Y1 (2019/2020)

Mathematics This week the children have been working on consolidating their  mathematical skills, as well as being introduced to some new activities. As the pictures show, we continued working on Place Value, as well as using geoboards to consolidate our knowledge of 2D shapes.  The children were also stretched by working on individual challenge cards. Great job Ida! Tone makes a triangle with rubber bands. Spy enjoyed making the shapes on his geoboard. Petch working out the number puzzles. Thames arranges the numbers in order. Literacy This week the children worked on familiarising themselves with basic sight words such as 'the', 'he', 'she' etc.  They read the words and then used them in sentences both orally and in written form. They also filled in missing words in a cloze exercise. Euro and Natasha write their words in sentences. Junior filled in the missing words in a cloze exercise. UOI ...

This was a short week indeed, only three days!  However, we still managed to get quite a bit of work done. This week we investigated the life cycle of a fly, which the children found extremely interesting.  We were very fortunate too, as Thames brought in some silk worms for us to observe. Thames will continue to bring them in periodically, allowing us to observe firsthand the growth and process of change. Thank you Thames! The children were fascinated watching a video about the life cycle of the fly. Obviously not Miss Tuk's favourite thing to watch. Junior was totally mesmerised by the video. Thames with his silk worms.                                             Literacy This week the children had free choice at the Writing Centre.  Many of them, when given this opportunity decided to 'write' their own  books.  Two ...

Birthday  Celebrations  We had reason to celebrate this week as it was Thames's birthday.  What a 'magnificent' and delectable  birthday cake (as Fancy Nancy would say), we got to share.  Happy Birthday Thames. Literacy In Literacy we continued with our Fancy Nancy stories and at the same time expanding our vocabulary.  In the first two pictures below the boys are writing down the 'fancy' words and the corresponding 'plain' words.  The children were also involved in activities of matching phrases with words, plus cutting out words to make sentences. Junior matches phrases to pictures. Trevi cuts out words to paste make sentences. Mathematics Some of the activities in mathematics this week included, work on Place Value, counting in 2's, 5's and 10's and addition and subtraction word problems. Daily work on the calendar was also part of our math's activities this week. Lunar re...