We have had a very exciting day in our own clothes! First we rehearsed the Christmas play, then it was time for our ‘flashmob’ dance. We even had a special guest, Humphrey the Bear, who joined in the dancing with us! It was so much fun!

In maths Year 1 have been finding out about fractions. Today we have been finding half of numbers. We worked in pairs to share the cubes or sweets equally between two. Year 1 were excellent at sharing and finding half of numbers!

This week we have been learning about fractions. The Squares worked really hard folding and cutting the shapes into halves and quarters. Well done everyone!

A naughty elf had mixed up all the Golden Bears! Year 1 had to sort the bears back into the correct colours, then we had to find out how many there were of each colour and what colours we had the most and least of. After that Ruby and Evie had the excellent idea to make patterns with the sweets. Super work Year 1!

This week in maths Year 1 have been practising adding. Today we had to work out the missing number in the sums. Children worked in partners, they used cubes and paper plates to work out the missing numbers. Excellent work Year 1 we have some super mathematicians!

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In science we have been learning all about animals. Today we investigated animal habitats, we went out into the woodland area to find some places we thought animals might live. Children explored and found lots of different homes for example nests, holes and log piles.

The Circles used cubes to add numbers up to 10. We practised reading the number sentence and using the cubes to add the two numbers together, then the Circles showed their answer on number fans. Well done everyone you worked really hard!

The Circles were asked to sort the statements and put them under the correct time of the day morning, afternoon or evening. They all did a fabulous job, well done Circles!

Our new topic in Year 1 is ‘Homes’. This week we are reading ‘The Journey Home’, we talked about animals who had lost their homes. The children split into 4 different groups and talked about questions they would like to ask the different animals to find out how they were feeling and what they were going to do next. Year 1 thought of some super questions, well done everyone!