Spring Term Week 8 28.02.22

What a busy week for our school! Year 1 participated in Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and World Book Day all in one week!

Mrs Moccia said the children really enjoyed learning to spell numbers to twenty in words this week. I heard some French numbers were also learnt!

Mrs Heymoz continued Year 1’s R.E. unit ‘From Lent to Easter’ and taught the children The Stations of the Cross. The children learnt about each important station that led up to Jesus’ crucifixion and challenged themselves to put them in the correct order.

The children began their Lenten journey this week on Tuesday with Mardi Gras celebrations. I heard the pancake race was especially exciting! Year 1 learnt about almsgiving, prayer and fasting during Lent and thought hard about what their personal Lenten promises will be. They  wrote them on palm leaves before presenting them at Friday’s assembly. I heard they were very respectful during their Ash Wednesday service and sang beautifully.

I hope you have a restful weekend and hope to see you all on Monday,

Miss Lambie

 

 

Home learning.

Please use www.spellingframe.co.uk to support the sounds taught this week:
New sounds learnt: aw (or) , wh (w) and ph (f)
-Spelling rule #27 ‘aw’ yawn at dawn
-Tricky/ High Frequency words List #16 Phase 5 https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/tricky-trucks?phase=5
Spelling Frame does not have any games for wh and ph but I have found a few resources you may use to support learning this sound
wh:
1. https://wordwall.net/resource/2435870/phonics/wh-words
2. https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/phonics-phase-5-wh-sound-video-in-the-phonics-factory/
ph:
1. https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/poopDeck/index.html
2. https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/bingoOriginal/index.html

• We have been playing ‘Hit the button’ at the start of our maths lessons to build our speed at number bonds to 10. We managed to score 25 in one minute. Can you set your score and beat your score? https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Year 1 Week 7 w.b. 21.02.22

Spring Term Week 7 21.02.22

Year 1 began their new unit ‘From Lent to Easter’ in their religion learning this week. They were knowledgeable about arms giving, prayer and fasting. They are looking forward to celebrating Mardi Gras and beginning their Lent journey next week. They even got themselves prepared by finding all the purple Prayer items for the prayer table.

Year 1 worked hard to listen and respond in time to the music this week in their first lesson of their ‘Animal Dance’ unit in P.E. They were very active in moving like the animals. They were particularly in time with the creeping spider.

Year 1 tried really hard this week to partition their teen numbers into tens and ones. They looked the teen numbers are built and even tried to spell some numbers in words! We will continue to look at the spelling pattern of the numbers in words for the rest of this term.

Thank you for arranging the parent consultations this week. I enjoyed talking to you all about your child’s learning and their time in school. I will copy the sheets next week and send them home with you. I will write my availability for the next few weeks and schedule a telephone conversation with you if you were unable to attend this week.

I hope you have a restful weekend as we have a busy week coming up!

Miss Lambie

A busy week next week so please remember:

Mon- P.E. kits

Tues- Mardi Gras colours (purple, green, yellow & gold)

Wed- full school uniform.

Thursday- Book character dress up

Friday- Full school uniform

 

Home learning.

  • English-
    Please use spellingframe.co.uk to support the sounds taught this week:
    -Spelling rule #3 ‘oy’ toy for a boy
    -Spelling rule #11 ‘ir’ whirl and twirl
  • Spelling rule #17 ‘ou’ shout it out
  • -Tricky/ High Frequency words List #16 Phase 5
  • Handwriting- ‘c’ and ‘a’
    This week Year 1 have learnt to ‘lead in and around the apple, down the leaf and lead out’ for our pre-cursive handwriting.
  • Please encourage your child to write their ‘c’ and now ‘a’ in the pre-cursive way from now on and they will add to it as they learn more throughout the term. I sent a pre-cursive alphabet home before half term to use as support.
  • The children have their user to letterjoin.co.uk to support in their handwriting and user details were handed out at the beginning of the term.
  • Mathletics– I have set: ‘Making teen numbers’ and ‘making numbers count’
  • We have been playing ‘Hot the button’ at the start of our maths lessons to build our speed at number bonds to 10. We managed to score 25 in one minute. Can you set your score and beat your score?

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Spring Term Week 6 wb 07.02.22

Thank you to Reception class for sharing their assembly on St. Valentines with us all this morning. Year 1 have been thinking about how to show love and kindness in our school and have taken the snowflakes off their season tree to make way for kindness hearts after half term.

Our R.E. learning this week was a reflective task on looking at how we show God’s work and ways in our everyday lives. The children enjoyed the activity which saw old pictures of themselves doing God’s work which they had to label. This brings our topic of ‘Being a sacramental People’ to an end and the children have been using the liturgical year wheel to understand which season the church will be entering soon.

Year 1 worked so creatively and collaboratively during their P.E. gymnastics unit this term. They were able to perform their routines for their partners with controlled spins and balances. They we were then challenged to maintain this control as they balanced on the apparatus. They were so excited to use the apparatus for the first time and were very safe and controlled in doing so.

