Hello Year One,
I hope you all had a great half term holiday.
The children came back full of enthusiasm and have worked hard on all their tasks and activities.
This week we began to look at fractions of shapes for maths. We began our 'Around The World' topic, which means we learn about one country in every continent. The children have been looking at world maps. It would be great if you could continue this at home and ask them to locate the seven continents.
We began a new book for English, called 'Not A Stick.' This week the children had to predict what the story may be about, by looking at the front cover.
We are revising our Phase Five phonics and working on handwriting and letter formation three times a week. I have started 'group reading' so that the children have a shared reading experience and they read at least three or four times a week in school. They are great when practising spellings at school but still need to work on them at home each week, at least three times.
NEXT WEEK
Maths
We will continue to work on fractions of shapes and move on to fractions in the context of capacity and length.
English
We will practise handwriting and spellings three times next week and phonics on a daily basis. We will hear readers in groups three times and at least once individually. The children will write a recount of our story, carry out a comprehension task for our science project and complete a grapheme/phoneme recognition activity.
Spellings
Elephants
are
you
go
so
by
my
Tigers
full
pull
play
playing
staying
making
trying
Zebras
should
would
could
brought
bought
caught
stayed
played
frightened
excited
Geography
We will be going to China next week and our focus will be on locating Asia on a world map, finding China within Asia and looking at 'Chinese New Year.' The children will make dragon puppets.
Science
Our focus will be on Summer and we will be walking round the school grounds using our sense to 'feel' Summer. The children will write about the season change.
Art
We are starting a project on the work of Claude Monet. I will introduce the children to his work and we will discuss his style, the colours he uses and any patterns and textures that can be found.
I hope you have a restful weekend and look forward to seeing the children on Monday.
Ms Davis
