Class 4: Blog items
Year 1's learning this week...
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 12:59pm
Our first week back after the holidays and Year 1 have been super eager to learn! In literacy, we have been reading the story 'Meerkat Mail' which links to our Topic Africa this half term. We wrote some fantastic character descriptions all about the main character Sunny, using lots of adjectives. This week we also had a go at improving our learning by editing and adding in more adjectives and lots of different conjunctions!
In Maths, we have been re-capping our addition learning, using number lines and we have been adding 2 digit numbers as well as learning how to jump in tens and ones!
This half term, in PSHE, we are looking at healthylifestyles. This week's focus was on germs and how to make sure we do not spread them. We carried out an experiment, showing the difference between using hand soap and not using hand soap. Class 4 had lots of fun!
Year 1 Weekly Blog WB 11/3/2024
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 4:23pm
This week we have done some fantastic learning creating an alternative re-tell of the story The Kiss That Missed. The children introduced new characters and new settings to give their own version of the story - they were very imaginative!
In Topic we have learned about how castles have changed over time and we placed the different sorts of castles on a timeline.
In Maths we have been using numberlines to solve subtraction equations and have solved real life problems in a team challenge game - the winners managed to complte all the questions accurately and showed they were very confident to use a numberline.
On Thursday we had a visit from Madeleine Lindley Bookshop and each child was able to choose a book to take home and enjoy, it is a gift from the Harmonytrust and we hope they enjoy and traesure them!
Year 1 Weekly Blog WB 4/3/2024
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 4:37pm
This week we have started our learing about Knights and Castles. We used the book 'The Kiss that Missed' for our English learning. Here is a video of the book if you would like to share it with your child!
'The Kiss that Missed' read by Karan Brar (youtube.com)
The children have written a re tell of the story focusing on including exciting verbs and good sentence starters in their writing.
In Maths the children have been doing lots of addition learning, using a number line to support them. Next week they will be moving on to using the same tool to help them with subtraction.
In topic we started to learn about the features of castles and learned some technical vocabulary to describe these buildings. Next week we will be learning about the different types of castlesthat there are in the UK.
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 12:32pm
This week Year 1 have done some amazing learning based on the book Mixed which is about some colours who mix to make new ones ! The whole school have been focusing on writing and in Year 1 we have written a character description and a retell of the story. The writing the children have produced has been amazing and they should be very proud of themselves.
As well as writing the children have done some great drama learning creating a Soundscape of the city where the colours live and creating a Conscience Alley for the colours to walk through to decide whether they should mix or not.
The art work the children have created has also been based on the book and they have done some optical colour mixing based n the work of artist George Seurat. They also became illustrators for the afternoon and created some new characters for the book.
Next week our learning witll be linked to our topic learning about Knights and Castles and we will be reading the book The Kiss That Missed!
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 12:37pm
This week in Year 1 we have been using the text The Kings Pant's to do lots of great English learning. Here is a link to the story if you would like to listen to it with your child.
THE KING'S PANTS 👑 Nicholas Allan | Read aloud #storyoftheweek #kingcharlesbooks - YouTube
Throughout the week the children have designed some special pants for the King to wear - they have been amazingly imaginative! On Friday they wrote a letter to describe the pants to the King - We hope he likes them!
We have continued our topic learning about Great Britain learning about human and physical features - next week we will be making some features out of junk as our end of Topic finish! And we will be creating a factfile of all the learning that we have done so far about Great Britain.
Thank you to all the parents who attended the phonics screening test parents meeting - some information for those parents who did not manage to attend will be sent home next week.
Year 1 Weekly Blog WB 29/1/2024
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 12:33pm
This week we have carried on with our learning about Paddinton Bear. This week he has gone on a tour of Great Britain, stopping at Mount Snowdon, Blackpool Tower,Edinburgh Castle, Giants Causeway and The Angel of the North. In our groups we have found out lots of facts about these landmarks ready to write a diary entry in Paddington's diary on Friday.
In Science we continued our learning about classifying anaimals by finding out lots of information about amphibians - making posters to share our knowledge.
In our Topic learning we have looked at British weather patterns and created a factfile on Purple Mash to show what each season looks and feels like.
Next week our new book will be 'The King's Pants' and in Science we will be looking at reptiles.
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 5:08pm
This week, we have continued looking at the story of The Queen's hat but.. it came all the way to Glodwick! We have been using time connectives and fantastic adjectives to write super descriptive sentences.
In Maths, we have been looking at our number bonds to 10 and 20, using lots of different methods to help us.
