Year 1AI: Blog items
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.
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!!!
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!!!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!!!
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 8:12pm
On Tuesday we worked with Mrs McAffer for the very first time this year. This half term we are looking at how primary and secondary colours can be mixed. We used the paint that we mixed into our very own local area landscapes. We used different brush skills/techniques to create different mark making patterns such as strokes, dabbing, splattering and twisting.
It was lots of fun!!!
Date: 24th Sep 2023 @ 7:47pm
This week it has been busy in 1AI!! We continued with our story 'My Mum is a Supermum' and had a go at retelling the story by drawing story maps, sequencing the story in the correct order and writing sentences that match each picture.
Here is a link for the story if you wish to watch it at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHYh33eQPBM
In maths we continued to use the language of more than, fewer than and equal to and compared two groups of objects/numbers. We also did lots of singing along to these videos which will help us to recognise numbers up to 20 and count accurately. Why not have a go at home:
Count to 20 forwards and backwards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TIjoLW5oRw
Count to 20 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLxWIHRD4E
In science we learnt about our body parts in using the story 'Funnybones.' We discussed all about skeletons and what each body part is called and where it is. We played Simon Says and danced along to the skeleton song. Have a go at home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54m6XOpRgU
Next week we will be working with Mrs McAffer in our Art lesson for the first time!!!
Date: 17th Sep 2023 @ 6:02pm
What a fantastic week we have had in 1AI!
It's been a week of first time things on our timetable for the children such as working the City coach for PE, starting gymnastics in the hall, going into Monday and Friday assemblies and getting stuck into our timetable.
We also launched our first topic 'What makes us Incredible?' In this topic we will be looking at history and science learning in more detail by thinking about how we change over time as we grow, name and recognise body parts, learn about our senses and how the local area (Tartan Street in front of school) has changed over the last few years. We dressed as Superheroes and completed these four challenges over the day:
- Creating a Superhero
- Designing a Superhero mask
- Creating a Numicon Superhero city
- Writing a Superhero story
We also danced along to some Superhero dances, listened to some stories and discussed what Incredible meant to us.
It was lots of fun!!!
Date: 10th Sep 2023 @ 8:51am
Welcome back to school and Year 1!! It has been an amazing start to the school year in 1AI. Children have started Year 1 with a fantastic attitude and are raring to get on with their learning. We have really focussed on setting the expectations of learning in Year 1 and working in the provision areas in the classroom. We have also thought of some class rules linked to the school rules. We used the story 'Pow!' to think about our learning powers and how we will be using them this year to help us. We also joined in with our first singing assembly with Mrs Kent. Next week we will begin our timetable in Year 1 and introduce lots of other things.
Have a great weekend!
June 3rd - #30DaysWild – Whole School Challenge 3 🌧☔️
Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 8:01am
As you know this month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge. I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app. You can download it on the App Store or Google Play Store.
Just because it’s raining out there it doesn’t mean you can’t go wild! Get your Peppa on and pull on some wellies to dance in the rain.
Send your photos or short videos in and I'll put them up on our school blog
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
Connected Curriculum challenge - How does your garden grow?
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 10:41am
How does your garden grow?
Last term our Connected Curriculum challenges were all about plants and how they grow.
You learned all about how to take care of plants and the things that they need to grow and survive. Some of you also made mini beast hotels and used natural things from your garden to help the mini beasts have a home during this warm weather. You have been able to observe the seasons changing from winter to spring to summer and watch all of the trees and flowers and plants growing and changing with the spring weather.
Now it’s your chance to show off what you know and the things that you have learned. It’s up to you how you show us, here are some ideas…
. You could make a poster or an information booklet
. You could make a model garden
. You could plant something outside and do a report on its growth
. You could make a model of a tree showing the seasons changing
. You could draw different trees and flowers and label them
It’s up to you what you do, be creative and have fun! Don’t forget to send pictures in of your creations to y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:32am
Today's maths Challenge-Comparing volume and Capacity
We thought it would be a really good idea to take advantage of the last of the sunshine for this week and take the maths learning outside. Today we are going to use water and containers to learn about capacity.
