We have continued our learning about
measuring time this week in maths. We started by practising reading the time on
a clock for o’clock and half past. Ask your child what each hand on a clock represent. We then
answered questions such as these:
     
The next day we played ‘Stop the Clock’. This
is a game you play with a partner. You set the clock to 6 o’clock and each
person takes turns to move the hands half an hour forward or one hour forward.
The winner is the person who stops the clock at 12 o’clock. Please play this game at home with
your children and ask then to tell you the time on the clock. You could
use a sheet of blank clock faces to draw the time.
The next day we put words that we use to measure time into order from the shortest to the longest. Ask your child if they can remember them all! We then estimated how many star jumps we could do in 20 seconds. Some of us were very surprised! We then made a list of different things we could do in 20 seconds. Here are some of our ideas:
We worked with a partner to predict how many we could do and then time and count. We had lots of fun!
  
Finally we tried to work out when one minute had elapsed. We tried this several time and we thought of some strategies to help us estimate more accurately. Ask your child if they can work out how long one minute is and keep practising reading the time.
This week in English
we wrote our own story based on the Molly Rogers Pirate Girl. We used our boxing up sheet to remind us of
the key moments of the story.
We co-constructed a
toolkit to show the features of what a good story looks like.
On Wednesday we had a Pirate Girl ChIL where we could extend
our learning. We could read pirate books.
We could write WANTED posters,
more messages in bottles, pirate poems or pirate stories. We took turns to work with our teachers to
edit our own Pirate Girl stories to make them even better.
At home your child may like to write their own pirate stories and bring them in to share with the class. Also they may like to practise these Year 1 common exception words.
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Today we have enjoyed 'Friendship day'. We thought about what it means to be a good friend. We used this grid to help us decide how we can be an even better friend.
We also wrote compliments for each other, as we know that a good friend uses kind words to their friends. The comments made us all very proud!
We have also practised talking to each other as a good friend does. We used some of these questions to start a conversation:
We hope that you have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine!
The Year One team
- oh, and next year's Year Two team!
