Welcome to Seahorses Class (Year 1)

We are a happy and friendly class who welcome you to share our lovely learning.

Class Teacher: Mrs Horne

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Franssen     Learning Support Assistant:    Miss Swinden

 

Welcome to Seahorses class page. 

PE days are Wednesday and Thursday this half-term.

This half-term we are focussing on Design Technology and History. Art and Geography will be next half-term.  Please come to school in your PE kit on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please read at home with your child every evening. It is really important that you support your child with their reading at home.

Each week the children will come home with spellings to have a go at copying out. If your child brings their completed spellings back into school, they will get a smiley face on their chart.  There will be no formal spelling test. Homework will not begin until after Christmas. 

This week we will be assessing the children's phonic knowledge to see what Read Write Inc level they need to start the new school year on. Please keep practising the set 2 and 3 sounds with your children and see if they can read and write them in words. 

November

Seahorses have been busy learning about Space in our history lessons. They loved learning about all the planets in our solar system and the history of space travel.

In our Science lessons we are learning about the different seasons and what the weather is like in the Autumn and Winter. The children collected signs of Autumn and made up their own Autumn weather forecast in pairs.

This week we have been looking at shapes in our Maths lessons. We have been sorting shapes by their properties and learning to name both 2D and 3D shapes. We have also been making models and finding out which 3D shapes stack and which ones don't!

 

This half term in Design Technology we are going to be making a moving picture with mechanisms. The children like looking at pop up books and seeing how they work. They have already explored how to make different mechanisms and have completed their designs ready to start making in the next couple of weeks.

October

In our Geography lessons this half term we have been learning about our local area and the physical and human features that we find in Woking. We enjoyed going on a local area walk into Woking. We visited the alien, Christchurch, the library and the train station. We saw different shops, restaurants, cafes and estate agents. We looked at all different housing types and learnt the words detached, terraced and semi-detached. We then went to Boundary park and had great fun playing with our friends. We decided we are very lucky to have all of these things near our school.

In our Science lessons we have been learning about animals including humans. This week we learnt about our five different senses and did experiments using them. We loved smelling and tasting different foods!

September

The children have settled in well to Seahorses Class. They have been getting used to being with each other again, taking turns and sharing. We have spent the first few days of term learning new routines and exploring the classroom and outdoor area. 

We have had our first PE lesson with Miss Young and have been learning about seahorses. We have read stories about seahorses, watched videos and wrote our own facts. We have learnt that seahorses come in lots of different colours and we painted and decorated our own seahorse for a display in our classroom and in the school corridor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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