Hello Year One,
We had great fun this week as we packed so many Christmas activities in before breaking up for the holidays.
The Christmas performance will be available for you to watch on video. You will be informed when and how to download it.
The children loved the party this afternoon and we played lots of games.
Dear Year One,
We have had a busy week! We are ready to perform 'Bethlehem Is Buzzin!' next week as our dress rehearsal today was successful.
The children are still enjoying fun in the grotto!
Hello Year One,
We have had such a fun packed week! The arrival of the Christmas Grotto and Santa's Workshop caused great excitement and enjoyment. The children made plasticine models as gifts and wrapped them in the workshop. They made Christmas cards outside too and at one point we heard the very faint sound of some bells!
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.
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
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
Hello Year One,
We had a great time creating our Gingerbread Man Sliders!
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Hello Year One,
We have had an extremely busy week! We completed two art projects. the Gaudi mosaics are finished and up on our board in the corridor. We also completed our bonfire pictures ready for the school competition. The children really enjoyed painting with their hands.