We continued with our science learning, looking at Mammals and sorting them.
In Topic, we had lots of fun learning all about British Traditions and will be moving onto look at the countries and captial cities in the UK.
We have had a fun week full of lots of learning!
Year 1 Weekly Blog WB 8/1/2024
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 4:00pm
This week in Year 1 we have done lots of fantastic learning! Our book for this week is The Queen's Hat here is a video link if you would like to watch it with your child
The Queen's Hat read by its author and illustrator Steve Antony (youtube.com)
We did some fantastic drama learning using a Story Whoosh to retell the story where we made the shapes of lots of the landmarks in London that the hat flew over on its journey with our bodies. We have written a retell of the story using fantastic sentence starters.
In topic we have started our new Science topic which is all about different sorts of animals. This week we looked at wild and pet animals and next week our learning will be about mammals.
In art we have looked at primary colours and created images with collage and pastels in the style of the artist Mondrian.
Next week we will be starting our topic learning about Great Britain!
P.E. is now on a Friday and we will be doing a half term of learning about gymnastics.
Date: 19th Oct 2023 @ 3:57pm
This week we have had LOTS of fun as it was french week!
We read the story Madeline in Literacy and wrote setting descriptions using our senses which links to our Science learning. We also used our acting skills to perform a story whoosh!
We also learnt our numbers in French!
And our favourite was creating a beautiful watercolour painting of the sunset with the Eiffel Tower in Art.
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 2:18pm
This week Class 4 have done lots of exciting learning!
In literacy, we have created our very own fact files about African animals which link to our Topic Africa! We did lots of fact finding and made sure we knew all of the features of a fact file.
We have found out lots of interesting facts about different African animals.
In R.E, we are learning about 'belonging' and this week we spoke about what it meant to belong to Greenhill Academy!
Some of us also made/designed some crowns at home for the King's coronation! We hope you enjoyed reading all about our learning and looking at the pictures.
Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 7:51pm
This week Class 4 continued looking at the Story One Snowy Night focusing on re-telling the story. We used our fantastic drama skills to create a story whoosh, acting out the story. We really enjoyed re-telling the story through drama. We have also focused on re-telling the story through sequencing and writing using time connectives and adjectives!
In Maths this week we began looking at 2D shapes thinking about their properties and also looking at shape patterns creating our own patterns. We got to go on a shape hunt using the iPads to take pictures of different shaped objects around our classroom.
We also started out new Art topic this week drawing self portraits and portraits of our friends using the same style of art used by Picasso. We really enjoyed our art lessons and created some beautiful portraits!
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 11:36pm
This week Class 4 have done lots of learning!
In Literacy, we continued looking at the story the story The Lonely Beast and we focused on letter writing thinking about the different features!
In Maths, we continued looking at addition looking at number bonds and using the part-whole model.
In Design and Technology, we have really been really excited learning about levers and sliders and have looked at different toys as well as designed our own.
In Computing, we continued to explore Purple mash on the iPads becoming more familiar with the different tools and being able to navigate around it independently to be able to help us when we use it at home.
Overall, we have had a fun and interesting week and are looking forward to Poetry day! :)
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 12:09am
This week we continued learning about our senses in Science! We got to make sensory toys thinking about all of our different senses - we had lots of fun making them using lots of different materials!
Date: 16th Sep 2022 @ 1:41am
This week Class 4 have been doing lots of fun and interesting learning!
In Literacy we have been looking at the story 'You choose' by Nick Sharratt. We focused on using ADJECTIVES and NOUNS in our writing. Class 4 wrote some amazing descriptive sentences!
In Maths we developed our numbers learning looking at less than and more than, comparing numbers in lots of different ways.
We also continued with our Topic learning on Our local area. We looked at different types of homes and thought about the types of houses we live in. We had lots of fun using Google Earth looking at Our local area and places we visit and know.
We hope you enjoyed reading all about what we did this week!
Date: 16th Jun 2022 @ 4:28pm
This week class 4 have looked at the story 'The Kiss that Missed' focusing on using verbs and suffixes. We have done some lovely writing using a re-tell.
In Maths, we have been re-capping addition and subtraction thinking about the inverse which we did fantastic with!
Class 4 really enjoyed our new Topic Iin ICT this week where we began creating animated stories on the ipads using purple mash.
Overall, we have had a week full of fantastic learning!
Date: 23rd Mar 2022 @ 5:02pm
This week we have been writing some fantastic setting descriptions about Toby and the great fire of London, using expanded noun phrases and conjunctions! We have also been editing our learning and making it even better! The great fire of London links to our topic learning as we have been learning all about it.
