Year 1AI: Blog items

KS1 Wacky Rockets Exhibition

Date: 17th Mar 2024 @ 10:14am

Adam from Sublime Science finished off Science Week with KS1. He put on a exhibition in the playground all about how to create some rockets using fizzy water, a pump and mentos sweets. He used different sized bottles and changed the amount of mentos sweets that went into the fizzy water to see how far each rocket would go. Some rockets went out of our school playground!!

It was so much fun!!! 

We are Scientists!

Date: 17th Mar 2024 @ 10:09am

Last week we celebrated British Science Week which had the theme of 'Time' this year. We started the week thinking about the idea of time and how we use it for lots of different things. We discussed how we can measure time and learnt how to use timers on the IPADs. We conducted some time challenges where we investigated the following activities:

  • How many star jumps we can do in 30 seconds.
  • How many times we can write our name in 30 seconds.
  • How many many times we can say the alphabet in 30 seconds.
  • How many blocks we can use to build a tower in 30 seconds.
  • How many counters can be picked up with tweezers in 30 seconds.

We also had some science workshops by a company called 'Sublime Science' who came into school last Thursday and Friday. They were led by Dr Adam who conducted lots of experiments and we made some slime. We had so much fun! 

World Book Day in 1AI!

Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 4:52pm

On Friday we celebrated World Book Day in great style! 

We came to school dressed in our comfy clothes or a dressing up costume. We met our Year 5 buddies from Mrs Caine's class and shared our library books with them. Our grown ups came in the afternoon to share some stories. It was great to see them all enjoying reading for pleasure with their child. In class we used the story 'Where the Wild Things are' to create some clay wild thing faces, we wrote some alternative versions of the story and drew some wild things on a forest background. We also created some book characters using a cardboard tube and craft materials. Phew! We did a lot!!

It was an amazing day focussing on reading for pleasure and understanding the enjoyement reading can bring to our learning. 

Manchester Airport Runway Park visit!

Date: 6th Mar 2024 @ 9:28pm

Today we had an amazing day at Manchester Airport Runway Park. We saw planes landing and taking off on the runway. We went inside some aircrafts and learnt all about the different jobs inside an airport. Whilst on board the Monarch aircraft we were able to imagine we were pilots and sat inside the flight deck. 

Our favourite part was going to see the amazing Concorde. We learnt lots of facts about this supersonic aircraft and went up close to the different parts and stood under the Concorde's body.

It was an amazing day and we learnt so many facts about modern air travel. 

Spring 2!!!

Date: 3rd Mar 2024 @ 9:28pm

Welcome back after the half term holidays! I can't believe we are half way through Year 1 already!!!

Week 1 was a busy start where we started to look at our new topic called 'How did we learn to fly?' We started to think about what we already knew about transport or flying and created our front covers using drawing skills. In Reading we read the story 'Naughty Bus' and started to think about using our prediction skills and tracking the text. In writing we started to think of questions we would like to ask Naughty Bus and wrote some sentences to match some pictures from the story. 

We can't wait for next week when we visit Manchester Airport's Runway Park and celebrate World Book Day on Friday. 

Attached is the curriculum overview for this half term. 

Hand Puppets

Date: 3rd Mar 2024 @ 9:20pm

In the last week of Spring 1 we designed and made some hand puppets. We looked at Punch and Judy puppets from the past and thought about how they were made. Then we discussed how to make a hand puppet and chose one design from a bear, dinosaur or princess puppet. 

They all looked amazing!! 

Dress to Impress!

Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 4:30pm

This week in school we have been celebrating and learning about Children's Mental Health Week. We discussed what mental health means and did some activities over the week. We started the week discussing what mental health means and how we can have a good mental health. We discussed this year's theme 'My Voice matters' and what words or phrases we can use to help us talk and share our views. 

We completed an activity where we were thinking about what makes us happy. At the end of the week we came to school dressed to express ourselves and did lots of mindfulness and yoga. 

 

We are meteorologists!!

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 7:33pm

This term in science we have been looking at seasonal changes including weather. This week we learnt about different tools that can be used to measure weather. We discovered the job of a meteorologist and decided to make some wind socks and measure the direction the wind was blowing on Wednesday afternoon. 

We worked really hard to create the wind socks and tested them out in the reception playground. We could see the direction the wind was blowing because the strips of coloured paper was flying in that direction.💨

Threadbear has found his owner!!!

Date: 31st Jan 2024 @ 10:23pm

A few weeks ago we found Threadbear in our classroom. We decided to write some 'Found' posters that would describe him really well and put them up in some trams. We hoped the owner of Threadbear would read these posters and would be reunited with them. Today we received a video message from the little girl who read our posters on the tram and rang the number to get Threadbear back to her. 

Phew! It's a good job Threadbear has been found again!!! 

We are Artists part 2!!!

Date: 30th Jan 2024 @ 8:24pm

This week we had our second art lesson with Mrs McAffer on Tuesday. We built on the skills of drawing and mark making by creating some backgrounds for our toy pictures that we created last week. We worked in four small groups to create four backgrpound settings - space, forest, city and under the sea. 

