Dear Year One,
The children have been working hard and making pleasing progress this week. We have continued to work from the book 'The Last Noo-Noo.' This week the children wrote their own stories about burying something in their gardens that would grow into magical trees. They planned their stories first by creating a story map and worked from that to write amazing and exciting stories. They are beginning to use adjectives in their writing now!
We have been doubling and halving in our maths lessons and counting in tens and fives during maths fluency.
For science we continued to explore 'Materials' for our topic. This week we sorted materials into different categories.
The children completed their art project on insects. They have been carrying out observational drawings of bees and beetles for the last two weeks and were able to draw their final version. A display will be in the corridor within the next week.
NEXT WEEK
English
We start a new book next week called 'How To Wash A Woolly Mammoth.' It is a story based on instructions . It is funny and exciting! The children will love it. A lot of our English lessons will be based on themes from the story. Next week the children will be writing a series of instructions on how to wash an animal of their choice.
We will continue to work on our phonics and spellings every day and will have three handwriting lessons.
Maths
We will complete our work on doubling and halving and move on to explore odd and even numbers.
Science
Next week we will be looking at why certain materials are used for specific purposes, such as glass for a window.
History
We will continue our topic about 'Homes.' Next week we will be looking at homes from the past and focusing on the similarities and differences. We will discuss what different homes were made of and how the features of homes has changed.
RE
We explored Christian Baptism last week and will continue to look at the features of baptism On 24th February I will be taking the children to Christ Church as I would like them to see the font and listen to the pastor talk about baptism in his church.
PSHE
We will be thinking and talking about the obstacles people have to face in life and how they can overcome them. We will think about the obstacles we have had as a class and how we have overcome them. We will discuss current obstacles and think of ways to remove them in order to learn and play happily with each other.
I hope you have an enjoyable weekend.
Ms Davis
