Year One - Term Three

The Year One students have been busy this term learning about natural, managed and built features in Geography. Last week, we discussed in our groups what natural and built features we can see around Roma. We used our new BenQ Interactive Whiteboard to display Google Earth images of Roma to locate all the local parks, using our school as the centre point to work out which park is closer to us. We know that parks have natural and built features and are looked after by people such as volunteers and park rangers.

In Science, we will be learning about force and to develop our understanding that a push and pull can be described in terms of strength and direction. In our activities, we will make predictions on how these forces will impact the motion and shape of objects.

This term, we have been learning how to write a procedure. We know that procedures follow a specific structure and start each step with a verb. Next week, we will begin writing a procedure for a pizza. We will then construct the pizza using cardboard and paper. Later in the term, we will learn how to write a persuasive text and express our opinion about a story that we have listened to.

In Mathematics, we have been exploring addition using tens frames. This helps reinforce our understanding before we progress to two-digit numbers. We have been counting and ordering numbers up to 120, recognising the smallest and largest numbers, including three-digit numbers. We have investigated how many tens and ones a number has and drawing it in different ways. Later in the term, we will be investigating what will be the smallest total we can make when we roll two regular dice and what will be the largest number.

In Week Three, all three Year One classes had a new Interactive Benq Panel installed in their classrooms. We are looking forward to using this new technology in our learning.

Mrs Brennan, Mr Brennan and Miss Marquart

Year One Teachers