Year 1

 

 Toys

All the children have been enjoying the new and exciting things that keep arriving in our Toy Box. Most recently we have found a teddy bear and a book ‘The Everywhere Bear’. We loved hearing all about the other books by Julia Donaldson that you liked and other stories about bears that you know.  

In class, the children have been making ‘lost posters’ to help the children in the story find the Everywhere Bear.

     

In History, we became time travelers, finding out what toys children played with in different decades and even found out what the teachers in our class liked to play with when they were younger. Our classroom even turned into a toy museum for us to discover and investigate toys from the past.

 

We have been designing our own pop-up toy in DT and will be making it very soon. The designs the children created were amazing and imaginative. Here are some of the fantastic designs.

         

 

 

                                        

We have enjoyed receiving the lovely work, videos and comments from the children in Year 1 on Seesaw. We always love seeing things you get up to at home and really appreciate all the fantastic support from parents. 

Year One

 Well done!

All the children have made a fantastic start to Year 1 and are already enjoying this half term's topic which is

 'A Toy Story' .

In our classrooms a toy box has arrived and we have been finding different things inside including a robot and the story 'Rusty The Squeaky Robot'.  We loved hearing the versions of the story you made at home using your own sound effects!

In science we have identified and described different materials around the school and we linked this to our art lessons when we made fantastic collage robots. 

We are looking forward to finding out what will be in our toy box next week.  We will let you know.

Year 1


Week 5

Hello everyone! We hope you're having fun at home and enjoying what is left of the sunshine!



Year One have been working very hard at home and at school over the last few weeks and we've been very impressed with all the lovely work we've seen. 

In school, we've read lots of great stories including The Gruffalo and Tip Tap went the Crab. 

We all really enjoyed reading the Gruffalo and lots of us wrote questions that we'd like to ask him. 

Here are some of our favourites!

In Geography, we have been looking at features of Portsmouth and sorting them into "physical" or "human" features. We also compared Portsmouth to our local area in Aldershot and found we have lots of the same things! Many of our favourite human features are closed at the moment but we are lucky to have lots of open space and natural areas to enjoy!

We've also been thinking about staying safe and healthy! Just like the animals we've been learning about, people need food, water and shelter to survive and stay healthy.

We looked at different types of shelters and built our own mini shelters in our playground to test which materials were strong and waterproof. 

Which material do you think worked the best?

We know that we need healthy food to survive as well and we had fun investigating the Eatwell Plate.

We learnt all about the different food groups and enjoyed talking about our favourites from each group. Lots of us like bananas and broccoli - some of our other favourites included avocado and pineapple!

We hope you've all enjoyed finding out who your Year 2 teacher will be and are looking forward to meeting them when you can. They are all very excited to get to know you!

Our year group email is still open so keep sending in your fantastic work - we love seeing what you've been up to!

year1@alderwood.hants.sch.uk

Stay safe!

Here is a lovely video to help you and your child talk about their experience back at school this week.  Or, if you want to prepare you and your child as you consider sending them in.

Friday 5th June

We've enjoyed seeing lots of you back at school with us this week and thank you to everyone who has sent us photos of their home learning!

We started the week by reading a new story about a koala called Kevin and Year One have enjoyed learning all about Australia. We've also had fun investigating the differences between Australia and the UK - the weather was the first thing we noticed! We found out about amazing places in Australia including the Great Barrier Reef.....

(models by Logan)

We've looked at lots of Australian animals and have used our knowledge about mammals, fish, reptiles and birds to sort them into groups.

After sorting the animals, we looked at some Aboriginal animal paintings - we liked how they use bright colours and dotty patterns!

 

 

In the story, Kevin the Koala was very good at clinging to his tree and munching leaves. We decided to think about what we are good at and how lucky we are that everyone is good at different things!

Lots of us in Year One are good at drawing, running and being a kind friend. Some of us are even good at cleaning and baking!

 

We also thought about what it felt like to be brave and talked about things we would like to try. We hope the deep end of the swimming pool is ready for us!

The Year One team hope everyone at home is well and staying safe.

We look forward to seeing more of your amazing home learning next week!

Friday 15th May

Hello Year 1 we hope you have been enjoying the sunshine today.

We just wanted to share some of the fantastic work that has been happening at home and at school.

WOW!

 

 

 

Soon you should be getting your next Home Learning activities.  We have added a few more activities so that you can choose to leave some until half term.



Monday 11th May

Good morning everyone.  

We hope you are enjoying some fun activities and are staying safe at home.

In one of our previous Home Learning packs we told you about our new way of practising music and we can see that some of you have been very busy practising the songs.  If you haven't tried yet don't forget you can use your log in on

                                            https://charanga.com/yumu 

We have found some new songs for you to practise this week.  Why not try and make your own musical instrument to accompany the songs!


We hope you enjoy this weeks home learning

Thank you again for all the excellent work you have sent in.
We saw...…


Magnificent Maths

Excellent English

Super Science

and fantastic History!

Miss Curme would also like to say a big thank you to Whitebeam Class for the fantastic video they sent her, it made her smile a lot.