This week we have been busy with Harry and his dinosaurs! We had Harry visit the classroom and tell us how sad he was that he had lost his dinosaurs. We used some special words to describe how he might have felt when he lost his dinosaurs and again when he found them. See if you can use these words at home to help to broaden your child’s vocabulary. Some of them are new to the children.

Upset,distraught,worried ,devastated, lonely

Excited, relieved,thrilled ,overjoyed, delighted.

In our maths work we have been using tools and pictures to help us find out and record what we know about number.

In RE we have been sequencing the Creation story and writing about what we know.

Next week we will be sending home some letters for your children to practise writing. We are now having regular handwriting and fine motor sessions and the sheets we send home will reinforce our learning in school.  In year 1 we will be working hard to ensure that the children are forming their letters correctly and your support at home would be gratefully received!

Dates:

Remember the INSET day tomorrow Friday 27th September

Thank you

The year 1 team

We have had a lovely time this week exploring the book Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs. We have been on a hunt for the dinosaurs, writing about where we found them. The children have been doing fabulous job applying their phonics.

We are working hard in our new phonics groups and revising the way that we say the pure sound of the phonemes. Please find below a link to a youtube clip that will remind you and your child how to say them.

We have started talking about the Creation story. We have read the story in the Bible and been on a hunt around the school grounds looking for the things that God made. We also thought about the things that God did not make!

Please keep practising the ‘phonics homework’ outlined on the sheet. Our intention is that the children will be able to apply the key vocabulary in talking about the book as well as be able to read with a developing fluency the texts that they bring home.

How busy the children have been! We have explored globes, atlases and compasses to explore the places we have visited. The children made maps with different materials and labelled them using their phonic knowledge.

We have enjoyed our first week in our phonics groups. Please keep practising the sounds and books at home and remember to bring them in every day.

We are really looking forward to starting our new dinosaur topic next week!

Sumdogs login codes will be sent home next week so look out for that.

Enjoy your weekend.

Year 1

Wow, we have managed to squeeze in so much this week.

Thank you so much to everyone who came and looked at the children’s books after school this week, we hope you enjoyed looking at their amazing work.

Thank you again to everyone who attended our fathers day liturgy. It was lovely to hear how loved and amazing year Ones daddies are. A special thank you to Miss Keogh for helping us.

ANOTHER thank you for all of the kind cake donations for our Year One cake sale today. We will keep you updated on how much we raise- fingers crossed it will be enough to adopt our very own polar bear!

Looking forward to our carnival day tomorrow, we can’t wait to show off our amazing Arctic learning.

Just a reminder- sports day has been provisionally moved to July 1st.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team

In science we have been focusing on life cycles of animals and insects. We have been watching our caterpillars transform through their lifecycle. It has been very exciting! Finally they have turned in to beautiful butterflies. We all waved them goodbye as we released them  in to the air.

In History we have been learning about the great fire of London. We received a history box from a museum full of artefacts and dressing up. We learnt so much from all of the amazing things inside.

We have loved celebrating D-day. We have been watching the planes fly over the playground on their way to Portsmouth and watching videos of the red arrows. We have created medals for all of the brave soldiers who fought for us.

REMINDERS-

Book look- 3pm-4pm Monday 17th/ Tuesday 18th June

Year One Liturgy- Tuesday 18th June at 10:00.

Year One cake sale- Thursday 20th June on the south play ground after school.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team

This week in year one we begun our new topic,  London!  We will be learning about London now and in the past. In History we have begun to explore the events of The Great Fire of London. The children have already leant lots of facts and should be able to tell you all about it.

In maths we have been focusing on writing number names and days of the week.  Next week we will be learning about positional language. The children will follow and give instructions using whole, half, quarter and three quarter turns.

Reminders

Our whole school carnival is on June 21st, Year 1 are focusing on the Arctic. Turtles will be Penguins and Puffer Fish will be Polar Bears. Therefore please can Tutle class dress in black clothing and Puffer Fish in white clothing. Please do not buy anything new, clothing with logo’s on is fine.  Watch out for some parent mails about our upcoming cake sale, which will will be holding to raise money for WWF.

Our next liturgy is on 18th of June at 10am, family and friends are always welcome!

The 17th and 18th June are also opportunities for you to come into school to look at all of the fantastic learning that your child has done over the year.

Thank you

Year 1 Team

What a wonderful school trip we had at Marwell zoo yesterday, the weather couldn’t have been better. We were so lucky to see so many animals. We even had the opportunity to touch a real snake and rat! We were really impressed with how brave the children were with the animals.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered and to all the adults in the year group who provided all of the children with backpacks and water bottles, it really did save their hands.

Summer term has begun! We can not believe how fast this year has gone. We have started our new topic- the great outdoors. We will be focusing on a lot of outdoor learning, animals, insects etc.

In English we have started our new text ‘diary of a fly’. We put ourselves in to the shoes of a fly, using prepositions to think about what we could see if we were a fly from up above or down below. We then wrote our own diary entry pretending to be a fly!

In maths this week we have been focusing on 2 digit numbers. We have been looking specifically at the tens and ones within a number- for example 32 is made of 30 and 2.

This term we have our big school trip of the year to Marwell zoo on the 15th May! Please check your child’s bag for the letter to be completed and sent back to us as soon as possible. We have limited spaces on the coach for adult helpers, so if you have filled in that you are able to attend we will be in contact with you to confirm whether  your support is needed. Thank you for your continued support and getting the letters back to us swiftly.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year One team

We are so lucky! We have had the pleasure of hosting Beryl this week and her collection of old toys. Beryl used to own her own toy museum, so over lunch she brought her toys to the classroom and set them up to surprise the children. Some of her toys were as old as 170 years old! Much to our worry she let the children hold and pass around these toys, an experience we would have never had from a toy museum. Thank you so much to Beryl for letting us experience these precious toys.

Thank you to everyone who made the phonics workshop. We really hope it was useful and informative. Phonics is really tricky to teach, if you ever need help or advice you can always ask us. Youtube has lots of helpful videos too- particularly with pronunciation of the sounds.

Remember to ‘wear it wacky’ on Monday to raise money for CAFOD.

Have a lovely mothers day,

The Year One team

We have had a wonderful world book day. Thank you for all of your effort with their costumes- they looked amazing!