Year 1
Week beginning 3rd March
We have a great first week back in school. We kicked off our new project, 'Dynamic Dengineers' by making some shelters in our Forest School area, which was great fun. We have attached the new Curriculum Overview and homework sheet below.
We have begun to learn about the features of homes in D&T and different materials in Science. We have enjoyed learning our new story, 'The Three Little Pigs', using talk for writing. We loved using hot seating to pretend to be the wolf or a little pig and answer questions from our friends.
In Maths, we have moved on to adding multiples of ten with practical resources to help.
We are looking forward to our first visit from the STEPs road safety team on Wednesday. Then it is World Book Day on Thursday, when your child can dress up as a favourite book character. Please don't feel you need to go to town with this; it is just to add to the fun!
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Allery, Mrs Stoodley & Mrs Hall
Worship:
The worship theme this week is: Lent
Learning this week:
English - We will be continuing to practise our writing skills in preparation for writing stories later this half-term.
Maths - We will be working on identifying numbers to 100 and representing them with tens and ones.
Phonics - We will be learning to read and write words with the suffix ed and ie saying /ee/ e.g. shield.
RE - We will be beginning to learn about the Easter story.
D&T - We will be practising our skills at joining simple structures ready for making little houses at a later date.
Art - We will be exploring line, tone and pattern with charcoal.
Whole Class Reading- We will continue to read, 'A Place called Home., which is a non-fiction book about a variety of homes all over the world.
Home Learning:
My Maths and Numbots log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record. We would love to see more children logging into Numbots, it is a great resource and a fun way for your children to build fluency in maths. Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with this.
Phonics: We will be sending home new log ins for Twinkl Phonics games and activities as they have changed the system in the next few weeks.
We have also attached some information and further home learning at the bottom of this page focusing on the new graphemes we have been learning this year.
Additional help with reading/phonics:
If you are wondering how you can provide general support for your child at home, our advice is to hear them read as often as possible. Please do not worry if your child brings home the same book from time to time- this is to gain confidence and fluency before moving onto different sounds in other books.
We also have an excellent link to some high quality texts that you may want to consider when choosing children’s books to read or buy!
Additional Maths:
By the end of Year 1, children are expected to:
- count forwards and backwards in ones to 100
- be able to count in 2s, 5s and 10s
- find one more and one less than a given number up to 100
- recognise the value of all coins
- know number bonds (numbers that add together) to total 10 and 20.
These are excellent skills to be practising at home, although we stress that they will be covered over the course of the school year.
Messages:
It is really important to put children’s names in all their clothes, on packed lunch boxes, water bottles, coats etc- otherwise they do not go home with the correct child. We already have some unclaimed and unnamed items from this week. If you could all check that all items are named, we would really appreciate it.
Please could water bottles be placed into a plastic bag in their school bag to protect school reading books. All water bottles must only contain water and NOT squash please.
Please note, our fruit at school is delivered on a Monday, but sometimes later in the day. Please could you provide your child with a snack on a Monday to avoid them getting hungry if our fruit has not been delivered.
It is getting colder and we have had a few rainy days too. Please can you try to ensure the children all have a coat with them, as we do outside, even if it is a little wet or cold.
Key Dates:
Thursday 6th March - World Book Day – Dress up as a book character and virtual books at bedtime 6pm - 7pm
Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th March - Parent’s evenings - hall
Wednesday 2nd April, 1.45-2.45pm - Easter craft for Year 1 parents and carers - hall
Thursday 3rd April - Break up for Easter holidays (finish at 1.20pm)
Key Information:
Please wear PE kits on a Wednesday.