On Monday, we started a block of lessons on poetry by reading two poems about chocolate, including this one by Michael Rosen. Then we each melted a chocolate button in our hand to inspire us to describe what we could see, feel, smell and taste. We created group mind maps of our descriptions and will use these to help us write our own chocolate poems.
In maths, we finished our place value unit by looking at number lines. We solved clues to identify mystery numbers and found where they went on the number line. Today, we started addition and subtraction and used a part whole model to find different ways of split numbers into two parts. This will lead into writing addition number sentences.
In geography, we listened to a rap and learnt about the seven continents of the world. We know that countries closer to the equator are hotter and those further away are colder, so we worked out what their climates would be like based on their location. One of our independent challenges this week is to re-create a map of the world showing where each continent is.
Home Learning
Thank you for all the wonderful home learning you completed with your children last half term. We hope you had fun doing the different activities. The home learning books will be sent out again next week with a new set of activities for you to enjoy.
As we said on a previous post, we are starting spelling homework this half term. The children will have 4 spellings to practice each week. We recommend using the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check strategy. Look at the word, say it aloud, cover it and try to write it, then check the spelling. The words can be written in the back of their reading record. The words for this week are:
- the
- said
- was
- come
Thank you and have a lovely weekend.
The Year 1 Team
