Year One have had a brilliant day at The Laing Art Gallery, completing their gold task artwork linked to Rain and Sun-rays. They took part in a printing workshop where they made their own printing block out of styrofoam and they carefully carved weather patterns which they then printed with using ink.
In English, Year 1 have been focusing on how they can begin to understand past and present tense ready to apply in their story narrative all about London.
On Friday, Year 1 explored pitch as part of their compositional skills work in music. First of all, children listened to notes played on a glockenspiel and indicated if they thought the note was a high note or a low note by placing their hands on their head (high) and hands on their knees (low). We also discussed the difference between pitch and volume. Next children played the do-re-mi game to develop their understanding of changes in pitch.
Year 1 continued gymnastics in PE this afternoon. We perfected dish rolls and rocking chair rolls then put all of our moves into a 3 part sequence.
Yesterday morning, Year 1 completed a practical Maths lesson using tens frames to help them to add ten to a single digit number. Children worked in pairs to show a single digit number on a ten frame, then they added a full ten frame to show ten more. Finally they were asked to record the new number they made.
Yesterday, Year 1 completed their worship challenge, which was to think about how they could turn their emotions around, so that they are feeling ready to learn. Mrs B was very impressed by the children’s ideas! We now have these displayed in the classroom.
In forest school yesterday afternoon year 1 discussed a hypothesis to prove or disprove in relation to the rain. We decided as a class our big question would be ‘how much has it rained overnight?”We then made some predictions before reading a rain gauge to see if we were right or wrong. We also made wind socks to see if we could measure the wind. We returned to class to record our findings and we will continue to see if we can identify any patterns.
In computing Year 1 have been programming the Beebots to move forwards and backwards. The children made predictions to where the Beebots would end up on their journey on the map. We then used our directional knowledge to programme the Beebots using 4 directions.
For Safer Internet Day, Year 1 have been thinking about how to stay safe online. To begin the afternoon, they thought about all of the things that we use the Internet for and the devices in which they can access this information from. They then looked at this year’s theme, ‘Too Good to be true ‘ and read through a variety of scenarios, to recognise which were scams and which were real. The children used their oracy skills to discuss and debate what is private and what is public and how to spot whether something is a scam online or not. Mrs Hope and Mrs Wells were blown away with the children’s contributions and attitudes to this very important subject.
In music this afternoon year 1 have been focusing on rhythm. The children looked at rhythm patterns and how to keep in time to a steady beat and how they can retain and perform their own rhythm patterns.
