On Tuesday we enjoyed our visit from Amy Smith from Sports for Schools. She told us all about representing Great Britain at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games and she inspired to try new things. We enjoyed our circuit too!
This week we have been listening to, reading and performing firework poetry. We started by listening to ‘Firework’ by Tony Mitton. We thought about how the poet had carefully chosen his words to ‘put a picture in our heads’. We discussed our favourite words and phrases from the poems and we explained why we liked them. The next day worked in groups to perform our poems. We created success criteria to help us make our performances interesting to watch and listen to.
We then read ‘Bonfire Night’ by Tony Mitton and we thought about how the poet had chosen words to describe the colours, noises and movements to help put a picture in our heads’. We then looked at pictures of fireworks and bonfires and thought of a phrase to describe the picture. We wrote a sentence or phrase to describe the picture, trying to:
This week we have been listening to, reading and performing firework poetry. We started by listening to ‘Firework’ by Tony Mitton. We thought about how the poet had carefully chosen his words to ‘put a picture in our heads’. We discussed our favourite words and phrases from the poems and we explained why we liked them. The next day worked in groups to perform our poems. We created success criteria to help us make our performances interesting to watch and listen to.
We then read ‘Bonfire Night’ by Tony Mitton and we thought about how the poet had chosen words to describe the colours, noises and movements to help put a picture in our heads’. We then looked at pictures of fireworks and bonfires and thought of a phrase to describe the picture. We wrote a sentence or phrase to describe the picture, trying to:
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Hold our pencil correctly
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Start with a capital letter
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Use our phoneme fingers to spell the
words
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Use finger spaces
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Sit our letters on the line
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Form our letters correctly
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Finish will a full stop or exclamation
mark
This week in maths we have been continuing our learning about addition and using the language of addition – add, plus, equal to
On Monday we learnt about addition families and that addition can be done in any order
And that the equals sign doesn’t always have to be at the end.
Ask your child
What is the same about the four addition sentences?
What is different about the four addition sentences?
We then worked in pairs and were given 3 number cards. We had to find the four addition sentences
that made up that family.
Can your child spot the mistake below?
We noticed that the number 6 has 7 addition sentences,
number 7 has 8 addition sentences, number 8 has 9 addition sentences and
so on.
Some of us recorded the number
bonds randomly whilst some of us tried to challenge ourselves to work like real mathematician’s recoding
in a system to check we had found all the different ways.
On Friday we used a tens frame and two sided counters to show different ways to make a selected number. By turning over a counter each each time it was very clear to see the part, part, whole.
This week in D&T we
explored using salt dough which is what we are going to use to make a decoration for a
Christmas tree. We made shapes with the
dough and used different tools to make marks in the dough.
In science this week we began learning about different materials and their properties. We sorted our toys according to the material they were made from. Then we thought about whether the material was man-made or naturally occurring.
We hope you have a good weekend and look forward to seeing you at Crabtree fireworks on Saturday!
Year One Team
