Year 1 w/b 7th October 2024
Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 4:35pm
Wow… what a fabulous week we have had in Year One! Thank you so much for coming to see us in our classroom on Thursday morning. We really enjoyed sharing with you all of the exciting things we have been learning about since the start of the term.
In English this week we have planned and started to write our own innovations based on our instructions of ‘How to trap a toy soldier’. The children were very inventive with their ideas of how they could trap their toys! We are looking forward to finishing our piece of writing next week.
Phonics this week has been either oo (poo at the zoo) and oo (look at a book) or a-e (make a cake) and ay (may I play). Over the next couple of weeks, we will be assessing the children’s reading progress by looking at the number of sounds the children can recall on sight and read in words. When a word is phonetically plausible, we encourage the children to identify the special friends (2/ 3 letters that make one sound), Fred the word, reading all the sounds in it e.g., b-l-ow and then read the word (blending the sounds). The red tricky words are looked at regularly so the children can read these on sight speedily. In this way the fluency and pace of reading is increased.
In maths week, we came to the end of our ‘Place Value’ unit. In our final lesson, we were introduced to a number line and we used this to count from 0 to 10 and also counted backwards by reading it from right to left. We could clearly see that 1 more is the next number to the right on the number line, while 1 less is the previous number.
Later in the week, we started our next unit ‘Addition and Subtraction’. We have been focusing on identifying parts and wholes and we were introduced to the part-whole model. Children learnt that a whole group of objects can be composed of two or more parts.
In science, we enjoyed creating our own flowers and labelled them with the correct vocabulary (roots, stem, leaves, petals and seeds).
In history this week we looked at space travel. We thought about how people travel to space and watched footage of the first moon landing. The children dressed up as astronauts and re-enacted walking on the moon.
In RE this week, we drew and painted a range of harvested goods that we are lucky enough to grow in the UK. Later in the week, we focused on the Jewish of Sukkot which is celebrated each year when all the harvest is gathered in. As well as celebrating the good gifts of the harvest and God’s yearly provision, the festival of Sukkot is a time to remember the Exodus where Moses led the Hebrew people out of Egypt to freedom. They then lived in makeshift shelters in the wilderness for 40 years. During that time God provided for them. Remembering this event in their history is very important to the Jewish people. Throughout the week of Sukkot Jewish families gather to chat and eat meals in the Sukkah. We enjoyed creating different Sukkah shelters in Forest School on Friday morning and we worked in small teams to create special places of shelter and refuge just like the Hebrews did when they arrived in the Promised Land many years ago. We are looking forward to exploring this festival further next week.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Miss Roxburgh
