Monday 4th October
Today we started a new story in English. We are learning the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ We listened to the story first. Then we added our own actions. We read the story through together a couple of times. Everyone was so good at adding expressions and added very scary wolf voices and faces!
In small groups, we then used the story stones or spoons to act out the story.
Monday 4th October 2021
Today we continued to look at moving mechanisms. We looked at some books that had wheel mechanisms. We used a split pin to make a pivot and to attach a wheel to change their person’s face / feelings.
Friday 1st October
Today we had a VERY exciting visitor. Florence the phoneme fairy came to visit us in our big phonics lesson. She was so impressed with all of our phonics and couldn’t believe that we knew the split digraph a-e! She gave us all gold and silver star stickers to say well done.
When Florence left we then did our big phonics activities. We did a carousel of activities including a bingo board game, handwriting and a tray game with all the objects and one would get taken away and we would have to guess which one it was and write it on our clipboards. I am so impressed with how hard everyone had worked this week learning the new song and sounds!
Thursday 30th September 2021
Today we were comparing different groups. We were using the vocabulary; less than, greater than and equal to.
Thursday 30th September 201
This week we have been learning the long a sounds ay ai and a-e in Phonics.
We had great fun learning the split digraph a-e today. The children learnt that a split digraph needs two letters to make the long a sound but they have to be split and can not be next to each other. Another sound then goes between them.
We had a go making the words with children to show the a-e being split. We then wrote some of the words and drew a ‘banana’ to show the split digraph.
The children were very excited yesterday as we started learning the new Year One song of sounds!! We started to learn the new song and new actions and will learn each sound in more detail over the next few weeks.
Today saw the start of rainbow challenges in Year One. Each area in the classroom has a challenge and each area has its own coloured lolly stick. When a child completes a challenge, they either put the work in the work tray or take a photo of it using the seesaw app. They then take the coloured lolly stick and put it into their named envelope on the rainbow display. The aim is by the end of the week, everyone would have completed all 6 challenges. In their envelope they will have made a rainbow with the different coloured lolly sticks.
Everyone worked so hard today during COOL time and some children have already completed 5 challenges!
To explore and recreate Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons painting.
In art today, we continued to look at the work by Arcimboldo. We looked at his painting ‘The four seasons.’ We then chose a season and used colours that represented that Season.
Friday 24th September 2021
On Friday, year 1 continued to look at friendships by focussing on what emotions and feelings people have and why it’s important to care about other people emotions.
In maths we were counting backwards from 10. We sang some songs that helped us to count backwards. We then ordered the numicon from 10 to 0. We used post it notes to write the matching digit and practised our correct number formation.
Aquila Class