We started by sharing ideas about what we can find in each setting on post it notes. Then we used our drawing skills to draw the different objects that would be found in each setting. We included some of the mark making skills such as hatching, cross-hatching and dots to fill in the shapes in the drawings. Finally we used oil pastels to colour in each setting. Each setting looked so affective and they will be used for a display in the KS1 shared area and in the classroom. 

We are Artists!!!

Date: 24th Jan 2024 @ 8:46pm

This week we worked with Mrs McAffer to learn more art skills. We focussed on drawing skills using different mark making patterns to show texture. We learnt about hatching and cross-hatching marks and used these in our drawings of teddy bears and toys with fur on them. We used the medium of pencils and black felt tip pens to create our drawings. They looked amazing!!! 

Toy Museum Drama Workshop

Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 5:28pm

On Wednesday a visitor called Alison came into school. She was a Toy Museum curator. We used our imagination and drama skills to be transported into a museum where Alison looked after all the toys. We learnt facts about toys from the past such as teddy bears, dolls and moveable toys. We also used our imagination to invent a new toy and acted out this toy for everyone to see. 

Next week we will be using this experience to write a recount using time connectives and extend our sentences using 'and.' In our Connected Curriculum work linked to our history skills we will use the facts we have learnt to find out which toys from the past we would like to play with and compare them with toys from the present. We will also magpie the snap game we played with Alison to match old and new toys that are the similar. 

It's been snowing!

Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 5:19pm

On Tuesday we came to school in the snow. After register the first thing that we had to do was go and play with ourfriends in the snow! Mrs Hughes and Mrs Thewlis joined us as well. It was lots of Fun!!! 

Week in 1AI!

Date: 14th Jan 2024 @ 3:16pm

This week we tried our full spring term timetable. We now do PE on Monday afternoons and started the week with some games linked to the work we did with Chiaria our City coach. On Tuesday we started our new topic in Computing all about Bee Bots. We discovered how we could program the Bee Bots using some algorithms. We realsied that some bugs appeared so we changed the algorithms and tried again to make the Bee Bots move in certain directions. We really enjoyed this session and next week we will be showing you all how to use a Bee Bot by creating some videos. Check out blog post next week for those videos!

In writing we finihsed our Found poster where we describing Threadbear and started to sequence the story 'Threadbear' using pictures and sentences from the story. We worked together with a partner to get the pictures in the correct order. Then we used our Talk for Writing phrases and actions to retell the story to our partners. 

Next week there will be lots more learning happening with a very special visitor coming into school on Wednesday. Check out next week's blog post!!! 

Launch Topic 3!

Date: 7th Jan 2024 @ 8:36am

Happy New Year!

Welcome back to the spring term in Year 1. The children have come back with such a positive attitude towards their learning and have grown a little taller as well!

We have had a busy few days back in class - we starting reading our new story 'Threadbear' and used adjectives to describe the main character called Threadbear. In maths we have started to learn about 2D shapes and next week we will be learning about 3D shapes. 

In our Connected Curriculum we started to think about our new topic question 'Is the XBox more fun than our grandparent's toys?' In this topic we will be using history, design & technology and art skills to support us. On Thursday afternoon we launched our topic by having a 'Games Afternoon' where we played with various types of toys, board games and toys from the past. We collected some information about which toy/game was our favourite and created a block graph. In 1AI we enjoyed playing with the various board games. 

Christmas Week!

Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 7:00pm

We have had such a lovely week in our final few days before the holidays. On Monday we had our Christmas party and had lots of fun playing games and dancing. On Tuesday we had a lovely visit from Father Christmas. We asked him questions and sang him a song. On Wednesday we had our delicious Christmas lunch with our friends.

It's been a very magical Christmassey week in school but I think we are definately ready for the holidays! 

Baarmy Bethlehem!!!

Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 10:14am

It's been a busy week again in school and it's looking very Christmassey!

This week we performed our Nativity 'Baarmy Bethlehem' three times! On Monday we performed our dress rehearsal to Year 3 and 4 who enjoyed it a lot. On Tuesday we perfomed it two times in front of KS1 grown ups from home and Nursery/Reception grown ups from home. It was amazing but a very tiring day! 

Next week it will be even more Christmas fun with a possible visit from Father Christmas, Christmas party day, Christmas dinner and lots more Christmas fun and activities. 

 

1AI - Busy, Busy, Busy!!!

Date: 3rd Dec 2023 @ 8:37am

What a busy few weeks we have had in 1AI!!!

It's looking a lot like Christmas in school and we are busy rehearsing for the Nativity performances next Tuesday. We are very excited to share our singing, acting and dancing skills to EYFS and KS1 grown ups on Tuesday 5th December in the morning and afternoon. 

In class we have also been busy writing setting decriptions using some of the settings in the story Stickman. In maths we have continued to find the parts for numbers 7, 8, 9 and 10 in a systematic way. In science we have been learning about the properties of materials and using some vocabulary to describe these properties. 

