Another great week Year 1. We have carried on with our new topic of First Steps this week along with having a wonderful day of exploring a love of reading for world book day. We really enjoyed listening to the favourite stories of our teachers and peers.
English
In English we have finished our class story of 'The Way Back Home’. We have edited and improved the model text about a martian. We have used the nouns and adjectives we came up with to help write our new text.
Maths
In Maths this week we have been learning about place value and exploring numbers up to 50. We have use practical equipment to help us figure out next numbers and slove reasoning questions.
Science
In Sciencewe have been thinking more about materials. Exploring their features of flexible and stiff. We have been thinking of how this can make a material suitable for making different items such as an astronauts helemt.
Topic
This week we have learnt more about the space race. We researched and learnt all about Neil Armstrong. We learnt about his life, what it was like for him as a child and how he became the first man to walk on the moon. We also learnt about how he became a teacher after he was an astronaut.
We have had a very busy week of learning!
It has been a very joyous and informative week and we look forward to sharing next week with you.