Y1 Friday 19th January 2024– Looking Back & Forth
Y1 Friday 19th January 2024– Looking Back & Forth
Looking back:
In English we have explored the text of ‘Major Glad, Major Dizzy’. We have used the theme of this book to inspire us to write a list poem (including adjectives), adding ‘ed’ endings to verbs to write in the past tense and identify different features of the text.
In Maths, we have explored numbers within 20 and found one more and one less than given numbers.
In Science we have begun to explore the different parts of the human body- naming, identifying and labelling parts on our body.
In History we have thought about questions we will ask our Grandparents about the toys they had a child. We have also played with our favourite toys and labelled their features. We have begun to think about similarities and differences between old and new toys- using a porcelain and plastic doll for comparison.
Year 1 – Pupils’ Highlights:
√ Including adjectives in our list poem to make our writing more interesting.
√ Adding ‘ed’ to verbs to write in the past tense.
√ Exploring the tens and ones in numbers up to 20.
√ Finding one more and one less in Maths.
√ Generating questions to find out information about toys from the past.
√ Throwing and catching accurately in PE.
√ Finding sounds in phoneme spotters and matching sounds in Phonics.
√ Recognising, naming and labelling parts of the body.
√ Looking at what features our favourite toys have and labelling them.
√ Learning about the followers of Jesus in RE.
√ Moving based on the pitch of the music in Music.
Family discussion questions:
- How to you write ‘jump’ as a past tense word? Can you put it into a sentence?
- What number is 1 more than 12? How many tens and ones are in this number?
- What were Victorian toys like? Were the toys different for poor and rich children?
Looking forward:
Next week In English we will be planning and writing our own finding story.
In Maths we will be using a number line to find and estimate up to 20.
In Science we will be gathering information about eye and hair colour before using this date to create pictograms on the laptop.
In History we will comparing toys from Victorian times to toys now.
Homework in Year 1
- Spelling and handwriting/ phonics homework is sent home each Friday and is due back in the following Friday. Handwriting is based on the letter we have practised in school and the spellings are based on what we have looked at in school including High Frequency Words (HFW) or Common Exception Words (CEW) from the Year 1 spelling list. I will send 3 spellings home; this amount can be changed weekly dependent on how well they are retained by the children and will be tested informally on a Friday morning. This is nothing to worry about and gives children experience of homework before Year 2 and helps with their Year 1 handwriting and spelling expectations.
- Please continue to read every night. If this could be recorded in reading diaries so I can track progress for our 14 day Reading Challenge. Reading Challenge’s will be awarded on Friday’s after checking Reading Diaries on Thursday after school. If you have any questions please ask.
Reminders
- Please reply to our class letter with a letter about toys you had as a child (if this could be done by grandparents too that would be wonderful) and if you have a photo or can find one online, to show what your toy was like that would be helpful. If these could be in by Monday 22nd January, at the latest-Thank you.
Thanks for your support
Mrs Carew