Another busy and fun week for Healthy Eating Week. We began heathy eating with tasting different fruit infused water to encourage us to drink more. The children enjoyed the different tastes and voted for their favourite. The most popular water in Year 1 was lemon and the least popular was plain water. The children enjoyed moving more this week, with ball games, running, dancing and karate. They designed a poster to encourage people to move more to keep healthy. We had lots of fun making pictures from the vegetables in our playground and the children took home charts to encourage them to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables each day.

Thank you for the photos of eating together and being active together. If you have not sent a photo in, please send it so we can add to our display.

We learnt about the importance of eating whole grains and then made wholemeal blueberry muffins. They were yummy!

In Maths we have been subitising, knowing the number of objects without counting. The children have been using this knowledge to help them to solve problems.

Our whole school topic for the next few weeks is rivers. We started by reading a book call A River. The children painted their favourite setting and wrote a caption for their painting. They have made lists of the animals that might have been found in the jungle. They learnt to use commas when writing a list. We also made some boats out of clay.

In Religion we have learnt about the signs, symbols and actions used in the Eucharist. The children enjoyed acting out the Eucharist. They remembered many of the words that the priest says during mass.

Home Learning

Studyladder I have sent passwords home. www.studyladder.com

Mathletics

Spellings

A busy week in Year 1. In Literacy we have been practising letter formation and writing words with the phase 3 sounds. I was pleased with how hard the children worked at learning their spellings. We continued reading the Monkey Puzzle and made a big story map for our display.

In Numeracy we have been ordering numbers and finding one more and one less. The children have been adding using a variety of resources.

In Science we have been naming, labelling and describing body parts. We went out in our outdoor area and made colour pallets with different flowers to show the colours of summer.

In Religion we thought of actions and words to welcome people. We had lovely smiles, waves and kind words in our class.

In PE we have continued to practice throwing and catching and related these skills to different games. In groups, the children were very creative making up their own games.

Home Learning

Spellings – https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/112/2-oi

Mathletics activities set. After the activities that I have set are complete the children can play maths games.

Please practise writing numbers 1-20.

Phonics – play buried treasure on the link below for the Phase 3 sounds.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/buried-treasure

Reading – Please could your child bring their reading book in on their reading days. Listen to your child read and sign their reading record. Your child has two reading books that will be changed once a week on their first reading day of the week. If your child has not completed the book, write a note in their reading record. You can use the stickers in the book to add to your comment. Practise reading the tricky words and the phase 3 sounds.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Carey