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Last week week we continued reading our core text ‘Into the Forest’.

We noticed that a wolf was hiding behind one of the trees and this got us to thinking about what other fairy tale villains could be lurking in the woods. To help people catch the villains we wrote a wanted poster describing a fairy tale villain. We worked hard to include adjectives to describe their appearance and characteristics.

This week we read the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.

After we had finished the story we were surprised to receive a letter from the King asking for our help.  The letter read:

Dear Willow Class,

I am writing to you to ask for your help. As you are aware, Jack has recently found a golden harp and hen which allows him to make golden eggs. This means that Jack has become one of the richest boys in the kingdom. Some people feel that Jack shouldn’t be allowed to keep the golden eggs because they are stolen property and now the whole kingdom can’t agree. Please can you help me decide what to do? I look forward to hearing your arguments for and against Jack’s actions and your help in sorting this matter is greatly appreciated.

Yours Faithfully,

King Charles

We had a class discussion debating whether Jack should be allowed to keep the money or if he should be made to pay it back. On Monday we will reply to the King’s letter, telling him what we think he needs to do.

In maths we have been learning how to add numbers within 20 using our knowledge of
number bonds. We worked practically using ten frames to help us see how number bonds to
10 can help us answer an addition problem.

In science we have been learning about the different parts of a plant. We dissected a plant carefully and looked at the different parts such as root, leaf, petal, pollen and stem.

This week we have enjoyed learning about Eliza’s special bear called ‘Bear Bear’ and hatchimal, Albie’s dragon and pterodactyl, Caroline’s dinosaur excavation kit, Ranga’s transformer , Grace’s teddy bear and Jiyong’s mini car that he made at home. Next week it is the turn of the ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ table (Lewis, George, Marcus, Gabriel, Issa and Sean) for Show and Tell.

Congratulations to Issa who was awarded the Very Good Manners Cup in Monday’s assembly.  Issa always make an effort to be kind and polite to all of the teachers at school. He is the first to say please and thank you in the lunch hall. Well done Issa!

Next week we will be making some exciting fairy tale potions. Please can the children bring in a named empty plastic water bottle (by Friday) to use in their potion making. 

The children are very excited about tonight’s disco!

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

Welcome back to the Spring Term, we hope you all had a restful Christmas break. Thank you so much for your kind words in our cards and generous gifts. It was very thoughtful of you all.

This week we have started our new topic ‘Into The Woods’. We read the story ‘Into the Forest’ by Anthony Browne.

The story is about a young boy who needs to deliver cakes to his grandma. To get to his grandmother’s house he needs to walk through a strange and mysterious forest. Along the way he encounters various fairy tale characters. When we read the story we noticed that there were also fairy tale items hidden throughout the forest. We then wrote a description of the setting in our English Books.

In maths we have been learning how to solve an addition equation by counting on. We used empty number lines to help us in our calculations.

In science we have started our new topic ‘Plants’. We wrote what we already know about plants on a class mind map and then used magnifying glasses to observe plants around the school closely.

In phonics we have been learning the following sounds:

o-e (bone, phone)

a-e (shape, snake)

i-e (kite, white)

u-e (cube, tube)

Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds: https://play.edshed.co/login

Next week it is the turn of the ‘Goldilocks’ table (Lenny, Levi, Lilly, Lucy, Matilda and Valeri) for Show and Tell.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

This week the children have been busy making Christmas decorations to decorate their Christmas tree. They carefully sewed their pieces of material together to make a Christmas stocking which they then decorated with sequins. We hope you like the finished product.

We hope you all have a very merry Christmas,

The Year One Team.

What a busy two weeks we’ve had in Year One.

We hope you all enjoyed our F.S.U and KS1 production of ‘How Charlie Brown Discovered Christmas’. The children have worked very hard to learn all of the songs and it was wonderful to see them perform their lines with such clarity and confidence.

A huge thank you to Mr Peck who organised a very exciting P.E lesson for Years 1 and 2. The children were taught a variety of sporting skills and activities by the Year 5 Sports Leaders.

In English this week we have read the story ‘The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers.

