Singing with Miss Begley

Every week Year 1 do some wonderful singing with Miss Begley on a Thursday afternoon. This week we have been learning a new song; the animal fair.

Can you sing it to your adults at home?

Michael Rosen's Poetry

We love reading Michael Rosen's poetry in Year 1. His poems are sometimes very funny or sometimes a bit silly but always great to listen to. 


Here are some videos of him performing some of his poems from his book A Great Big Cuddle. 

Click here to watch the videos

Traction Man is here

Exciting news. Year 1 have started reading their next key text... Traction Man.

What questions would you like to ask Traction Man?

Science Museum Trip

We had a fantastic trip to the science museum today where we explored lots of materials.We learnt about lots of different materials and made different patterns using a range of materials. We visited their sensory garden and investigated patterns in the pattern pod.  After all our hard work we then role played being animals in the garden.  
Look how scary we look!

Dressing up in the garden

Investigating different materials

Investigating what different materials things are made of.

Creating patterns in the pattern pod.

Using pulleys to build a tree house.

What materials can you find in 

the world around you?

Number bonds to ten

This week in maths we have been looking at out number bonds to 10. These are two numbers that add up to ten. 

Can you use the football shirt picture below to work out all the different combinations?

Watch this cool rock video to help you re-call all your number bonds!

Science Museum Trip

 On Tuesday 1st December we're going to the science museum to visit their materials gallery. We're also going to become hands on scientists in their Sensory Garden and Pattern Pod.

If you can't wait until Tuesday have a look at their website. Click here

What are you most looking forward to finding out?

Re-telling the Smartest Giant in Town

This weeks homework is to tell the story of the Smartest Giant in Town to our adults at home. Lots of fantastic re-tellings have been pinging into my inbox this weekend.

Here's one of my favourites!

Are you taller than the Smartest Giant?

Today children learnt to measure their heights using metre rulers and tape measures.

Do you think you are taller or shorter than the Smartest Giant in Town?

First we tried to get the whole class into height order, not using our voices! 

Then we worked in groups to measure our heights.

"I'm 114cm tall!" 

Peer Assessment

We have been learning how to be a critical audience in Year 1. This week we worked on our peer assessment skills by telling our friends what we liked about their George the smartest giant in town performances. We also told them what they could consider doing next time to make their performances even better. 

What advice would you give to the children in the video?

Maths targets

We have all been working hard towards meeting our individual maths targets in Year 1.

 Can you guess what this child's target is?

The Smartest Giant in Town

What a lovely start to this half term. We've been doing lots of learning about materials and measuring this week and have started to read and talk about our key text for the half term The Smartest Giant in Town. What a fantastic story!

What especially caught your attention in The Smartest Giant in Town?

2D Shapes

We love shapes! 

This week we have been learning to recognise and describe 2D shapes. 

When we were shape hunters we found lots of 2D shapes around the school. We spotted that the windows were rectangles and some lights were circles. Can you find any of these shapes outside or at home?

Circle               Triangle                  Square                Rectangle                                    Pentagon                        Hexagon?

Challenge:

    

What shape is being made and described in this photo?

Storytelling

This weeks homework is to tell a story to an adult at home. Lots of fantastic stories have been whizzing into my inbox this weekend. 

This is one of my favorites. One of the fantastic Year 1 pupils retelling the story of Goldilocks and the Three bears.

Instructions for baking bread

After all our delicious bread making last week, this week we have been writing instructions on how to make bread. Here is one child's fantastic writing .

Remember to not forget the final and most important instruction.

Music

We have been doing some great singing in Year 1. This week we sang the song Five Little Speckled Frogs in music. 

Here are some photos of us singing.

Making bread in school

Yesterday we made more bread in school.

Working as a team to knead the bread

We read the recipe and then acted out the verbs. Before giving instructions to our team mates on how to make bread. Our bread made the classrooms smell delicious.

Today we're going to be writing our own bread recipes. Check the blog soon to read them.

Making bread at Tesco.

Tell me about making bread.

Today we went on a trip to Tesco and made our own bread. We became bread experts by taste testing brown and white bread to see if we could tell the difference. After that we explored the shop floor finding other products made from flour.

What can you tell me about making bread?

Number Bonds to 10

How many number bonds to 10 can you remember?

This week in Year 1 we are learning to recall our number bonds to 10. Number bonds to 10 are 2 numbers which add together to make 10 for example 8+2=10 and 6+4=10.

What have you been reading?

We love reading in our reading corners in Year 1.

What and where do you you like to read?

Welcome to the Year 1 blog

We are all really excited to have our year group blog up and running. All the Year 1 team, Miss Binnie, Miss Nicholls, Miss Deere, Miss Powell and Miss Perkins, are really looking forward to reading your comments and sharing all our ideas and work online.

We have had a fabulous first few weeks in Year 1 and have settled into our new classrooms. Here are some photos of us exploring our new classrooms and outdoor area.

Finding spiders 

Building a new home for the Little Red Hen

Painting a farmyard for Little Red Hen