Y1- What animals are we learning about this week....

Last week we used the film Rio to discuss the importance of the blue macaw and wrote some fantastic pieces of information. This week we will be learning about a variety of different animals such as chimps and rhinos so that by the end of the week the children can perform their writing just like a speech from Sir David Attenborough!

In maths we are still partitioning numbers using place value cards and dienes and one cubes. Some brilliant independent work today.

We have started to look at a book called ‘the lost words’ by Robert MacFarlane. This book is a fascinating book highlighting the words that children do not learn about and even some of the words that are vanishing from children’s encyclopedias such as the word acorn and bluebell! Luckily as a nature loving school the children are showing that they are aware of many of these and we can’t wait to read the other poems. Thank you Noah for letting us borrow it!

One last thing. If you haven't given in your money for last week's falconry visit, please can you give this to the office. We have so many exciting learning opportunities for the children and although it is voluntary, if we do not have enough money to cover most of the cost of these then unfortunately they will not be able to happen.

Many thanks

The Year 1 team