Year 1 Week Beginning 23.9.24

This week in English, Year 1 began their new book focus- Alan’s Big, Scary, Teeth by Jarvis. This book is about an alligator who wears false teeth and scares the other animals, until one day, his teeth go missing!! It is a really funny, heart-warming story focussing on the theme of friendship. As well as lots of other teeth/alligator inspired activities, the children have had lots of fun playing in the Pope Paul Dentist, exploring dental impressions of teeth, retelling the story, and writing non-fiction facts about alligators,

In Maths, Year 1 have continued with their learning on place value, where they explored more/ less, and counting up and counting down from any given number. They particularly enjoyed creating their count down rockets!

In RE, the children have been thinking about biblical metaphors; here they examined everyday natural objects and compared them to God , stating why they are like him. For example, Liam said, “God is like the sunrise, because he brings light to our lives.”

As part of their continued learning on the body, the class began a unit about their five senses; this week, the children explored sight. They identified that humans use their eyes to see and were encouraged to look at their own eyes in a mirror to identify their eye colour and any similarities and differences between their eyes and the eyes of others. The class then performed a simple test to investigate sight further and repeated the investigation, each time limiting their ability to see. Year 1 then discussed whether this influenced the task’s outcome. 

If you haven’t already done so, please send your child in with a note saying where your family originates from- this is to form part of a whole class display. Thank you to the families who have already done this.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Ms Pemberton and the Year 1 Team