Year 1 tried really hard this week to solve subtraction word and picture problems using the methods they have learned. They know how to subtract by count back, using number bonds, using a number line and concrete objects on their tens frame. We challenged ourselves to subtract with money too. The children priced themselves up, then put themselves on sale and waited to see which child had the correct money to purchase them- they rather enjoyed this activity!

After half term we will be working with greater numbers and exploring how many tens and ones they are made up of and how we can use our number bonds to apply to calculating these greater numbers. Please continue to encourage the mental number bond learning at home.

Enjoy your half term break and stay safe,
Miss Lambie

Home learning
Formal home learning is not set during the holidays but you may continue to support your children through their daily reading, number bond fluency and handwriting.

Spring Term Week 5 wb 31.01.22

Year 1 led the school in the Candlemas assembly this morning. They were very respectful throughout and spent lots of time this week preparing for it- well done Year 1!

Our R.E. learning this week has reflected on this important act of bringing Jesus to the temple and spreading the good news. Year 1 thought really hard about how they could shine like Jesus in their everyday lives. You’ll be glad to hear that lots of them wrote about helping their parents in different ways at home!
Maths

Year 1 have moved onto learning subtraction methods this week. They started with drawing the whole, then crossing out the part they took away before counting the remainder to find the answer. They extended their learning by drawing an abstract number bond and a number sentence to show their workings out.

It was lovely to be greeted on Monday with all the origami instruction lotus flowers. They look beautiful on our prayer table.

Enjoy your weekend,
Miss Lambie

Home learning
• Maths- Mathletics has been set to support subtraction learning.
• I found some useful home learning books on maths this week and have sent them home today. ‘Maths Number work record and activity booklet.’ This is for you to use at home as you wish and does not need to be returned to school.

Additional support on subtraction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwv39j6/articles/ztpmrwx

• English-
Please use www.spellingframe.co.uk to support the sounds taught this week:
-Spelling rule 19 ow (Blow the snow) make a vowel ‘o’ sound rather than ‘ow’ brown cow in phase 3
-Spelling rule 20 ue (come to the rescue)
-Tricky/ High Frequency words – people, oh, out, day.

• Handwriting- ‘c’
This week Year 1 have learnt to ‘lead in and curl around the caterpillar and lead out’ for our pre-cursive handwriting.• Please encourage your child to write their ‘c’ in the pre-cursive way from now on and they will add to it as they learn more throughout the term. I have sent a pre-cursive alphabet home to use as support.
• The children have their user to www.letterjoin.co.uk to support in their handwriting and user details were handed out at the beginning of the term.

Spring Term Week 4 wb 24.01.22

R.E

Year 1 joined in with Pope Paul’s learning in Hinduism this week to promote the awareness of tolerance and respect to other faiths. They learned about Hindu symbols, their meaning and what celebrations they have.

Year 1 took their first coach trip to the Jainism Oshwal Temple in Northaw on Wednesday. Year 1 represented our school well with their respectful and curiosity behaviour throughout. They were able to notice lots of the symbols that we had already learned about in class and were very enthusiastic spotting them around the site.

On Friday afternoon Year 1 showed their determination in following origami instructions to create their own lotus flower. They were very excited to take them home to show you tonight with an extra square piece of paper.

Links if they want to make at home:

English

This week Year 1 wrote their own Winter poetry and were very proud to have their work displayed around the classroom. They enjoyed using their senses to create their poems and are excited to bring them home to share with you at the end of the term.

Maths

Year 1 have continued with addition and part/whole models and been applying their knowledge to solving picture and word problems and understand that addition can be done is anyways (commutative addition). E.g. 1+2=3 and 2+1=3. Year 1 have found the missing number problems e.g. 9=4+? challenging as they are causing them to think about the calculations in a different order, especially when the missing part if a 0. E.g. 4=?+4 or 7=7+?. Year 1 have been very independent in finding and using their resources to solve these calculations.

P.E

This week Year 1 continued their gymnastics learning by exploring which part of the body can spin- I’m sure they will be able to show you if you ask! Please note that Monday and Thursdays are our P.E. days for the Spring Term.

 

We would like to swap some children’s reading days starting next week so please may every child have their book in school everyday so we can sort out the reading days.

Enjoy your weekend,

Miss Lambie

 

Home learning

  • English-
    Please use spellingframe.co.uk to support the sounds taught this week:
    -Spelling rule 4 ay (may I play)
    -Spelling rule 7 ea (cup of tea)
    -Spelling rule 22 ie (terrible tie)
  • Maths– To support the learning method of part/whole Mathletics has been set:
    -Introducing commutative property of law/ addition
    -Adding to 9 with missing numbers
    -Adding zero

The following games will support with mental fluency:

1) Bonds to 10. https://www.ictgames.com//mobilePage/smoothie/index.html

2) Bonds to 10 finding the missing part https://www.ictgames.com/saveTheWhale/index.html

3) Spotting bonds to 10 against a timer https://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_II.html

 

Spring Term Week 2 wb 17.01.22

In our R.E. topic ‘Being a Sacramental People’ we discussed how God is present in the world all around us even though we cannot physically see him. We drew around our hands and wrote inside them how we know God is present in our lives. The children cut them out to make a display and added their title.

