Reading
We have put your new shared reading book ‘Little Peach’ 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 have begun to explore what a poem is. The children used a range of adjectives, thoughts and feelings to create their own poem about the character, Beegu, from our CLPE class text.

In Maths, the children have continued to explore ‘5 and a bit’ using Rekenreks, tens frames and Hungarian dice frames. We have moved onto look at the numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9, using calculations to show what 5 needs to make these numbers, using an addition number sentence to explain our understanding.

In Science, the children began to explore their senses, and the body part associated with each sense. We went on a sense hunt around school, using our eyes, ears, noses and hands to explore our surroundings. We saw flowers, heard bird song, smelt some yummy baking and felt the soft grass between our fingers as we explored.

In RE we looked again at the Parable of the Lost Son, and talked about what the story teaches us about God. We learned that God loves everyone and that we can all forgive others for their mistakes.

In Humanities, we explored what Geography is as a subject and learned that it is the study of the world around us, including places, people and communication between these. The children began looking at features of our world, including human and physical features. We now know that places such as schools, shops and Churches are human features, as they have been created by humans, but things such as hills, rivers and mountains are physical features as they have been formed without human help.

In DT we practised our cutting skills by designing our own pizzas, outfits for teddy bears and even created our own jelly fish!

Today, we have sent home this half terms newsletter, PSHE Knowledge Organiser and Parent Access Code via Arbor, for your perusal.

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!

Have a lovely weekend.
The Year 1 Team