Year 1 have had a great week starting our new topic Animal Antics! In Geography used an Atlas to learn where the seven continents of the world are. We began to explore Africa and eventually found Kenya, a country we will be learning lots about as we go on a Safari tour. In Science we continued to build on our knowledge of animals and drew pictures of our pets at home. To finish our week, we had a great fun dressing up for our Monster Phonics day. We spent the day playing lots of phonics games and greatly enjoyed our visit from Green Froggy! In Year 1 we are Phonics Experts! 

What an amazing first week Year 1 have had learning all about our new topic Pirates! Pirate Pete left us a map with clues around the school so we could find his treasure. Then we had dressed up in hats and eye patches and had a swashbuckling sword fight with Mr Moran! Finally, using all our design technology skills, we created pirate ships that were able to sail the seven seas. A few ships were lost along the way, but we had great fun and are excited to learn more over the coming weeks about our favourite Pirate Grace O'Malley.  

This week in Year 1 we have been busy writing our own Pinocchio stories. We have also been watching bread develop mould in the name of science! We know that Alexander Flemming made a life changing discovery due to this accidental finding. We have also been learning about measures and have been practising using standard and non standard measures to measure size and mass. We enjoyed the pantomime and today we are celebrating science week with a biscuit investigation. What a busy week!

This week we have been very busy in year 1. 

We have created alien puppets by designing, making templates and using different joining methods. We decided that our success criteria would be to make it strong, the correct size, safe for children and to make it look like an alien. 

We have also discussed how to be safe using computers and devices as part of ESafety day. 

We are preparing for our scrap book day and have looked at a number of wonderful texts- we have identified favourites! 

We have also started to create skeleton pictures ready for our new topic after half term. 

In maths we are exploring addition and subtraction facts in numbers up to 20 and have started to learn about regrouping. 

This week Year 1 have been writing exciting space stories based on the book The Way back home. We have explored the planets with a visit from the space dome. It was fantastic to learn all about the planets and space. We started to think about whether we would go to the moon if we got the opportunity. We have also been learning our numbers to 20 and learning how to partition them into the tens and ones. In science, we are learning about materials and have been learning about waterproof materials and looking at different fabrics under a magnifying glass.

This week Year 1 began our new story in literacy, generating lots of vocabulary about the newest addition to our class - Superworm! We have watched how he moves through the soil and have even found him some new 'wormy' friends from playground. In history, we have been learning about old and new things and ordered them in a timeline.  Later we had great fun playing with marbles and exploring the old-fashioned rotary telephone. In Year 1 we are Historians!