Welcome to Year 1 and 2!

Your teacher is Miss Littleford

Our Learning this Week

Our Learning This Week

Immersion 

We continued our immersion into our new topic "Once Upon a Time" on Monday with a variety of activities. The children created their very own magical reading wand by decorating stars with beautiful patterns and glitter! The children will use these throughout the year during group guided reading sessions to help them track the words as they, and others, read aloud. We then looked carefully at the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children worked together to discuss the characters and then decide on the main events in the story. They then worked in groups to act out the story. This required some team work, as they had to decide between themselves who would play which character and what props they were going to use. 

Writing

This week we have started out first writing unit of the year. The children have been learning about setting descriptions. We looked at a variety of fairy tale stories and discussed where the story takes place. We then looked at Little Red Riding Hood's forest. We went outside and used our imaginations to pretend the field was a deep dark forest! We used our senses to think about ideas we could include in our writing. The children their planned their writing, using drawings and words to prompt their writing later in the week. Year 1 learnt about nouns, making sure they had planned a noun for each page. Year 2 revisited adjectives, making sure they had words to describe on their plan! We then wrote the first page of our book. 

Year 1 Maths

We started the week with a recap of numbers 1-10, using numicon to find all the numbers and putting them in order from smallest to biggest. They also completed a baseline assessment of their written numbers, which will allow us to target numbers which need practice over the term. We then spent some time created numbers by combining smaller numbers. Check out the class gallery to see some photos of what we got up to! We spent the rest of the week learning to use Magma Maths, our online maths programme which the children use to complete their maths work every day. The children learnt that they must always 'show how they know' on Magma, so they practised answering some simple maths questions showing me all their fantastic knowledge! 

Year 2 Maths 

This week, Year 2 completed a baseline assessment of their place value knowledge, ahead of starting their place value unit next week. They have also revisited number formation and number bonds.