Phase One

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

This week we have written a set of instructions to teach people how to make Bob’s favourite cucumber sandwiches. We have learnt that a good set of instructions will include:

• Numbered steps
• Bossy verbs
• Pictures
• Each step will be written on a new line

In maths we have been learning how to compare objects and amounts using the mathematical symbols: < > =

We have begun to learn how to partition a number into two parts to help practise the rapid recall of our number bonds to 10 and 20. We will continue this learning next week.

In science we have learnt about waterproof and absorbent materials. Bob needed our help designing a new suit. We tested a variety of materials to see if they if were absorbent or waterproof. In our conclusion, we decided that plastic or rubber would be the most appropriate material for Bob because these materials were waterproof and stronger than tinfoil.

This week we have been revising the sounds we have learnt so far in phonics. On the Spelling Shed there are lists for the children to practise the following sounds:

• igh (fly high)
• oa (goat in a boat)
• ar (start the car)
• ee (what can you see?)
• ow (blow the snow and brown cow)

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 cuddly ‘Rose’, Jiyong’s keyring, Lenny’s toy car, Lilly’s puppy ‘Snowball’ and Ben’s holiday diary describing his adventures in Ireland and Spain. Next week it is the turn of the ‘Q Pootle 5’ table (Issa, Caitie, Grace, Theo, Jan and Gabriel).

In P.E we have been encouraging the children to get changed before the end of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peTnXmZxuZQ

Please could you help your child practise fastening their buttons and tying their tie in a smart knot.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

The Year One Team

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