The Jolly Postman and other letters ...

Following our mystery letter from The Jolly Postman we have been looking at the story. We have made lists of characters and replied to some of the letters in the story.

 

In geography we have been looking on google maps and located our houses. We have used the idea of a picture map to make our own maps. The children split into two groups and made the maps. On Friday we exchanged maps and each group followed the clues to the mystery house.

 

In maths this week the children learnt about number bonds using numicon and number lines. 

 

 

 

 

Our mystery letter...

This afternoon we had a package delivered from the Jolly Postman. He asked us to help him to deliver a card as he had ran out of time! We followed the picture clues to the mystery address and delivered the letter!

 

Stay tuned next week for more on the Jolly Postman.....

Big write success!

Yesterday the children spent just over 30 minutes writing their own adapted stories of the 3 little pigs using their story maps. It was fantastic to see all of the children concentrating for this whole period of time. The relaxing music and lighting definitely helped!

 

Money, money, money!

We are carrying on learning about money this week. The children are working really hard to add and subtract using money and have been making different amounts using a range of coins.
We have spoken about how many pennies you need to make the same amount of money as the coins.

Next time you are in the shops or at home sorting out your change maybe you could let them sort the coins out?

Literacy this week

This week we will be doing something called the 'Big Write'. In Literacy we have been learning about the story of the three little pigs. This week with the help of our story maps we will be changing the characters in the story and then the children will sit down and have a set amount of time to write. This is a good time to use everything that they have learnt over the last few weeks in their writing.

At home maybe you could discuss well know characters in books. Are they good or bad characters? What happens in traditional tales?

Well done!

A huge well done to all of the children for a fantastic assembly! They all delivered their lines clearly and with confidence.

Friday saw the end to our British week. As well as our remembrance poems we also learnt about money and Suffragettes and Suffragists.

Thank you to everyone who donated money for Children in Need and bought cakes, it was very successful.

British week plans

This week is our British themed week. Tomorrow morning Year 1 and Year 4 will be teaming up to write remembrance poems. We will also be making a poppy collage.

 

 

We will be learning about important British people in the History of our country such as Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst. We will be discussing British values and the origins of our national flag and money.

 

 

On Thursday afternoon from 3pm you are all invited in to Year 1 to read the remembrance poems and see their poppy art work. 

Forest School sessions tomorrow

Just a quick reminder that it is the first Forest School session for Autumn and Winter group tomorrow.

 

Warm waterproof clothes such as jumper, trousers, coat and wellingtons will all be needed. They may well get dirty so please only pack old clothes. Please bring these in a bag which can stay on pegs.

Children in Need 2015

Children in Need is fast approaching. You should have all received a letter today explaining about Friday (13th).

 

The Children's Voice will be selling Children in Need merchandise from Monday in the area outside Year 1.

 

On Friday our dress up theme is 'Britishness'  (maybe they could dress up in the colours of our flag or famous British person)

 

Just like the country file team all children and staff at The Prince of Wales School will be partaking in a 1 mile ramble around our school grounds.

 

After school on Friday we will be having a cake sale. We would love to have lots of cakes (whole and cupcakes) and biscuits to sell. Please give all the cakes to your class teacher to store in the morning.

 

 

 

 

Year 1 class assembly

Just a reminder that it is our Year 1 assembly on Friday (13th). As you will see it is also our Children in Need dress up day (Britishness theme).

I am happy for the children to come in dressed up but please make sure your child is comfortable in what they are wearing as the whole school watches.

A busy first week back!

This week we have been busy retelling the 3 little pigs. We have been using a story map to help remember the sequence and write it down. Next week we will use the story maps to help us change the story.

In maths we have been estimating and measuring using unifix, rulers and metre rulers. We have been comparing objects and saying which one is taller/ shorter.

Thank you so much to everyone that bought in the home learning we discussed the history of transport yesterday and why we don't use those vehicles now.

Finally, the children have all come home with spellings. As I mentioned at parents evening, spellings are a fantastic way to learn at home. We encourage the children to break the words down in to sounds to spell and then write. I am looking forward to seeing the practice sheets next week!

It was great to see so many of you at parents evening. If you didn't manage to see me please do catch me in the mornings.

Harvest fundraising

Harvest fundraising.

 

To let you all know that a super amount of £350 pounds has been raised! This will be sent to UNICEF to buy water kits as the children requested.

Many, many thanks to everyone for the generosity towards such a needy cause.