Week ending 18th June 2021

 Hello Year One, 

We have had a very busy week. As it has been sunny the children have been able to work outside with water, measuring and estimating capacities.

We have been working on fractions in relation to capacity and length. They have really enjoyed this as it was mainly practical maths. For English we have been writing a recount of a story, working on our handwriting, spellings and phonics. We have carried out a task whereby the children had to recognise different phonemes that make the same sound and a comprehension activity. 

We travelled to Asia for our geography project and the children were able to locate China on a map of the world, colour the Chinese flag and make a Chinese dragon, which they thoroughly enjoyed.

NEXT WEEK

English

We will be creating our own stories about finding a stick that can become many things. It will be an adventure story and I am sure the children will enjoy this.

Maths

Next week we will be learning how numbers can be different but equal in total. We will be using benchmarking to place numbers on number lines. The children will experiment with pan balances showing inequality and finally we will use known addition facts to choose efficient calculation strategies.

Science

We  are starting a new project 'Animals Including Humans.' The children will love this as they have a real passion and interest in animals. For the first session we will be identifying and naming a variety of animals.

Geography 

We will travel to Australia next week to investigate the culture, the animals that live there and where it is located on a world map. 

Art

Monet is the artist we will be learning about this half term. we will explore his work and plan the painting we will create next week.

I wish you all a restful and happy weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 11th June 2021

 Hello Year One,

I hope you all had a great half term holiday. 

The children came back full of enthusiasm and have worked hard on all their tasks and activities.

This week we began to look at fractions of shapes for maths. We began our 'Around The World' topic, which means we learn about one country in every continent. The children have been looking at world maps. It would be great if you could continue this at home and ask them to locate the seven continents.

We began a new book for English, called 'Not A Stick.' This week the children had to predict what the story may be about, by looking at the front cover.

We are revising our Phase Five phonics and working on handwriting and letter formation three times a week. I have started 'group reading' so that the children have a shared reading experience and they read at least three or four times a week in school. They are great when practising spellings at school but still need to work on them at home each week, at least three times.

NEXT WEEK

Maths

We will continue to work on fractions of shapes and move on to fractions in the context of capacity and length.

English

We will practise handwriting and spellings three times next week and phonics on a daily basis. We will hear readers in groups three times and at least once individually. The children will write a recount of our story, carry out a comprehension task for our science project and complete a grapheme/phoneme recognition activity.

Spellings

Elephants

are

you

go

so

by

my

Tigers

full

pull

play

playing

staying

making

trying

Zebras

should

would

could

brought

bought

caught

stayed

played

frightened

excited

Geography

We will be going to China next week and our focus will be on locating Asia on a world map, finding China within Asia and looking at 'Chinese New Year.' The children will make dragon puppets.

Science

Our focus will be on Summer and we will be walking round the school grounds using our sense to 'feel' Summer. The children will write about the season change.

Art

We are starting a project on the work of Claude Monet. I will introduce the children to his work and we will discuss his style, the colours he uses and any patterns and textures that can be found.

I hope you have a restful weekend and look forward to seeing the children on Monday.

Ms Davis