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 and Mrs Peters

 

Welcome to Seahorses class page. 

PE days are Monday and Friday this half-term.

This half-term we are focussing on Design and Technology and History. Art and Geography will be next half-term.  Please come to school in your PE kit on Mondays and Fridays. 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. Children will be set homework on a Monday that will need to be returned by the following Monday. 

February

PE days are now Monday and Friday for this half term.

This half term in our History lessons we will be learning about toys and how they have changed over time. We are learning about seasonal change in our Science lessons and we will be designing and making a puppet in our Design and Technology lessons.

In literacy we read the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes. The children loved the funny ending and none of them guessed what would happen in the story before we read it. We tried different pancake toppings and talked about the one we preferred and why. We also re-told the story in our own words and wrote sentences about the story. We learnt the term verb and wrote verbs in different sentences about Mr Wolf.

In Maths we have been looking at position and direction and the vocabulary associated with it.  We have been talking about where items are located and moving different objects to in front of, between, behind, on top of, under and next to. We have also been working on learning our left and right and turning whole and half turns to the left and right.

January

We have already had a very busy start to 2025. Seahorses PE days are Monday and Wednesday for this half term. The children have started learning about weather in Geography, materials and their properties in Science, digital literacy in computing and have started a seasonal art journey.

In our Maths lessons we have been learning how to subtract and about all the other vocabulary that also means subtract. We have been physically taking away objects and jumping backwards along a number line as well as writing our own take away number sentences.

We are looking at sculpture in our art lessons. The children learnt how to make their own paper snowflakes by folding and cutting. They had to follow the instructions very carefully and were very excited by their finished results. They have also enjoyed using the clay to create their own Autumn sculpture.

In our Literacy lessons we have been looking at stories set in Africa. The children have been interested to learn about the animals that you might find on safari and have been writing sentences using adjectives to describe them. We have also been matching the sentences found in the book to the pictures and have been highlighting nouns in small groups. We made a group poster about a zebra using a non-fiction book and the national geographic website to find out our own facts.

The children have been using balls and rackets in our PE lessons and are learning to work in pairs and use the equipment safely.

December

We have been working really hard with our writing this half-term and are becoming more independent. The children are working hard to remember their capital letters, full stops and finger spaces and have started to use adjectives to describe nouns. They watched a John Lewis Christmas advert about give a little love and wrote about the things they saw independently. The children are now starting to write words using their Fred gingers and can use the sound mats to help them if they are unsure of how to spell words.  

At the start of December, Seahorses got to visit the life space where they met Harold the Giraffe. They learnt all about different food groups and how much you should eat of each group. They also learnt about how to take care of themselves, including the importance of a healthy diet and good sleep.

 

 

 

In our Maths lessons we have been starting to learn about capacity. The children loved practically filling containers and using the vocabulary full, empty and half full. We have also been carrying on learning how to write addition and subtraction number sentences and have started to solve simple word problems involving adding and taking away.

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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