Year 1: Blog items
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 2:57pm
To explore our question for this lesson, ‘what is the best habitat for an animal?’ we visited our forest school area. We listened to a sound clip recorded in woodland in the UK at night time, with very blustery winds blowing, birds singing and trees creaking. We recalled what we already learnt about woodland habitats…
They are covered by trees’
‘It is shady on the ground’
‘Lots of plants and animals live there’
We also recapped the names of animals and where in the woodland they might be found. Finally we looked specifically at animals that we might find on the woodland floor before going out into the forest school area to make observations to answer our key question.
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 2:51pm
Today we enjoyed Art Day! First, we created our inspiration pages using a range of images of trees and flowers. We used the collage skills from our previous art journey to create seasonal trees. We focussed on the colours we would see on these trees during each season and chose one to collage.
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 5:59pm
Today we learnt why Columbus risked his life to journey to an unknown land. We listened to suggestions from advisers and explored how some people advised him to go on his voyage to the Indies whilst others told him to stay. We discussed the arguments, what they meant and what people were trying to tell him to do. We recognised that things may have turned out differently for Columbus and that he didn’t know the outcome when he first set out on his voyage.
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 6:38pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed a fantastic story telling experience with Dan Worsley. We all used fantastic listening skills whilst Dan told us a very exciting, funny and engaging story 'Junk in the Trunk.' We could all remember lots of details from the story from the brilliant pictures Dan protrayed whilst using lots of description!
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 5:20pm
In today's lesson we learnt how to follow instructions to achieve an outcome. We recapped on the features of instructions and how they need to be in the chronological order to make sense. We learnt the importance of checking our instructions and ensuring they have every step included. We then gave instructions to Miss Kay and Mrs Webster, to tell them how to make a disgusting sandwich. Again, we worked hard to give clear and precise instructions. We saw what happens when we weren’t clear and how the end goal wasn’t quite what we wanted! We then designed our own disgusting sandwich and created them, giving us an opportunity to talk through and order instructions before writing our own instructions over the next few days. As these were disgusting sandwiches - we didn't eat them!
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 7:21pm
As part of our Science Day, we also completed some astronaut art to show what we might see if we were to look outside the window of a spaceship. We watched a video to explore what astronauts might see from their spaceship and used that alongside photgraphs to inspire our own art. We used oil pastels and collage to create our pieces.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 6:39pm
Today, alongside the rest of our school, Year 1 had lots of fun celebrating Science day! We began the day by becoming NASA astronauts! We learnt what an astronaut is, how you become an astronaut and what characteristics you need to have. We then looked at what astronauts wear in space, how they sleep and eat and drink! We watched a short video where astronauts talked about what life is like in space. After this we thought about what we would take to space with us. Then it was time for our Wonderdome experience! We were all amazed and thoroughly enjoyed the space exploration!
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 6:24pm
Today, as part of Science day we learnt about a number of different astronauts including Neil Armstrong. We watched a video which explored Neil Armstrongs life and the key events that led up to what he is famous for! We learnt that Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 and his first time in a plane was when he was just 5 years old. We placed key events in his life onto a timeline, including 1969 when he became the first man to walk on the moon!
Date: 6th Mar 2023 @ 6:32pm
Today we consolidated our understanding of tens and ones. We worked together to practise counting the number of groups of ten and then the ones to find the total. We then chose a number card and used a range of resources, including Numicon, Base ten, place value counters and counters to represent the number.
We verbalised the STEM sentence ‘there are __ groups of 10 and __ more, there are __ objects in total.
‘I have made 41 all these different ways. There are 4 groups of ten and 1 more, there are 41 in total’
‘There are 2 groups of ten and 9 more, there are 29 in total’
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 7:13pm
This week we began our instructions journey in Reading into Writing. We have focussed on identifying the features of instructions and reading lots of different texts to develop our confidence with this.
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 6:36pm
We have all been looking forward to celebrating World Book Day!
Alongside our special assembly with Shane Hegarty, we also made reading crowns displaying our favourite books, completed traditional tale word searches, designed reading bookmarks and shared our favourite stories!
We all enjoyed coming to school as our favourite book character and celebrating our love of reading.
Shane Hegarty Author visits Boundary
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 11:48am
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Date: 27th Feb 2023 @ 1:02pm
Today we learnt about fact families and related facts. After our previous learning exploring addition and subtraction separately, today we looked at how they relate to each other. We used both concrete resources and pictures to find the links between addition and subtraction operations. We reinforced the fact that addition can be done in any order, whereas subtraction cannot. We then explored fact families independently, using the given pictures to create our two parts and work out the whole number.
Date: 26th Feb 2023 @ 5:48pm
This half term we have enjoyed our three RSE lessons. Our first lesson included reading the story 'It's Okay to Be Different' by Todd Parrs. We all took part in a circle time session to discuss the story and its key themes. This story helped us understand an important message of acceptance and understanding through a fun story with some silly scenes! We celebrated our individuality through acceptance of others and self-confidence. Through our circle time we then explored how we are all different! We drew and wrote about an imaginary friend who is different to us. Some of us drew friends with different skin colours, different hair colours, friends who were a different size to us or friends who moved differently to us.
