Hello Year One,
We have had a busy week and the children have been working hard. They have written postcards to Aunty Goose from Duck. They wrote lists of tools that farmer's use and have been beginning to write in sentences. They are learning 'Kung Fu' punctuation which I am sure they will demonstrate to you if you ask them.
For maths they have been estimating and counting. They are learning how it is easier to group into tens when counting a large number of items.
It was lovely to see you all at the consultations and for you to share in celebrating the progress the children are making.
For the week after the holidays:
Maths
The children will be learning that teen numbers and ten and some more. There will be a variety of practical activities to help them grasp this concept. They will make towers of ten with cubes in a colour and then add ones in another colour.
We will also be working on ordering numbers to 20 and 30 and finding numbers in between two given numbers with a difference of two.
They will also be given 3 numbers and be asked to order them from the smallest to the largest.
English
The week will start by listening to the story 'Plenty Of Love To Go Round' by Emma Chichester Clarke. From this the children will begin to predict events in the story.
We will be looking at labels and asking ourselves what makes a good label.
Towards the end of the week the children will be creating lists of items needed to look after a cat. They will be writing captions for the actions of cats and we will be progressing with sentence structure.
Science
Our topic this half term is seasonal weather change and how this affects us in our daily lives. We will be going outside and waiting for a cloud to cover the sun so that the children can explain what they think is happening and how it feels. We will begin by discussing the four seasons and as the weeks go on we will be exploring each season in detail.
Geography
Our Project will be 'On The Farm' and we will be exploring arable, dairy and livestock farms. We will be finding out the foods that the different farms produce.
Design and Technology
This half term we will be creating sliders and levers. For the first week we will read 'The Gingerbread Man' and role play the story. The children will begin to create the background for their slider picture.
PSHE
Our theme this half term is 'celebrating differences' and we will begin by noticing our similarities and differences.
R.E
We begin with Diwali as we start to learn about the different festivals of light that religions celebrate. We will read the story of 'Rama and Sita' and the children will role play the story.
I hope you all have a restful week and look forward to seeing you on 5th November.
Ms Davis
