Year 1 Week Beginning 18.10.24

Year 1 continued to focus their learning around the themes in the book, ‘Amara and the Bats’ by Emma Reynolds. This week, the children found out about the secret world of nocturnal animals and how their sense of smell and sound are heightened to adapt to their night time surroundings. This linked really well to our current Science learning about the human body and senses, particularly as this week, the children learnt about the sense of smell!

Thank you for the amazing amount of junk modelling materials that the children brought in this week. The children learnt about what makes an enticing and safe bat box and used the information to design and make their own bat boxes.

As mentioned, in Science this week, Year 1 explored their sense of smell. In small groups, the children were asked to smell five different cups, and then together make predictions on what they thought each cup contained. The children had lots of fun with this activity and were surprised by some of the contents! The children went on to write about whether or not their predictions were right and then they listed smells that they liked and disliked.

In Maths this week, the children compared and ordered numbers from least to greatest, and vice versa. They also made their own number lines and used them to problem solve.

Next week, as part of One World Week, Year 1 will be learning about Brazil.

If possible, please help your child to find out some information about the country that they can share with their friends next week. This could be watching an online video about the country, drawing the Brazilian flag, writing some simple key facts, finding out about the exotic animal that reside in the Amazon rainforest, or even listening to some Brazilian music!  Thank you!

Have a wonderful weekend,

 

Ms Pemberton