TEAM AITKEN BLOG (Y1)

Welcome back to Term 4. Below are the details of our newest love to learn. Apologies for the delay in sending it out, for this reason Team Aitken's deadline will be Friday 13th instead of the 6th March.

This term we will be learning and exploring materials! Your task is to investigate different materials and research what they are made of, feel like and used for. You can make an information sheet to show what you have found out.

For our new topic 'Materials Everywhere' the children will be creating a collage or ‘photomontage’ in the Dadaist style, inspired by the artist Hannah Höch (see above).

For this we would like the children to have access to the following resources:

• Photocopies of photographs of themselves that they like (photocopying can be done at school, photographs will be returned safely).
• Magazines and newspapers to cut up and stick.
• Pieces of fabric and other materials to incorporate in to their work.

If you have and can spare any of these things please bring them in for Friday 28^th February, in the morning.

Today we were introduced to the concept of finding number families. Using the part part whole method we were able to find the related addition and subtraction facts. This is called the inverse. If you ask we might be able to explain what this means or use another word to describe it (opposite). Using our knowledge of number bonds we understand that a whole number (e.g. 10) can have two (or more...we'll learn this later) parts (e.g. 2 +8) and that if we add them which ever way round we will still get the same answer (whole number). Now with the inverse we have learned that by starting with the whole number (e.g. 10) we can subtract one part to end up with the other part! So all in all we can have four separate calculations using the same number family (e.g.10, 2 and 8).

This week we have been discussing appropriate clothing for different types of weather. But we didn't stop there, our enquiring minds led us to discuss which materials would be best suited to wet weather. We learnt the terms water resistant and absorbent and tested some well know and used materials to see which might make the best rain jacket for a teddy. Ask us which materials were most water resistant and which absorbed the most water. We might even be able to tell you which material we decided on as the best to make our jackets and why!