Year 1
Week beginning 19th May
As we near the end of a busy but short half-term, we prepare to enter our final half-term of this academic year! How time has flown!
This week, in D&T, the children have drawn their designs for some felt animal collages that they will be making next week. We can't wait to see how they all turn out!
We have started our new unit in English. We are writing some non-fiction reports about animals using the knowledge that we gained on our trip to the New Forest Wildlife Park.
The children have been practising counting in twos, fives and tens in maths this week. Ask your child if they can remember the sequences and practise with them at home!
Please don't forget about Numbots- we would love to see lots more of our children using this great resource to practise their number skills. Children's log-in details are stuck in the front of their reading records, please ask if you have any questions.
Don't forget, we have class photographs being taken on Tuesday 20th May!
Please send your child into school in Summer school uniform with PE kit in a bag if they have an after-school club.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Allery, Mrs Stoodley & Mrs Hall
Worship:
The worship theme this week is: Ascension Day
Learning this week:
English - We will continue to write our animal reports.
Maths - We will be identifying equal and unequal groups.
RE -We will continue our learning based on the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
Phonics - We are continuing to re-visit previous learning.
Science - We will be looking at animal diets and learning the key vocabulary: carnivore, herbivore and omnivore.
D&T - We will be making our animal collages out of felt.
Whole Class Reading - We will be continuing to read the book, 'Monkey Puzzle'.
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 have 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.
Key Dates:
Tuesday 20th May - Class Photographs - No PE kit on this day please (if you have a club, please bring it to change into)
Friday 23rd May - Break up for May Half Term
Monday 2nd June - INSET Day. No school on this day
Tuesday 3rd June - Children Return for Term 6
Friday 20th June - Sports Day
Key Information:
Please wear PE kits on a Wednesday.