This week in maths we have been learning about
time. We began by thinking about how
time was measured, we came up with days, months, years and even decades! We
have learnt two songs to help us remember the order of the days of the week
and months of the year. You may like to ask your child to sing the songs to
you. We ordered the days of the week
and then wrote our own sentences using the words today, tomorrow, yesterday,
before and after. Next we ordered the months of the year and identified which
month our birthday was in and said
which number month it was and which season it is in. You may like to talk
about the days of the week and months of the year at home using these words.
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Later
in the week we talked about the units of measuring time, seconds, minutes and
hours. We then went on to tell the time to o’clock and half past.
We had to read clock times, draw the minute and hour hands on the clock and say what the time will be in one hour or what it was one hour ago.
You may like to help your child tell the time at home, talk about the long hand being the minute hand and the short hand being the hour hand.
You may like to follow the links below with your child.
We had to read clock times, draw the minute and hour hands on the clock and say what the time will be in one hour or what it was one hour ago.
You may like to help your child tell the time at home, talk about the long hand being the minute hand and the short hand being the hour hand.
You may like to follow the links below with your child.
This week in English we have been learning about the life cycle
of a butterfly as we are planning to make a non-fiction information book. First
we used a variety of sources to discover factual information about the life
cycle and then we wrote sentences in pairs on white boards about the interesting
facts we had learnt. The next day we wrote our sentences in our neatest
handwriting for our display.
We have now started writing our lifecycle books and we are
remembering our ‘non-negotiables’ that we have to include for all writing.
Please ask your child what these are. We then thought about what we need to
remember when we are writing this genre of book. Please ask your child what is
special about non-fiction information texts. We thought about which page we
should write first and we decided we would start with the eggs. (We had a
debate about which comes first – the chicken or the egg?!) We have drawn
detailed diagrams and written interesting facts about the eggs and the caterpillar.
Please ask your child what they can remember and what they plan to write about
the chrysalis and the butterfly stages. Here are some lovey videos about the
lifecycle of butterfly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AUeM8MbaIk
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/insects/butterfly-life-cycle/
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/insects/butterfly-life-cycle/
Don’t forget it is the Rothamstead
Festival of Ideas this weekend. It is open from 11-5 so you might like to go
after the summer fair!
This week in science we went on a mini-beast hunt around the school grounds. We visited the allotment, the ‘Bumps and Hollows’, the Robin Hood Trail and the playground. We found spiders and ants on the bark of trees, woodlice under rocks and worms in the soil. We talked about all the different micro habitats mini-beast live in and that they chose the micro-habitat because it provides shelter and food. Your child may like to go on a mini-beast hunt around the local park or in a garden. They could even take photos of what they found and bring them into school.
We had had lots
of fun at sports day on Friday as we hope you did too. We enjoyed the range of
activities and loved watching the toddler and adult races!
We also had a sporty morning today too! Daniel Lewis (who is a triple jumper) came to visit as part of the Sports For Schools scheme. We enjoyed a very active circuit and an inspiring assembly. He encouraged us to persevere, practise and eat healthily. Have a look at a video about Sports For Schools here: http://youtu.be/XDNoRdH2adI
We hope you have a good weekend - see you at the summer fair and Rothamstead!
Year One Team