When we are learning about capacity-how much liquid is in a container, we use words like full, half full, nearly full, nearly empty and empty to describe how much liquid we can see in a container
Follow this link to find out about the learning for today!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmytpg8
Challenge 1
Find some containers in the house e.g. pans, cups, dishes and tubs. Fill them up in the paddling pool or in a bowl of water.
Draw the container you have used and how much water it contains. Write the words empty, full, half empty, half full, nearly full and nearly empty to describe how full or empty the container is.
Challenge 2
Ask an adult to write the words empty, full, half empty, half full, nearly full and nearly empty on a piece of paper. Ask them to hold up the words, randomnly . Read the word and fill up the container to match the word.
Challenge 3
Which container holds the least and most water in your house? Draw a picture of each container and how much liquid it held.
Thanks
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley
Tuesday Sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:29am
Good Morning everybody, it was lovely seeing all of your learning yesterday!
Sentence of the day
Today’s sentence of the day focusses on our phase 5 phonics. Use the sound mat below to make the correction where I have used the incorrect grapheme.
One bright mondai afternoon three little snayks slithered and slid through the thick green leeves whilst the boiling sun was shayning down.
Have you managed to correct all of my mistakes? Open the answers box to find out!
Phonics
Before you find out todays phonics, let’s recap yesterday’s tricky words. See how many words you can remember from yesterday by playing a quick game of look, say, cover, write.
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For our phonics for the next few days we are going to recap our phase 5 sounds. Look at your phase 5 sound mat and go through the different sounds. If you need a little help remembering the sounds then watch the video below and listen carefully to the sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPW-ZkhRUPY
Challenge one – Word sort. Today we are just going to practice words with ay sounds in them – so with an ay, a-e, ai.
Here are some words below. Some are in the ay family and some are not. Can you sort the words so that you have a collection of words that have the ay,a-e or ai grapheme and collection of words that do not.
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Grew |
Snakes |
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Baker |
Rainy |
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Yesterday |
Toenail |
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Evening |
blame |
cube |
Challenge two – Scavenger hunt. Here is a list of things that I would like you to find. Have a look around your house or maybe keep an eye out if you go on a walk. Which things can you find?
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Something that looks like a snake |
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A cloud that looks like it might rain |
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People playing a game |
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A pair of trainers |
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A female |
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Something that has been baked |
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A snail trail |
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Challenge three – Did you see anything with the ai sound in that wasn’t on my list when you were on your scavenger hunt? Use your phonics to write them down
Good Luck! Don’t forget to send any home learning that you are proud of to y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden.
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:14am
Good morning!
How did day 1 of our exercise challenge go ? Here's one of our exercise superstars playing basketball.
Well done to you if you also did some exercise !
If yesterday didn't quite happen for you, that's ok . Today is your day ! Let me know how you get on:
Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Harriott
June 2nd - #30DaysWild - Whole School Challenge 2 🐛🌲☀️🕷🐾
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:09am
Hello again,
Just a reminder - This month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE
I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app.
Today why not look for signs of new life when you go out for a walk. I saw some ducklings at our local pond over the weekend (see short video) and look closely at the photo. What baby can you see? What is this baby animal called?
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Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
We have some fabulous photos below, just in from Alissia and Keira. Great bug spotting!
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 11:12am
This weeks reading activity is to read and listen to one of the songs below. We want you to think about what the words in the song really mean. Look at the lyrics and read or sing them again.
How is the character feeling in the song?
Are they angry, frustrated, excited?
We want you to to think about why the character is feeling this way.
You might also find it useful to listen to the music, does that give you any clues about what the character is thinking and feeling.
Choose one of the songs below and have a listen, you might want to listen to one every day but don't forget to try and read the words to the song as well - these are called lyrics. Don't worry about thinking about all of the words in the song. You can stop the song and talk about it in small parts rather than the whole song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnN6glKaWdE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i66p0_wZ9F0