Week 2 in Y1 💫

 Hello Year One families

In English we have read to the end of our story 'The Comet'. The children loved finally getting to the end of the story and finding out that Nyla would be happy in her new home.  You can watch the story together here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNmPLQnhZ_o

The children have spent the week writing how Nyla feels about moving home and we even managed a bit of hot-seating where the children became Nyla and answered questions. The children's writing skills go from strength to strength and many are writing excellent independent sentences using full stops, capital letters, finger spaces, adjectives and the conjunction 'and'. There's so much to learn when you become a writer!

In maths we have just moved on to a new unit of Numbers to 50. The children are beginning to learn the composition of the numbers to 50 e.g 35 is made of 3 tens and 5 ones. They are also learning to say and write numbers to and from 50. We will be practicing counting back from 50 next week as this was a bit tricky, especially as we moved from the numbers ending in 0 down e.g from 40 to 39, 30 to 29 etc. You can practice at home using this video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtNskltyA0E

In science the children worked in teams to describe a season and what was good about it. They then shared their ideas with the rest of the class. It was lovely to see how confident the children are in front of one another. 

Forest School looked fab this week. The children learnt about animal habitats and then they went out to discover some habitats for themselves. At the end of the session the children got to make some mini habitats of their own. Mrs Surtees, our forest school leader was very happy the children actually got to go outside this week!

In art the children created the own Kandinsky inspired paintings. They colour mixed all the secondary colours themselves after learning how to do this the week before. We were really impressed with the results. 

The week ahead:

As part of World Book Day we have some mystery readers booked in to read to us next week which we are very excited about.

World Book Day - Thursday 7th March

• Come dressed as a book character.
• Come in to the classroom with your child for the first 15 minutes (8.45am - 9am) to read a story with them.
• Come back to school for a bedtime story at 5pm until 6pm.

We have a growing amount of lost property that includes jumpers and cardiagns. If you are missing any please do come and help yourself! 

Have a good weekend and we will see you on Monday.

The Year One Team