Unit 1.1 Online Safety and Exploring Purple Mash - Lesson 1

We had a BRILLIANT COMPUTING lesson with Mr Spracklen this afternoon.

We logged into the Chromebooks and made our own #InspiredToLearn avatars!

Asia, Africa, animal groups and a tiger!

 Hi Year One Families,

We have had such a wonderful first full week together, the children have been busily getting used to our learning landscape.

This week in Maths we have begun to look at numbers to ten in detail. We have been identifying groups of numbers. The week ahead we will be looking at counting on from any number and counting backwards.

In English this week we have been practising writing sentences using capital letters, full stops and using I & 'and' We have been remindin ourselevs of all the capital letters too!

We have started new topics in Geography and Science.

In science we have been learning about different animal types. We explored mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish and insects. The children worked very hard to identify each category correctly. We learnt that mammals generally have fur and give birth to live young, fish live in the water,reptiles live on the land and they lay eggs; and amphibians lay their eggs in water. The children found some of this tricky; you could continue their learning at home by having conversations about which type of category animals fall into and why. We will continue this focus in the coming weeks.

In Geography children were introduced to the concept of continents over the next few weeks we'll be focusing on different continents and the oceans of the world this week we started off off with Asia and Africa children learnt about the different countries within these continents and how they are different from each other focusing on different types of weather and animals and cities.

On Wednesday we had a fantastic time at Forest School and on Friday we enjoyed our first music lesson which featured our new favourite song 'Shake my egg.'

On Thursday afternoon we went on a sensory quest. We explored the story The Tiger Who Came To Tea, we made cups of tea, explored street lamps, rang the front doorbell and buttered bread for sandwiches. The children really enjoyed this creative sensory endeavor. It was lovely to see them collaborating and playing so beautifully together.

Turning our attention to the weak ahead in maths we will continue exploring numbers to 10 in English we will be focusing on nouns and imperative verbs, nouns describe places people and things and imperative verbs tell us what to do, they are usually a command at the beginning of a sentence. We will continue to focus on letter formation capital letters four stops and number formation in Maths.

In Geography this week we will be learning about the continents of North and South America with the focus on geographical features and animals and the people who live there.

I have been really impressed at how well the children have settled into life in year one, and the whole team are looking forward to continuing our learning adventure together. If you have anything you would like to discuss please do not hesitate to get in touch. I am at the door every morning from 9:45 and I'm happy to talk with you.

Please remember that it is Forest School on Wednesday and children need to have suitable footwear and clothes for the weather.

Ms Evans and the Year One team.