Hooray for Arrays!

Hooray for arrays


What a busy week in Year 1.


On Monday the children watched the dress rehearsal for Bugsy Malone, they really enjoyed it and sat beautifully through the whole performance.


In Maths we have been looking at arrays. The children have been using repeated addition and multiplication to write number sentences, to show ‘lots of’ 2, 5 and 10. This is a really tricky concept for the children and they showed great perseverance in their independent learning. We were really impressed by their fantastic attitudes.


In Literacy we have been reading Jack and the Beanstalk, we have had some great stories from home but I think our favourite was Jack and the Meanstalk. The children then created their own Giants, some of them were so scary that we won't be climbing any beanstalks for a while. We talked about how we could describe the giant using adjectives and they labelled their pictures of their giants with amazing adjectives.


Today we have written sentences to describe our giants, the children used their adjectives to add detail to their sentences and we explored ways of extending the sentences using words such as; and, because and so.


Next week is Science week and we have lots of fun activities planned. On Wednesday we shall be going on a local learning walk to Ladyspring Woods. The children can come in non
uniform of old clothes and suitable footwear. It would be great to see you at our Science Day picnic next Friday afternoon.


Have a lovely weekend