There's so much to talk about in Year One and we have had so much to celebrate over the past few weeks. 

We loved pyjama day last Friday, this marked the end of National Story Telling Week and the end of our work around the story "Journey" by Aaron Becker. Elm and Maple loved sharing their work with other classes from around the school. We enjoyed writing about the girl with the crayon and following her magical journey through forests, castles, and fighting armies of knights!
One of our favourite lessons this week has been thinking about the moon landing and what the astronauts did on the Moon. We made our very own footprint on the moon complete with American flag and moon rocks. We have also been celebrating writing in year one with some of our children getting Head Teacher awards for their amazing sentences. 

In phonics, we have been allowed to write on the tables! This made our learning even more fun. We can't wait to see everybody after half term for more fun at Roebuck!

A cosmic adventure has begun in Year 1, and we have kicked off our Space topic!

We have been drawing space kittens, we started our daily sentence and have been sure to remember capital letters and full stops too. In maths, we have been thinking about positions and using the correct maths language of 1st, 2nd, 3^rd and 4th.

We started our planning stage for our space alien puppets and thought about how to join two pieces of fabric together. We will be sure to use these skills during our fantastic finish at the end of the half-term. We have the space dome visiting next week, so look out on X for photos and videos of our morning.

Year 1 are poets! Last week we published our very own poetry book (you can find it in our book corners). We wrote poems about Bonfire night and tried to think of exciting words to describe what we might see, smell, feel, hear and taste! 

We have also been busy in phonics and have completed lots of exciting games to support us with learning new sounds.  

What a brilliant way to end this half term - year 1 LOVED having their grown ups at school to do our fantastic finish! We made a Humpty Dumpty sliding book and it was a huge success. Thank you to all of the parents who joined us on Tuesday morning.

Maths has been very successful in Maple and Elm too. We have been making number sentences, by building our numbers using multi link and using the correct maths symbols.

We can't wait to be back after half term for more amazing learning in Key Stage One 

The Elm and Maple children have had a busy few weeks with lots of exploring! 

In maths, we have been using lots of different resources to help us with counting. We completed a scavenger hunt in science, spotting all the different signs of Autumn. We then put on our wellies for our walk to celebrate ‘Camping Out’. We collected lots of leaves and sticks which we used to make leaf and bark rubbings. We then had some yummy marshmallows around the (pretend) fire and sang some campfire songs! 

At Roebuck we are explorers!

This week, Year 1 have enjoyed a maths topic all about mass. We used the scales to weigh different objects and compared them using the language 'heavier, lighter, as heavy as'.  In Literacy, we have been reading The Storm Whale by Benji Davies. We enjoyed rowing on the stormy seas, smelling fish and writing sentences to retell the story. In Geography, we have kicked off our topic going on a 'safari'. We sang a song to help us learn to remember the seven continents and five oceans. We also located them on a world map and zoomed in to Kenya in Africa. What a great week it has been!