Class 1
My voice matters
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9th February 2024
What a fantastic half term we have had in class, on behalf of the whole Year 1 team, I would like to thank you all for your continued support that you have given the children. It has allowed them to progress and mature greatly!
This week has been children' mental health week. We have done lots of activities to help children understand what is mental health and how can we help ourselves and others to have a positive mental health. The theme for this year was 'My Voice Matters' so we though about how we can express how we think, feel and behave to help each other and support each other. We learnt how to be still by completing some mindful breathing to help us calm down and relax. We also took part in some mindful movements, trying to balance and focus. We discussed how we could use these techniques at home to help our mind stay positive and healthy.
In English, we have been looking at the Night Zoo Keeper by Joshua Davidson. We have thought of out own animals that we could find in the night zoo and thought of the perfect setting for them. We have some very talented animals in our night zoo!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Climbing on up!
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2nd February 2024
In geography this week, we started looking at mountains, including what the highest and tallest mountains in the world are! We then looked closer to home and thought about what we would need to go and climb up mountain, considering the climate and other conditions you would encounter. We looked at different items that Mr Hobson takes when he climbs mountains and Chester even tried them on! Doesn't he look the part!
We have been looking at the shape element of our jump, shape, create topic in PE. We thought of the shapes different animals made when they moved and recreated these, thinking about their positions. We then made different shapes when we jumped safely from one side of the room to the other. We finishd by holding different points of balance for 5 seconds.
I hope it stays dry for you this weekend, one more week to go!
Mrs Parker and The Year One Team xxx
We like to move it, move it!
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26th January 2024
We have been looking at moving robots in computing and this week we had to follow instructions to move the Bee-Bots forwards and backwards. We had to place Bee-Bot on a specific object before following the commands. We always started with the clear command before programming Bee-Bot to move in different directions.
In PSHE, we have been learning what money is and how we obtain it. We spent lots of time looking at different coins and notes, understanding the value of them. We decided that we don't use coins and nots as much now, we see people using bank cards, their smart watches or their phones to pay for items from shops.
I hope you all have a restful weekend and manage to stay dry!
Mrs Parker and the Year One Team xxx
Look out! There is a Woolf about!
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19th January 2024
During English, we have started to look at a new book, Woolf by Alex Latimer. The main character is an animal which is half sheep and half woof. We drew Woolf then thought of adjectives which we could use to describe him. We then put these adjectives into sentences. We had a howling good time!
In art, we have been looking at artwork by Jean Metzinger and comparing this to artists we looked at in Reception, Monet and Van Gogh. This week we had a go at creating a piece of artwork inspired by Metzinger, using colouring pencils to carefully colour in each square to create a landscape. We used some realistic colours and some none-realistic colours, just like Metzinger. How fabulous they are!
In geography, we have been starting our new topic of mountains, rivers and coasts. We looked at coasts, which are near to us, in the first week and his wek we learnt about rivers. We looked at how a river is made and where rivers go. using atlases and Google Earth, we looked at rivwers which are close to us, the River Helm, and river which are in the United Kingdom.
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