The children wrote shape poems describing the rocket used in the story. They also wrote a list poem describing the setting and boy’s emotions when he found himself stuck on the moon!

On Monday we will be enjoying our KS1 Christmas Party. The children are invited to bring in a set of party clothes that they can change into after lunch.

Last week we enjoyed learning about Toby’s picture, Eddie’s model of a race track, George’s Ducktales, Nicky’s ring, Elizabeth’s toy rabbit and Ranga’s toy leopard. This week we have enjoyed learning about Ramir’s toy Santa, Lewis’s pictures, Valeri’s Rubix Cube and toy bird, Eliza’s toy dog, Guy’s toy stocking and Caroline’s dog keyring.

Please note there is no Show and Tell next week.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

This week we have been learning how to write a set of instructions to help teach Beegu how to make a fruit salad. We have sequenced each of the steps and learnt that bossy verbs tell you what to do. Next week we will be writing our instructions and using them to then make the fruit salad.

In maths we have been continuing to learn about the properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes.

In science we have learnt how some animals use camouflage to help them hunt their prey or hide from predators in order to survive.

In phonics we have been learning the following sounds:

au (haunt, August, sauce)

ir (girl, twirl)

ou (shout, cloud)

Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

Next week it will be the performance of our Christmas show ‘How Charlie Brown Discovered Christmas’. The children have been very busy practising their lines and songs and we hope you enjoy their performance.

This week we have enjoyed learning about  Issa’s paper aeroplane, Jan’s bird ‘Birdy’, Theo’s panda ‘White’, Grace’s hedgehog and rabbit ‘Ava and Freya’, Caitie’s cuddly dog and Gabriel’s Switch and Go Dino. Next week it is the turn of the ‘Roaring Rocket’ table (Toby, Elizabeth, Eddie, Ranga, Nicky and George) for Show and Tell.

We hope you have a restful weekend,

The Year One Team

This week we’ve been busy in Year One writing our own version of the story of ‘Beegu’. We used story maps to help sequence the events and then wrote the story in our English Books. We worked hard to include lots of descriptive language.

In maths we have been learning to identify  and describe the properties of 3-D shapes. Next week we will be using our understanding of 2-D and 3-D shapes to create repeating patterns.

In science we sorted animals into a Venn diagram.

 

In phonics we have been learning the following sounds:

wh (whistle, whisk, whale)

ph (phone, alphabet)

Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

This week we have enjoyed learning about Lucy’s wobbly tooth, Levi’s toy warthog, Ben’s toy dinosaur, Jiyong’s toy sword and Lilly’s fluffy bunny. Next week it is the turn of the ‘Q Pootle 5’ table (Issa, Caitie, Grace, Theo, Jan and Gabriel).

Thank you to our School Councillor’s Lenny and Eliza who helped sell our Christmas decorations to raise money for our school link charity ‘The Lunch Bowl Network’. This charity provides food and care to the Angel Kindergarten School in Kibera. We hope you enjoy hanging the handmade decorations on your tree this Christmas.

We hope you have a restful weekend,

The Year One Team

This week we have been teaching Beegu about our planet Earth. We have learnt lots of facts about Earth. Did you know that Earth is called the Goldilocks planet? This is because it’s not too hot, not too cold, not too dry and not too wet which allows life to grow. We grouped the facts we had learnt and wrote information pages about Earth.

In maths we have been learning about 2-D shapes. We sorted the shapes into a Venn diagram and then described their properties.

We used the shapes to create a repeating pattern and have learnt that  a four sided shape is called a quadrilateral.

In science we have been learning about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. We created a food chain to show what different animals eat.

We have started rehearsing for our Christmas performance of ‘How Charlie Brown Discovered Christmas.’ This week the children have taken home a letter describing what clothing is required for their costume. If you have any questions  please come and speak to a member of the Year One Team.

In phonics we have been learning the following sounds:

oe (toe, woe)

o-e (bone, phone)

ue (blue, rescue)

Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

Next week it is the turn of the Dr Xargle table (Levi, Lenny, Lucy, Lilly, Ben and Jiyong) for Show and Tell.

