MacMillan coffee afternoon

Thank you so much to everyone who came along to our MacMillan coffee afternoon, I think we raised a fair amount and we are excited to see exactly how much soon!

The children were very excited this morning to hear that they would be helping to set up for the event and they did a fantastic job of making the sandwiches for everyone as part of an activity carousel. They thought carefully about how to be hygienic and their spreading and cutting skills were fantastic!

Have a look at us in action! Have a fantastic weekend (:

 
 

 
 

Well done to the chefs!

Active Learn

First things first, weren't the class fantastic at sharing their work in assembly today?! Well done to everyone, you have been working so hard in Year One and I am incredibly proud.

Today, the class did their maths on the computers and the ipads and we have our new Active Learn accounts up and running. Active Learn allows children to play games related to our learning in maths and helps them to consolidate what we have been doing at home. Logins are very simple and I shall be putting stickers onto the front of the children's reading records on Monday with details of how to access it. In the meantime, here are a few photos of the class enjoying their learning this morning.

Have a lovely weekend and as always, do feel free to pop in after school if you wish to see your child's books.

Numbers

This week we have been working hard to use our knowledge of numbers to begin solving problems. We started the week by reminding ourselves of what the digits to 20 represented, and as a class we thought about different ways that we could show a number. We thought about ways to draw given amounts and ways to use objects (including our resources from our help desk) to represent numbers. We came up with lots of ideas!

Some of our ideas were...

Using our fingers
Drawing dots
Counting pencils / pens
Using Numicon
Counting out loud
Counting dinosaurs & counters

Some of us even began to think about how a number can be made up of two smaller ones! We used different coloured counters to show this (e.g. 2 blue and 3 red to make 5) and various combinations of Numicon pieces.

We moved on to thinking about one more and one less and have used objects and number lines to help us. This is something that would be great to practise at home, should you want to give your child an extra challenge.

Well done all for another fantastic week in Orange Class and I'll look forward to seeing you on Monday (:

William