Year 1 Newsletter

 Year 1 have started the summer term with a little trip to the seaside!  For our poetry writing, we have been using our imaginations and all our senses in our seaside experience days.  Over two days, we went on imaginary visits to the seaside to help us collect vocabulary for our poetry writing. We ‘arrived’ at the seaside and took off our shoes and socks off so that we could ‘feel’ the sand beneath our feet!  We acted out different seaside activities such as walking across the sand, building a sandcastle, collecting shells and pebbles, licking delicious ice-creams and smelling the wafts of fish and chips.   We also watched a virtual seaside walk and listened to lots of different seaside sounds. We ‘paddled’ in the cold sea, shivering as we dipped our toes in the chilly water, feeling the waves splash our legs and noticed that the pebbles were really shiny in the water.  We'll use all our fantastic vocabulary to write our own seaside poems! 

    For this half terms world view lesson, we have been thinking about sounds that we like.  After doing a 'guess the sound' quiz and sharing our favourite sounds, songs and music in circle time, we explored the sounds that the different percussion instruments make.  We chose one we liked and in our groups we used symbols to create a short piece of music.  We performed them to the rest of the class!

 

In our maths lessons we have been doubling and halving and in our first topic lesson, we put our geographers hats on and thought about the question: Should we go to the seaside?

Yes we should go to the seaside because... we can swim in the sea, go surfing, relax and have some peace, have an ice cream and have fun building sand castles!

                                                     

We're not sure if we should go to the seaside because... there are dangerous things on the sand and in the water, you might drop rubbish and it might go in the sea, it is fun but you might go in the sea without an adult and get sucked in by a wave.

                                                     

No we should not go to the seaside because... you could get pinched by a crab, a gull might sweep past and snap your food up,  you might hurt your feet on a stony beach, if we leave rubbish animals can eat it and get really sick. 

                                                     

  

Year 1 Newsletter

 Well, Year 1 have done us so proud with their determined attitude towards their learning.  All the children learning at home and those learning in school. The children have stepped up to all the different tasks they have been challenged with and we are so impressed by the standard of work we have seen. You are amazing Year 1, you should be very proud of yourselves!  We would like to send a huge thank you to all the parents and carers too.  You are supporting your children brilliantly!  Thank you for all you are doing to ensure your children achieve the best they can. 

Here are some glimpses of the wonderful work that has been going on over the past two weeks.

In English, we have been describing tortoises with adjectives and learning to retell the African traditional tale, How Tortoise Got His Shell, using a story map and actions!  The videos that we have seen have been a joy to watch!  You are incredible storytellers!

 

Poppy-Rose's sentences about tortoises

Stella retold the story How The Tortoise Got His Shell with wonderful expression, remembering all the punctuation too!

As well as completing the daily maths activities, some children have also had a go at some tricky maths challenges too!

              Eva's number bonds challenge                                  Josh's shape challenge

  

Jumping into our new topic about Africa, we asked the children if they would like to live there.

Here are a couple of their answers!

 

It's a YES from Ariana                              and a NO from Hector!

 

In art, the children have been exploring different paper collage techniques such as tearing and cutting.  Radley produced a fantastic grid full of examples of the different things you can do when tearing and cutting paper!

We know the children are missing each other and so they also had a task to get in touch with a friend!  Some children had a great time zooming and facetiming each other!  

Others made cards and wrote letters. 

'Good friends are like stars.  You may not always see them, but they are always there.'

  

                Stella made a card for Roya                                     Miri write a letter for Leelah

                                                        Alexandra wrote a letter for Beth.

Milla wrote a lovely letter to the whole of Year 1!