We've had a lovely first week back after the half term break. We've started a new topic, 'First Steps' and we are all really interested to know more.
English
We are working with a new text called 'The Way Back Home' by Oliver Jeffers. We have used adjectives and nouns when writing about the Martian in the story. We have thought about using capital letters and full stops, and thought about the words we need a capital letter for.
Maths
We have completed some work about time, we have thought about the sequence of the day and what activities we do and when. We have also looked at o'clock. We have started work on 'place value' by counting in 10's to 100 and thinking about how many 'ten's and ones' are in a number up to 50.
Science
We have started a new topic about 'Materials'. We have found out that materials have many different properties and sorted through a variety of materials and matched them to a property eg. for shiny we chose foil.
Topic
Our new topic is 'First Steps' and we have been very interested to follow a timeline showing the main events in the history of space travel. We found out about 'Albert II' who was the first monkey in space, Helen Sharman and more ...
Year 1F staff