Year 1 Weekly Blog WB 3/3/2025

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 1:58pm

This week in English, we worked on creating our own alternative endings for the beautiful story The Kiss That Missed by David Melling. In the book, a kiss is sent by a King to his prince but misses and travels far away, creating a fun adventure.We used our imagination to describe new places where the kiss could land.  We voted for our favourite idea and as a class chose a beach or outer space. We also created new characters to add to the story. 

Each of us came up with our own ideas for what happened after the kiss missed and we loved hearing everyone’s creative endings!

In Maths this week, we focused on multiplying by 10 5 and 2, a key skill for Year 1. We used lots of fun ways to understand how multiplying works.We used dienes to help us multiply by 10, hands to help us multiply by 5 and socks to help us multiply by 2.

In Science, we’ve been learning about herbivores—animals that only eat plants. This week, we looked at pictures of different herbivores and discussed what makes them special.

We also talked about how herbivores are important for the environment because they help keep the plants healthy by eating them and helping them grow back.

Our topic work this week was all about castles! We discovered what makes a castle different from a house or a palace. We learned that a castle has things like:

• High walls to protect the people inside.
• Towers that help you see far away to spot any dangers.
• Moats to keep unwanted guests out.

After learning all about castles, we decided to make a video of our findings which you will be able to see in our year group assembly soon