St John the Baptist CE VA Primary School Year One

We have continued to enjoy exploring the arts this week!

Following our visit to Tate Britain Art Gallery,  we were inspired by the model cars which were on display and have made our own car sculptures.

In English, we have started looking at poems. We have learnt what a poem is and we have been making up our own poems.

In Maths we have been re-calling how to count in 2’s 5’s and 10’s.

In Music, we have been learning a new song called Your Imagination and we learnt to appreciate the music that is often found in musicals. We liked listening to songs from Mary Poppins.

This week in Year 1, we have enjoyed exploring the arts!

We had a visit from two artists and took part in a printing workshop. We looked at a variety of fruits and vegetables and enjoyed printing with them. As well as observing and drawing the different types of fruit and vegetables. Which we then made a print of onto polystyrene tiles.

We worked together with year two and reception and our finished collage will be on display in our dining hall.

On Wednesday we went to Tate Britain Art Gallery. We saw lots of different types of art. We were surprised how big some of the paintings were. We liked looking at the paintings and noticing all the different patterns and colours. Some of the sculptures were very big and were created by local artist Henry Moore.

We also took time to record our observations and enjoyed drawing some of our favourite pieces. We are now looking forward to using our inspiration to create our own pieces of art.

This week in Year 1, we have enjoyed pretending to be the characters in our new story The Last Noo Noo By Jill Murphy. We thought about what the characters might be saying and feeling.

In P.E. we re-called different ways of moving. We have been learning to roll in different ways as well as learning how to balance of different types of apparatus.

This week in Year 1, we have continued to look at mini beasts. We have enjoyed finding out lots of facts from the book “The Amazing Life Cycle of Butterflies.”

We have created our own fictional mini beasts and wrote our own headings and labels for them.

We also made our creations into models.

This week in Year 1, we have been looking at the non fiction book. The big book of bugs. We chose the bugs that we like best and carefully drew them. We then learnt how to mix colours to make lighter and darker shades. We worked in a group and took in turns to share the brushes and paint.

In Year 1 we enjoyed celebrating world book day. We took part in a book swap. We made our very own reading rivers and enjoyed sharing books with Year 6.

In Year 1 we have been enjoying making our own painting brushes out of natural materials and painting with them. We have also been enjoying the sunshine and have been practicing writing our letters with water and paint brushes outside.

This week in R.E. we went to visit our local church, St. John the Baptist. We enjoyed looking at all the different parts of the church and Rev. Sarah showed us what happens at a baptism.

In Year 1, we have been enjoying reading the book Little Red and The Very Hungry Lion. We have had lots of fun acting the story out, as well as using the ipads to record and listen to our conversations. We also made our very own story maps.

This half term in Art, we have enjoyed exploring the expressive arts. We made a large under the sea poster by combing different shades of blue paint and drawing our own sea creatures.

We thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with clay and used different tools and techniques to create our own sea creatures.

This week in Year 1, we have been enjoying reading our  My Teddy written by Jez Alborough. The children enjoyed being able to re-tell the story outside in our wooded area. They also looked for adjectives to describe how the characters were feeling and added their own words.

This week in Year 1, we have been enjoying reading our new story “A Plenty Of Love”. The children have written lists and are developing their sentence writing. In maths we have been continuing to learn how to use tens frames and recognise amounts by subitising (subitising is being able to visually see a number of objects instantly without needing to count them out one at a time). In science we have been looking at materials and how to describe them.

We have been enjoying circle time. In P.S.H.E. we thought about what is special about us. In Maths we have been learning to re-group amounts and use a tens frame.

In year one we have been learning about the story of Farmer Duck. We have enjoyed re-telling the story by getting into the roles of the characters.

In maths we have been learning about directions and have learnt how to make whole, three quarters, half and a quarter turn.