Week ending 29th November 2019

Hello Year One,


We have been busier than ever this week as we have begun rehearsals for our Christmas Production.
We have continued with all our lessons and in maths we have been estimating and ordering numbers. The children have been looking at ten and some more as they are beginning to understand place value.
In our English lessons we have been looking at poetry. The children have been learning to recite poems and they have written two themselves!


Next Week


Maths


The children will be exploring odd and even numbers next week. They will be counting in twos and working on number bonds to ten and twenty.


English


We will continue to study poetry. Next week we will look at rhyme. We will explore nursery rhymes and rhyming words. Towards the end of the week the children will be writing their own rhyming poems! We will continue our daily phonics sessions and handwriting will take place three times next week.


DT


The children will begin to create sliders next week. These are moving pictures.


Rehearsals


The children will be rehearsing their songs and dances on the stage next week as we prepare for the Christmas Productions.


Notes

• If your child changes clothes at school and is given clean items to wear, could you please wash and return them as soon as possible.
• PE kits can stay in school all week. You can take them home at the weekend if you want to wash them, but you can wait until the end of each half term.
• Please can you send the costumes for the show in to school next week. Next Friday will be our dress rehearsal. Please send them in a named bag.

I wish you all a happy weekend.
YDavis

Week ending 22nd November 2019

Hello Everyone,


We have had a very busy week as we have started rehearsing for The Christmas Production. The children are very excited, especially when another dance is performed!
We have been learning to count in fives in our maths lessons. We have found many ways to record and show equal values and have been learning about 'ten and some more.'
We wrote a letter and a list of instructions in our English lessons. The children are working hard to learn  the phonemes we teach in Year One and are writing a list of 'tricky words' every day.
We used Autumn leaves and  paints to create prints in beautiful seasonal colours. They will be on display in the classroom.
The children drew pictures of the four seasons and added children wearing appropriate clothing to each one.
Here is a photo from last week's non-school uniform day.

NEXT WEEK

We will be rehearsing for The Christmas Production throughout the week.

Maths

We will be looking at 'greater than ten,' counting in twos, one more and one less.

English

Our focus will be on poetry. The children will be reciting poems, reading and writing their own poems about Autumn and Bonfire Night.

For our phonics sessions we are currently working on consonant clusters, such as  sm, fr, lk, st.

DT

Next week we will be starting to make sliders. These are pictures that have a sliding mechanism to create a moving object within the frame.

Science

As we continue to study seasons we will be focusing on animals next week and researching how the seasons affect their habits and lives.

RE

The children will continue to learn about the festival of Hanukkah. We will be writing a list of things we need to create a party to celebrate Hanukkah. We will also be playing Hanukkah bingo.

News

• If you have been asked to provide a costume for The Christmas Production and are having difficulty finding suitable items please let me know.
• If you have been asked to provide a costume please could you send it to school in a named plastic bag.
• The children will be starting to bring home spellings after Christmas, not this week as originally suggested.

I wish you all a happy weekend.

Ms Davis



Week ending 15th November 2019

Dear Year One,


We have been busy preparing the costumes for our Christmas Production! We have many of the costumes already. If your child needs a costume a letter will be sent home next week explaining what is needed.


We have been learning how to make the same value with different numbers and working on addition and subtraction in our maths lessons.


For English we wrote a class poem about 'Anti-Bullying.' The children worked in groups of three and each one came up with a line for the poem.


We had great fun with 'Odd Socks Day!'

The children completed their mosaic pictures, which look amazing! They will be on display in the corridor outside our classroom.




Next Week


Maths

We will be working on number bonds, making equivalent values using addition and subtraction, counting in twos and ordering numbers to 100.




English


The children will be learning how to write instructions, letter writing, phonics, spellings and handwriting
.


Science


Our focus will be the clothes we wear during each season and the activities that are likely to take place from a seasonal perspective.




RE


We will be continuing to learn about the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. The children will be playing the games that are traditionally played during this festival and will be writing the story.




