Term 5- Where do our favourite animals live?
Welcome to Term 5! We hope you all had a lovely Easter break with your families and are well rested. We have so much to look forward to this term including our class assembly, a trip to the Zoo as well as all our fantastic learning. For an overview of our learning this term please see this terms newsletter below.
Our enquiry this term is: Where do our favourite animals live?
We will be looking at the worlds seven continents and five main oceans and exploring some of the places that our favourite animals live including the emperor penguin and the African elephant. Please see this terms enquiry mat below.
Virtual Author Event.
Today Year 1 experienced a virtual author event and loved hearing about where authors get their inspiration and then participated in an a draw along illustration session.
Science - Animal groups
This term in science we are learning about 5 animal groups (mammals, fish, bird, reptile and amphibians).
So far we have learnt about mammals and amphibians.
Computing - We are rhythmic
Today Year 1 have been learning how to use the app ScratchJr to record sounds and play them back.
Geography
Today Year 1 have been using atlases to name and locate the worlds 7 continents. They looked specifically at the continent Antarctica which is the home to the emperor penguin. They described the landscape of Antarctica and learned that it is very cold there and it is covered in ice.