Hi Year One,
I hope you all enjoyed watching the talent show! It was great to see a member of Year One singing so beautifully with her sister.
The children have been very excited this week as their beans have begun to sprout. They are keeping diaries of their growth.
We have begun to work on clockwise and anti-clockwise direction this week. It is a tricky concept for the children to grasp so if you can do this at home it will help.
We explored China this week and the children are becoming familiar with world maps now. They can find UK, France and China so far.
Next Week
Maths
We will continue to work on direction next week and this will be followed by learning to tell the time. We concentrate on the hour and the half hour. The children will also be learning fractions. They will learn to find half an amount and a quarter of an amount.
English
The children will reading, role playing and exploring the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. This time the focus will be on changing the characters and the story line slightly. We will begin working on understanding and recognising suffixes.
Science
We will continue to record in our bean diaries. We will be learning the names for the different parts of a tree.
Geography
Next week we will be exploring Australia. We already have a didgeridoo and a boomerang. While we are learning about the countries from the seven continents it is always helpful to have any resources, photos etc from home if you or your families have visited the place we are studying.
We will be identifying countries on a world map and learning about the features and characteristics of Australia.
ICT
The children will be learning how to use a painting and drawing programme on the computer.
RE
We will be discussing what is meant by God as the creator. We will be reading creation stories from different faiths.
ART
We will be creating a pattern by creating printing blocks out of potatoes. The children will be taught the primary and secondary colours.
Spellings
For the next few weeks we will be focusing on words that are used frequently in writing. It will be an asset to the children to have a solid bank of high frequency word knowledge before the end of Year One. Some of these words may be repeated, as I will be looking at their writing and noticing words that are often misspelt.
Group One
will
you
with
look
Group Two
that
this
then
there
for
now
down
look
Group Three
about
I'm
don't
very
here
make
came
saw
your
asked
I wish you all a happy and restful weekend.
Ms Davis
