Record Breakers Yr 1
Tweets by RecordBSTMWelcome to Record Breakers 2018-2019 class page!
Our class teacher is Miss Gannon and our Learning Support Assistants are Mrs Smallwood and Miss Hughes.
English links to games & activities to help at home:
Maths activities and games to help at home:
Our topic this Summer term are:
English: Writing a diary using 'The Queen's Handbag', Fantasy settings and characters from familiar stories and films such as Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, Shrek etc.
Maths: Number - Multiplication & Division - 2's, 5's & 10s, Fractions,
Measurement - length & height.
Science: Plants and trees.
Topic: (History/Geography/Computing/Art/DT)
Who is our Queen? What cities and towns are in the UK?
Researching facts about Queen Elizabeth II. Using a timeline to sequence significant events that have occurred in Queen Elizabeth II's reign in chronological order.
Coding and programming a pro-bot to travel from one UK city to another UK city. Purple mash -
Observational drawings of flowers inspired famous artists.
Come and See: Holidays & Holy days, Being Sorry and Neighbours.
Maths - grouping and sharing in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Science - plants and trees
History
Researching and learning about Queen Elizabeth II
English - writing our own Paddington story ... Paddington visits the UK!
Our research project of the 4 UK countries
Our UK vision which our parents came to see all our work that we have learnt about the UK and to taste some of the food from each of the 4 countries.
Computing and Geography - programming pro-bots to travel from one Uk capital city to another. We have also used atlas’ to help locate the 4 UK countries on a map.
Science and Geography - 4 seasons
Finding out the weather in the UK countries and measuring the rain fall and temperature in Liverpool.
Enterprise
We have been super mathematicians this week for our enterprise project by measuring each of the ingredients for our sustainable palm oil rocky roads and slapjacks.
Our Topics this Spring half term are:
English: Writing recounts using Goldilocks and the Three Bears, looking at familiar settings in 'We're Going on a bear hunt'.
Maths: 2D shape/3D shapes, telling the time (o'clock and half past), number bonds to 20.
Topic (History/Science/DT/Art/Computing):
Old vs New toy bears. Comparing what materials were used to make old bears and how the materials for toy bears have changed and developed over time.
Buddy the Bear Internet Safety.
Sculpting: cutting and moulding bears using clay. Using different lines to draw bear portraits.
Come and See: Special People, Meals & Change.
What we know about bears and toys and what we would like to find out!
Finding out what old toys are worth and how teddy bears are stuffed. We even had a go ourselves making and stuffing our own little bears.
We evaluated our bears and then made a rubric to help us improve and sculpt our bears again.
We have been designing our own bears and are now cutting and rolling clay to sculpt our bears. We have even used our knowledge of 3D shapes to help us make the bear’s body parts.
Comparing old and new bears
Recognising old and new toys
P.E. - gymnastics
Balancing
Just keep 🎶rolling, rolling, rolling 🎶
Science - materials
We have been investigating what materials are absorbent.
Investigating what types of paper sink or float and investigating different materials which float and sink.
Sorting and grouping recycled materials
Finding different materials in class and talking about their properties
English
We have been making the settings in a bear hunt and using adjectives to describe them.
Being news reporters and police officers questioning Goldilocks and the three bears on what’s happened in the cottage.
Recounts of the begging of the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears!
Role playing the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’
Talk 4 writing - ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’
Maths
Place value
Some of us have been counting and recognising numbers up to 7.
It’s all about the shapes!!
We have been exploring 2D shapes and their properties. Can you guess Albert’s 2D shape?
Albert - ‘It’s has 1 less edge and and corner than a hexagon ...’
We have also been exploring 3D shapes and their properties.
Making 3D nets
Recognising 3D shapes
Computing - Keeping safe online:
Please use the Thinkuknow website (link below) to help you stay safe online!
Buddy the bear has beeen helping us to understand how to stay safe on our tablets, IPads and computers
P.E. - gymnastics
This half term we are practising travelling and balancing.
Phonics!
We love learning new sounds in phonics as this helps us with our reading!
Blending sounds that we already know to read simple words
Come and See
Special people - we have been role playing and talking about. different special people in our lives and explaining why they are special.
Our Topics this Autumn half term are:
English: Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp/re-counts
Maths: Number bonds to 10/20, addition & subtraction, 2D shapes
Topic (History/Science/Art/Computing):
Animals/dinosaurs (fact files, dinosaur masks & painting)
Come & See: Belonging, Judaism & Waiting
Come and See - Waiting
we have been exploring what it is like to wait for something ...
