World Book Day has been very different this year, with many of our young learners at home. However, this wasn’t enough to stop Year 1 celebrating some of our favourite stories! We challenged the Year 1 children to create some of their favourite book characters out of a potato… take a look at some of the amazing creations we had!
To end our Spring 1 half term, the Year 1 team wanted to create a bit of a showcase of some of the amazing work that has been going on at home.
We are incredibly proud of the effort and engagement that has been going on over the last six weeks.
We’ve had Tough Tortoises when the work was tricky and we persevered through, we’ve had Team Ants working with our adults or brothers and sisters at home, Helpful Hens have been pausing videos and using their previous learning to help them in new activities and I’ve even noticed some Beautiful Butterflies editing and improving their work!
English
In English we have been working around the story Samson’s Titanic Journey by Laura Graham. We thought about how the different classes and used this story to help us with our descriptive writing, as well as post cards and letters.
Week 2: Noticing and wondering about the front cover
Week 3: Using verbs and adjectives to to explain what Samson was doing
Week 4: Using new vocabulary and adjectives to describe the first class dining room
Week 5: Thinking about how Samson was feeling and using “and” to join ideas together
Week 6: Writing letters to Samson’s family
Maths
For our Maths home learning we have been using White Rose Maths Hub videos and our usual Flashback 4s. This half term we have covered shape, addition and subtraction within 20 and numbers to 50. Take a look at some of our Maths work.
Reading
During our Spring 1 home learning we have continued with our Sound of the Week, daily Read Write Inc Phonics lessons, weekly Read Write Inc books, Goldilocks words from our story and some retrieval tasks.
Sound of the Week
Week 2: ir – whirl and twirl
Week 3: ou – shout it out
Week 4: oy – toy for a boy
Week 5: ea – cup of tea
Week 6: oi – spoil the boy
Goldilocks words
Titanic
Our theme for this half term was a history focus as we based the majority of our learning about the Titanic. Take a look at some of the learning taking place at home based on the Titanic.
Wider Curriculum
As always, we have continued to offer our wide and broad curriculum and the children have responded brilliantly. In Science, we started the half term by observing the changes in the seasons and then moved on to learning about the human body. We learned about our body parts and the five main senses. Our RE unit started with learning about the parable of the lost son. This guided our thoughts towards forgiveness and we considered this value in the story as well as when we have shown forgiveness. Then we learned about 4 types of prayer and wrote our own prayers. In PE we have been keeping healthy by taking part in Joe Wicks’ weekly exercise sessions. Linked to the Titanic, in Music we have reflected on the music played in both the first and third class dining rooms and then learned to perform the waltz and the Irish jig. Finally, as part of our PHSE, we consider real life lifesavers and what they do to help make the word a better place.
Over the next couple of weeks we will be learning to sign these Christmas songs in Makaton. Feel free to have a practice at home too!
This week 1C have become bakers, just like Thomas Farriner, and we worked collaboratively, to bake scones.
We followed a recipe, and noticed imperative verbs such as mix, pour, rub and roll.
This week, as part of our hook for The Great Fire of London, we wrote down things we “can’t do” and burned them on the fire… because there is nothing we can’t do! We noticed once they were gone we could not get them back and then used empathy to think about what that would be like if that happened to our houses.
Team Ant has been everywhere lately! Sukhmani has worked together with her adults at home to create a beautiful fairy house, I’m so impressed! Do you think Sukhmani could build a house for me?
Earlier in lockdown Oscar created a wonderful family tree. He must have worked as a brilliant Team Ant to find out all that information!
At the start of lockdown Bella planted a seed with Mr Moore.
Look how big it is now!
I wonder if it will grow bigger than Bella?
What changes can you notice that have happened over time?
Zahra has been busy being Team Ant to make cupcakes at home.
She then wrote the instructions on how to boil rice if you want to make your own at home!
