This
week in English we have been looking at poems about mini-beasts. We started by
reading the poem ‘Eeny Mini Mini Beasts’ and identifying the verbs, nouns,
alliteration and rhyme. The next day we read a selection of mini-beast poems by
Giles Andreae. In pairs we each had a different poems and we marked the verbs,
nouns, alliteration and rhyme again. Please encourage your child to do this
when you read poems together. The next day we became performance poets! We
created success criteria as a class. Please ask your child what you need to
remember when performing poems as a group. We worked with our partner to plan
actions and expression and we tried to learn our poems to help our performances.
We then had the opportunity to perform and listen to each other, commenting on
which aspects of the performances we enjoyed the most.
We
are now planning to write our own mini-beast poems next week, in the format of ‘The
Farmyard’ by AA Attwood. Here is a Crabtree version, amended to be about mini-beasts!
One hairy
spider spinning a silky web,
Two busy
bees, buzzing quickly to and fro,
Three pink
worms, slithering through the squelchy mud,
Four
delicate butterflies, fluttering in the summer air,
Five glittering
dragonflies, gliding over the sparkling pond.
We will be
using this format next week and today we have looked at how the poet constructed
this poem. We noticed each line:
Starts
with a number
Adjective
Mini-beast
Verb
Place
During the
weekend please look at poems with your children and you might even want to
write a poem too!
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This week in maths we have been learning
about place value to 100. We began the
week by using a 100 grid. We were given numbers to locate on the hundred
square and talked about how to find them quickly. You may like to help your child at home.
Using a hundred grid ask them to find a number and tell you how they found it
so quickly.
We then used the hundred square to count forwards, backwards
and identify a number between two given numbers.
On Tuesday we used base
10 to read, write and make numbers using a grid representation.
 
On Wednesday we used base 10 again to read, write and make
numbers using the part, whole model.
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In computing
this term we are making a booklet about mini-beasts using ‘2 Simple 2 Publish’.
We have typed our title and the author’s name, and we used a variety of tools
to make a bright and interesting front cover. They will be full of information
and beautiful pictures of mini-beasts!
We have been very luky to have had an extra woodland learning lesson this week. We used lots of equipment and made bug houses. If your child's bug house is not quite finished have a look below for some ideas to help you finish it!
We hope that you have a great weekend!
The Year One team
We have been very luky to have had an extra woodland learning lesson this week. We used lots of equipment and made bug houses. If your child's bug house is not quite finished have a look below for some ideas to help you finish it!
The Year One team
