Week ending 22nd October 2021

 Hello Year One,

We have had a busy and exciting week, ending in today's 'spooky costume' day. The children loved this, especially when we danced to halloween songs.

We finished many projects this week. The children wrote their own endings for the story 'Chicken Licken' and completed their party lists. They had great fun with this!

We have finished our 'animals including humans' project and our history topic on 'Toys.'

Week beginning 1st November 2021

English

The focus text will be Here comes Farmer Duck by Martin Wadell and Helen Oxenbury. The children will be learning how to make predictions when reading a story, learn about verbs and continue to work on constructing sentences.

We will have daily handwriting and phonics lessons the first week back and we will begin to read in groups every day. 

Maths

The children will be representing numbers to ten in many ways through regrouping. They will match values to mathematical models using increasingly complex regrouping. We will be exploring the language of addition and working on number bonds to five, ten and twenty.

Science

We will be starting to learn about the weather, understanding changes in the weather and the force of the sun. We will be investigating what happens when the sun goes behind a cloud.

RE

This half term we explore festivals of light from many religions. We will be staring with the Hindu festival Diwali. We will be learning the story of Rama and Sita in the first week.

ART/DT

The children will make Diwali oil lamps.

I wish you all a very happy and restful half term.

Ms Davis

Week ending 15th October 2021

 Hello Year One,

We began a new story this week called Chicken Licken. I'm sure many of you remember it as it is a very popular traditional tale. The children enjoy the repetitiveness of the story and it helps them focus on the sequence of the tale. We read the story and the children got into groups and created a role play following the sequence well. This was followed by writing the sequence of events as a story. 

We have continued to work on more and less in maths and our number bonds to ten and twenty.

The children drew Autumn pictures and wrote about their findings from the walk we went on a couple of weeks ago. 

For PSHE we talked about the feeling of being proud and the children drew pictures and wrote about moments in their lives when they felt this way.

History

As it is officially Black History Month I told the story of Rosa Parks this week. The children were able to role play the story and write about the bravery of Rosa Parks. We celebrated black sportspeople, singers and musicians.  

NEXT WEEK

English

We will continue to work on split vowel digraphs in our phonics sessions. Next week we will look at o-e and u-e.

The children learned the vowels this week and we will continue this with a vowel recognition lesson next week.

Their handwriting is improving dramatically and they should all feel very proud of this achievement. We will continue to have handwriting lessons three times next week.

The children will also be writing a different ending to the story of Chicken Licken. They should find this fun as they will be working in pairs.

Maths

We will be working on our number bonds next week. This is something you can practise at home. Start with number to five, then ten and finally to twenty if they are really fluent.

The children will continue to learn about sequencing in maths and we will focus on counting on with number lines.

Notes

Please can you ensure that children do not use the playground equipment or Year One's outside area to play with before and after school.

I am looking forward to seeing you all at parent's evening next week.

Have a safe and happy weekend.

many thanks 

Ms Davis

Week ending 8th October 2021

 Hello Year One,

It has been a very busy week as we spent Tuesday morning in the local woods and Friday morning singing for Harvest Festival.

The walk was great! We were very lucky with the weather. Thank you to all the parents and helpers that came with us. It made the trip easy to manage and the children got so much more from it by being in small groups. We are studying Autumn at the moment so it gave us the opportunity to see the changes that have occurred in our local environment. It was also good fun. The children loved going over a 'style' and were fascinated by it. We talked about the reason for styles when we returned to the classroom and they heard the story about the old woman who had a pig that would not jump over the style. 

NEXT WEEK

Maths

The children will be ordering values, noticing which numbers are missing in number lines, or which numbers are in the wrong place. They will be ordering values according to different criteria. We will move on to ordering consecutive numbers, linking, counting and sequencing numbers.

English

We are beginning to write in sentences now. The children are familiar with capital letters and full stops and have been taught question marks and exclamation marks. They are learning to write from one side of the page to the other rather than in list format. We will be continuing to work on this.

The children's handwriting is improving as they are beginning to ensure each letter sits on the line and how to form the letters. We are currently working on this three times a week.

As I will be reading a story with a repetitive pattern this week the children will sequence the events in the story as well as the steps we took when we went for our Autumnal walk.

Science

The children have gained a lot of knowledge and understanding about the changes that occur in Autumn and this week they will be writing about this and illustrating their findings with diagrams and pictures.

ART

Last week we began to study the work of the artist Lowry. The children were fascinated by his paintings and enjoyed creating their own representations. Next week we will focus on the matchstick people and use straws to recreate them.

I wish you all a happy weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 1st October 2021

 Hello Year One,

This week we had a big focus on construction and the children were set six challenges around the classroom to complete. They had to build houses from blocks, a stone tower, a lego model, a gift to take home for someone in their family and a church. Some children took it further and the most beautiful spider's web was made from a bag and sticky tape.

Have a look at the pictures below.

We also learned about conservation of number for maths and sentence structure in English lessons, alongside handwriting, phonics and spellings.

For RE the children created amazing journeys of food to represent the harvest from the sea, the garden and from grain. They drew pictorial maps of the journey of the food from being harvested to ending up on our dinner plates!

For history this week we continued to think about different types of toys such as moving toys, outdoor toys and building toys. We sorted pictures of toys into different categories and found that long ago there were more outdoor toys and now there are more puzzles and games.

NEXT WEEK

English

We will continue to learn our phonics and practise handwriting. We will be going for a walk in the woods on Tuesday (weather dependent) and the children will sequence the events from the journey.

I will need to adults to accompany us on the walk to the local woods.

We will leave school after the register at 9am so if you would like to come please let me know.

The children will also hear the story of Chicken Licken and will role play the story sequence.

We will also be continuing to work on sentence structure.

Maths

Next week we begin a sequence of work on number. The children will be learning more and less than a given number, comparing visual groups of objects to recognise numbers and find the odd one out in a sequence. They will count varied representations of number, find fewer and more than, one more and one less and how to represent this pictorially.

Science

We will be going on a trip to the local woods to collect a few natural objects and notice the changes in the outdoor environment. This will be followed by observational drawing and painting, and a pictorial representation of what Autumn is all about.

ART

The children will be drawing self-portraits this week and will carry out observational paintings of the objects collected on our walk.

Please let me know if you are able to accompany us on our walk on Tuesday morning. We should return to school by 10am.

Have a great weekend.

Ms Davis