Please download the letter about our visit from Tesco’s on Friday as part of our IPC topic
Year 1 Archive
The Bog Baby
This term we are reading and exploring the story of the Bog Baby. It is a delightful ‘finding tale’ where two sisters go into BlueBell woods and fish for newts – but end up with a Bog Baby! Bellow you can read the revised story that we have been learning as part of our T4W program. The children should now be able to tell you the story with actions too!!
The illustrations are amazing if you can find the book in the library or in a book shop!
Please please help us improve our reading across the school by reading 10 minutes every evening with your child – thank you!
Curriculum Meeting
Please Find below the reading / writing presentation from our recent curriculum evening for parents.
Busters Book Club
Busters Book Club Ambassador
Do you enjoy reading?
Are you up for a challenge?
Could you encourage others to read?
Could you encourage others to read?
We need Ambassadors who are keen to help encourage their classes to read and to remind them to have their bookmarks signed on a Wednesday evening.
If you are interested, simply design a poster for Busters Book Club. This needs to remind children to read every Wednesday and have their bookmark signed. On the back of your poster, please explain why you think you would be good at the role of Ambassador!
Please hand in your completed posters to the school office by Wednesday 1st February. If you have any questions – see Mrs Longman.
Mathletics!
We are so excited at the amazing response to our introduction of Mathletics!
Have you had a go at home with your child? They need to do their set tasks given by the teachers, and then can play against anyone who’s currently online! This is an excellent resource, not just supporting what we are learning in the classroom, but also speeding up our number facts, addition and subtraction to become speedy mathematicians – have a go!
The Pineapple that Sang!
We adapted our story last week and really enjoyed coming up with new things that our farmer could find! The children have become much more confident writers over the last few weeks – its lovely to see!
Look at our story map…
We were luck enough to show off our story to Abacus Nursery too, they enjoyed seeing how much we’d grown – but also listening to our funny story.
This week we have let the children adapt the story themselves, listen out to the new version at home.
The Papaya That Spoke
This week we have been learning the story of the papaya that spoke through the T4W approach as Mr Dale explained in our newsletter this week. Here is the story map that we have been using in class, see if your child can tell you the story using actions.papaya that spoke story map
As well as learning the story we have been focusing our guided reading to look at the story in more detail.
The children also had a chance to taste a papaya – it was more of a hit than we were expecting!!
Next week we will begin to adapt the story, focusing on a pineapple! We will be trying pineapples on Monday, so please let us know if your child has an allergy.
Please make sure your child had a PE kit for Monday and suitable clothes for the weather – its meant to be to be getting colder 🙂
We are of course always trying to improve our achievements in Year One, with the focus on our Phonics Screening at the end of the year we really appreciate you reading with your child every night for 10 minutes as this is proven to make a huge difference to their progress in both reading and writing – Thanks as always for your continued support!
Happy New Year from the Year 1 Team
Christmas Fun In Year One
This week we have enjoyed our run up to Christmas, with parties, christmas activities and our Christmas Dinner, look at the fun we’ve been having!
Hosannah Rock!
We loved presenting our Hosannah Rock Nativity to the parents this week, here are a few snaps of the children before their last performance!
Bird Feeders for our IPC Topic
Over the last few weeks we recorded how many birds we saw in our playground. Having struggled to find many we decided that by making bird feeders we could entice the birds into our outdoor area.
The children have been able to use junk modelling to create their bird feeders, we have used out fine motor skills to thread cheerios onto pipe cleaners and Mr Common came in to help us build some wooden bird feeders that we will be hanging around the school!
We hope you enjoy the photos as much as we have enjoyed our activities!
bird feeders
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