Good Evening Everyone,

In English the children have worked extremely hard, describing what they enjoyed about our new class story ‘How To Wash A Woolly Mammoth.’ They also wrote their own instructions and worked in pairs to listen and follow instructions carefully. This week was ‘Children’s Mental Health Week’ and the children’s learning focused on the core strengths of ‘Resilience, Self-Esteem and Growth Mind-Set’.

 

Next Week:

Maths- Understanding the numbers 11-20 and finding 1 more and 1 less.

 

English- The children will continue with their non-fiction topic which focuses on Instructions. They will be using sequencing language to order events, and they will learn about imperative verbs and consider the features of a good set of instructions.

 

Science- The children will be grouping materials.

 

Geography- Exploring the different places around the school.

 

Art- The children will be making sculptures using air-dry clay.

 

Big Garden Birdwatch - Unfortunately, we were unable to carry out this activity this week. I will be keeping a close watch on the weather next week to ensure we can get out and complete the birdwatch.

 

Spellings for next Friday’s test are:

 

Group 1: silly, funny, bread, head, wheel, white, toe, shoulder

Tricky words: school, any, many, again,

 

Group 2: silly, bread, wheel, toe

 Tricky words: any, many

 

Group 3: fork, born, corn, torch, short

Tricky words: like, were

 

Group 4: boil, soil, coil, coin, join 

Tricky word: do

 

Group 5: cat, hat, sat, mat,

Tricky word: we

 

Notes

 

Snow Centre

Tuesday 13^th February

 

Open afternoon

Wednesday 14^th February @ 3pm

 

Foundation & KS1 disco

Thursday 15^th February @ 5:30pm

 

Crazy Hair Day

 Friday 16^th February

 

We hope you have a fantastic weekend

 

The Year 1 team

  Good Morning everyone,

 

I apologise for the delay in posting this blog. We had a very busy and productive week in Year 1. In Maths the children finished their topic based on 2D and 3D shapes. We also finished our English unit which was based on the story of ‘The Last Noo Noo.’ On Wednesday the children really enjoyed using the ipads. We talked about the importance of ICT safety and we read the story of ‘Clicking Chicken’ by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross to reinforce this.  They practised switching the ipads on and logging in and out. In Science the children have been looking at materials and their properties. We talked about various objects and the materials they are made from.

 

Next Week:

Maths- The children will be starting a new topic which focus' on place value within 20.

 

English- The children will be starting a new topic focusing on instructions. The story ‘How To Wash A Woolly Mammoth’ by Michael Robinson will be our class text.

 

Science- Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock. They will also be describing the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials.

 

Big Garden Birdwatch- The children will be taking part in the RSPB’s national birdwatch. The Nursery and Reception children made bird feeders last week which attracted a variety of birds so we should spot a lot of different species.

 

Art- The children will be making sculptures

 

Spellings for next Friday’s test are:

 

Group 1: fruit, group, happy, secret, fizzy, visit, follow, groan

Tricky words: water, want, could, people

 

Group 2: fruit, happy, secret, visit

Tricky words: want, people

 

Group 3: boil, soil, coin, join, spoil, joint

Tricky word: do, there

 

Group 4: light, sight, right, night, fight

Tricky words: some

 

Group 5: van, vet, yet, yes

Tricky word: we

 

We hope you have a fantastic weekend

 

The Year 1 team