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