Just a reminder that we are off the the Shire Hall tomorrow for our Victorian Christmas. The weather will be cold (but not rainy) so please make sure your child is wrapped up for the walk there and back.
We have no parent helpers at present so if you would like to come, we would very much welcome a few extra pairs of hands.
The Year One Team
Your child has come home with a note today saying what costume they need for our Christmas show. Please let me know if you haven't received it. It has the above picture on it.
We have had so much fun this week! We all crept back through the wardrobe together and into Narnia. The children worked with Miss Knight to create some fantastic imaginative adjectives about the characters and animals of Narnia. They went on to write sentences about different creatures they would like to see in Narnia too.
In Art we have painted our penguins that we made out of clay. We just have an orange beak to add before they are ready. They look fabulous as a little colony!
The children have also created a Three Kings picture that will go to decorate St Mary's Church this year.
Hello Year One Families
I have really missed you and it is so nice to be back!
The children have had another busy week in Year One.
In maths we have been learning to add two numbers together within ten. The children learn how to do this using a range of methods including tens frames and part part whole models. They have practiced how to write addition sentences using the symbols + and = as well as saying the number sentence they have made. Sometimes we used the stem sentence: First there were ____, then we added ___ more, now there are _____ altogether.
In English the children have finished writing African elephant fact files and then had a go at writing their own animal fact file about their favourite animal. The children are beginning to use their writing skills to write longer sentences, adding full stops, capital letters and interesting adjectives too.
This has linked really nicely with their science, where we have been learning what sort of teeth different animals have based on whether they are a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. I wonder if they can remember the facts they learnt about this?! (Carnivores have sharp teeth for eating/ripping meat, herbivores have flat teeth for grinding plants and omnivores have flat and sharp teeth).
Following the children's zoom session with artist Nick Mackman, they have put their newly found knowledge to the test and begun to design and make some fabulous penguins. The finished models should be coming home at the end of term too. The pictures show some fantastic sculpture skills.
Coming soon:
We will be resending home log ins next week for Numbots, Purple Mash and Reading Eggs as we have had a number of requests.
Our winter play practice has just begun so children may well be humming and singing these songs at home! Some children may have a few lines to learn and we will send home costume requests next week. If anyone is struggling to find costume items please do let us know and we can help source items.
Our Christmas craft day is on Friday 1st December. This is where the children have the opportunity to make a range of Christmas crafts with different friends and staff around the school. It is a lovely way to mark the beginning of the festive period.
Also on the this day, our very own Mr Dwyer will be leading an assembly on rail safety with all the children in the school.
Phew! Another fun-packed week to come!
We look forward to seeing you for a ❅ Magical Monday ❅
The Year One Team
See you all tomorrow,
The Year 1 Team
The wind has certainly whipped up a storm with Year 1's learning this week. In Literacy we have become elephant experts and practised writing adjectives to describe elephants and even used them in our writing. In Maths we have become number mad, number sentence writers. All of the children have gained confidence in writing their numerals and using the + sign and the = sign to write a number sentence. We have started calling these number bonds.
Playing outside has been a priority when the weather allowed and we have taken our History learning to the sandpit where the children were mining for coal whilst others used the wheelbarrows and the parcel truck to lift heavy objects from one area to another.
We have continued our science project and made various mice to launch into space, using a metre ruler to measure their flight.
We had a fabulous Forest School on Thursday working collaboratively with the logs and sticks and chalk to make some forest art work.
Thank you to all of you who have returned home learning, bought in amazing things from home, taken part in Fonetti or created a poppy for our school wreath. We have really enjoyed sharing this in class.
We are now storing welly boots in our covered area at the front of the classroom to ensure the locker area is kept tidy and so that there is enough space for all of our things. If you need to take these home, please don't hesitate to ask. Any unnamed items are also available in our class lost property box, again please ask to have a look if you are missing anything.
Next week we are off to learn more about The Victorians at Shire Hall and it is Children In Need day on Friday.
We are looking forward to another fun packed week.
Have a restful weekend.
The Year 1 Team.
