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
- Thank you for the amazing Christmas decorations. I am thrilled as I want to create a really exciting grotto for the children outside the classroom. It will double up as an elf's workshop as they can use their imaginations to play production of gifts for children!