This week we started our poetry unit and our first poem was titled ‘Winter’. We enjoyed learning the poem to read aloud at the end of the week. We were able to discuss the poem, think of a suitable title and draw illustrations to reflect the poem.

Our Maths lessons this week have been very practical as we used the resources so find part/ whole of calculation and understand how this can support us in solving addition and subtraction calculations.

This week Year 1 started their first gymnastics lesson and were amazing at finding a safe space to learn and learning how to control their balances with a partner.  I even spotted them trying during their playtime!

Enjoy your weekend,

Miss Lambie

Home learning

  • English– The children have a copy of the poem they were learning this week so they can perform it to their families over the weekend. Please may the children look on their bookshelves and bring in any poetry texts that they would like to share during class story time.
  • Whole School R.E. home learning- please see the latest newsletter or the link below.

220121 Whole-school RE learning letter – Hinduism

 

🌸Spring Term Week 1 wb 11.01.22

Happy Friday and welcome to our first full week of the Spring term.

This week we have continued reflecting on the feast of Epiphany and added the Wise men into our own version of the Christmas story. In our new R.E. topic ‘Being a Sacramental People’ we discussed our knowledge of Jesus and the things he achieved.

In art we painted our Kandinsky inspired clay circles and have left them to dry before we glaze them next week.

We completed our ‘Animals and Humans’ Science topic by learning how to identify mammals and how to classify animals according to what they eat. We learnt some rather long scientific new words which were very tricky to spell and read! See below for consolidation home learning activities on carnivore, omnivore and herbivore animals.

As we have already learnt about adjectives and nouns we discovered verbs cause an action- this was a very energetic lesson! We used verbs to write a set of instructions about how to look after the farm as Farmer Duck has now gone on holiday and left the work to us! He left us a letter to explain that we was so fed up and needed a holiday!  The children worked well to hunt around the classroom for the verbs and then used time conjunctions to order them.

In Maths we finished our topic by learning about compass direction, there was a lot of movement involved!

 

P.E. days are now Monday and Thursday. Children should continue to come in their full P.E. kits on these days. 

Enjoy your weekend and keep warm ❄️,
Miss Lambie

Home learning

  • Science-  Please use https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/zp92xnb
    and https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/z96vb9q to consolidate the learning in science
  • Phonics- We have come to the end of phase 4 phonics and will soon begin phase 5 sounds. Please use Spelling frame to secure and Phase 3 and 4 sounds and tricky words that your child finds challenging. The common ones are the ‘r’ controlled sounds that the children are mixing up: ar, or, ir, er, ur, ure there’s so many!
  • Reading- Can you now spot any verbs in your reading books? Don’t forget about adjectives and nouns too. As you are reading you can act out the verb when you read it- we’re very active this week!
  • Maths- I wonder if you have a compass at home or can use a compass app with your parents to discover where the North, East, South and West directions are in your home or garden.
    Year 1  enjoyed watching this to see them draw their own map. Some said they would like to do it for extra home learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4b9tVmmFJE

 

❄️Week 14 wb 13.12.21🎄

Week 14 wb 13.12.21🎄❄️

Year 1 were fantastic in their Nativity shows this week. We do hope you all enjoyed it.

We all had a very festive lunch on Wednesday and looked fab in our outfits.

🎄❄️The Year One teaching team wish you all a

very Merry Christmas and

look forward to welcoming you back in 2022! 🎄❄️

Please could you save any Christmas cards depicting Mary and Jesus on the front, The Three Kings and bring them in after the holidays.

Week 13- w.b. 6th December ❄️

Week 13 wb 06.12.21 ❄️

🕯️In the second week of Advent Year 1’s Advent promises were to say please and thank you, tell someone they loved them and to let someone go in front of them. 🕯️

In Science the children were learning to identify and name common birds. The home learning for this week will continue with our learning on birds and the children can bird watch at home or in their local area. They can record their findings and share it with the class next week. They can record in poster form or a tally chart. Please use the links below to identify birds, hear bird songs and look at the wildlife guide. I am looking forward to seeing how many birds we can identify.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/identify-a-bird/

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/how-you-can-help-birds/

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/

In Maths the children were learning all about positional language so I have attached the PowerPoint which contains our song we learnt.

1_Put Your Beanbag Song

Year 1 were full of Joy all week as we moved towards the third Sunday of Advent. They were particularly joyful on Friday so I do hope they tell you all about it.

We had paper chain creations, snowflake making, Christmas bangles and key rings and let us not forget a visit from jolly St. Nicholas and a disco party!

⭐We are looking forward to seeing you in the audience on:⭐

Monday 13th December at 2pm

or

Tuesday 14th December at 9:30am

 

Enjoy your weekend,

Miss Lambie

 

Home learning

  • Santa was using the reading book area for his Grotto today so we were unable to change any books. We will do this on Monday instead.
  • Mathletics has been set to support the positional language we have learnt this week.