Hi everyone.
In English this week, we read Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children discussed what a fairy tale is and recalled the different tales they know. Using the text, we created a story map and used it to help us to role play the story. The work completed this week will support our writing next week.
In Maths, we estimated and compared smaller and larger quantities. Using different manipulatives the children took two groups of objects. They made a (sensible guess) – estimate of how many they had. Which group has more/fewer ? Why would someone think there is more if the objects are bigger? They checked their answers placing the objects on tens frames to calculate their answer. The children moved on to to finding one more and one less than a given number between 1 and 20.
Our Science topic this week was everyday materials and their properties. The children had the opportunity to explore a range of materials and describe them. We linked this to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, examining the different materials used in the story. In Continuous Provision, the children had a picture of an empty bed and selected materials, that would be the most suitable to make the frame and dress it, such as, cotton wool, fabric, plastic, cardboard. The children completed an experiment test which bowl would be the most suitable for a bowl of porridge for baby bear. They made predictions before carrying out the experiment next week.
During Continuous Provision, the children created their own version of Goldilocks and The three bears. They made hand puppets to retell the story and completed speech bubbles with their ideas of what the characters might say. The children had the opportunity to revisit the maths learning this week in the outside area in activity where they took a handful of objects such as cubes, conkers etc. Then answered the following questions: How many can you hold? Can your partner hold more/less than/same amount as you? How many do you think you have in your hand? What does your partner have? Estimate and check.
In Phonics, we have been revisiting the Phase 5 sounds: al making the or sound as in walk and y making the ee sound at the end of a word such as in happy. We also revisited the sounds learned so far this half term. We have also revisited the harder to read and write words: children, please, whole, who.
Please continue to read with them daily and mark this in their reading log. Keep practising all the phonics sounds on the list provided before the half term break.
This half term Year 1 will have two PE lessons a week, one on a Monday morning and one on Wednesday morning.
Thank you for your continuous support.
Have a wonderful weekend.
