Week ending 26th November 2021

Hello Year One,

We have had a very busy week as the children have been learning the songs for the Christmas Production. Here is the link if you would like to share the songs at home.

https://youtu.be/ez34b2z0qiI

You will need to go into You Tube to access this link.

For our English lessons this week we have been planning letter writing as next week the children will write to Aunty Goosey taking on the role of the duck in our story. We have also begun to explore adjectives and have continued working on sentence structure. We are revisiting all phase five phonic sounds and the children are learning to spell decodable and tricky words on a daily basis. Handwriting is improving as we cover this three times a week.

We have continued to work on grouping and the children are more confident when using cherry models, number sentences and bar models now. We continue to practise number bonds to ten and above.

The children retold the story of Hannukah, which they really enjoyed and are becoming very familiar with festivals of light.

For science the focus was on weather symbols. The children picked this up quite quickly so you can ask them to read you the weather forecast tomorrow!

NEXT WEEK

We will be rehearsing for the next two weeks but lessons will continue around this.

English

The children will be pleased to use their letter plans to write to Aunty Goosey! They will be working on sentence structure. I want the children to write in sentences that make sense and include correct punctuation. They need to remember to write on the lines and use finger spaces between each word.

We will continue to explore adjectives and they will be used in their writing. Handwriting will be practised three times next week and we will work on spellings and phonics every day.

Maths

The focus for next week's maths lessons will be recognising the difference between two numbers, the difference when counting objects in groups and on playing cards. We will continue with number bonds and we are spending some time at the moment on writing numbers as many children are writing them the wrong way round.

RE

Next week we will begin to look at the final festival of light - Christmas and the Nativity Story.

ART

As we explore the work of Monet the children will be completing the other half of his paintings. We will be using water colour paints.

NEWS

• Thank you for the amazing Christmas decorations. I am thrilled as I want to create a really exciting grotto for the children outside the classroom. It will double up as an elf's workshop as they can use their imaginations to play production of gifts for children!

Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you on Monday! 

Ms Davis

Week ending 19th November 2021

 Hello Year One, 

We have had a very busy week. The highlight being the Diwali workshop, which the children thoroughly enjoyed!

The children also finished painting and varnishing their Diwali divas and we turned all the candles on and danced! They really loved this!

We have been working on subtraction in maths and the children are beginning to understand number sentences now. The important thing is to help them develop the mathematical language for subtraction such as minus, the difference between, take away, subtract, fewer than and less than.

In our English lessons we have been exploring verbs, reconstructing incorrect sentences and summarising the key events in a story.

NEXT WEEK

English

Next  week we will be exploring adjectives and using them in our sentences. We will be writing instructions from the bossy farmer to the duck in our story and creating a map as a plan for writing a postcard from the duck to her Aunt!

Maths

We are going to continue with subtraction by writing number sentences and looking at the cherry (whole/part model) and the bar model.

Art

The children will begin to explore the work of Claude Monet. We will begin by sketching one of his famous paintings.

Science

Next week the children will be looking at the symbols we use to report the weather. We will be setting up an experiment to measure rainfall.

RE

The children will write/draw a recount of the Hannukah Story.

NEWS

Thank you so much for all your support with the costumes for the Christmas performance and the decorations for the grotto. It really helps and is greatly appreciated.

There will be no spellings on the blog this week as we are introducing a new system which we will be using in class over the next two weeks.

Have a restful and happy weekend.

Ms Davis

 

Year One week ending 12th November 2021

 Hello Year One,

We had a great time creating our Gingerbread Man Sliders!

This week we completed our Diwali topic and created Rangoli patterns and Diyas (clay oil lamps).

They are beautiful and I will share pictures of them next week after our special Diwali dance day on Tuesday 16th November. The children will be experiencing a Diwali dance workshop and I hope to light the (LED) candles in their diyas to create a festival atmosphere.

This week we have continued to work from the book Farmer Duck. The children focussed on how the duck must be feeling and used speech bubbles and captions to complete the task.

We have continued to recognise verbs in our reading and writing and this will carry on next week.

It was great to see that the children had learned their spellings! They did really well! thank you for supporting them with this.