Riley - “It is really boring”.
Festus - “Why do we have to wait for so long?”
Gabriel - “It was dull”.
The Visitation - when Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth after the angel Gabriel told her the good news that she was with child
English
Take a look at our story map for our fiction text - Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp:
Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp - Story map
Peer critique on sentences describing dinosaurs!
Brachiosaurus facts!
Logging onto the computer ourselves to go on reading eggs and to research facts about dinosaurs!
Autumn 2 - Animals & Dinosaurs!
For our topic this term we are learning all about dinosaurs. What type of dinosaurs existed? When did they exist on Earth and why did they become extinct?
Why don't you research dinosaur facts with your child. Follow the links to different websites to help you research dinosaur facts and your child can come and share with the class what they have found out.
- How did a pterodactyl get its food?
- How did dinosaurs get their food?
- Did dinosaurs roar in their sleep?
- Did dinosaurs eat grass?
- Why did dinosaurs roar?
- Why did dinosaurs make noises?
- Why couldn't dinosaurs fly?
Dinosaur workshop - being palaeontologists!
Researching dinosaur facts for our dinosaur fact books!
What we have found out when researching about dinosaurs:
- Pterodactyl's were not dinosaurs they were flying reptiles - Michelle "a reptile has scaly skin".
- Pterodactyl's ate insects and fish.
- Did you know dinosaurs who were carnivores had strong legs to help them run fast to catch their prey?
- Gabriel - "A Stegosaurus' plates change colour to stop other dinosaurs eating and attacking them like a T-Rez which is a carnivore."
- Fabricio - when talking about a Triceratops - "It has 3 horns".
- Some dinosaurs are herbivores like a Stegosaurus, Triceratops and a Brachiosaurus. Others such as T-Rex and Velociraptor are carnivores. There were even some that are omnivores (they eat meat and plants).
Science
We are learning about animals:
- naming different animals
- labelling animal body parts
- sorting and grouping animals in different groups e.g. animals that have a tail, four legs etc]
- categorising (grouping) animals by what they eat (carnivores - meat eaters, herbivores - plant eaters & omnivores - eats both meat and plants)
- grouping animals - insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds & fish.
Grouping animals
Science - Animal knowledge vocabulary organiser
Maths
This half term we are:
- counting in 1s and 2s from any given number forwards & backwards.
- saying one more/one less than a number e.g. 1 more than 17 is 18 (we know more than means adding one) 1 less than 52 is 51 (less means fewer/take away).
- recalling number bonds to 10.
- counting in 1s and 2s forwards and backwards from any number (up to 100).
Autumn 1 - All about me and where I live!
Guided Reading
We have been looking at a video clip of 'Bubbles' and talking about describing the beach where the little girl was walking along and found some bubbles.
We used our senses to explore what we could see about the beach in the hear, what we could hear and how the sand would feel. We did this by have a tuff tray of sand and using our hands to feel to help us describe what the sand felt like.
Geography - Where do I live? Where is our school?
We have been looking at where we live and what is in our local area. We have been using google maps to find where our house is from aerial view. We have also been giving instructions using positional language (go forwards, backwards, turn left & turn right) of how to find our house when using google maps.
We have explored our school by google maps and looking at aerial view photos of our school. We have begun to develop our map skills by drawing a map of how we can get from one area in our playground to another.
Science - My body and senses
We have been naming parts of the body we can see and cannot see.
Michelle - "spine"
Michael - "skull"
Riley - "wrist"
We have been investigating and carrying out simple tests on using out senses. We have used blindfolds to paint pictures like the artist Lisa Fittipaldi. This helped us realise how much people who are blind/have a sight impairment feel and how much they rely on using their sense of touch.
Guided Reading - Prediction Skills
We have been reading 'Monster's' in our guided reading. We met a lot of different monsters throughout the book but there was one called 'Cruncher' who was described as the scariest monster. We predicted what we thought Cruncher looked like:
English
In English we have been working on saying aloud simple sentences out loud. We have been practising clapping the rhythm of the sentences out in different voices e.g. singing, robot etc numerous times before writing the sentences down. Please practise this at home with children.
We have also been very busy with reading 'Mr Men adventures with dinosaurs'. We have been labelling the Mr Men characters using capital letters for names of the characters.
MISSING!
Have you seen Mr Greedy?
