Year One Meadowside

As part of our learning in English we have been learning and performing a poem called The Nut Tree by Julia Donaldson. The children came up with actions to help us remember the words to the poem and we performed it together.

Secret Readers

As part of our celebrations for storytelling week we have had visits to our class from teachers across school to read and share their favourite stories. We have also been lucky enough to have some parent readers too! Year 1 would like to send a huge thank you to all our parent readers and those who volunteered to come in too.

Thank you so much for supporting your children at home to complete the story challenges with children at home this week too, the puppets, pictures and bookmarks we have received are amazing!

Rhyme Time!

As part of our learning in Year 1 we are going to be learning a poem by heart every week. We will be practicing learning and reciting these  in class but it would be brilliant if you could practice and recite them together at home too! Here are the poems we have been learning over the last 2 weeks.

On Tuesday afternoon we were lucky enough to have Kathy Allday, Chair of the Knaresborough Museum, come in to talk to our class about school and how it has changed in Knaresborough over the last few hundred years. She helped bring our history learning to life and taught us lots of brilliant facts about what school was like for children in Victorian times. She shared examples of Victorian Children’s books, clothes and objects you might have found in a Victorian classroom!

Last week in Maths children were building on and developing their knowledge of a range of different 2D and 3D shapes. They enjoyed using a range of practical resources to help support their learning.

Challenge- go on a shape hunt at home. Which 2D and 3D shape did you find most?

Welcome back Year one. We hope you have all had a wonderful break and lots of special time together. We have started back this week with RE week where the children are learning all about sacred and special places for people of different religions. Our new Big Idea for the half term is ‘Creating’ and our main curriculum areas will be History, Art and Science. Below are the objectives we will be covering in each subject area.

Year one worked incredibly hard on their final pieces of Art work in their spirals topic. They used wax resist and a combination of the different techniques and spiral work they learnt over the last few weeks to create their festive baubles.

English

This week in English we have been learning all about Adjectives and how we can use them to describe the world around us. We then used this knowledge to describe Katie Morag, the main character from our class text. Children decided Katie is kind, honest, a little bit silly and colourful!

Challenge- can you use adjectives to describe some of the people/ places/ objects in your school reading book or reading for pleasure book?

Science

In our learning in Science this week we have been exploring melting and freezing . It has been the perfect week to learn about this as the children have been noticing ice and puddles on playground and linking their knowledge to the real world.

Our challenge was to help get our frozen toys free from the ice. Children experimented and came up with lots of ideas of how we could melt the ice and change its state back to liquid water. We have lots of very keen and curious scientists in our class!

This week Year 1 have been exploring spirals as part of our learning in Art. We are going to study artist Molly Haslund in more detail in the coming weeks and have been inspired by some of her work. We used different body parts to draw our spirals and did some of our drawings to music.

Year 1 Nativity

Dear Parents,

Our KS1 nativity production this year is ‘A Capella In The Stable’ . It has been written by our very talented teacher Mrs Velez-Colby so this year’s performance will be even more special.

The performances are on Tuesday 19^th December at 2pm and 5pm– ticket information to follow.

Costumes

Please can children come dressed as animals from the stable- cows, sheep, goats, chickens or any farm yard animal you have a costume for. Whether it’s home-made, shop bought or a last minute amazon delivery- anything goes! A simple cardboard head dress/ headband is perfect too.

Please could children bring their costumes in a named bag with a coat hanger on Monday 18^th December. If we have them in school before this date things are more likely to go missing or not be perfect for the day.

We look forward to seeing you all there,

Thank you

Miss Campey, Miss Jenkins and the Year 1 team.

English

This week in English we have started reading and sharing a new high quality text- ‘Katie Morag Delivers the Mail’ by Mairi Hedderwick. We started by reading and discussing the story- What did we like about it? What questions did we have about the story? Did anything puzzle us?

We then went on to story mapping all the key events in the story as we studied it in more detail.

Have a look at Katie’s tour of the Isle of Struay below:

Big Idea

This week we have started our new Big Idea- Exploring! Below is an overview of everything we will covering across our curriculum this half term in our different subject areas.

Thank you

Miss Campey, Miss Jenkins, Mrs Gilbody , Miss Shelton and Miss Edwards.