Week 5 in Year One

 Hello Year One Families

What a week we had in Year One!

On Tuesday  Miss Johnson took the class, in groups, to the kitchen, where they made smoothies. This is the culmination of their Design Technology unit. The children tasted different fruit and vegetables, designed a smoothie and then got to taste and evaluate it. Every smoothie had to contain one vegetable. The children helped to chop and blend the smoothies and enjoyed tasting them at the end of the session. 

In maths we have been learning to use the symbols greater than less than and equal to. The children practiced this by working with a partner and using the symbols to compare the amounts. The children also said the stem sentences too to help them remember what they had learnt. For example: 7 is greater than 3 or 5 is less than 8 or 5 is equal to 5. 

In English we have been listening to the story of Ella and the Ocean, a girl who lives in Australia and visit the ocean for the first time. The children are working hard to remember all the things that make up a sentence: capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and red word spellings (he, she, I, was, are) as well as using their phonic skills to sound out words. There is so much to think about when you are learning to write!

Thank you to everyone that came along to the harvest celebrations. We do hope you enjoyed it as much as the children did!

ZooLab photos to follow tomorrow . . . .!

Date for you diary: Exhibition of Learning

Please note that Year One will be having an Exhibition of Learning in the Y1 classroom on Tuesday 31st October at 2.30pm where we welcome you to visit the seven continents with your child. 

The Year One Team