Welcome to Year 1 - Miss Golding's Class 2018-19
Autumn 2 2018
Year One children have continued to settle well and it has been a real pleasure to continue to teach the class!
In English lessons, the children have been writing about the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio, one of the best-loved children’s tales of all time. The children enjoyed this story and learned a great deal about how to write sentences that can end with exclamation marks and use onomatopoeic words to express sound like crash!, bang! smash!
The children could all talk about different types of puppets. They ended the year watching a puppet show!
Recently the children have written letters and this included writing to Santa! They then watched an old John Lewis advert about ‘Mog’ the cat who caused a calamity at Christmas. The children learned that Christmas was for sharing and they wrote to the Thomas family to tell them what they would share with them after the calamity that happened in their house! A great deal of kindness was shared, discussed and written about.
Wonderful writing was produced, well done Year One!
Children have been bringing their favourite books from home to share with the class and this helps us to improve our love of books and reading. We will continue with this in the spring term.
In our Singapore maths sessions, this term we have been concentrating on numbers to 20 including writing and ordering the numbers and solving addition and subtraction problems. The children have also been learning the terms more than, greater than, less and fewer.
In History and Science lessons, we have been learning about old toys and enjoyed visiting the Liverpool museum to start off this wonderful topic that meant we could play with and see old toys from years ago that parents and grandparents loved.
During RE, the children have been learning about the true meaning of Christmas and the nativity helped us all to understand what happened during that magical time when Jesus was born. They particular enjoyed a governor from school, Sandra Morris, vising the class to retell the Christmas story and help us all to dress up into nativity clothes.
As Miss Golding is still not fit enough to return to work I will continue to teach the class ensuring continuity for your children. I am looking forward to another fun and busy term after Christmas!
Mrs Riley x
Autumn 1 2018
Year One children have settled well to a fun and exciting Year One curriculum!
In English lessons the children started writing simple sentences about a story called ‘rooted’. The whole school have written about this story and the work is displayed in school. The children also listened to a classic children’s book ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy. The book tells the story of a bear who finds household objects and turns them into a helmet, space boots and a rocket so he can go to the moon. On the way he encounters an owl who joins him on his journey. They land on the moon and have a picnic but eventually get bored, and decide to go back home. When he arrives home his mother does not believe him. A brilliant story about creativity and imagination that helped the children to imagine they could be the bear and write lists of what to take to the moon! Wonderful writing was produced, well done Year One!
In our Singapore maths sessions this term we have been concentrating on numbers to 10 including writing and ordering the numbers and solving addition and subtraction problems. The children have been learning how to count back on a number line to subtract or cross out images to show them how to ‘take away’.
In our Geography and Science sessions we have been learning about weather and the seasons. The children have been on an Autumn walk and collected and observed signs of Autumn. They then wrote counting poems and created beautiful autumnal art work. Alongside this we have been learning about weather symbols and how the weather changes across Autumn and Winter. To demonstrate all their knowledge about weather the children became weather forecasters and recorded their own weather forecasts for the class.
In our RE sessions the children have been learning about the HIndu festival of light, Diwali. They have listened to the story of Rama and Sita and created a short role play. They have been experimenting with their drawings and sketching by creating their own Mehndi and Rangoli patterns in their sketch books.
Towards the end of the first half term the whole school experienced strange happenings around the school and a large egg was found on the playground that then resulted in a very exciting visitor in a dinosaur cross curricular themed week. The community police came to investigate and get evidence from the children about what could have visited the classroom and left it in such a mess! It was interesting to watch the children quickly put their classroom back into shape! Well done! They must have very tidy bedrooms at home!! The fun continued with writing dinosaur descriptions and our own dinosaur stories, improving our dinosaur drawings in our art sessions by redrafting our original drawings. We created fossils of out different materials, made playdoh dinosaur feet and measured them to compare lengths in Maths. The children put on gloves and used magnifying glasses and wooden probe sticks and become palaeontologists with the disgusting job of exploring dinosaur poo to investigate whether the dinosaur was a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore from what we could find in the poo!.
I am looking forward to another fun and busy half term!
Mrs Riley x
