Year 1 Homework Blog

• 14th January
  We have had another busy week. You may have noticed another adult in the classroom over the past week. Miss O’Donovan is on her second placement as part of her PGCE qualification and will be spending her time with us in Year 1. Miss O’Donovan has enjoyed getting to know your children over the past week and is very excited to continue her training with us until June. In Literacy we have been continuing with our whole school book of ‘The Lost Spells’. One of our favourite activities this week was listening to a story called ‘The Selkie Girl’ which is ...
• 7th January – Happy New Year
  Welcome back to the Spring Term. I hope you had a restful Christmas break. In Maths, we have started a new unit of work on 2D and 3D shape. We have been naming them and trying to think of some familiar objects which are the same shape such as a sphere is like a football and a cone is like a party hat. What shapes can you find at home? This week we have started a new Geography curriculum project called ‘Where Do I live?’. This week we looked at the seven major continents and five major oceans. Perhaps you could ask ...
• 17th December – DT Week
  As Christmas is fast approaching, there has been no signs of slowing down in Year 1. This week we have primarily spent completing our DT project on moving Christmas pictures. The children started the week by researching moving pictures by looking at a variety of moving picture books and the way they moved. They followed on from this by creating a variety of pictures containing mechanisms including a slider, split pins and wheels. After having the knowledge of how pictures can move, they then went on to design a moving Christmas picture in which they needed to decide what they ...
• 10th December
  This week we have been coming to the end of many units and curriculum projects. Year One are very proud of their recent finished books based on Stanley’s Stick which are named after them. Their book takes them on a journey of finding a stick and putting it towards different uses such as a whistle or a broomstick, throwing it away and finding a new one. The children worked really hard on these which include single clause sentences on each page and an illustration to go with it. They are all on display in our classroom. We are hoping you ...
• 3rd December – Ho, ho, ho!
  Christmas has arrived in the Year 1 classroom. Today was Deco day. The children had a great time making a variety of Christmas crafts and enjoyed tapping into their creative sides. We are not going to spoil the surprise of what they made today but do hope you enjoy what they bring home after we have displayed some of the bits in the classroom for the remainder of the term. During the day we decorated the classroom and even have a Christmas tree to now go with our advent calendar. We are continuing with Seasonal Change in Science. This week ...
• 26th November – History Off the Page
  What another busy week Year 1 have had. We started off the week by having an amazing day related to our Curriculum Project in History of Toys. The day consisted of playing with lots of different old toys and spending some time looking at them. We then spent some time digging for toys with the aim to identify whether the object was firstly a toy or not a toy and then secondly whether it was a new or an old toy. The children particularly loved this activity if you fancied trying it at home? Just fill up a tray ...
• 19th November – If you go down to the woods…
  We started off this week by visiting the wooded area in the school to find a special stick just like Stanley. All the children had time to choose a stick that appealed to them. Once we got back into class, we used our stick to act out what we wanted to do with our sticks and then wrote a label for our stick based on what we wanted them to be. We had all sorts of different ideas ranging from broomsticks to wands! We are continuing to use the book ‘Stanley’s Stick’ to complete writing during our literacy lessons. Off into ...
• 12th November – Stanley’s Stick
  This week we started our new book ‘Stanley’s Stick’ and have learned the book using our ‘Talk for Writing’ skills. The children really enjoyed coming up with ideas for the words in the book. Why not ask your child to tell you the story? Below is a YouTube video of the book. It is all about different imaginary ways that Stanley uses his stick. Year one especially liked the pun at the end – Stanley’s stick is ‘Fantastick’! Next week we will start to complete some writing based on the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfIuIQaOLlY Stanley’s Stick In Power Maths we have working on the unit ...
• 5th November – Starting with a ‘bang’
  It was lovely to welcome back the children on Monday after a week off for half term. I do hope you managed to get some rest and the children managed to recharge their batteries with what is set up to be yet another busy half term. This week we have started looking at Seasonal Change in our Science lessons. In particular, we looked at the names of the four different seasons and tried to think of the weather associated with them. The children thought it was funny when we talked about wearing shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops in the winter and equally ...
• 22nd October – Art Week
  We have made it! I can not believe that we have reached the end of our first half term in Year 1. It has been really lovely getting to speak to most of you at the Parent Consultations this week. It was such a shame that you were not able to come into school and for us to speak in person. I would like to thank all the parents who attend the Tuesday consultations for bearing with me due to the unfortunate Wi-Fi connection. I do hope you found the evenings informative and I look forward to seeing the progress ...