Month: September 2018

This week Bob’s favourite was sandwich was stolen by a very sneaky alien.

To help Bob we wrote wanted posters describing the alien’s appearance and personality. Our amazing posters helped Bob capture the alien and reclaim his lunch. As a reward we learnt how to make his favourite cucumber sandwiches.

We enjoyed eating the sandwiches during our class picnic.

In maths we have been learning about counting forwards and backwards by completing a set of number sequences.

In science we have been learning about transparent and opaque materials. We have learnt that transparent materials let the light through so we can see through them. Opaque materials block the light which means we cannot see through them and this causes them to form a shadow. We then selected appropriate materials to make a shadow puppet.

In phonics we have been revising the following sounds:

ow- brown, cow

ow- blow, snow

As a school we have joined ‘The Spelling Shed’ to help children practise and learn their spellings. This week the children have all been given a username and password to help them access their spellings at home (please come and speak to one of the team if you cannot find your child’s username and password). The link to the Spelling Shed is below:

https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

The children enter their username and password to access their account.

Once signed into their account, the children can then access the various spellings that we are practising in class. The children can  work through the different levels to help them practise their spellings.

This week the children can practise the tricky words:

I

to

the

into

go

no

We hope you enjoy spelling at home!

This week in Show and Tell we enjoyed learning about Caroline’s cow bell from Switzerland, Eliza’s toy dog ‘Bonnie’, Valeri’s Pokemon ‘Psyduck’, Guy’s helicopter ‘Smashie’ Lewis’s model of the Sydney Opera House  and Ramir’s T-Rex. Next week it is the turn of the Dr Xargle table (Levi, Lenny, Lucy, Lilly, Ben and Jiyong).

Thank you to everyone who has brought in a photo of themselves reading in an unusual place. We look forward to seeing more photographs to use a part of our Reading Area display.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

This week we have been learning how to write a description of a setting. We looked at a strange planet called Pandora and thought of adjectives to describe what we could see. We then wrote these descriptions as sentences in our books.

In maths we have been learning how to use different resources to represent numbers. We wrote the number as a numeral, word and picture and then used our Base 10 Diene sticks to represent a 2 digit number.

In science we have continued learning about different materials and their properties. We helped Bob who needed some new items for his rocket. We told him which material would be best for a: chair, waterbottle, bookshelf and window by describing their properties.

This week the children took home their weekly reading books. The books will need to be returned on Tuesday so that the children can take home a new set on Wednesday.

In phonics we have been revising the sounds:

‘igh’ (flight, light, bright)

‘ar’ (car, star, far)

Attached is a website with a game for the children to play to revise some of the sounds they have learnt so far: http://www.ictgames.com/hybrid.html

To celebrate our love of reading we would like the children to bring in a photograph of them reading in an unusual place. These photographs will be used as part of our Reading Area display.

This week we enjoyed learning about Sean’s owl called ‘Tootie’, Albie’s velociraptor ‘Razor’, Matilda’s penguin ‘Fluffy’, Finn’s monkey from Go Ape and Marcus’s bike in Show and Tell. Next week it is the turn of the ‘Beegu’ table (Guy, Lewis, Caroline, Ramir, Valeri and Eliza).

We hope you all have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

This week we have started reading our core text ‘Bob Man on the Moon’.

We learnt about Bob’s day on the moon and all of the jobs he has to complete inside his rocket.  We then wrote a set of questions we would like to ask Bob, to find what it is like to visit the moon. We look forward to reading his replies next week.

In phonics we have learnt the sounds ‘ee’ (what can you see?) and ‘oa’ (goat in a boat). We have also been reviewing our phonics knowledge by playing the game ‘Obb and Bob’. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

In maths we have been learning how to count and sort objects and numbers.  We sorted a variety of objects in different ways:

“We have sorted them into colours”

“We have sorted them into groups of three.”

 

We then used objects and numicon to represent a number:

We have begun to identify if a number is odd or even by singing our odd numbers song “Odd numbers it’s time to shine, they end in 1,3,5,7,9.”

In science we have started our topic ‘Materials’. We looked at different materials and began to describe their properties. We then sorted the materials using the vocabulary we had generated.

This week we wrote our class prayer:

Dear God,

Thank you for the world you have given us, our friends, families and school. We thank you for the love you give us every day.

Please help us to do our best and try our hardest in all we do.

We will always try to be kind to each other and love each other.

Amen

 

Congratulations to Toby who was awarded the Good Manners Cup in assembly. He has worked very hard this week and remembered to show good listening on the carpet as well as being helpful to the adults; well done Toby.

We enjoyed the Roaring Rocket’s Show and Tell items this week. George told us all about his wombat ‘Scruttle’,Toby showed the class his lovely alien picture and Nicky spoke about her space pictures.   Next week it is the turn of the ‘But Martin!’ table for Show and Tell (Marcus, Nicole S, Matilda, Finn, Albie and Sean).

Please remember to bring any empty yogurt pots for Miss Barnam’s exciting R.E lesson in two week’s time.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

What an exciting first week we’ve had in Year 1!

This week we have started our topic ‘To Infinity and Beyond’ where we will be learning about Earth and space. We talked about what we know about space and each child wrote one thing we would like to find out. Next week we will start learning about the Space Race between America and the USA.

We read the story ‘Alien’s Love Underpants’ and thought of adjectives to describe the cheeky aliens. We then wrote these adjectives as sentences in our brand new Year 1 Topic Books.

In maths we have been practising writing our numbers in our new Year 1 Maths Books, remembering to write the numbers inside the squares.

Miss Barnham will be teaching R.E to the children throughout the year. She has requested any spare yogurt pots and empty toilet rolls that you might have to donate, for a a very exciting R.E lesson in  two week’s time.

Next week we will be starting Show and Tell. In Year 1 each group will be given a turn for Show and Tell. They have the whole week to bring in an item that they would like to share with the class.  Next week it will be the turn of the Roaring Rockets table: Toby, Ranga, George, Eddie, Nicky and Elizabeth.

We look forward to seeing you next week for ‘Meet the Teacher’.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year 1 Team