For our maths lessons we have been learning to regroup numbers to ten. The children are counting backwards from thirty now and can name one more and one less for most numbers up to 30.

The children chose their parts for the Christmas show today. They will all be singing and some children will be dancing. When they are in Year Two they will have speaking parts. Please could the children bring a named plastic bag into school next week. This is for their costume. We have most costumes but there may be added bits that we will ask you to send in.

Next Week

English

We will continue to focus on verbs next week and the children will work on sentence structure. They will summarise the key events of the story Farmer Duck and will create a list of instructions for the farmer to give to the duck.

Maths

We begin to focus on subtraction next week. A lot of emphasis is given to the language of subtraction such as:

• I can see that 9 can be split into 6 and 3
• I started with 9 and took 6 away and I had 3 left
• 6 taken away from 9 is 3
• Six less than nine is three
• 9 minus 6 is 3
• 9 minus 6 equals 3
• I subtract six from nine leaving three

We will be working on number sentences for subtraction.

Science

We will be looking at changes to the weather as Winter begins. The children will make a rain gauge and estimate and record rainfall over the coming weeks. This will be recorded in a class bar chart as we go through the year.

Art/DT

We will complete our diyas next week as they just need to be varnished. 

RE

The children will hear the story of Hannukah and use puppets to re-tell the story.

Spellings

Lions 

be

he

she

me

my

Leopards

one

are

was

were

has

Tigers

ask

friend

were

pull

full

all

our

Panthers

ask

friend

Christmas

class

clothes

could

cold

door

even

every

The children will bring their spelling lists home on Monday.

NEWS

• A reminder that we are collecting Christmas decorations for our KS1 grotto outside. Anything you have spare or that is no longer wanted would be so welcome.
• A reminder to bring a named plastic bag in to school next week for the children's costume
• Please could I ask parents to congregate outside the door when collecting children. There is plenty of room under the shelter. I can't let the children go until I actually see their parent/carer, so this would be very helpful.

Have a restful and happy weekend.

Ms Davis

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Week ending 5th November 2021

 Hello Year One,

It has been a great first week back with lots of new and exciting projects. The children made their own moving  picture stories for The Gingerbread Man. 

We have started a new story to work from in English lessons called 'Farmer Duck' by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury. We are having great fun with this story. This week the children predicted what would happen to the poor duck who did all the work on the farm! They also revised nouns and began exploring verbs. We have phonics and handwriting lessons every day.

For maths the children have been regrouping numbers to ten. We have been learning our number bonds to 5, 10 and 20. The children have learned how to show grouping on bead strings, cherry models and tens frames.

We are learning about festivals of light this term and we talked about Diwali. If anyone celebrates this festival and would like to bring items to school to share this would be fabulous. We listened to the story of Rama and Sita and the children wrote a recount.

We went outside on a very sunny day this week and watched as the weather gradually changed. We noticed light coloured clouds arriving which partially blocked the sun and waited for the dark rain clouds to make it much darker. We had to run back into school as it began to rain. The children drew amazing diagrams of this happening!

Next Week

English

We will continue working from 'Farmer Duck' and will be writing about duck's feelings. We will contune our work on sentence structure and verbs.

Maths

 We will be learning about addition and subtraction next week.

DT/RE

We will continue to think about Diwali next week and the children will create Rangoli patterns and make divas (oil lamps) from clay.

Science

We will start to think about the wild animals now that it is getting colder. We will research where they will go and what they will do as Winter approaches.

PSHE

We will continue to look at differences and similarities between us.

NEWS

As Christmas is coming I am beginning to make preparations for a Santa's Grotto for the children.If you have any decorations that are no loner needed I could gladly use them. I am asking for anything you have, lights, tinsel, baubles, Xmas trees or any other decoration. 

Thank you any donations would be great!

You will have received spelling lists today. This will be a regular Friday event from now on. The children should learn them at home and school throughout the coming week ready for the test on the following Friday. The spellings will also be on the blog every week. Your children will know which group they are in.

Lions

the

do

to

no

we

Leopards

they

come

some

went

out

Tigers

put

school

when

where

why

you

there

Panthers

where

while

after

again

any

bath

beautiful

because

behind

both

th

E