Summer 1 - Week 1 

English

We have started off the summer term looking at fiction and non-fiction books. The children looked at the features of these and have sorted books into groups depending on whether they have these features or not. They know that fiction books have stories and characters in them, whereas non-fiction books have facts and photographs. 

Maths

The children re-visited doubles and then looked at near-doubles, they learnt that you can solve near double calculations by using a double fact. They also leant that you can add in any order and had a go at writing reverse calculations. They used this to then match and answer calculations that has three numbers. For example, if 7 + 3 = 10 then we can say 10-7=3 and 10-3=7. 

Project

The children started their new project 'Bright Lights, Big City', we explored London virtually online and then discussed what we knew. We identified the different countries and capitals in the UK. As this is a geography based project we also talked about how we can keep our environment healthy and conducted an investigation to see how we all travel to school. We used this information to make a pictogram. 

Science

We have started our new topic 'Weather Art'. The children looked at the four seasons and then. created art using finger painting to show how the environment and weather changes in each season.  They then create a collage based on the season summer and discussed what they do in summer. We spoke about how the days in the summer are longer and sunnier because the sun is closer to our side of the Earth.

We hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Wasnock and the Year 1 team.