This term, Year 1 have been learning about seasonal changes. We went on an adventure to spot signs of Autumn. We saw leaves turning brown and empty birds' nests in trees. But then we had to dash back inside because we got caught in the rain (standard UK weather)! This week we made our very own weather reports using maps, props and microphones. We enjoyed working together as a team! At Roebuck, we are.. Meteorologists! 

What a fantastic start Year 1 have had to our Camping Out topic. Last week local Brownie and Scouts leaders, Wren and Bluebell came to our school to teach us all about camping. First, we used our magnifying glasses to help them on a scavenger hunt through Creature Corner.  We found lots of interesting leaves, creatures and flowers. We used our findings to create leaf rubbings and hedgehogs to display in our classroom.  Later they taught us how to set up a tent, so we could stay warm and dry while. Unfortunately, the weather was too hot for a real campfire so instead we enjoyed ice pops as Mr Kalaiarasu taught us some campfire-songs. At Roebuck we are Campers! 

Year 1 have had a great week starting our new topic Animal Antics! In Geography used an Atlas to learn where the seven continents of the world are. We began to explore Africa and eventually found Kenya, a country we will be learning lots about as we go on a Safari tour. In Science we continued to build on our knowledge of animals and drew pictures of our pets at home. To finish our week, we had a great fun dressing up for our Monster Phonics day. We spent the day playing lots of phonics games and greatly enjoyed our visit from Green Froggy! In Year 1 we are Phonics Experts! 

What an amazing first week Year 1 have had learning all about our new topic Pirates! Pirate Pete left us a map with clues around the school so we could find his treasure. Then we had dressed up in hats and eye patches and had a swashbuckling sword fight with Mr Moran! Finally, using all our design technology skills, we created pirate ships that were able to sail the seven seas. A few ships were lost along the way, but we had great fun and are excited to learn more over the coming weeks about our favourite Pirate Grace O'Malley.  

This week in Year 1 we have been busy writing our own Pinocchio stories. We have also been watching bread develop mould in the name of science! We know that Alexander Flemming made a life changing discovery due to this accidental finding. We have also been learning about measures and have been practising using standard and non standard measures to measure size and mass. We enjoyed the pantomime and today we are celebrating science week with a biscuit investigation. What a busy week!

This week we have been very busy in year 1. 

We have created alien puppets by designing, making templates and using different joining methods. We decided that our success criteria would be to make it strong, the correct size, safe for children and to make it look like an alien. 

We have also discussed how to be safe using computers and devices as part of ESafety day. 

We are preparing for our scrap book day and have looked at a number of wonderful texts- we have identified favourites! 

We have also started to create skeleton pictures ready for our new topic after half term. 

In maths we are exploring addition and subtraction facts in numbers up to 20 and have started to learn about regrouping.