Year 1 w/b 3rd May
Date: 5th May 2022 @ 6:00pm
This week has included some marvellous writing from Year One. After planning our own imitation stories last week based on the story ‘The Secret of Black Rock’, this week we have written our own stories. It has been fantastic to see the children refer to our original model text and text map and to also remember to include many of the writer hints and features from the original text. Our working wall really came in handy this week! Features that we have been using in our writing include similes, repeated refrains, story language and even some spoke language. At one point when we were writing, Mr Lindblad nipped into our classroom and was amazed at the quality of writing and even took one of our stories to read to Year Five. They were all equally as impressed!
In Maths this week we have completed our work on mass and capacity and used this to answer word problems based around these aspects of measure. In our Maths Mastery daily sessions, we have been proving that one more or one less that an even number is always an odd number and that one more or one less that an odd number is always an even number. It was important for children to see this practically so they could explain how they know this is true rather than just say if it was true or false. We then moved on to looking at two more or two less than odd and even numbers and what impact this had. To complete the sequence of lessons we completed games with our friends using these concepts.
In phonics, we have focused on the sound ‘tion’ (pay attention, it’s a celebration) and have enjoyed noticing this sound in words in our learning across the curriculum. We have also continued to implement an additional daily phonics review lesson as we head towards the Year One Phonics assessment task after half term.
Following last week’s work in science on identifying and classifying mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians, this week we looked at grouping animals by what they eat. We recalled our non-fiction report writing on tigers as carnivores, from last term. We discovered other animals that were meat eaters and grouped these before we explored the name for animals that do not eat meat, herbivores, and those animals that eat meat and plants, omnivores. We enjoyed grouping animals, by their diet, on venn diagrams and comparing our findings with our friends. At Chester Zoo next Friday, we shall endeavour to put our learning to the test. For example, are all fish herbivores or all mammals are carnivores?
In DT this week we looked at the design process so far and filled in our knowledge organisers with the information we have found out. After this we had the opportunity to research potential construction materials and methods to create our playground equipment. Next week we will work with partners to plan our playgrounds before getting busy creating the final models over the coming weeks.
In PE this week we have been working on small games cricket-based games to develop our striking and fielding skills. As we had an extra bit of time at the end of our PE session this week, we seized the opportunity to work on our standing long jump skills. The action photographs below show you how impressive we were!
You can also see the photos below of our wonderful forest school session from this week. Mr Simmons was so impressed with our focus and listening. We all enjoyed getting creative with the clay in our forest school area.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Pullé, Mrs Lindersen and the Year One team
