Year 1: O’Keeffe class
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
In Year 1, children have the opportunity to write in many different formats, they have guided reading and phonics lessons daily, visit the school library to get a book to take home as well as consolidating and progressing their learning in maths through number, shape, data handling and problem solving.
Reading books go home every afternoon and are brought to school every morning. We encourage the children to read every night. To support maths you could help them to count to 20, 50 and 100 forwards and backwards.
Singing with our hearts!
It is great to sing. You feel alive and full of energy. Here are O'Keeffe Class showing us their excellent singing skills.
“Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” – Shakuntala Devi
Shakuntala Devi was an Indian writer and mathematical genius popularly known as the "human computer". Born into an impoverished family in southern India, she was reputed to make complicated mathematical calculations in her head and effortlessly speak out the results!...
What a lovely Autumn in O’Keeffe Class!
We do lots of lovely learning and playing in O'Keeffe Class. We use our fine motor skills to make objects. We use our painting skills to make light and dark marks. We use the High Frequency (sight word) Wheel to learn our words. Here we are getting arty and making...
This Week in Year One
This week we have been learning lots of new things. We have been learning and writing the story of The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf in our English lessons and we even met him! We asked the wolf lots of questions about why he blew down the pigs houses and if...
Counting to seventeen with O’Keeffe Class
This week we are learning to order objects and number. Here are O'Keeffe class showing off their ordering skills and counting skills. The children were able to put themselves in order from smallest to greatest.
O’Keeffe Class visit Chrisp Street Market
We had a lovely visit to Chrisp Street Market. We looked at all the shops and we noticed there were lots of different kinds of shops; food, clothes, furniture, household goods and supermarkets. We visited the Library and looked at the Post Office. We enjoyed buying...