Year 1

Please make sure you are reading with your child every week and writing in their reading record. It is the most important thing you can do with your child and the best way to access the wider curriculum in school.

Please also look in your child’s reading records to see the sounds they’ve been doing this week. If your child is struggling with certain sounds why not watch the Phase 3 and Phase 5 videos that Miss Crawford and Miss Betts recorded and posted in our Year 1 area?

The children have had great fun this week practising ordering numbers from 1-50 as well as practising our 2 times table to 20?

Year 1 have also become musicians this week, identifying the beat or rhythm in a song and then demonstrating this through clapping, stomping or using their rhythm sticks! We especially loved the last lesson on clapping the syllables to different animals from the zoo!

The children enjoyed writing a setting description about an artic scene in our Power of Reading text, The Snail and the Whale. Miss Betts and Miss Crawford are really proud of how well Year 1 have settled into writing more independently at tables and can’t wait to see what we can achieve next week together!

Quote of the week:

‘If you didn’t read to your children today, what did you do that was more important? - Mrs Robinson

 

 

Year 1 have been doing so well settling back into school life. We have loved seeing them reunited with their friends and coming in every day with beaming smiles!

We have just started our new power of reading text called The Snail and the Whale. We started the week becoming illustrators designing our own front cover for the book. Next, we wrote in the first person from the perspective of the snail, describing all of the wonderful adventures we want to go on.

In phonics, we have been revising the phase 3 diagraphs, ‘ow’, ‘ou’, ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. Why don’t you ask your children to read some words with these target sounds? We know they will be experts!

Our theme for this term is ‘under the sea’ so the children have been busy creating, designing and researching lots of different marine life. Miss Crawford and Miss Betts’s display boards are looking beautiful filled with the children’s under the sea creatures!

Please continue to read with your children and ensure they have their reading book, reading record and a fully charged iPad every day for school!

Miss Crawford and Miss Betts