Y1 (2019/2020)

It was so lovely to see the children come back to school with smiles on their faces. Although it was a short week we still managed to get through lots of work and have fun at the same time! Maths Tanat writes a sum for the picture on the board. Nobu makes up his own sums. In maths this week the children were introduced to simple addition.  The topic was introduced by using the children themselves to illustrate the sum, for example, 3 boys stood at the front of the classroom and then were joined by 2 girls.  The children were able to see that 3 boys plus 2 girls made 5 children.  After several examples using concrete materials the children were given pictures for which they had to write the sum. Using counters to help her Korwan does some basic addition sums. Phonics In Phonics the children have been focussing on the sound 'p'.  One of the stories we read in class to reinforce this sound was 'The Princess And The Pea'.  A...

UOI In class this week the children were learning about the sense of taste.  We had lots of fun with this activity as the children were blindfolded and asked to identify the food by tasting.  The children were able to describe the various foods using appropriate vocabulary such as, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy etc. Some of the different food the children tasted. Poor Miss Rachel couldn't contain herself at the expression Linux's face when he tasted the salt. Phonics This week the children have been focusing on the sound 'f'.  As a class the children brainstormed things that begin with 'f'.  We also read the book 'The Rainbow Fish'. Maths In Maths this week the children were introduced to odd and even numbers.  Activities included clapping the even numbers and whispering the odd numbers as well as the children ordering themselves into groups of even and odd numbers depending on the number they were given. The children ...

What a wonderful week we've had in Year 1 this week. We had such fun practising for and performing our assembly. The children performed the story of the 'Pied Piper of Hamelin'.  I must say I was super impressed and proud of each and every one of them. Phonics In phonics this week the children have been learning the sound 'i'.  Apart from writing the sound 'i' and colouring in pictures of objects beginning with the sound 'i', the children made Indian headdresses and igloos. Since the beginning of the year, the children have learned several sounds and are now beginning to put them together to form words. They are very proud of themselves and rightly so. Maths In Maths this week the children were focussing on ordering numbers 1 to 20. To reinforce this the children had to choose a  number and find the number immediately before and after the chosen number. In the picture above each child ha...