Date: 25th Feb 2023 @ 8:43pm
Today we began our History journey by being ‘History Detectives!’ We were given 8 visual clues that revealed details and ideas as to why Columbus is famous, even though he died 500 years ago. We worked in groups to look at these historical sources, writing key words or phrases that came to mind around the outside of the photos. We then combined all our ideas on our class mind map.
Date: 25th Feb 2023 @ 8:38pm
Our first Reading into Writing journey this half term is instructions. We began this journey by reading the story 'The Disgusting Sandwich.' Today we practised following instructions to make paper plate fish and a friendship bracelet. We recapped on the features of instructions, before decoding and reading through each example and finding the features together. It was then our turn to follow the instructions to make our end product. Some of us found out what happened when we don’t read and follow instructions carefully!
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 6:53pm
This week in PSHE we have been learning about how to keep safe in and around our home. We learnt and discussed what medicines are, when they should be taken and how they should be kept. We also talked about other substances that can be dangerous and poisonous in and around the home,
Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 6:47pm
This week we enjoyed our DT day! We began by tasting lots of different fruits, talking about how we knew if certain foods are fruits or vegetables. We then moved on to designing our own fruit salad. We wanted it to be colourful, have at least four fruits in and to be cut up into bite sized pieces!
After creating our design, we then practised our cutting skills using play dough. We learnt how to use the bridge grip and the claw grip and once we had mastered the skills we moved onto making our fruit salad. We used the two cuts we had learnt to safely and sensibly prepare and make our individual fruit salad. We all enjoyed tasting them! Finally we completed our evaluation to identify what we liked about our design and what we might change if we were to make another fruit salad.
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 7:51am
Today we learnt that animals come in all shapes and sizes and that we can describe them by looking at their body parts. We discovered that some body parts are common to all animals whereas some body parts are only found on particular animals. We began the lesson by listening to a number of clues and using our prior knowledge about animals to try and guess the animal.
‘I have six legs, I can fly, I am red with black spots…What am I?
We then looked at a number of different animals from each animal classification and identified their key features. We asked and answered questions about why certain animals need these parts, where they live, what animals we could think of that were similar and how many different types of each animal we could name. We then used this knowledge to investigate a range of animals and match the correct labels to each.
We also drew and labeled the key features of our favourite animal.
'My favourite animal is a frog - it has long hind legs so it can jump!'
'My favourite animal is a shark - it has fins and gills to help it swim and breathe under the water'
Date: 10th Jan 2023 @ 6:28pm
This week we have begun our art journey 'Flora and Fauna.'
We have looked at artists who use drawing as a way to capture the way plants and insects look, and artists who use their imagination to create their own versions of flora and fauna.
We have spent time engaging in observational drawing to build our drawing skils, alongside experimenting with new materials. We have also practised our cutting and collage skills to explore shape and colour to build images.
Finally we used these skills to create our own individual mini beast collages.
Date: 10th Jan 2023 @ 6:01pm
This week we have begun to read 'The Girl With Two Dads' by Mel Elliott. After discussing the key features of the book we then read and discussed the story.
'The two friends get to know each other and learn about each others lives'
'Pearl is surprised to find out her new friend has two dads, she doesn't know anyone else with two dads'
'Both girls learn that all families are different'
We sequenced the key events from the story and worked on retelling the story with a partner.
Date: 9th Jan 2023 @ 7:22pm
This half term in Maths we have begun by exploring numbers within 20. We have been talking about what we already know about these numbers and learning how to represent these numbers with Base 10. We have then recapped on prior learning to find one more and one less, numbers that are greater then/less than a given number and whether numbers are odd or even.
'Fourteen is 1 ten and 4 ones'
'Twenty is two tens'
'I know 11 is odd because it ends in a number 1. 1 cannot be shared equally between 2'
'15 is less than 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20'
Date: 9th Jan 2023 @ 7:19pm
Today we began to learn about Hinduism by thinking about our roles and the roles of others. We talked about people in the community – nurses, doctors, teachers, police, fire service, care workers, rubbish collectors, postmen/women etc, discussing how they are special and what would happen if we did not have these people. We learnt these people make a difference! They each play an important roe and do extraordinary things for people around them. We then looked more in-depth at police officers, discussing why this role includes special clothing and visual ways of showing people what this person’s role is.
‘Police officers wear a uniform so that people respect them’
‘’Their uniform helps people to know who they are and that they can trust them’
‘’Police people wear a uniform so that people can recognise them in a busy place’
Date: 13th Dec 2022 @ 7:09pm
Year 1 have been enjoying all the Christmas activities around school over the past few weeks! We had lots of fun on Christmas jumper day where we also enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch!
