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
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