Hello Year One,
This week we have been learning how to tell the time. The children have been taught o'clock, half past and earlier and later. They can do this at home, especially earlier and later as they found this more challenging.
We are working on sentence structure in our English lessons. The children enjoyed the new story and were able to write a character description of 'The Highway Rat!'
We went to China in our geography lesson this week. We explored some of the features and characteristics of China. The children were able to locate Asia on a world map and can recognise the Chinese flag.
For PHSE we learned about different life stages for living things. Next week we will be looking at body parts and discussing the difference between boys and girls.
The phonics screening has been completed now. Thanks you for all your help and support getting the children prepared for the screening. All the extra effort was worth it!
Every week there is an increase in the number of children getting all their spellings correct. It does make a huge difference when they work on 'look, cover, spell and check' at home.
The children created beautiful art this week. We looked at the work of Claude Monet and in particular his 'Water Lilly' painting. The children loved using pastel crayons to recreate this scene. They learned how to smudge the colours together, remove lines and borders to model the impressionism style.
NEXT WEEK
English
The children will be continuing their work on sentence structure. They will be writing a book review and creating their own endings for our class story.
Maths
We begin a topic on fractions next week as we start exploring halves and quarters.
Geography
Next week we will travel to Australia. We will explore the features and characteristics of Australia and locate it on a world map.
Art
We will be learning the primary colours and how to create secondary colours. We will be using water colour paints.
PHSE
The children will be learning the human body parts and recognising that there are differences between males and females.
RE
The children will be completing their moral explanations next week as we continue to focus on the story 'The Good Samaritan.'
Sports Day
Just a reminder that Thursday morning will be KS1 sports events. I look forward to seeing many of you there.
I hope you have a restful weekend.
Ms Davis
