Y1 Friday 10th March 2023
Y1 Friday 10th March 2023– Looking Back & Forth
Looking back:
In English we have added ‘es or s’ to root words to make them plural- remembering the rules to help us, used ‘and’ as a conjunction to join sentences and identified questions and exclamation sentences.
In Maths we have consolidated our addition and subtraction unit by completing a quiz before moving on to our place value to 50 unit- exploring 20- 50.
In Geography we have thought carefully about the weather associated with each season
In Art and Design we have begun to paint using Brusho in hot and cold colours and in Design and Technology we have started to design our recycled bird houses.
Year 1 – Pupils’ Highlights:
√ Roly poly and chicken wing moves in dance in PE.
√ Repeating and say names of animals in French
√ Showing all that we have learnt when adding and subtracting.
√ Understanding numbers from 20-50.
√ Working hard to read and write words including ‘ir’ as ‘ur’ and ‘ue’ as ‘yoo’ or ‘oo’.
√ Using rules to help us to write plurals using ‘es/s’ suffixes.
√ Including the conjunction ‘and’ in our work to join sentences.
√ Identifying weather associated to each season.
√ Using percussion instruments to makes sounds of different pitches in Music.
√ Learning about Palm Sunday in RE.
Family discussion questions:
- To write ‘box’ as a plural- would I add ‘s’ or ‘es’?
- What technology do you use at home? How can you make sure you are safe when using it?
- Is there any weather that you see in more than one season of the year?
Looking forward:
Next week we will be exploring the features of the Hermelin story and writing our story plan.
In Maths we will be making groups before partitioning tens and ones to understand the value of the numbers.
In Art and Design and Technology we will continue painting and designing our recycled bird houses.
In Science we will be spotting birds in our schools grounds and using our tally charts to create graphs to show which birds we saw and how many of each.
Homework in Year 1
- Spelling and phonics homework is sent home each Friday and is due back in the following Friday. Handwriting is based on the letter we have practised in school and the spellings are based on what we have looked at in school including High Frequency Words (HFW) or Common Exception Words (CEW) from the Year 1 spelling list. I will send 3 or 5 spellings home; this amount can be changed weekly dependent on how well they are retained by the children and will be tested informally on a Friday morning. This really helps to reinforce the sounds we have been working on in class and enables the children to use the sounds / words in their writing. Homework due Friday 17.3.23
- Please continue to read every night. If this could be recorded in reading diaries so I can track progress for our 14 day Reading Challenge. Reading Challenge’s will be awarded on Friday’s after checking Reading Diaries on Thursday after school. If you have any questions please ask.
Reminders
Mother’s Day shop- monies to be sent in a named envelope on Monday 13th March.
Film Night- Friday 17th March- 6pm
Y1 Parents’ Evenings- Monday 20th March, Tuesday 21st March and Wednesday 22nd March.
World Down Syndrome Day Tuesday 21st March- please wear odd socks. Gingerbread socks will be sold after school, beside the Sunshine Room.
Thanks for your support
Ms Cummins