We think we walked six miles today (plus all the running around at lunchtime!)
Happy Healthy Handa would be very proud of us all!
                          
In maths we have been continuing our learning about measuring.
On Monday we considered the ‘Animal Sports Day’ question. We could give any
answer, but we needed to use our reasoning skills to explain our thinking. Here
is the problem for you to try at home:
Please think up a similar
problem for your child to use their reasoning skills to solve.
On Tuesday we enjoyed a measuring ChIL. We used rules and tape
measures to measure height and lengths in centimetres. We started to use
balance scales to compare weights.
       
If you have any balance type scales at home, please encourage your
child to investigate the weight of a variety of objects. Here are some examples
you might like to use at home. These encourage your child to use their
reasoning skills:
 
Next week we will be using non-standard measures to measure
weight and investigating volume and capacity.
This week in English we continued our learning about instruction writing.
On Monday we had an
instruction ChIL.
We could chose from
a range of activities that involved us either following and reading
instructions or writing our own instructions.
During the ChIL we
worked with the adults to edit the instructions we had written last week. We used to toolkit (below) to see what
features we had included and which we needed to improve.
On Tuesday we had an
instruction and Harpenden ChIL where we could choose to extend our own
learning in English from this term.
Home Learning
Your child may like to collect some instructions to bring into class for us all to see.
On Wednesday 'World Storytelling Day' we enjoyed a storytelling workshop with Mrs Fantozzi who runs ‘Drama Llamas’. The children thoroughly enjoyed going back in time with a magic key. Ask your child what they enjoyed most. Ice skating on Cock Pond, going to the British School, helping the farmer at Yew Tree Farm, meeting Sir John Lawes or having pizza at Prezzo!        
Phonics
This week in phonics we
have been learning about the digraph ‘oo’, ‘ue’, ‘ew’, ‘u-e’
Can your child show you how they use their phoneme fingers to segment
these words food, proof, scoop, gloom, glue, statue, argue, continue,
cashew,jewel, Andrew, knew, cue, costume, perfume, fortune and then blend
them back together again?
Can they spot the digraph or spilt digraph in the words above.
Is there only one digraph in these words or do some have more than
one?
Can they read these alien words – stroop, jues, quewm, glukes
Spelling ideas.
Perhaps you could get your child to think of a sentence using the
words above with this week’s digraphs and the sentence starter Put………
to practise the common exception words.
Don’t forget all the Year 1
common exception words are in your child’s Progress Book.
Year 1 History -
We have been learning about the events of the life of Sir
John Bennett Lawes and Katherine Warrington.
We had a lot of fun sorting out facts, deciding who the fact
was about and attaching it to our life models.
We then asked the models questions about their lives.
Following this we sorted similar facts on to paper and used
these to help us in our writing.
   
Music - Year 1
We have been looking at different stimuli for creating
music. Our stimulus has been water. We have learnt how melodic lines can be
smooth – legato, or spikey – staccato.
We used the glockenspiels to explore creating both sounds. This week we have been working as a group to
create the musical soundtrack to a video of a canoe going down a river. It started slow and legato, picked up tempo
and was very staccato, before calming down again.
We were really successful.
   
We hope that you have a good weekend - we think the children will sleep well after all that walking and fresh air!
Year One Team
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