In our Connected Curriculum work we have continued our geography skills by learning about compass points and how we can use them to give directions to get to certain landmarks on a map. 

Phew! Lots more to do in the last two weeks before the Christmas holidays!!! 

Week 3 in 1AI - Diwali, Maths week and Anti-bullying week!

Date: 19th Nov 2023 @ 6:26am

We have had a very busy week in school! We started the week with wearing odd socks and discussing bullying for Anti-bullying week. We used our Jigsaw session to talk about this important topic and designed some odd socks. 

On Thursday afternoon in Year 1 we had our Diwali celebrations. We found out about what Diwali was and the story behind this important Hindu festival. We made some Diya lamps out of clay and learnt some Bollywood dancing. Here is the video link for the dance that we were learning if you wanted to try at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fR-VUDvH9g&scrlybrkr=262b57f7

This week was also Maths Week. We were learning how to play some games, sharing and practising the skill of turn taking. We also designed some new board games all about odd and even numbers which will be laminated and put into our maths area for everyone to play. 

In writing we also wrote our wolf sock puppet instructions.

Phew it has been busy this week! 

Wolf Sock Puppets!

Date: 12th Nov 2023 @ 9:09am

This week we have made some wolf sock puppets to support our writing for the next two weeks. We watched a video to help us to think about the instructions/steps that we needed to do to make the puppets. Whilst making the puppets we thought about the steps we needed to do to make them. We used time connectives such as first, next, then, after that and finally.

Next week we will be writing the instructions on how to make these sock puppets and putting them on the class blog. Come back next week to see the instructions! Let's see if you can follow the instructions to make your own sock puppet!

1AI Launch Topic 2!

Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 9:51pm

Welcome back to Autumn 2!

We have had an amazing start to the second half term. The children are raring to get stuck into their learning for our next topic.

Last Wednesday we invited our parents and carers to come into school and help us launch our new topic. The topic question that we are trying to answer is 'Could the three little pigs use a better material to build their houses?' In this topic we will focus on science knowledge about materials, design & technology and geography skills. 

The building challenge was to work as a team using our learning powers to make a strong house for the three little pigs. We used large cardboard boxes, masking tape, selotape, paper and other boxes/tubes for our creations. 

The teams worked really well and the houses looked fantastic! Some of them even had a swimming pool, a lab to make potions, a garage and a garden with animals. 

Thank you to the fabulous parents/carers who came and helped us! 

Autumn 1 done!

Date: 28th Oct 2023 @ 8:39am

What a busy first half term we have had in 1AI!!!

We are very settled into the routines and timetable of Year 1 and have really enjoyed answering our topic question - What makes us Incredible? We launched this topic with a superhero day and finsihed it by creating a padlet page describing how we have changed over time. We recorded our thoughts and sent the padlet page to Miss Higgins who is the histiry lead in school. She was very impressed with our historical knowledge of changes in our lifetime! 

Next half term will be another busy one with the lead up to all things Chrismassey!! Ho, Ho, Ho!!!! 

Attached is the parent overview for Autumn 2 so you can have a look at what we will be doing in our next topic question. Don't forget the first Wednesday after the half term holidays we have invited parents/grown ups from home to join in with our next topic launch. 1AI grown ups are invited on Wednesday 1st November at 2pm. Looking forward to seeing you there! 

We are scientists in 1AI!

Date: 15th Oct 2023 @ 6:01pm

In science this half term we have been learning about body parts and what our senses are. We learnt about the job of each sense and which body part it was associated with. We used this song to help us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqx39K2omc

We carried out a Smell Pot investigation where we predicted what was in each pot using our sense of smell. We smelt each pot and then discussed what it might be and whether we liked each smell or not. We recorded our findings in a table and discovered what each smell actually was. We predicted correctly for some of the smells!

Freestyle Footballer Rebaz!

Date: 15th Oct 2023 @ 5:54pm

Last week we had a visitor called Rebaz who came into school. He was a freestyle footballer who was amazing at doing tricks with a football. He showed off his skills in an assembly on Thursday and then we got a chance to work with him later in the day. He showed us four different tricks that we could do with a football.

It was lots of fun!!! 

Beware Evil Veggies are on the loose!!!

Date: 8th Oct 2023 @ 5:00pm

What a week this has been! We discovered some vegetables that were trapped in a brown sack which mysteriously came to our classroom on Monday. In the sack we found some vegtables that were trapped along with a letter. We had to describe which evil character would do such a thing! We designed our own evil vegetables, described them thinking of adjectives to describe their appearance and personality.

A second letter came the next day thanking us for describing the evil vegetables really well. We were left with the story 'Supertato' to read and learn all about the nasty character called the 'Evil Pea!' Miss Riley and Reception children came to warn us that something evil has been in their class doing lots of nasty things. This thing has ripped a sound mat! Broken some toys and scrunched up some children's work! We decided to warn everyone and write some Wanted posters describing the Evil Pea's appearance and personality. 

On Friday during Golden Time we decided that we needed to make some Evil Pea traps just in case this awful vegetable came back!

Wow! What a week of learning in our writing sessions!!! 

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