Y1 Friday 22nd November 2024– Looking Back & Forth
Y1 Friday 22nd November 2024– Looking Back & Forth
Looking back:
We have had a great week in Year 1! We took art in hedge planting and learnt how to play pickleball and do archery.
We had a fantastic forest schools morning, learning about a range of natural artefacts and the risks to hedgehogs and seasonal change. We built a fox proof and weather proof hedgehog hog and we looked for invertebrates for our hedgehog.
We took part in a short fire session at the end and finished by roasting marshmallows. The children absolutely loved it!
In Maths we have used tens frames and part whole models to secure our learning of number bonds to 10 and answered problem solving and reasoning questions related to this.
In Geography we have identified the human and physical features of a coastline and city.
In Science we have observed the weather across the week.
Year 1 – Pupils’ Highlights:
√ Using lots of practical equipment to find pairs to 10.
√ Learning to find number bonds to 10 in lots of different ways.
√ Identifying human and physical features of a coastline and a city.
√ Practising songs for our Christmas performance.
√ Saying numbers to 20 in French.
√ Completing a weather diary showing what we have observed this week.
√ Trying our best with our handwriting.
√ Throwing and catching in PE.
√ Doing brilliantly in our spelling quiz.
√ Learning about when Angle Gabriel visited in RE.
Family discussion questions:
- What will you see in a city that you would not see in a village?
- Thinking about number bonds to 10. What pairs with 2? With 7? With 0?
- What has the weather been like this week? How is it different to summer?
Looking forward:
Next week we will write a retell of the story of Rapunzel.
In Maths we will continue to look at concepts related to addition and begin to look at subtraction.
In Geography we will look at human and physical features found in a village and town. In Science we will test materials to see which makes the best sounds.
Reminders:
Spelling and handwriting 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. There may be some repeated words if these have not been applied to our writing in class.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.
Book change on Thursday.
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.
Reminders
Free dress day on Wednesday for chocolate donations.
Nativity
Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th December 9:30am in the Village Hall.
If you have any questions please ask
Thank you for your continued support
Mrs Carew