrote our top tips for the playground on the back. We have also made it in to a video so watch this space....

RE - 'Gifts and Giving'

This week we have started learning the songs for our Christmas Nativity... we have 7 songs to keep us busy!

In Religious Education this week we are beginning to look at the Christmas story and we will be continuing this theme until the end of the term.

The link below is an interactive story with some games and quiz questions if you would like to have a look at home.

The Christmas Story

Assembly

Thank you to everyone who came to watch our first Year One assembly on Friday. I am sure you will agree the children did a wonderful job and I was very proud of them all.

I hope you enjoyed looking through their books and seeing all the hard work they have been doing... we do lots of practical work and drama in year one which provides the basis of their learning, which cant be shown in books.. I hope you agree this is reflected in the work they have produced!

Numeracy - When and Where?

In Numeracy we have been learning the days of the week and the months of the year. We made a 'week diary' thinking about certain things that happen on different days... We talked about the seasons and the weather and what the trees look like at different times of the year. With Mr Osborne they were thinking about what their morning routine is like, using time words to order events such as 'first, second, then, after, next, finally' etc...

We have looked at the position of objects and how we can describe exactly where something is using words like 'left, right, inside, under, middle, on top'.  Miss Burge showed us how our left hand can make an 'L' shape to help us remember.

Next week we are looking at estimating, comparing and measuring the weight of objects. At the end of the week we are also going to look at money to help us in our role play corner!

Literacy - Patterns and Rhymes

In Literacy we have been looking at patterns and rhymes in texts. We have spent time finding words that rhyme, and using describing words to make our very own poem up about shoes! Miss Burge brought (almost) her entire shoe collection in for us to have a look at and make into a poem! 

We looked at what makes a repeated phrase and created our own class story about a tiger, where everybody wrote two lines each. We thought carefully about adding description into our writing, and then very carefully created a picture based on the description. We used paint to colour them, and had to mix the colours so they would match our writing. We practised our handwriting, and wrote them up in our best handwriting so we could show them off in assembly..

This week in Literacy we are continuing to work on word patterns, and we are going to really focus on sounding out the words we write to make sure we are listening to every sound in the word. In Letters and Sounds we have been learning lots of new sounds, so we will practise using these in our writing. 

Look out for repeated phrases and rhyming words in your reading books at home! 

Topic - Clothes, clothes, clothes...

In our topic afternoons this term we have been looking at clothes, and trying to find the answers to our questions we asked before half term. We have looked at the properties of a range of materials and have been very good at describing them, which has also developed our labelling skills.

We completed a fun experiment deciding which materials were waterproof and which were not... which resulted in a fairly wet classroom and a recording sheet full of answers. We discussed fair tests, and realised we needed to test the materials in the same way with the same amount of water, as some materials let through a little bit of water, some let it all through, and some were completely waterproof. 

We have made clothes collages on paper dolls, we have hung numbered clothes up outside on a washing line, and have been very busy using information books from the library to tell us lots of things about clothes we didn't know before. 

We looked at how clothes are sewn together and we had a go ourselves, and we made our very own giant rainbow fish...we weaved ribbons onto paper plates to make the scales...we learnt the warp goes up and down, and the weft goes from left to right. 

We have our very own clothes shop in the classroom at the moment... We have been writing shopping lists, playing with the till, and practising our customer service! 

Check back here next week to see what we have been up to for the last week of our clothes topic!!