Hello Year One,
We had a great time creating our Gingerbread Man Sliders!
This week we completed our Diwali topic and created Rangoli patterns and Diyas (clay oil lamps).
They are beautiful and I will share pictures of them next week after our special Diwali dance day on Tuesday 16th November. The children will be experiencing a Diwali dance workshop and I hope to light the (LED) candles in their diyas to create a festival atmosphere.
This week we have continued to work from the book Farmer Duck. The children focussed on how the duck must be feeling and used speech bubbles and captions to complete the task.
We have continued to recognise verbs in our reading and writing and this will carry on next week.
It was great to see that the children had learned their spellings! They did really well! thank you for supporting them with this.
For our maths lessons we have been learning to regroup numbers to ten. The children are counting backwards from thirty now and can name one more and one less for most numbers up to 30.
The children chose their parts for the Christmas show today. They will all be singing and some children will be dancing. When they are in Year Two they will have speaking parts. Please could the children bring a named plastic bag into school next week. This is for their costume. We have most costumes but there may be added bits that we will ask you to send in.
Next Week
English
We will continue to focus on verbs next week and the children will work on sentence structure. They will summarise the key events of the story Farmer Duck and will create a list of instructions for the farmer to give to the duck.
Maths
We begin to focus on subtraction next week. A lot of emphasis is given to the language of subtraction such as:
- I can see that 9 can be split into 6 and 3
- I started with 9 and took 6 away and I had 3 left
- 6 taken away from 9 is 3
- Six less than nine is three
- 9 minus 6 is 3
- 9 minus 6 equals 3
- I subtract six from nine leaving three
We will be working on number sentences for subtraction.
Science
We will be looking at changes to the weather as Winter begins. The children will make a rain gauge and estimate and record rainfall over the coming weeks. This will be recorded in a class bar chart as we go through the year.
Art/DT
We will complete our diyas next week as they just need to be varnished.
RE
The children will hear the story of Hannukah and use puppets to re-tell the story.
Spellings
Lions
be
he
she
me
my
Leopards
one
are
was
were
has
Tigers
ask
friend
were
pull
full
all
our
Panthers
ask
friend
Christmas
class
clothes
could
cold
door
even
every
The children will bring their spelling lists home on Monday.
NEWS
- A reminder that we are collecting Christmas decorations for our KS1 grotto outside. Anything you have spare or that is no longer wanted would be so welcome.
- A reminder to bring a named plastic bag in to school next week for the children's costume
- Please could I ask parents to congregate outside the door when collecting children. There is plenty of room under the shelter. I can't let the children go until I actually see their parent/carer, so this would be very helpful.
Have a restful and happy weekend.
Ms Davis
