Year 1 - Hawthorn & Willow

It's been another fun week in year 1. This week we have:

• Learned about the features of an invitation in English as we'll be writing them next week.
• We practiced using question marks more and learned about using capital letters for names as well as the start of a sentence.
• We've thought about ordering groups from smalest to biggest and ordering numbers. We've learned even more ways to use a number lines in Maths.
• We focussed on our sense of touch in Science, going for a senses walk to find things that are smooth, rough, cold, wet, dry etc.
• We looked at some more differences between Victorian schools and schools today in History.
• We practiced different modes of movement in P.E., linking 2 or 3 different ways of moving together into a sequence.
• After learning about Mosques, Synagogues, and Churchs, we thought about what all places of worship have in common and some of their differences.

It's been another fun week in year 1. This week we have:

• Learned that Pebble was sent to us by Lubna, the girl from our new English book. We also learned about questions and how to tell the difference between a statment and a question.
• We learned that Lubna is a refugee and thought about what we would miss if we had to leave our homes.
• We've begun learning about more/fewer and greater than/less than/equal to in Maths, using the >, <, and = symbols.
• We focussed on our sense of smell in Science. We did blind smell tests of coffee power, vinegar, oranges, curry power, and garlic and predicted what the smell was.
• We made the name labels for our art folders in Art, using patterns and dots to make them look unique!
• We learned about what school was like in the Victorian era and asked whether we prefer school now or then.
• We learned to play Cat and Mouse with the big parachutes in outdoor P.E and practiced juming from one foot in indoor P.E.
• Designed our own synagogue in R.E as we learned about where Jewish people worship.

It's been another fun week in year 1. This week we have:

• Orally rehearsed, wrote, and edited a character description in English.
• Met a new friend (Pebble) who was mysteriously delivered in a box. We thought about how to make Pebble feel welcome and wrote them letters!
• Thought about easy ways to figure out 1 more or 1 less than any number within 10.
• Practiced counting backwards from 10.
• We learned about our senses in Science and went on a senses walk throught the playground to see what we could hear, smell, feel, and see.
• We practiced holding different poses (the dish and the arch) and learned which muscles they use in P.E.
• We discussed the difference between the past and present in History and looked for clues on how to tell if a picture is from the past or present.
• We learned and sorted the features of a church and a mosque in R.E as we think about special places.
• We created our 'Art on the Hill' Matisse snail peices for the exhibition on Saturday. 

We've dived deeper into our learning in week 3. This week we have:

• Learned about the Zones of emotional Regulation in English and used them to plan sentences to describe how a character is feeling in English.
• Mr Hunter and Mr Hewett made a music video about the Zones of Regulation (video above).
• Learning how to read written numbers and thought about counting on from any number to 10 in Maths.
• Tested how well we can name and label different parts of our bodies in Science.
• Practiced balancing and jumping from a bench using our different types of jumps in PE.
• Learned about Rosa Parks and the bus boycott in History, drawing our own "fair" busses on the playground with chalk. 
• Though about why some buildings might be special in RE.

It's been a very exciting and active first week an a half of year 1! We have:

• We recived a mysterious sack of items and a letter from the girl our English book is about.
• We've thought about feelings and things that every sentence needs (capitals, finger spaces, and full stops) in English.
• We've been thinking about different ways that we can represent numbers to 10 in Maths.
• We learned about keeping rhythm in music.
• We learned the tuck, star, pike, and straddle jumps in P.E and practiced rolling.
• We've begun our Art on the Hill Art project for this term.
• We began learning about different parts of the human body in science.
• Author Justin Anderson visited the school to talk about swifts and his new book.