Class 1

Welcome to Class 1!

Teaching Staff

Teachers: Mrs Housely (M & F)  and Miss Latter (Tu, W & Th)

Teaching Assistants - Mrs Rutherford (M, Tu, W &Th) and Mrs Spring (F)

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Learning Lens - W/C 9th February 

Here's what we have been up to this week: 

Maths: We started learning about numbers between 20 – 50. We have been counting from 20 to 50 and backwards. We then made groups of 10 to 50, remembering the importance of place value and getting the numbers in the correct place.

 A reminder about using numbots which is a great resource to support the children and help consolidate their learning. NUMBOTS

English: This week in English we have been writing our own stories based on the class book, 'The Snail and the Whale.'  We have used the plan we made at the end of last week to help us, and used adjectives and expanded noun phrases to make our story more interesting to read.  We have tried hard to include conjunctions like 'and' and joining words such as 'next, then, after and finally' to help our story flow.  We have then created illustrations to go with our story so that we have made our own picture book.  We are very proud of how amazingly the children have risen to this challenge and they are rightly proud of what they have produced!

ICT: On Tuesday the whole school took part in this year’s safer internet day. This year’s theme is about exploring the positive and negatives of using AI. We thought about where AI is use in our lives. For example Alexas and how we use them: to read a story, to tell us the weather or to play a song. AI can be used in a variety of ways and we had some Year 6 helpers that explained how they might use AI. We then thought about the negatives of AI and created some posters of positives and negatives that we showed the whole school in our school assembly. It was very informative and I was super impressed with Year 1's sensible answers.

Science: This week we recapped everything we have learnt this term: how animals can be grouped by their features and by what they eat. We created the perfect meals for an animal depending on what we know about them.

French: We have been continuing to learn how to say and spell colours in French. We picked four colours to learn how to write. Green = vert, rose = pink, marron = brown and rouge = red.

Art: In Art we have continued to look at Matisse and Kandinksy and discuss our thoughts on abstract and realistic artwork.  We have used Kandinsky's 'Circle' artwork to inspire our own version of this and have used pastels, acrylics and watercolours to create these, using our understanding of primary and secondary colours to experiment with different combinations of colour.

Geography: We have started linking our artwork to Geography, where we will be focusing on our village of Bidborough.  We went on a village walk and spotted both human and physical landmarks. We then used play doh, lego and blocks to create a 3D representation of some of the landmarks that we had seen.

RE: In RE we have continued our learning on the gospels and thought about how churches could be seen to deliver Jesus' 'Good news.'  We have remembered the the good news is about:

 - nobody being left out

- asking for forgiveness when we make bad choices

- knowing that Christians believe God will grant them peace

We have talked about where we find the gospels in the bible and learnt the order they appear in!  We have also written our very own good news prayers.

SPaH:  In Phonics this week we have continued to look at the 'oo' grapheme. No blue books over half term - wishing everyone a well-earned rest!

We hope you all have a lovely half term,  

From all of the Year 1 Team

Reminders:

- Reading books will be changed as soon as a child has read the book. Please use your child’s planner to record their home reading. Just the title and the pages read is fine. If it is not signed, then we will assume you need that book for a bit longer. If your child has read a book already or finds any book ‘easy’ then this is GREAT! Repetitive reading will support children’s comprehension and impact their fluency and spelling.

- PE is on a Thursday. The timetable may change so please make sure your children have a full labelled PE kit in school every day. PE kits to be in a separate bag from their school bag. 

- Numbots NUMBOTS 

- All uniform is to be labelled.

- A water bottle and a healthy afternoon snack in school every day. 

- If the children would like to bring in something to share with the class for show and tell then only 1 share a week that is linked to the Home Learning below or personal achievements. 

 Home Learning 

• Please read to/with your child every day. 
• Reading menus are in the children's planners

• Numbots log-in's are inside planners. Please use this to continue practicing maths at home.
• Please take a look at the 1 minute maths resource below. This provides short, fun activities allowing the children to consolidate their learning. 

• Write a sentence using a capital letter and full stop. 
• Practise your number formation by writing out number 0 - 20.
• Draw a well balanced meal for someone.
• Create a poster for how to brush your teeth. 
• Draw a picture from looking out of a window in your home. 
• Create a map of your journey to school. label the different landmarks. 
• Create a repeating pattern using leaves to print. 
• Pick a famous landmark and draw/paint your own version. 
• Create your own art work inspired by Kandinsky. 
• Create your own art work inspired by Matisse. 
• Draw a weather diary - draw a picture and label it sunny, wet, dry, cold, hot ect. 
• Create a passport for yourself. 
• Free choice! Any learning you have done at home that you would like to bring in and share with us, we would love to see it.