Today at Woodfield School it was ‘Maths Day’. Year 1 had a fantastic day participating in all sorts of exciting challenges! First thing this morning we tried some active maths, we had to collect treasure by answering some tricky addition and subtraction word problems. Then we used lots of resources to practise place value. After lunch time we tried solving some really tricky problems in our maths groups, we only had ten minutes to try to solve each problem. Finally it was time for some art using 2D shapes, for this we had to use lots of mathematical reasoning. It was a very busy day but lots of fun. Well done Year 1 you all worked so hard, you are wonderful mathematicians!
Yesterday in DT Year 1 named lots of different types of fruit and found out which countries our fruit comes from. We found out that some fruit needs warm weather to grow so it is grown in hot countries or special green houses. Then we used the fruit to make our own healthy fruit salads. Which was your favourite fruit and why? Did you try some fruit you had never tried before?
On Wednesday we had the opportunity to practise our football skills. We tried lots of different ways to travel and dodge, then we practised different ways to move over a football. Finally we developed our coordination skills with the football. It was lots of fun and we can’t wait for more FA skills this week!
Yesterday Year 1 visited Liverpool World Museum. We had an amazing day! First we went to the aquarium and found out about different sea creatures, we even got to touch a star fish! After that we explored Ancient Egypt and got the chance to dress up like explorers and Egyptians. Then we saw some dinosaur bones and lots of fossils, we were even lucky enough to touch the plates from a stegosaurus and the skull from a triceratops! It was such a fantastic trip, thank you to all the adults who came with us to help us throughout the day!
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Today Year 1 went on a word hunt. We split into pairs and had to find and read all the real and nonsense words hidden around the playground. It was lots of fun and some pairs found more than twenty words! Well done Year 1, keep practising your phonics over the half term!
Today at Woodfield it was ‘Careers Day’. We had an amazing day listening to lots of different people talk about their jobs. We heard all about banking, medicine, teaching, architecture, the police and the fire service. We all had lots of questions and we found out some very interesting things about the jobs. Which was your favourite job and why? What would you like to be when you grow up?
Watch the link below to see some photographs from our ‘Careers Day’
As part of ‘learning outdoors week’ and our current topic, ‘all creatures great and small’, we all went outside on a minibeast hunt. We found lots of minibeast habitats outside in the woodland area. Can you choose a minibeast that you found and use adjectives to describe it?
Today in art we carried on practising our drawing skills. We used chalk to improve our drawings of flowers from last week. Year 1 made beautiful, colourful pictures I am very impressed with your work!
We were very lucky to have the opportunity to practise our tennis skills today with some coaches from The Bellingham Tennis Club. We had to concentrate very hard and use our coordination skills to hit the ball with a racket. Take a look at our video of us practising our tennis skills.
In our topic lesson today we learned about human and physical features of an area. We split into groups and looked at aieral photographs of our local area, Wigan. Then we had to find and label all the human and physical features we could find in the photographs.
