This week in English, we have continued with our text, ‘One Day on our Blue Planet…in the Outback’ and have been creating our own version of the story. The children had lots of fun deciding which Pacific animal could be saved by our main character, the dolphin, and worked hard to develop their sentences.
In Maths, we began the week by using a numberline to explore subtraction. The children enjoyed playing the ‘blast off’ game with a partner while using their skills of counting back from twenty. We went on to investigate ways of subtracting a one-digit number from a two-digit number and how we can record our answers as a number sentence.
In Topic, we have been consolidating our knowledge of the oceans and the creatures that live there with a focus on the Pacific Ocean. We drew on our prior scientific learning about animal groups to decide which group an identified animal might belong to by spotting key features.
In Phonics, we have continued to find out about alternative graphemes. Here are some examples:
<or>/ur/ as in world, artwork
<ear> /ur/ as in learn, earth
<ou> /oo/ as in soup, group
<oul> /oa/+/l/ as in shoulder, boulder
<ie> /ee/ as in brief, shield
<ve> /v/ (have) as in have, solve
<y>/i/ as in gym, Sydney
Points to note:
Please send in your junk modelling items. We are planning some design and technology projects and would greatly appreciate your unwanted boxes, tubes and cartons.
Have a great weekend!
The Year One Team