This half term our School Council members have been busy organising a fundraiser to raise money for our school link charity ‘The Lunch Bowl Network’. This charity provides food and care to the Angel Kindergarten School in Kibera. All of the children in the school have made a product to sell at our fundraising event. These items will be on sale on Wednesday 21^st November from 3.15 until 3.45 in the Reception playground and covered area. In Year One we have made some beautiful Christmas decorations from salt dough to decorate your Christmas tree. We look forward to seeing lots of you there to help raise money for such a good cause.

Thank you to all of the parents for being so understanding about the cancellation of Parents Evening last Thursday. My infected tooth has now been sorted and I am feeling much better. I look forward to seeing you next Thursday for your consultation.

We hope you have a restful weekend,

The Year One Team

Welcome back, we hope you all had a restful half term.

This week we have started our new core text ‘Beegu’. In the story Beegu is a kind and curious alien who crashes on a strange and mysterious planet (Earth).

We wrote lost posters describing Beegu’s characteristics and appearance to help her family find her. We learnt the word ‘anxious’ to describe how Beegu was feeling.

In maths we have been learning addition and subtraction fact families.

E.g. If 3 +7 = 10 then 7 + 3 = 10, 10 – 7 = 3 and 10 – 3 = 7.

In science we have started our new topic ‘Animals Including Humans’. We have learnt about the key features of:

• Mammals
• Amphibians
• Birds
• Reptiles
• Fish

Congratulations to Finn who was awarded the ‘Star Writer’ certificate this week for his Bob Man on the Moon information page. Finn worked hard to write on the line, inside the line, include his capital letters and full stops; well done Finn.

This week we have enjoyed learning about Matilda’s holiday diary, Albie’s gem collection, Marcus’s golf club and Sean’s toy. Next week it is the turn of the Beegu table for Show and Tell (Ramir, Valeri, Caroline, Lewis, Eliza and Guy).

In phonics this week we have been revising the sounds: ‘ai’ and ‘ay’. We have also been introduced to the spilt digraph ‘a-e’. Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

We hope you all have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

This week we have been very busy editing and publishing our information pages all about Bob. We have labelled an information page using the vocabulary: title, introduction, sub-headings, picture and caption. We then edited our work from last week and published them on special paper.

After half term we will start our new core text ‘Beegu’.

In maths we have been learning about subtraction using the language of ‘taking away’. We have solved subtraction equations and word problems, drawing pictures to help us in our calculations.

We hope you all enjoyed our fantastic Harvest Service. A big thank you to Mr Peck who taught the children all of the songs during their singing assemblies this half term. The children performed our song ‘Roast Turkey’ beautifully, describing all of the delicious food that people eat during Thanksgiving.

Last week Miss Luetchford and Mrs Cronin held a Phonics Workshop to explain how phonics is taught at our school. Thank you to all of the parents and carers who came. We will be sending out a copy of the phonics booklet to all parents after half term.

Congratulations to Lenny and Eliza, who have been voted as our School Councillors.

This week, we have enjoyed learning about Elizabeth’s cuddly unicorn, Eddie’s water gun, Toby’s story writing, Ranga’s transformer, George’s animal headband and Nicky’s magnetic map. After half term it will be the turn of the ‘But Martin!’ table for Show and Tell.

We hope you have a restful half term,

The Year One Team

 

 

 

This week we have been making information pages writing about Bob and his job as ‘Man on the Moon’. We have learnt that an information page needs a title that is big and bold, a clear introduction and the information needs to be grouped.

In maths we have been learning how to add two numbers together and then calculate related addition facts. For example, if 12 + 8 = 20 then 8 + 12 = 20.

In science we have investigated which materials float and which materials sink. We made careful predictions before carrying out our experiment.

In phonics we have been learning the sounds:

oi (spoil)

oy (boy)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

This week we have enjoyed learning about Issa’s toy car and Caitie’s cuddly ‘Rainbowy’, Jan’s satellite ‘Comet 4’, Grace’s cuddly ‘Shimmers’ and Theo’s toy dinosaur. Next week it is the turn of the ‘Roaring Rocket’ table (Toby, Elizabeth, Eddie, Ranga, Nicky and George) for Show and Tell.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team