This week has been very exciting. More of the home projects have come in to school. They are so impressive and all so different. It has really helped the children understand the variety of home structures that there are.
The children have really enjoyed this project and you will be able to see their evaluations. As it is nearing the Easter holidays it would be helpful to have the remaining homes in this week. I would love to keep them at school, but as they are quite large (much larger than expected) they will have to go home on the last day of term. I am sure the children will want to keep them forever as I know how proud they are. Unfortunately they are taking up quite a lot of space in the class room so we will only be able to keep them here until the Easter holidays
We have also completed our letter writing project. The children were able to write to a friend in Year One. They put them in envelopes, addressed them and added the stamps. They are still in the process of experiencing the postal system in the class room so the letters will not be posted until next week.
We have been working with money all week and the children have been finding different coins to make different values.
NEXT WEEK
Maths
Next week will be continuing to work with money for the first couple of days, then we will move on to counting and spotting patterns in 2s, 5s and 10s.
English
We will begin a new project for English which is report writing. The children will learn the purpose, layout, headings etc of report writing. They will complete the work by writing a report on pirates.
Science
As we are exploring the seasons, next week we will be looking at day lengths in seasons.
Art
The trees will begin to blossom soon, so we will be drawing and painting trees, using fine brushes and small strokes, as learned when working on Monet pictures. The children will use watercolour paints and will be painting the extension of a photograph of a tree.
RE
We began the Easter story last week. Next week we will write it as a story map or a story board.
Dates for your diaries
On Monday 1st April at 9am it is sharing assembly. The children from Year One are:
Nicole Kamana
Lila Huseyin
Jayce Manzi
India Knappett-Shillinglaw
Leah Prime
Isabelle Brignull
Ethan Oncel
On Thursday 4th April at 9am I will be taking the children to the local church. It is located at the end of our road so we won't have far to walk. I may need a couple of parents to accompany us on the way to the church. The children will be learning more about the process and reasons for baptism. We have been exploring this in RE and it will make it more memorable for them to go to the church and see the baptism area and hear from a parent who is about to have her baby baptised.
On Thursday 28th March at 2.40pm it is the phonics screening meeting. This will give you greater understanding about why and how we teach phonics at Little Heath and will explain the screening process.
On Friday 3rd May at 9am it is Year One's class assembly.
Spellings
Group One
as
if
in
is
Group Two
will
that
this
then
them
Group Three
don't
old
I'm
by
time
house
about
I hope you all have a relaxing and happy weekend.
Ms Davis
