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.

Arts Week!

Hello! I hope you are all enjoying your half term! I am sure you are all having lots of fun and are very busy! If you do start looking for things to do towards the end of the week remember your home learning and to practise your letters and sounds! 

I am very excited about next week as it is our Arts Week! The theme across the school is the 'Seven Natural Wonders of the World'. Do you know what they are? Watch this video to find out more...

In Year One we are going to be learning about the amazing Victoria Falls which are found along the Zambezi River which divides Zimbabwe and Zambia, both of these countries are in Africa. You might like to find out some facts about the falls to share with the class when we come back! 

They are beautiful aren't they! We will be learning about the falls, and Africa, all across the curriculum.

•  In Literacy we will be following the blog of a young girl in Africa and finding out about her adventures at the falls. 
• In Numeracy we are going to be exploring/sorting African art and thinking about water and capacity. 
• In Guided Reading we will be looking at a range of books, both fiction and non-fiction, that look at different parts of the topic. 
• In Topic time we are going to look at african art, pattern and dance masks and have a go at making our own! We are also going to have an african dance workshop where we will get to learn some african beats on drums too! 

Literacy - Play Scripts

In Literacy this week we will continue our work on Play Scripts. We have been busy learning about all the different features of play scripts, learning the story of Chicken Licken, and we have started to write our own play scripts! Here is a preview of one of Mae's play script. She has remembered to include the features of play scripts and her handwriting is fantastic too! Well done! 

Topic - Giuseppe Arcimboldo

As part of our topic we have been looking at the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. We looked at some of his paintings here, and looked at what he had used for the different facial features. In groups we were then given a tray of fruit and we had to design our own face in the style of Giuseppe. We then sketched our images and practised mixing colours to create our own paintings. This week in topic we will be practising our ICT skills to create more pictures in the style of Giuseppe! Pictures to follow...