In
English we have finished our 'life cycle of a butterfly' books and we are all
very impressed! As they are information books we ensured that we included lots
of detailed information, as well as remembering the 'non-negotiables' that we
remember for all our writing.
During the weekend your child might like to
investigate the life cycle of a different mini beast and we would love to share
their findings in school. Here is a good place to start researching:
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/insects
This week in maths we have been learning about
time. After telling the time to o’clock and half past we learnt to tell
quarter past times. 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. All week the children have been
telling us when the class clock says o’clock, half past and quarter past
times. You may like to encourage them to do this at home too!
Later
in the week we went outside and timed ourselves doing some activities
including star jumps, hopping and writing our names. We estimated first, then timed ourselves
and then recorded the time. After we
compared our times with each other and talked about who was slower or faster.
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Friday we read the story the ‘Tortoise and the Hare’, we looked at who was
faster and who was slower and talked about whether the quickest animal won
and why. We noticed that the faster time is less time and the slower time is
more. We compared times of animals and people in races and made our own time
comparison sentences.
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This week in science we looked at another microhabitat. We did a tree shake to find out which mini-beasts live in a tree. We predicted first and then went outside to find out. We found spiders, ants, aphids, and other tiny minibeasts living in the tree. We collected our data and then made a block graph showing our results. After we used the block graph to ask questions like which minibeast was the most/least common, how many spiders did we see and how many minibeasts did we see altogether.
We hope you have a fantastic weekend in the sunshine!
Year One Team
