Term 1 Week 2

Wow, week 2 has flown by. The children have been full steam ahead with all of their learning for Term 1.

English: The children have been practising their handwriting; now we are in Year 1 the children are taught to write in a cursive script with lead in and lead out lines. They have been introduced to the story 'The Pirate Cruncher' and have acted out parts of the story and sequenced pictures to familiarise themselves with the events. 

Maths: The children have been familiarising themselves with numbers 1-10 and 1-20. They have been practising forming the numbers correctly and sequencing them. The children have also learnt about the value of the numbers including learning about the tens and ones in the number. 

Science: The children learnt about experiments and they explored different materials to discover which one was waterproof and which ones weren't quite so waterproof. 

Art: The children explored the skills of observational drawing, the children went out into the garden area and found objects to draw. They began to understand about roughly sketching their chosen object.

Music: The children learnt about having the correct posture to enc

Geography: The children learnt about the 7 continents of the world and began naming and identifying them on a map. They learnt about some of the features of these continents, including Asia being the largest continent and Australia being the smallest continent. 

RE: The children learnt about and drew people that are important to them. 

Reading books will be given out next Friday, please don't worry they are definitely coming. In relation to the reading books, we will also be running the same reading challenge that Ivy children are used to from Apple and Pear. 

Have a wonderful weekend

Ivy Team