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Jan 28
Science in Year 1
Firstly we want to say well done and thank you for the overwhelmingly positive response we have had so far, to the new homework format Merry Hill are using on Seesaw. Fantastic! This term our science topic is Animals, including mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. We started by identifying and comparing mammals. We learnt …
Jan 21
Art in Year One
This half term at Merry Hill we are learning about a new focus artist called Yayoi Kusama. She is better known as “the princess of polka dots!” We are going to be imitating her style for several weeks before experimenting independently and making our own mixed media collage of a vegetable. Last week we picked our …
Jan 16
Teen Numbers
This week in Maths we have been learning about the teen numbers. We have been thinking about each number as 10 and some more. For example, 11 is 10 and 1 more. We have been using ‘Base 10’ equipment to show the tens and ones within these numbers. We also looked at the …
Jan 09
English in Year One
Happy New Year! We have come back from the Christmas holidays ready to learn and have been listening to and reading a range of stories which provoke different responses. Our new key text/class story is ‘I Can Be Anything’ by Diane Dillon. In the story, a little girl dreams about what she wants to be …
Dec 12
Maths in Year One
Recently in Maths, Year One have been developing their understanding of comparison. We already understand the language of more, fewer, greater, smaller and less so have been starting to use this Maths language more fluently and confidently within our learning. We have been working out the difference in a range of contexts, firstly practically and …
Dec 05
Report Writing
In English we have been continuing our learning about reports. After learning a report about gruffalos, we then worked together in our classes to write a report about an alien. Lions chose to write about an aliens called blobs and panthers chose to write about zappers. This week we have been working hard to invent …
Nov 26
Year One’s Trip to Reveley Lodge
On Monday and Tuesday, Year One came in to school very excited for their trip to Reveley Lodge. We helped each other to put on the high-vis jackets and listened carefully to which group we were going to be in and then we were off! We walked all the way there holding our partners hand …
Nov 21
Science
In Year 1 we have continued to learn about the 5 senses. This week, we explored our sense of smell. We discovered that the parts inside our noses are called nostrils and that a smell is also referred to as a scent. Using our sense of smell, we tried to identify and describe various scents. …
Nov 15
Maths in Year One
We have made good progress so far in Year One with addition, counting forwards and backwards and understanding ‘fewer’ and ‘less’. Now we have moved onto exploring subtraction by taking away. We have modelled working out the answers by crossing out counters on a tens frame. The children are able to identify how many are …
Nov 07
English
In English we are learning about reports. When we came into school on Tuesday morning, we were quite shocked because our classrooms had been messed up! It looked like there had been an intruder! We used our detective skills to look for clues as to who it could have been. We found purple prickles, brown …