03.02.23

We are racing towards half term and the children are racing through their work with the most wonderful enthusiasm, they really are a pleasure to spend the days with!

Over the last two weeks we have continued our Art work focusing on Peter Faberge. The salt dough eggs we created have been lovingly decorated with paint and a small amount of glitter and our larger paper mache eggs have had another few layers added to them. Mrs Clist thinks we might be about ready to start decorating these ones as well now!

In our Science work we have finished looking at animals by studying the lifecycle of a frog and we have moved on to begin learning about ourselves and our bodies. This week we started nice and simply with labelling the external parts of our body and having a quick chat about what some of those parts do.

The children have been in Year One for just over 5 months now and they’re writing has improved a phenomenal amount! This week we have mainly been writing factual sentences about ourselves, our friends, our hobbies and our lives in general but we also looked at writing questions with that all important question mark and learned about putting the suffix -ing on the end of verbs to show they are happening now. For example jump – jumping…….swim-swimming. 

In Math’s we have started to look at addition and subtraction again but with bigger numbers and therefore larger amounts for us to work with. Because of this we are trying to move away from using concrete objects and looking at alternative strategies to solve the problems. We have discovered drawing tens and ones, using number lines, thinking of one more and one less and two more and two less are all ways that can help us. We have even tried to remember that if we know 5-3=2 then we also know 15-3=12.