Mrs Wade
Welcome to Year 1
2022-2023!
SCIENCE WEEK
On Monday we had four visitors from the Addingham Environment Group who came to teach us about microscopic life which can be found in our very own school pond. We braved the weather and went to the pond to collect samples of water. We couldn't see any creatures in the sample when we looked with our own eyes, but when we were shown them under the microscope we could see lots of unusual organisms! They had funny names, like Ciliate, Cyclops and Diatom. We listened to Malcolm tell us about how these were the bottom of the food chain, and completed an eye spy activity. In Friday's assembly we were able to play a video which Malcolm made of the organisms from our water sample!
On Wednesday we teamed up with our year 4 reading buddies to make telephones from cups and a piece of string, and Mrs Farmery told us how the sound travels in vibrations down the string. We could even hear a tiny whisper.
We have had a really enjoyable week in school celebrating World Book Day, getting creative designing and making character spoons, sharing books and stories with our Year 4 reading buddies, going on a visit to the theatre and enjoying hot chocolate for a 'bedtime story' in the library. Our Geography lesson took us outdoors so we could decide if the area we live in is urban or rural, and our writing has linked with our Science topic on protecting our environment. We worked hard making little clay gargoyles in our art lesson and they really are brilliant - such attention to detail! In RE we finished our Christianity and friendship based topic by making a friendship web, symbolising the linking our year 1 team together as a friendship group.
Year 1 have enjoyed learning about what pets need in Science this week and have studied what transport looked like in Addingham a long time ago in History. We have been busy in maths looking at what the teens numbers are and how they are made up. In English we read about Dogger, an old, worn, but much-loved toy dog who gets lost by his owner, Dave. If you want to know how the story ends, just ask us! Our favourite bit of the week was a visit from Juliet and Harold from the CORAM life education caravan, teaching us how to keep ourselves healthy. We are VERY proud of our whole-class artwork based on the use of 'line' by artist Joan Miro.
We are beginning to get festive in year 1, with glittery artwork for the village library and advent windows, and heart shaped tree decorations for the huge tree in the hall. Nativity practise is going well, we are looking forward to welcoming you in to watch it next week. Our writing this week has been all about Robins. We have a friendly robin pair who come to the year 1 class bird table every day, and they timed their visit perfectly for our Robin writing session. In History we have begun learning about information sources, in particular 'What is an archaeologist.' There are some big words for small people but the children are really enjoying learning and using them!
We are very excited to have started rehearsals for our nativity play this week; it's particularly lovely to hear from you that the children are coming home singing the songs.
We have been learning about Owls in our English lesson; we hunted outside for owl facts to answer some true or false questions. We learned about more animals in our 'Animals and Their Needs' topic in Science, so we have found out many facts and been doing lots of lovely writing and illustrations in the lessons.
We have learned how to play a game called 'Ping Pong' in maths to help us to learn the number bonds to 10 by heart. Have a play at home.
On Positive Noticing Day year 1 wrote each other positive messages on little tags which they could fix to their book bags and take home, and we enjoyed some Children in Need activities on Friday when we had a non-uniform / dress-up fundraising day for the charity. We really do have some very kind, thoughtful children! (Click on the pictures to enlarge them.)
Look at our fantastic firework pictures! We enjoyed practising our mouse skills, logging in, opening the program and creating our work using the tools in the menus on 'Paint.' We even had time to have a little play on 'cbeebies' at the end of the lesson.
A super fun Science lesson on smell, taste and touch!
Outdoor learning in our RE lesson......
We have enjoyed reading and writing about some lovely stories including The Enormous Crocodile, The Rainbow Fish and Sharing a Shell. In maths we have been learning about the 'greater than' and 'less than' symbols and comparing groups of objects and numbers. We had fun going on a 'listening walk' in Science to hear as many sounds as we could in and around our school.
We have already had lots of fun in Year 1. We turned ourselves into ROAR-SOME lions for our display, played together and have begun our Year 1 learning. This has included sorting and counting in maths, and 'Our Body' in Science. We enjoyed a rock concert, and thought (and wrote) about how we remember Queen Elizabeth.

