We’ve had a very busy and very enjoyable week in Year 1!

 

In English, the children have been learning about non-fiction texts through the book ‘Bats’ by Megan Cullis. They have been identifying the features, summarising information and generating questions that they would like to find out the answer to.

 

In Maths, the children completed their unit based on mass and volume.

 

Next week:

 

Maths- The children will be learning place value to 50. They will be counting in ones and tens to 50, making groups of tens and ones and partitioning. Maths day is on Wednesday and the children will be carrying out activities on statistics and data handling.

 

English- The children will be planning and writing a non-chronological report.

 

History- The children will be learning about Tudor life and Queen Elizabeth I.

 

RE- The children will be learning about the Christian sacred text ‘The Bible’.

 

Science- Identifying and naming wild flowers.

 

ICT- The children will be introduced to Beebot robots. They will talk about what the buttons on a Beebot might do and then try the buttons out.

 

Spellings for next Friday’s test are:

 

Group 1: blue, true, new, flew, use, ruler, saw, straw

Tricky words: today, their, people, your

 

Group 2: blue, true, new, use, saw

Tricky words: today, people

 

Group 3 and 4: chain, queen, chair, year, goats, shark

Tricky words: she, love

 

Group 5: oil, boil, coil, soil

Tricky word: we

 

Notes:

 

Reading

Can you please ensure that you comment in your child’s reading record each week. It would be great if reading books and logs could be returned to school by Wednesday as it gives us a chance to comment on their reading that week. Thank you.

 

We hope you have a fantastic weekend

 

The Year 1 Team

I hope you had a lovely Easter!

 

It was wonderful to welcome the children back and hear all about their Easter holidays. This week we finished our unit based on the book ‘Hello Mr Postmouse.’ The children planned and wrote a letter to a character in the book.

 

In Maths the children began their new topic based on length and height. During the week they compared lengths and heights, measured objects using cubes and then measured the length of objects in Centimetres.

 

In PSHE, the children thought about what a family is and why their family is special. They then drew and labelled the members of their family.

 

In ICT, the children learnt how to use a search engine to find information.

 

Next week

 Maths- The children will be learning about mass and volume. They will measure and compare mass, volume and capacity and explore full and empty.

 

English- The children will begin their non-fiction topic which focuses on non-chronological reports.

 

Science- The children will be planting beans.

 

History- Understanding what a monarch is and where monarchs live.

 

ICT- The children will be developing typing skills.

 

Spellings for next Friday’s test are:

 

Group 1: lie, cried, time, like, both, over, home, note

Tricky words: were, one, says, here

 

Group 2: lie, time, both, home

Tricky words: here, one

 

Group 3 and 4: feel, food, right, hard, sort, took

Tricky word: go, my

 

Group 5: car, bar, far, jar

Tricky word: was

 

Notes

 Show and Tell

Please ensure that no toys are brought in for show and tell.

 

Sports Festival

The children attending the sports festival at Oakmere school on Tuesday should wear their PE kit into school that day. A letter has been sent home to those attending.

 

We hope you have a wonderful weekend

 

The Year 1 Team