Reading

We have put your new shared reading book ‘Highland Summer’ in your book bags today. Please take a little look over the weekend to familiarise yourself with the text ready for our first shared read on Monday.

Doodle Maths

Please try and spend 10 minutes, 3 times a week answering questions on Doodle Maths to ensure that you are in the Green Zone!

Handwriting

We have been working so hard on our letter formation in our handwriting sessions and the children's letters are continuing to improve. We have been focusing on making sure that we can distinguish between our tall and small letters, and are practising sitting our letters on the line. Any opportunities to practise those alphabet letters at home would be fantastic, we appreciate any time you can put in.

This Week

In phonics this week, we have consolidated the sounds that we have been learned so far. The children could recall ay, ea, ie, ou and oy, and read these sounds in a variety of words. We introduced our alien friend, who gives us words to read that are not real, or called ‘non-words’. These non-words encourage children to use their decoding skills to sound out, and their blending skills to read words without being able to put them in context, thus showing us their knowledge and understanding of the sounds we have learned this far.

In English this week we moved away from our CLPE text, in favour of two shorter texts to develop the children’s literal and inferential comprehension skills. We read the texts as a class, looked at a question, highlighted the important part of the question and found the answer in the text, making sure that we answered the question using a full sentence. The children developed their scanning skills through looking for key words in the question and the text, and showed good understanding. We will continue to do this at various stages to develop the children’s independence in reading a text and answering questions.

In Maths, we looked at odd and even numbers. We learned that even numbers can always be put in pairs, and in numberblock language, are called ‘flat tops’. Odd numbers will always have one left over or ‘sticking out’, and we looked at numbers in a variety of representations to support our understanding.

In Geography this week, we explored a range of different types of maps, including Globes, Atlases, treasure maps, tube maps and Google Earth to explore the world around us. We learned that maps are drawn from a ‘birds eye view’, and we enjoyed being birds and exploring our surroundings, picking out key features and thinking about how these would look on a map. With support, the children did a fantastic job of mapping our classroom – they drew the tables, chairs, carpet spots, cupboards and even the doors and windows!

Have a lovely weekend.
The Year 1 Team

Reading
We have put your new shared reading book ‘Oysters Ahoy!’ in your book bags today. Please take a little look over the weekend to familiarise yourself with the text ready for our first shared read on Monday.

Doodle Maths
Please try and spend 10 minutes, 3 times a week answering questions on Doodle Maths to ensure that you are in the Green Zone!

Handwriting
We have been working so hard on our letter formation in our handwriting sessions and the children's letters are continuing to improve. We have been focusing on making sure that we can distinguish between our tall and small letters, and are practising sitting our letters on the line. Any opportunities to practise those alphabet letters at home would be fantastic, we appreciate any time you can put in.

This Week
In English this week we ordered the events from our CLPE book, ‘Beegu’, before writing sentences in the past tense to describe what happened during her time on Earth.

In Maths, the children have been comparing numbers using ‘greater than, less than and equal to’. We used lots of stem sentences to support our learning and used Rekenreks to further show our understanding of numbers.

In Science, the children played a listening game using their hearing senses. They listened to a range of animal noises and had to guess the animal making the noise!

In Humanities, we explored what Victorian school looked like in the past, how children used different equipment to do their learning with and learned that teachers were very strict!

In Art we went on a shape hunt, looking for the different shapes that we could find within our school building. The children drew all of the shapes they could see and could remember lots of their 2D shape names.

We will be visiting St Mary’s Church on Monday 5^th October between 9:00am and 10:30am for our annual Harvest Festival Service. If you are available to help us walk the children down to the church and back, please contact us directly so that we can include you in our numbers – thanks so much in advance!

If you have any cardboard (cereal boxes would be ideal as they are thinner and therefore easier to cut), we would be very grateful if you could send it in with you as we will be practising our cutting and joining skills next week.

Have a lovely weekend.
The Year 1 Team

Reading
We have put your new shared reading book 'Lets Sort it Out' in your book bags today. Please take a little look over the weekend to familiarise yourself with the text ready for our first shared read on Monday.

Starling Class loved visiting the school library today and have come home with a picture book of their choice. Please feel free to read this with them over the next week, and we will return them each Friday, replacing them with a new one!

Doodle Maths
Thank you to those who have completed the Doodle Baseline. We have been working through the children as best we can and will continue to do so next week to ensure that they are all up and Doodling by the end of the week!

Handwriting
We have been working so hard on our letter formation in our handwriting sessions and the children's letters are continuing to improve. We have been focusing on making sure that we can distinguish between our tall and small letters, and are practising sitting our letters on the line. Any opportunities to practise those alphabet letters at home would be fantastic, we appreciate any time you can put in.

This Week
We have had a jam-packed week full of learning, and we are so proud of how the children are adapting to the new and more formal learning routines! 

In English, we have created an Alien friend for the character in our story and worked towards a final piece of writing where we used adjectives to describe their features.
In Maths, we have been diving deeper into the numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9, looking at them as '5 and a bit'. The children have used a range of resources and manipulatives to show these numbers as different parts.
In Science, we have recapped the features of the human body and the children can recall and identify lots of different body parts confidently!
In PE we have focused on the basics of football and rugby. We have learnt how to dribble the football confidently and how to make an accurate pass; as well as how to move with a rugby ball and are beginning to learn how it is passed from player to player.

Have a lovely weekend.
The Year 1 Team