This week Year 1 have been enjoying reading our class text, ‘On Sudden Hill’. The character in our story Birt left his crumbled box with a letter diary explaining his feelings. The children have been using adjectives in their writing to describe how the character Birt is feeling and challenging themselves to use the conjunction ‘and’ to extend their sentences.
In maths, we have been learning about ordinal numbers and how to use a number line correctly. We have also applied ordinal numbers to other activities throughout our day, for example during our daily mile discussing who came 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and last, (it’s normally the teacher!)
We have also been discussing black history month. We have loved learning about musicians from different ethnic minorities, including the Jackson Five and Bob Marley. Here are some pictures of the children enjoying learning the ‘ABC’ chorus from Jackson 5 and practising Makaton to Bob Marley’s song ‘Three little birds’- we will be looking at lots of different musicians throughout this month.
In art we have discussed who lives in our house and how every family is different and beautiful. We have been practising different pencil techniques to create thick and thin lines which we have then applied when drawing our family portraits. Have a look at our photos attached!
Quote of the week: Every child is an artist.
By Pablo Picasso
