Physical Development

This week we have been exploring a new way of travelling in our gymnastic lessons - crawling soldiers.  We enjoyed putting the new way of travelling into our sequences that we have been practising.  We created sequences on the floor and then on apparatus.

Mathematical Development - Weighing

 This week the children have enjoyed using weighing scales to investigate and compare the weights of classroom objects. First we made predictions about which object would be the heaviest then we weighed them to find out.

Next, we tried to estimate how many cubes each object weighed.  It was very tricky! Then we weighed each object and recorded how many cubes it weighed in our books.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World - Aerial Views

The children have enjoyed working on 'Birds Eye Views' - thinking about the view from above.  They each designed their own room in the dolls house and then used the class camera to take a photo of it from above.  The children then used their photo to help them to draw a floor plan of their room.  We also learnt about the importance of a 'key' when drawing maps and plans.

We took photos from above of our room designs

We looked at examples of plans and keys and created our own class plan



Birds

Over the last fortnight the RSPB has been holding its annual 'Big Bird Watch'.  In Year 1 we have taken this opportunity to study birds within our theme.  The children have enjoyed finding out about the different birds they may see around the school or in their own garden, as well as finding out about owls.

                                     Making feeders

                                                           
                                                        Junk model birds

The children decided that they would encourage more birds into the school grounds by making feeders to help the birds find food.  We hung the feeders around the school and then took our binoculars we had made and went 'bird spotting'.  We didn't see as many birds as we had hoped although we did see a robin, gulls, sparrows, blackbirds and starlings.

Day and Night

We hae been finding out about day and night through fact books and using the Internet.  We discovered why we have day and night and about nocturnal animals who come out at night and hunt their food.

We enjoyed drawing, painting and chalking night and day scenes.

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We thought about what we do in the day and night and sequenced pictures to show the order of events.  We then found out a little about time and we were able to match pictures with times they might occur during the day.  We know that when the time is o,clock the big hand is at the top.

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to Year 1!  The staff would like to thank you for the wonderful gifts that were given at the end of term.  They were very much appreciated.  We hope you have had a good break.  The term ahead is going to be a busy one.  Our topic is 'Up in the Sky'.  Below you will find a brief overview of what your child will be covering this term in each area of learning.

Mathematical Development
• Counting/ recognising/ matching numbers to 100.

• Counting in 10’s, adding 1n 10’s

• Number bonds to 10

• Ordinal numbers

• Comparing and ordering numbers

• More and less

• Adding and subtracting by counting on and back up to 30

• Weight- heavy / light/ making comparisons

• Positional language –above, below, left, right, beside, forwards, backwards.

• Name 3D shapes

• Time- o’clock/ half past

• Reading information in graphs and tables.
 
 
Language, Literacy and Communication Skills


• Listening to a range of stories, poems and rhymes

• Sequencing stories – beginning, middle and end.

• Re-telling theme related stories (stories from other cultures / traditional / fairy stories)

• Writing an alternative ending to a story (traditional / fairy stories

• Writing own poems

• Jolly Grammar 1- alphabetical order, verbs, past tense, future tense, nouns, adjectives, doubling rule, final blends, compound words

• Spelling – vowels, magic e, wh, ay, ea, igh, y, ow, ew

• Read and spell high frequency words

• Handwriting – letter formation

• Writing non chronological reports

• Recounts of events, trips, weekend news


Personal and Social Development, Well being and Cultural Diversity


• Recognise, name and deal with their feelings in a positive way.

• Think about themselves, learn from experiences and recognise what they are good at.

• Working with a partner and in small groups

• Recognise how their behaviour affects other people.

• New Year’s resolutions/promises

• Set simple goals

• Transport Safety


Knowledge and Understanding of the World


• Ask and answer questions.

• Night/day – compare

• Create shadows and silhouettes.

• Travel – compare old and new, discuss holiday destinations

• Transport – what types of transport can go in the sky? Ask and answer questions.

• Aerial view/ bird’s eye view. Create plans and maps

Religious Education

• Beliefs and feelings

• Chinese New Year

• Story of Creation

• Discuss The Easter story

• St David’s Day


Physical Development


• Rolling, bowling, bouncing, throwing and catching small equipment

• Carrying apparatus safely.

• Understand the effects and importance of exercise on the body..

• Creating sequences of movements.

• Performing for others.

• Fine motor- drawing, chalking, painting, cutting, threading and modelling.


Welsh Language Development
• Communicating in Welsh through Speaking and listening, reading and writing. Covering topics of:

• Greetings

• Likes/dislikes

• Night/day

• Transport/ Travel

• Holiday


Creative Development


• Dance - To respond to a story or object stimulus

• Perform in pairs using mirroring technique.

• Music - recognise the differences between beat and rhythm

• Explore and recognise pitch- high and low voices

• Perform a story using high and low sounds.

• Night/day contrast pictures

• Look at and recreate artists’ work

• Aerial Views

• Observational drawings – sunsets, clouds, night, transport

• Design and make a kites/flying machines