Year 1 Blog 2024/25

  Vesak is the Buddhist festival that celebrates the birth, enlightment and death of Buddha. Wesak is a very colourful and happy celebration. Homes may be cleaned and decorated. In many countries, Buddhists will visit their local temple for services and teaching. They will give offerings to the monks of food, candles and flowers. Chanting and praying are an important part of Wesak. Today we made 3d lilies as this is an important symbol for Buddhists. When the man we now know as Buddha was born he was thought to walk 7 steps straight away and lilies grew under his feet, this was thought to be a sign that he was special and meant to lead his people. 

 This week in PHSE we had another No Outsiders lesson where we looked at a new book. We discussed the book “My World, Your World” by Melanie Walsh that explores the concept of us all being different and using the world differently but the need to share it fairly. All the children were really mature at being able to share differences between us and the need for kindness and tolerance of others. 

 Today we looked at positional vocabulary in maths. We used those words like ‘above’, ‘below’, ‘between’, ‘ on front of’, ‘behind’, ‘next to’ to describe the position of something in relation to something else. All the children were really confident with this and enjoyed the task. 

We’ve been playing lots of games and activities focusing on our phonics practice this week! The children are super confident with their sounds and have enjoyed practicing  their phonics lots of different ways!

 We enjoyed our Big Phonics session today where are practising and revising reading all our Year 1 sound and reading real and alien words. We played a variety of different games that encouraged us to sound out and blend carefully. 

 Today in Geography we looked at some different maps and located the United Kingdom on them. We then found out the four countries of the UK. We had a go at trying to make the shape of each country out of playdoh and putting them onto our maps.