Computers can be used to model or simulate real life, they can be games or even science experiments. As long as the computer has the right information it can model what would happen. As it is in a virtual world time can be sped up so a few minutes can become a few weeks or months!
BBC Learning Clips – Growing Plants
Today we are going to be using a website to help us find out about making plants grow.
We can use
The internet is very useful and can help us find out lots of facts and help us learn at home but we need to be safe.
I have chosen a few websites that will help us find out lots about plants – You will need to use the head phones to hear what is happening.
Watch this to find out about parts of a plant.
BBC Learning Clips – Plant Film
Try these online activities to label the plant.
Espresso – Label plant (School only)
Find out some more.
Another activity that helps you find out more about plants.
We have been practising our reading and comprehension skills in Guided Reading. We all enjoyed completing our different reading activities…
We enjoyed reading and sharing picture books independently with our friends in the story corner.
We enjoyed sharing the books we took home over the holidays. We discussed whether we liked our book and what we liked about it, what happened in our story and the characters and setting. After we choose a new book to take home.
We enjoyed reading to our class teachers looking at non-fiction books together; especially finding out more about animals.
Finally, we enjoyed retrieving information from our non-fiction book to write facts about snails.
Maths
This week we will be learning how to measure capacity. We will be learning what capacity means, understanding the vocabulary full, half full and empty and learning how to use non-standard units of measurement to measure. Can you measure the capacity of containers at home counting how many egg cups or mugs of water it takes to fill them?
Topic
This week we will be learning about the continent Australia. We will be learning to name and locate the continent of Australia and the oceans that surround it. Can you name and locate Australia and the oceans on the map?
Science
This week we will be continuing to learn animals diets. We will be learning about Australian animals and whether they are a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore.
Today we went for a learning walk around the playground to explore our sense of touch. We learnt that we use our whole body to touch starting from your head to your toes and that we feel through our skin. We used our sense of touch to discover what the things we can see around us feel like.
Oh no there has been a casualty in 1G. One of the children have hurt themselves and has had to be rushed to our hospital role play area. But do not fear there are doctors on the ready. They have suited up with their glasses and gloves, grabbed their doctors kit and have mended the problem with their excellent body knowledge which they have learnt in science.
We have been learning about the season of autumn. We have learnt about how the weather gets colder and the leaves on the trees change colour and fall off. We went outside to collect leaves to help us make a display for school. We also made autumn pictures using paint and our hands.
In science we have been working on identifying and naming parts of the body.
Can you list the different parts of the body?
We have planted sun flower seeds. We have placed our seeds by the window so that they get sunlight to help them grow. Keep looking everyday to see if our sunflowers have grown any bigger.
This week in Year One we will be learning…
Numeracy
We will be learning how to sort using venn and carroll diagrams. On Monday we will be sorting toys so do not forget to bring your favourite toy into school to sort with the class. Have a go sorting different things at home.
Venn diagram
Carroll diagram
RWI
This week we will continue to learn new sounds and read our books with our perfect partners. Keep practising your sounds at home and remember to read at least five times a week!
Topic
This week we will be learning about plants. We will learning the parts of a plant (flower, stem, leaf and roots), how to grow a plant and what they need to grow strong and healthy (sunlight and water). To help at home look at plants you see on your way to school or in your garden together.
PE
This week we will be learning to throw and catch a ball with a partner. You can practise at home by throwing a soft object together a distance apart.
