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
