Welcome to Year 1!

Well done to all the children for another brilliant week! Everyone has been feeling a bit tired and poorly this week, but everyone has still given their best effort every day.

Maths:

This week we have started our unit on addition and subtraction - focusing on addition. We have spent time learning our number bonds to 10, as well as using part-part-whole models to learn how to add numbers within 10. Our number bonds to 10 rhyme: 10 and 0, superhero!

9 and 1, having fun!

8 and 2, yelling BOO!

7 and 3, busy bee!

6 and 4, at the store!

5 and 5, jump and jive!

Writing:

What a fantastic week of writing it has been! Each day the children have written a sentence to say why the wolf should be in jail. We have worked on building some independence in our writing but using a repetitive sentence starter (The wolf was), followed by a word they could have a go at spelling using their phonics (unkind, unsafe, unfair, mean). 

Phonics:

u-e (as in huge), aw (as in yawn), ur (as in nurse) and are (as in care). 

Reading:

In Guided Reading, we have been reading the book 'The Good, Little Wolf'. This has been a fun book to explore as it compares the big, bad wolf to a sweet, little wolf named Rolf. We are focusing on making inferences from the text, reading a page and discussing how the characters feel, and how why we think this.

Science:

We have continued exploring the seasons this week, focusing on autumn. We read a story about a little acorn, learning about an acorns journey from a seed into an oak tree. We also discussed the changes we see and feel in each of the four seasons.

Big Picture:

To continue our DT, we made a prototype of our lever mechanism to go alongside our sliders. We also created our background for our designs, where we will be making a moving story based on Little Red Riding Hood.

RE and PSHE/P4C:

In RE we explored the concept of stewardship. Thinking about how Christians believe that God created the world, and entrusted us to care for it. We discussed different ways we care for the world, and also ways we may not be caring for it.

In P4C, we reflected on the question 'can only humans make music?' We enjoyed listening to different animals communicating, as well as how the weather can make its own music.

Spelling words:

PE days:

Monday and Wednesday.