Whiteley Year one

  Friday 12th December This week in Science, we have been learning about materials, their properties and why they are chosen for purposes. Lots of the children have found it quite challenging to identify which materials objects are made from and to explain why that material was chosen using property words.  It would be great if you could reinforce the language below at home.     plastic, metal, wood, paper, fabric, rock flexible/stiff, hard/soft, rough/smooth, absorbent/waterproof, magnetic/non-magnetic, see-through. Art In Art, we are learning the technique of weaving and looking at the work of the textile artist Lanny Mackenzie.  We will be creating our own piece of weaving over the next week based on our sketches of a Christmas object e.g. Santa. Phonics This week we have been consolidating our knowledge of all the sounds and tricky words we have learnt in Year R and this term. Please find a "read and roll" game enclosed in your child's bag this week to pract...

 Friday 5th December   Special Request We will be starting our weaving unit of Art next week .  If you have any ribbons (paper or fabric), fabric or Christmas paper that you would be able to donate, we would be very grateful. Christmas Cards In Year One we encourage the children to make one Christmas card for the class rather than give out lots of individual cards. This means that we can really value your child's card and message and share it with the class and it is more sustainable for our environment too. Thank you! Art This week we have continued to be inspired by the work of the artist Barbara Rae. We have created our own paintings in the style of the artist.  We created a background for our painting using a wash of dark and light colours and sketched an Arctic animal to go on the foreground. English In English we wrote descriptions of Arctic settings using adjectives. We tried hard to extend our sentences with "and". Maths In Maths this week we have been workin...