In Maths, we started looking at fractions focusing on finding halves and quarters with shapes and different amounts.
In ICT, we have been using beebots which we have loved. We have been learning how to make them move in different directions and this week we wrote a program which we will be using next week!
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Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 2:17pm
KS1 have had an amazing day celebrating everything.... READING!
For world book day we have had some amazing character costumes and celebrations of vocabulary! We loved our reading party where we completed our sponsored read-a-thon. We read for 30 minutes in strange places around out classrooms.
We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who sponsored KS1 for their reading! We raised an amazing £283 towards our classroom funds.
It has been an amazing day to READ, ACHIEVE, SUCCEED! 
Our African Workshop in Year 1
Date: 4th Feb 2022 @ 5:10pm
This week Year 1 took part in an exciting African workshop as part of their Geography learning all about Africa! The children had so much fun taking part in a range of different activites.
First the children got dressed up as lots of different African Animals and had lots of fun pretending to be each animal using a range of different movements and sounds.
Then the children took part in an exciting African dance, dancing to the beat of the African drums.
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After all that dancing the children were very tired, so we sat down and tried lots of delciious African fruits, that we had already learnt about when reading the story Handa's surprise!
Class 4's learning this week..
Date: 13th Jan 2022 @ 5:07pm
Class 4 have done lots of fun learning this week!
In Literacy, we have been looking at the story 'Handa's surprise' which links to our topic Africa! We have been focusing on using time connectives and adjectives in our writing. We also did some drama acting as Handa and the animals which we really enjoyed!
We have started our new Topic Africa and have been using atlases to look at maps. We looked at the different countries and found where they are in the world.
We have learnt lots of interesting facts about Africa!
Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 4:54pm
This week in Class 4 we have learnt about lots of exciting things!
Our story in engish this week was 'Mr Wolf's Pancake'. We had to help Mr Wolf with what ingredients and instructions he would need and then we made our own pancakes! We also wrote instructions using time connectives and imperative verbs.
In Maths, we focused on subtracting and used different methods to help us. We started using dienes to help us with understanding tens and ones and to do our subtracting.
We also started learning about Florence Nightingale in Topic. We learnt all abut the important work she did in hospitals.
We had a very exciting week and did lots of super learning!
Castles dragons and knights in Class 4.
Date: 9th Jul 2021 @ 7:30pm
This week in C4 we have been busy doing our DT unit on Castles. We started by looking at different types of castles and their structures and designs. We were even able to names the different parts of a castle such as a battlement, drawbridge, moat, dungeons, turret and many more.
The children had a go at designing their own castles. And then in small groups helped each other to make one of the designs. As a team they used many skills of designing, cutting, sticking, colouring and painting.
When finished, the children evaluated their design, looking at what they had learnt, what went well and what they would do better next time.
Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 10:54pm
Class 4 have been investigating materials in science this week. We wanted to find a material that is waterproof and could be used to make a rain coat for our class teddy Simon.
We experimented with wool, cotton and a plastic sheet. Before we tested the materials we made a prediction, where we tried to guess which material would actually be waterproof. We made sure that our test was fair by using the same amount of water for the same amount of time with each material.
We had a great time putting the materials on Simon and testing them out.
By the end of the experiment, we found out that if Simon’s coat was made of cotton or wool, he would get very wet. The material that was best at keeping Simon dry was the plastic sheet. So this material would be good to make a raincoat.
Summer 2 Wk 4 Y1 Home Learning
Date: 27th Jun 2021 @ 3:36pm
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 7:00pm
In PSHE lessons this week, Class 4 have been doing life cycles. The lesson helped the children to start to understand the life cycles of animals and humans and changes that happen as we grow. We played the game ‘Find your pair’ where children had a picture card and they had to find their pair for example, the baby kitten and the adult cat were a pair. The children discussed the changes the pairs went through to become adults. The children also worked together to sort the life cycles of the butterfly and the frog.
In the Reflection Puzzle Piece children drew a picture of one thing they liked about being their current age and completed their sentence: ‘When I grow up, I want to be...’ It was great to see that many of the children were very creative with what they wanted to be.
Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 4:43pm
This week in Maths, Class 4 has been busy looking at volume. We have been comparing different liquid amounts and later went onto measuring and recording.
We developed our skills of using measuring cylinders and measuring jugs to measure different amounts of liquid.
To finish off the week we followed a recipe to make a magical potion for Rapunzel to quickly grow her hair so that she could escape from the tower.
