Year 1 have been busy doing lots of fun activities from Christmas decorations and treasure hunts to learning about 3D shapes and celebrating Diwali! 

In our geography topic, we have been exploring our local area and school grounds. We used maps to identify the human and physical features of the area and built our location knowledge by doing a treasure hunt around school! We saw lots of human features when we took a walk to the library last week. We stood on Bunny Lane and looked towards the shops whilst holding a satellite image of the area. It felt like we were inside the map! We then compared a map of Keyworth from the past (1950s) and a map of Keyworth now. Keyworth looks much bigger now! There are lots more buildings, roads and schools compared to the past. We think this is because more people are living here in the village. 

    
 

 

In maths this week, we started learning the names of some common 3D shapes. We've been exploring the properties of these shapes and building lots of towers with them! We've found out that it's impossible to build a tower with a sphere at the bottom, but could build tall towers using cubes, cuboids and cyliners. 

   

In RE, we have been learning about the Hindu celebration of Diwali. On Friday, we had a small Diwali celebration where we made diya lamps out of play do, created rangoli patterns and even learnt some Indian dance moves! 

  

 
In our next RE lesson we will be learning more about Christmas and the advent. Every night, one child from our class will take home a Posada bag from the church. In this bag will be a board game, nativity story, knitted Mary and Joseph and a Christmas star for their Christmas tree! Please enjoy playing with these toys and games and bring them back to school the following day. 
 

We are quickly approaching the Christmas holidays, but please do continue to listen to your child read 3x a week and keep in the green zone on doodle maths.