Year 1 Week Beginning 27th January 2025
In Maths this week, Year 1 have been busy learning about place value within 20. They have explored the differences and similarities between numbers 11 to 15 using manipulatives such as: ten frames, number pieces, towers of cubes, Rekenreks and bead strings, which have supported the children to see the full ten and part of the next ten to support their place value understanding. This understanding is crucial to future work on addition and subtraction. They also used part-whole models, giving them an informal introduction to partitioning.
In RE, the class learnt some more about the presentation of Jesus as a newborn baby, in the temple to Simeon and Anna, and later in the week, they learnt another story about Jesus as a young boy in the temple.
In English, the children began a new unit on the book, ‘The Storm Whale’ by Benji Davies. This is the story of a lonely little boy, a whale washed up on a beach and a friendship that changes both their lives forever. Year 1 have been making story predictions, identifying and collecting new vocabulary, and then using it in both their oracy and written learning. They have also been busy thinking about what they would do if they were on their own and found a washed-up whale on the beach.
In Geography, the children continued their new topic about weather, and in Art, they made observational drawings of shells using a continuous line.
During their computing lesson, they continued to explore digital media and created their own line and shape images, inspired by artists and in PE, they continued their dance unit.
In Phonics, the children have been learning the following sounds:
- -Y (in cry, my, try)
- tch ( kitchen, fetch, stitch?
- ve (ave, rave , hive, cove)
The Spelling Shed this week focuses on the split digraph, ‘o-e’.
Next week, we will be having our Year 1 assembly; please see the newsletter about the new format. A few children have one or two lines to read/say in the assembly and have brought them home tonight to practise over the weekend. Thank you for helping them with this! Please could they come back in with them on Monday? Thank you!
We are looking for three parent helpers to accompany us to the Jain Temple on Monday 10th February, for the morning. If you would like to volunteer, please speak to Ms Pemberton directly. Names will be drawn out of a hat, if we have lots of interest. Thank you!
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,
Ms Pemberton and the Year 1 team
