Friday 13 December 2019

Weekly News 13th Dec


We are so proud of all of our Year 1 children this week. What an amazing show they put on for us all! We do hope you enjoyed it as much as we and they did. Not surprisingly we have some very sleepy children today.

This week we also enjoyed our Christmas lunch. It was very yummy and made us feel lovely and festive.




Even though we have had a super busy week we have still managed to fit in some other learning.

In Maths we have been continuing to learn about Subtraction / Taking-Away up to 20. This week we used objects to work out the answer. Some children worked out the answers in their head by counting backwards.

In RE this week, we learnt about the Christmas Story and next week, we are going to write our own story books about it. We are working hard to remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops in our sentences.

We have also been doing a Phonics check with the children to see if they can apply their knowledge of phase 2-5 sounds in their reading.  We have been very impressed at their enthusiasm and how well they have been able to sound out and blend a variety of real and alien words.

The children all look amazingly festive today in their Christmas jumpers and as a school, we will have raised lots of money for Save the Children.  Thank you for your generosity.

Thank you also for all your support with our Christmas Fayre and Christmas Show over the last week.

Have a restful weekend and we wish you all a wonderful Christmas holiday (when it arrives!)
Year 1 Team

Notices:
  • Last week we put some spellings on the blog but it did not upload properly until Monday. As a result, we did not do a spelling test this week. We will do this at the beginning of next week instead to give you extra time to practise. They words to learn were: we, so, there, what.
  • Please can we have all word bags back on Monday so that we can sort through them over the holidays. We will pop the trolley out on Monday morning for you to replace them. Thank you. 

Monday 9 December 2019

Weekly News w/c 02.12.19

What a magical start to the week! 

On Monday, the children came into class to discover Father Christmas’ footprints and a letter! In his letter he told us about how busy he is at the moment, how he is excited to deliver presents, and how he will be coming to our Christmas Fayre. He also wanted to know if the children had been kind, trying their best and what presents they would like for Christmas. The children wrote some great letters back to him using ‘because’ to explain why they wanted something. Some children included a question for Father Christmas.




In Maths this week, we have started learning about Subtraction. We discussed how when we subtract, or take-away, the number/amount gets smaller. We solved subtraction number sentences by splatting snowballs! For example, 10 – 4 = ? meant that the children made 10 snowballs, splatted 4 and counted how many were left to find the answer (6!).





Our challenges this week are Christmas-themed. The children are making paper chains showing number bonds to 10, completing Christmas word searches, making stockings and building Santa’s sleigh.



As you can imagine we have been super busy practising for our Christmas show ‘Countdown to Christmas’. This week we have been using our costumes, props, lighting and microphones! The children are very excited to show you this next week.

Notices:
  • Spellings for next week are: we, so, there, what
  • We will shortly be sending home a little spelling report to let you know how your child has got on with their spellings this half term and any words that may need further practice.