PSHE


Next week we will be creating an image of ourselves that is possibly different to how we appear, as we focus on celebrating differences culturally, physically and emotionally.




ART


As we are studying the changes of this seasons, we will be creating leaf prints with paints the colours of the leaves that we collect.




Notes

• Next week the children will be bringing spellings home to learn. This will continue on a weekly basis. They will learn the spellings during the week and they can share the ones they remember the following Friday.
• I still need plastic bottles to make rain gauges. If you have large plastic bottles at home please can your child bring one to school.

I wish you all a very restful and happy weekend.
Ms Davis

Week ending 8th November 2019

Welcome Back Year One,

This is an exciting half term with lots of activities and Christmas treats to come!
Please see this half term's planning below:



English

We will be continuing with daily phonic sessions, daily spellings and handwriting three times a week.
We have already begun a new topic around the book 'Farmer Duck,' by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury. The children love this story and so much learning is coming from it.
This week we predicted the story ending, wrote speech bubbles to explain the feelings of the characters and wrote the ending of the story as it was written.
We will be looking at the verbs and nouns in the story and finding objects in the classroom to create a list of nouns. We will be focusing on singular and plural nouns. Next week we will be learning more about sentence structure and using incorrect text messages from the duck to learn how sentences make sense.
Later this half term we will have a poetry focus. The children will learn traditional rhymes and create rhyming words that can be used in poems.
The children will re-arrange poems that have been jumbled to create rhyming couplets.
We will create poems that are descriptive, but do not rhyme.



Maths

This week we have been looking at equivalent values in a variety of ways and writing number sentences to represent them.
 They will be making numbers greater than ten, using tens frames and building numbers to twenty using Cuisenaire rods. We will focus on the language of 11 to 20 and some more.
We will be estimating and comparing smaller and larger quantities and focusing on one more and one less.
The children will make doubles and halves using tens frames. We will be exploring odd and even numbers and learning to count in 5s and 2s.
Towards the end of term the children will be learning about 2D and 3D shapes, through their properties in unfamiliar contexts.



Science



Our topic for this half term is 'Seasons.' the children will be learning the months in the seasons, weather and seasonal changes. The children will learn which months belong in each season and what the weather is expected to be like during those months. We will think about appropriate clothing for each season and the festivals and celebrations that occur at different times of the year.
The children will focus on animals and birds and how they manage to survive each season.
We will create rain gauges and create tally charts and graphs to show the weather changes during Autumn.
We will also create leaf prints to show the wonderful colours of the Autumnal leaves.


Religious Education


We will be looking at the different festivals of light that occur at this time of year. Last week the children learned the Hindu story of Rama and Sita. They remembered it so well that they were able to retell it or recount it in writing.
The next festival we look at will be Hannukah, which is a Jewish celebration. As we approach Christmas we will retell the nativity and the children will have many activities to celebrate this time of year.
The importance of this focus is to enable the children to understand the importance of light in the stories and how from a religious perspective light overcomes darkness as good overpowers bad actions.


Art and DT


We will be creating mosaic pictures which focus on the colours the children relate to from an emotional perspective. We have been discussing this in our PSHE lessons.
The children will be creating sliders, which involve creating a moving scene in a story. The focus will be 'The Gingerbread Man.' 
We will be exploring the work of 'Monet' by discussing the colours, techniques and atmosphere that is reflected in his work. The children will create representations of the artist's work.
As Christmas approaches the children will create a Christmas card that has a slider or lever mechanism.


ICT


The children will learn how to log on and off a computer. They will discover search engines to find the information they need for certain subjects. Their typing speed will increase as they use a programme to write their poems. We will use one session for 'Maths Seeds.'




PSHE


We are looking at celebrating differences this half term and the children will be creating a version of themselves using different materials. We will be focusing on anti-bullying as we discuss what we think 'bullying' is, the feelings it evokes and what to do to help ourselves if we ever feel we are in that situation.


