We’ve had a very busy but fantastic
first week back after the half term holiday. The children have dived straight
into their learning and have been showing great enthusiasm across all subjects.
In Maths, the focus has been on direction and position.
The children have been exploring turns, left and right, and moving forwards and
backwards through lots of practical activities.
Our English lessons have been equally engaging as the
children have begun a new unit based on the book ‘Pig the Pug’ by Aaron Blabey.
They have loved describing the characters using adjectives and have shown great
creativity planning their own versions of the story with different pets. The children
came up with some imaginative character names and have made a fantastic start
writing the first part of their stories.
In Geography, we began our new topic, ‘What is it like in
Shanghai?’ We began by exploring the human and physical features of our local
area, setting the foundation to compare and learn about Shanghai in the coming
weeks.
Finally, in Art, the children painted paper plates
inspired by Clarice Cliff’s famous ‘Circle Tree’ plate. Next week, they will
continue this project by creating trees by blowing black paint with straws!
Next Week:
English- The children will continue writing their ‘Pig
the Pug’ style story. They will also learn about expanded noun phrases.
Maths- The children will continue use the vocabulary ‘above’
and ‘below’ to describe positions and they will also explore ordinal numbers.
They will also start a new topic based on place value to100.
Geography- The children will map the local area.
RE- We will read and discuss the story of ‘Jonah and the
Whale’.
Science- The children will explore the season of Summer.
Spellings for next Friday’s
test are:
Group 1: when, which, wheel,
white, whisper, brief, field, shield, thief, shriek
Tricky words: friend,
because
Group 2: when, which, wheel,
white, whisper
Tricky words: because
Group 3: when, which, wheel,
white
Tricky words: because
Reminders
Sharing assembly- Monday 9th
June @ 9am (for those children who received a letter)
Phonics Screening Test- this
will take place throughout the week
Hope you all have a
wonderful weekend!
The Year 1 team
