The Maple and Elm children have settled in extremely well to Year One, and we have had a great few days of exciting learning. 

In phonics, we have been recapping our phonics monsters, including Yellow I and Miss Oh No! We enjoyed our whole school text of "Bottled" and we created our own bottles full of feelings, using pictures from familiar story books.

We started reading "We're going on a bear hunt" and have loved joining in with Michael Rosen to read along with the story. We are also maths wizards and have been ordering numbers to 10! What a busy start to the term.

In Year one we are going on a Bear Hunt!

This week, Year 1 have started a new maths topic all about volume and capacity. We used language such as 'full, empty, half full, half empty, etc'. We practically used water and cups to visually make different amounts. 

In Literacy, we have been reading Grandad's Island by Benji Davies. We enjoyed writing a letter using lots of exciting sentences! 

In History, we have been learning about a Pirate named Grace O'Malley and an explorer named Christopher Columbus. We created a timeline of events and put these in chronological order. What a fun week it has been! Happy half-term everyone 🙂

Ahoy there me hearties! Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed kicking off their new topic with a Pirate dress up day. We had a full day of DT where we designed, created, tested and then evaluated our very own pirate ships. 

It was great fun testing out of the boats on the seven seas!  

In Literacy, we have been writing a non-chronological report all about Pirates. We used role play to act out many different jobs aboard the ship and decided which ones we would and would NOT enjoy! We also learned about different foods and drinks that Pirates may have had. We even tried our very own Ginger Beer. 

Yo-ho-ho! We've had a blast! 

Year 1 have had a fab start to the term. In Art, we have been learning all about primary and secondary colours. We enjoyed mixing primary colours together to see what new colours we could make! Our Science topic this term is all about US.. humans! We started the topic off by using the correct terminology for different parts of our bodies and we thought about our similarities and differences. We also measured to find out who had the largest \ smallest hands and feet in our class! 

At Roebuck we are Artists AND scientists! 

This week in Year 1 we have been very busy finding out all about the first astronaut on the moon, Neil Armstrong. We have also been looking at number sequences using more and less. In phonics, we have been learning about some of the ways  ways to make an I sound using Yellow-I to help us. 

In science, we asked ourselves the question, Why do fish not have fingers? We held and looked at the fish under the magnifying glass to see all of the parts. We discussed how fish live and breathe underwater and compared them to other animals. We discovered that not many children in year 1 have held or been this close to a fish before. We really enjoyed being scientists. 

CHRISTMAS HAS ARRIVED! This week has been very exciting as we performed our Christmas concert to the rest of the school and to all of our wonderful parents. We had such a fabulous time singing all the songs and getting into the festive spirit!

As part of our Superhero topic, last week we were visited by the fire brigade and some police officers. We learned all about how they keep people safe and we asked them lots of interesting questions! We also celebrated our superhero topic with a dress up day and have been writing some fantastic sentences based on the story 'Superworm' by Julia Donaldson. 

In Year 1 we are... SUPER!