In Math this week Year 1 have been learning about grouping and sharing objects.
We started by discussing what a group was and what it looked like.
We then discussed what ‘equal‘ meant and decided for sharing to be fair that all groups needed to be equal.
We looked at how we could share objects between equal groups and had a go with different objects.
We then looked at how we could begin to share other things equally between different amounts of groups.
In Year 2 we have been studying the pirate adventure story ‘The Night Pirates’. This week we are going to write our own story based on it.
Today we innovated the ending and wrote our own end paragraph in pairs.
We had some fantastic ideas.
In Year 2 our new topic is ‘Explorers of the Sea’. We thought about explorers that we have already learned about this year. Then we thought of questions to ask Christopher Columbus. We then learned the story of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World. We acted the story out in groups.
This week in Y1 we are learning about making equal groups – We know that equal means the same as.
We used paper plates as our groups and put a certain amount of objects into each group, making sure they were equal, we then moved onto drawing groups and the objects. By the end of the lesson we were all very confident with recognising equal and unequal groups and were able to discuss what we could see.
We love to enhance our curriculum, so in Year 1 this term there is a Creative Club with Mrs Yardley where we get to use our Art and Design skills even more.
This week we looked at some of Wassily Kandinsky’ s work and we found out that he was a Russian painter and was born in 1866. After looking at some of his paintings we were shocked that he painted them so long ago as we thought that they looked quite modern.
We looked in particular at ‘Squares with Concentric Circles’ and used it to inspire our own collage based on this painting.
This term in Y1 we are looking at some of the work of Roy Lichtenstein and are studying still life drawing and some aspects of Pop Art.
First we used different pencils and made a variety of thick, thin, curved, straight, dark and light lines, we drew shapes and practised shading and creating ‘Ben Day’ dots inside them. We practised looking closely at shells to draw observationally focussing on the shape, lines and shading.
Once we were happy with our pieces we used the class still life composition to draw our own version of ‘Still Life with Brushes, Shells and Starfish’. Once we had finished the observational drawing we used a black pen to draw round the outlines and then we painted it in Brusho.
This week in science we had great fun in the sun.
Year 1 have been learning about plants.
We discovered there are lots of parts to a plant and each part has a very important job.
This week we looked at wild plants and the difference between these and garden plants.
We identified lots of wild plants that we already knew such as dandelions and daisies.
Did you know that brambles have a white flower on them?
We enjoyed going around the school and looking for all the new wild plants we can now name.
We found some nettles in our wood and some buttercups on our field.
We also know how important these plants are to the insects and bugs that live in our world!
In class this week we have been discussing how families are all different.
We looked at pictures of some families with a mum and dad. Some families with 2 mums or 2 dads. We looked at families with 1 parent and how some families are grand parents or aunts and uncles. We found out there are lots of ways a family can live together.
We got to talk about our own families and who we live with.
It was great to find out not all of our families are the same!
We have been learning about microhabitats in Science this week. After finding out what a microhabitat was, we went into the school grounds to look for living things.
We used magnifying glasses and our IPADs then drew what we had found in our books.
In year one we have been learning all about jumping! We have experimented with different ways we can jump. We discovered that to jump high we need our knees bent and our arms by our side then stretched out. We then tried jumping with one leg…we did not go as high!!
We practised jumping around the space, controlling our direction using our spatial awareness (so we did not bump into each other). After that we tried to do a synchronised jump…
After that, we finally put our new jumping skills to the test to play some fun games. Well done year one. We can’t wait to develop our skills next week.
