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This week we’ve been busy in year one preparing to write our own version of the story ‘Beegu’. We used story maps to help sequence the events and on Thursday we wrote our own versions of this story. The children worked hard to include lots of descriptive language such as ‘eerie, tentatively, anxious, stern and cruel’. We were so impressed with the children’s fantastic stories that, as a treat, we made making Beegu’s favourite snack; a tasty fruit salad with toppings!

In maths we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes.  We will continue to explore shapes and their properties next week.

In art we travelled to the continent South America where we made a Brazilian Carnival mask.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

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.

Next week we will be retelling the story of Beegu.

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

In geography we carried out a continent case study, focussing on the continent Africa. We located some of the different countries of Africa on a map, famous landmarks and learnt about what food comes from Africa. We enjoyed trying the different foods with pineapple and couscous being particularly popular.

We hope you all have a restful weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

This week we have been learning how to write a diary entry. We looked at different diaries and as a class labelled each of the key features. We learnt that diaries have a date at the top of the page, begin with ‘Dear Diary’, are written in the first person past tense, include some descriptive vocabulary and end with ‘Love from’. We wrote diary entries as Beegu, describing her time on Earth. Next week we will making an information page about our planet Earth.

In maths we have been learning about subtraction. We have learnt how to count backwards and draw pictures to calculate how many are ‘left’.

In geography we have learnt about different landmarks around the world. We have loved seeing the photographs of the children at various places, please continue to send them in.

A huge well done to our school councillors Clemmie and Patricio for selling our salt dough decorations as part of the fundraiser for Shelter. Thank you for all of your donations, we will share the total raised with you next week.

This week we have been learning the following sounds:

igh (fly high)

i-e (nice smile)

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 have a restful weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

This week we had our school trip to the Science Museum where we explored the pattern pod, garden and space exhibition. The children loved seeing all of the items linked to space exploration of the past and future. Thank you to our parent helpers for accompanying us on the trip.

In English we have continued reading our text ‘Beegu’. We looked at different moments in the story and begun to think about Beegu’s motives and actions. Next week we will be writing a diary entry as Beegu.

In maths we have continued with comparing addition number sentences.

In phonics we have been learning the following sounds:

a-e (make a cake)

ay (may I play)

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

Next Wednesday, our School Councillors will be selling Christmas decorations on the KS1 playground. The children made and decorated these decorations in class and all proceeds will go to the charity Shelter.

Years one and two, have started preparing for their Christmas Show ‘The Angel Who Nearly Missed It All’.

All of the children have taken home a letter describing what clothing is required for their costume, along with a copy of their line(s) to practise at home. If you have any questions  please come and speak to one of the KS1 team and we will be happy to help.

Next week it is the turn of the Roaring Rockets’ table for Show and Tell.

We hope you have a restful weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

This week we have been preparing for our Harvest service. We hope you enjoy our song ‘Who put the Colours in the Rainbow’.

In English we have continued to learn about different styles of poetry. This week, we learnt how to write a riddle to describe an animal.

In maths we have been learning about number bonds to 10. We made number bond ladybirds to help us remember the different ways to make 10. We then wrote these in part, whole models.

After half term we will be starting our new core text’ Beegu’. This is a story about a little alien who crashes onto our planet.

We will also be starting our geography topic ‘Our Wonderful World’ where we teach Beegu about planet Earth.

We hope you have a lovely time at our Harvest service and a restful half term.

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