Here is an overview of our learning this half term. 

English - We will be exploring, retelling and writing about Traditional Tales. We will also be practising many of the skills involved with reading and writing by recapping our Phonics and rules of writing such as capital letters and full stops.
Maths Units - Number and Place Value, Measurement: Length and Mass, Addition and Subtraction & Geometry: 2D & 3D Shape  
Science - We will be learning about our body parts, identifying and naming them. We will then explore the senses they are each connected to and investigate the 5 senses.PE - Orienteering (Reading and understanding symbols on a basic map). Catching and bouncing a ball.
RE - We will be exploring Christian Stories about Creation, as well as considering why our planet/world is a special place to many.
PRSHE - Me and My Relationships. We will share who is special to us, how they look after us and how we can care for others. We will also explore the importance of speaking to others about our feelings. We will also recap our school rules and learn to apply these within our new classroom environments and routines!
Music - Keeping the Pulse: My Favourite Things. We will explore and practise pulse and rhythms within music we hear and sounds we create.

The following subjects continue over Autumn 1 and Autumn 2:

History - What is history? We will learn about what history is, placing significant life events on a timeline and talking about the past and present.
Geography - What is it like here? We will explore our school grounds, creating and exploring maps before then making our own suggestions for how areas could be improved.
Art - Drawing: We are going to explore and share our opinions on the work of LS Lowry. We will then investigate techniques and effects used by the artist and apply these within our own artwork.
DT - Sliders and Levers: We will investigate different slider and lever mechanisms, practise creating our own and then apply those skills to create our own greetings cards.

 

Week 3

In English, we received a mystery basket with clues inside linked to our traditional tale for the half term! Inside was some cupcakes, an apron, some glasses, a red cloak and a bed. We discussed what the traditional tale might be... Little Red Riding Hood! We each drew what we know about the tale, and explored new vocabulary linked to the story. (Gigantic, path, cottage, sneaky, bellowed and rushed). Ask your child to show you the actions for each word.

Week 2

In Science, we spoke about our body parts. We enjoyed drawing around each other's bodies and labelling as many parts as we could.

In English, we have explored a range of Traditional Tales. The children spent time using story props, as well as making their own to talk about and re-tell traditional tales which they knew!

The children have been very busy during our Busy Bee time! Our busy bees watch carefully to make sure we are all reading in our busy bee nests! We complete a range of reading activities across the week, such as reading as a group, reading for pleasure in the reading areas as well as different Phonics games.

In Art, we explored how to create tone using art pencils.

 

 

Week 1

The children in Holly Class have all made a super start to life in Year 1! We have had fun getting to know our new classmates and learning the routines of our new classroom. We have learned all about Holly trees and became super Holly tree detectives to find Holly trees around the school grounds!

We enjoyed making our own Holly art, and getting into the routine of finding/using equipment and working within a group.

We familiarised ourselves with our Base 10 Maths equipment. We had some time to play with the base 10 before using them to represent different teen numbers. We were super at spinning the wheel to reveal the teen number, as well as not playing with our base 10 when it was time to represent the numbers.

Spending time playing and exploring our new classroom has been fun! The children have had lots of creative ideas within their play, and demonstrated our ready, respectful and safe school rules during Learning Choice time.