Another exciting week...

In Literacy next week we will be learning about letter writing. We
will be writing letters to each other and we will also start to think about next year and what questions we could ask in a letter to Year Two. We will also be thinking of the differences between Reception and Year One and will be writing letters to Reception to tell them all about Year One.



In Numeracy next week is 'Creative Maths Week'. We are going to be reading the story 'The Little Red Hen makes a Pizza' which will support our learning about fractions. We will be looking at fractions of shapes and numbers. We will be learning two new words about fractions too... the 'numerator' and the 'denominator'. We will be designing our own Pizza's and we will even have a go at making some!







In Topic we will be continuing our Pirate theme. We will be thinking about Pirate's treasure and where they found their 'booty'. We will be looking at maps, atlases and globes to locate places where they found booty and we will also be making our own treasure islands! We will be welcoming some Reception children in to our classroom again too!


On Monday we have something very exciting coming to school...The Science Dome! We will be visiting the Science Dome first thing Monday morning so we have a very fun start to the week!
As we have another week planned here is a copy of what is happening when!

All about our week....

In Year One we have been learning about Pirates!

This week we have learnt about some famous pirates called Anne Bonney and Captain Blackbeard. We have written a pirate code, a glossary, labelled a pirate ship and we have written everything we know about pirates in our own non-fiction text! A very busy week for Literacy!

In Numeracy we have been adding up multiples of 10 and today we practised taking them away too!

In Topic we have made our own treasure maps based on the story 'A New Home for a Pirate'. We dipped them in coffee and tea to make them look old!

In other news we also have a baby fish in our fish tank! It's very tiny so you have to look very carefully!


Written by Year One

Numeracy...taking away multiples of 10

This week we have been practising adding and taking away multiples of 10. Here are some games to practise this...

100 Square Hunt

Football Shoot Out

Another busy week coming up!

We have a busy week coming up in Year One! On Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday morning you will all have a go at a phonics activity with me where I can see all the wonderful learning you have been doing in Letters and Sounds this year!

In Literacy we are continuing to learn about non-fiction texts and pirates. We are going to be finding out about two famous Pirates... Captain Blackbeard and Anne Bonny! We have all been great at using 'topic words' in our writing so we are going to have a go at writing our own pirate glossary. We are going to have a big write to see how much we have learnt about Pirates!

In Numeracy next week we are practising our counting and adding skills. We are going to be using treasure, money and all sorts of other 'piratey' things to help us with our learning! Can you remember our top tips for adding? See how many you can remember and tell me in Monday's numeracy lesson! 

We have a very exciting week planned for our Topic learning! We are going to be developing our map skills and seeing if we can design a map for a pirate story! We will also be using bee bots to input instructions to find the treasure! We are going to be joined by some Reception children too which will give us a chance to show them the fun things we get up to in Year One!

On Friday afternoon we are very lucky as we have some people coming in to school to perform the story of 'Tom's Midnight Garden'! As things are a little bit different this week here is a new timetable just for this week!

Ahoy!

This week we have been learning all about Pirates! We have been using non-fiction texts to find out about pirates. We have practised our note making skills to help us write our own information texts. Here is one of our note making sheets.

In Numeracy we have been looking at direction and position and we have been directing each other around treasure maps. We have also been looking at time and have been making plans for Pirate Pete's day. We have thought about all the jobs he would have to do on the ship and when he should do them!

In Topic we have looked closely at what pirates wear. We have been busy making our own life-size pirates to go in our new role play area! We have made ourselves a pirate cafe on board a pirate ship!

A week to be proud of...

Scroll down to find out about all the exciting things we have been up to in Arts Week! 

In Art we have been busy making all sorts of african style crafts. We have learnt about african dance masks and we had a go at making our own with clay. We learnt lots of new skills...they look great! 

We have been talking about the animals we might find around the Victoria Falls. We all worked together to produce this fantastic giraffe picture! We used paint and objects to print with for the background, and we used oil pastels to create the giraffes. 

We have also been looking at African patterns. We noticed they were often in stripes and have lots of shapes in them. As well as making our own individual patterns we have also made this whole class pattern where we all contributed a stripe each! I think it looks wonderful!

In Numeracy we have been making tables and bar charts about what you can see in these lovely images painted by Zimbabwean women. We have also been looking at capacity and deciding which containers would be most useful in Africa. Have a go at making your own pictograph here. Make your own Pictograph

In Literacy we imagined we had spent the week at Victoria Falls. We have written letters telling the people at home about what we have been up to at the falls! All of year one have written some fantastic letters! They are all up in the hall for you to come and have a look at! 

We also had an african dance and drumming workshop. It was great! We learnt a dance called the Gahu and learnt the beats that go with the dance on the drums! We have been practising it in active time too!

We have had a really busy week in Year One! We have produced some fantastic, great quality work that all the children should be very proud of. Well done Year One.