We will not be covering history or geography this term.


NEXT WEEK


On Tuesday it will be 'Anti-Bullying' day and the children can come to school in odd socks. We will be writing poetry about bullying and the children will be role playing different scenarios and discussing outcomes and feelings.


On Friday it will be a non-school uniform day and a donation of one pound can be made for the charity 'Children In Need.'


Notes

• Children attending Reading Club need to arrive at school at 8.40 am
• Please can children bring large plastic bottles to school to prepare for creation of our rain gauges

I wish you a happy and peaceful weekend.
Ms Davis

Week ending 25th October 2019

Year One,


It has been a long half term and the children have managed the transition from Reception really well. They are tired now and in need of the break.

This week we have been writing shopping lists and reports. For maths we have been grouping according to the whole/part model and learning the vocabulary for addition. We had a great afternoon creating mosaics and the children were keen to take them home. The children had a science and history quiz to consolidate all they have learned this half term. They were extremely successful and enjoyed revisiting the topics.


It was so helpful to see you all at the parent consultation sessions as it gives me greater insight as to other aspects of the children.


I sent the children home with a handwriting sheet and the directions for parents to teach the correct formulation of the letters. Many parents requested this at the parent consultations so I thought it may be helpful for all of you.


I will write on my blog next Friday to give you information about the teaching and learning for the next half term.


I wish you all a restful and happy holiday and look forward to seeing you on Monday 4th November.

Week ending 18th October 2019

Hello Year One,




We have had a busy week! The children have been learning how to regroup numbers and values using mathematical models. We explored the 'Noah's Ark' story so we were counting in twos. The children were noticing the pattern that occurs when counting in twos. The children recounted the 'Noah's Ark' story for their English/RE lesson. They remembered the story and many of the details.
For English we worked on phonics every day. We learned how to write reports and carried out comprehension activities about caring for pets.
The children created fabulous representations of Lowry's work, which are on display in the class room.


NEXT WEEK


Maths


We will be working on regrouping, counting on, counting in fives, addition and subtraction to ten or twenty.


English


The children will be writing shopping lists and reports on hedgehogs. We will continue to teach phonics on a daily basis and they have a handwritinglesson three times a week.


Science


We will be going over all we have learned about animals, including humans. This will be in the form of a quiz, to make it fun!


Art


The children will be exploring and working on mosaics for their art lesson. They are very excited for this as they have spotted the glittery paper they will be using!


PSHE


The focus will be on choices and consequences next week as the children think about how to make positive choices in their lives.


I hope to see you all at the parent consultations next week.


Have a restful and enjoyable weekend break.


Ms Davis

Week ending 10th October 2019

Hello Year One,


I hope you enjoyed 'The Harvest Café' today. The children were very excited and enjoyed singing their songs!
We have created a class display of our harvest experiences which you can see when you come in the class room.
This week we have been learning how to write reports as we are creating a class book to explain how to look after pets. Thank you for the photos they will make the book visual and entertaining.

Here are a couple of photos from this week when the children were working on observational drawings.

NEXT WEEK

English

We will be continuing with report writing as we create our class book about pets. We have daily phonics sessions and handwriting three times a week. The children work on spellings on a daily basis.

We will be writing lists and working on comprehension activities.

Maths

We will be continuing with the work we started last week, by representing numbers to te/twenty in many ways and matching values to mathematical models. we will be working on counting in twos and tens and finding missing numbers in patterns.

Science

Next week we will be looking at our senses and recognising which parts of the body are used.

RE

We will read the story of Noah's Ark next week and focus on recounting the story. We will incorporate maths in the lesson as we are learning to count in twos.

History

We will be sorting old toys into categories and creating information posters about them.

Art

The children will continue to look at the work of Lowry, as this week they will be creating a class charcoal picture as a reflection of the artist's work.

PSHE

We will be focusing on co-operation next week.

I hope you have a restful and pleasant weekend.

Ms Davis and Mrs Reusch