My apologies for the delay in posting the blog this week, unfortunately I had a family emergency on Friday.
Last week, was superb, the school trip on Thursday absolutely blew me away! We learnt so much about how farming has changed over the years. I couldn’t believe how many robots are used in dairy farming, it was like a sci-fi movie.
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Maths
In maths the children continued their work on place value. We spent a little extra-time counting backwards, we explored 1 less than and compared by matching groups.
English
In English we put the finishing touches to our final written piece in our character description unit and commenced our new unit on instruction writing linked to the book Pumpkin Soup.
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RWI Home learning:
Practice your story green words and red words from your home reading book on a piece of paper at home. These can be found on the How to help your child read this book page.
Wow! Another week down, time flies when you’re having fun!
I can’t believe it’s a week since I was posting about our visit to Mr. Richardson’s farm and on the horizon we have our next farm visit which will take place next Thursday, please could I remind all parents and carers to ensure that you have returned your child’s permission slip. I must say a huge shout out for our attendance thus far this week, as I write this blog on Friday before school we currently sit at 100% attendance, fingers crossed that we see all children in class today and we will top the attendance leader board in school. .
Maths
In maths the children continued their work on place value. We counted on from any number, added 1 more than a given number and counted backwards.
English
The children absolutely blew me away in English yesterday. The children were tasked with writing words to describe a different character, however the children went one step beyond and wrote in full sentences and really displayed their amazing writing skills, absolute superstars!
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RWI Home learning:
Practice your story green words and red words from your home reading book on a piece of paper at home. These can be found on the How to help your child read this book page.
Challenge: Can you use the words in sentences?
Your second piece of homework is linked to our English work for next week. I would like the children to find me an example of a set of instructions and they can either bring them into school for me to photocopy or send in via Seesaw.
Another busy week in Class 1, which on top of our usual activities we also managed to squeeze in a trip to Mr. Richardson’s farm!
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At the farm the children were given a guided tour of the grain store, vehicle outbuildings and listened to how the Richardson family farm the local area and the produce that they make. The children were also given the opportunity to ask questions all about farming which were answered brilliantly by Mr. Richardson.
Maths
In maths the children continued their work on place value. This week we explored representations of numbers and numbers as words.
English
In English the children have continued with our learning linked to character descriptions. However, we had a focus on the use of ‘and’ to join ideas together in a sentence as well as using capital letters and full stops. Next week, we are going to complete our descriptions of Cyril and then the children will choose a character from either The Lion Inside or The Gecko and the Echo to apply their learning independently.
Thank you so much for all of your support last week in filming your child reading. We have watched a range of the videos in classed which that children have enjoyed greatly. I have also watched all of the videos and I was blown away by the enthusiasm of the children and their effort in applying the skills learnt in RWI sessions.
On Monday the children will be bringing home two books (a paper style book and a hard copy) and will do so for the rest of the half-term. The hard copy book will form the basis of one piece of homework linked to RWI; please see details below: #
RWI Home learning:
Practice your story green words and red words from your home reading book on a piece of paper at home. These can be found on the How to help your child read this book page.
Challenge: Can you use the words in sentences?
Your second piece of homework is a maths game linked to our learning from this week:
On this game the children need to match the word to the numeral. To begin with I suggest the children choose 1-10 and if they become confident they can move to 1-20. I would also recommend choosing the relaxed mode. They do not need to complete 1-100 nor 1-1000.
Wow! What another busy first full week in Class 1. The children have spent time in Science learning about the different seasons and what changes we see across the seasons. In History we have considered questions that we would like to ask next week when we go to visit a farm. In PE we have played ball games and partaken in dance. The children really enjoyed their Jigsaw lesson with Mrs. Irvin and sang their hearts out in Music.
Maths
In maths the children have commenced their unit on place value. We have explored counting and grouping.
English
In English the children have continued with their learning linked to character descriptions. We spent time writing words and phrases that could describe Spontaneous Cyril. Next week, we are going to start the week considering how we can use ‘and’ to join our ideas as well as how to use a full stop. We will then apply our learning to writing about Cyril.
In you child’s book bag you will find a login for Seesaw. For this week I would like the children to practice login in to their Seesaw account and having a go at uploading a video. As an extra challenge, see if you can save the video in the red homework folder.
I would the children to choose their favourite book and film themselves reading the book in a special place. This could be the back garden, it could be at the park, it could be on the beech, the choice is yours. Please could videos be uploaded by Thursday 21st September.
If you have any trouble getting onto to Seesaw, please come and speak to me next week and I will help where I can.
Oh my gosh Class 1, how quick did that week go? If I would have blinked I would have missed it! However, as the saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun!
It has been a very busy week, yet it has been filled with fun and laughter. We have played English and Maths games, wrote about our summer holidays, took part in a music lesson, explored the classroom, took part in a PE lesson and practiced our handwriting amongst lots of other activities.
The children have worked very hard and it has been lovely getting to know you all.
Just a few house keeping bits and bobs:
Homework
I will set homework on a Friday using the class blog; starting from next week and the children will need to submit their work the following Thursday. Generally; the homework will be an activity that can be completed on Seesaw or submitted using Seesaw. I will send out login details next week.
PE
PE will take place on a Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday indoor and Thursday outdoor (weather permitting), please send your child into school wearing their PE kit as per the school PE policy.
What a wonderful week we’ve had! This week has seen us take part in the Sky Arts Access All Arts Week. The children have spent the week completing a range of activities linked to the Arts. More information to follow…
In maths we have continue our Fraction units, learning all about 1/2 and 1/4. Exploring how to find a half and quarter of a quantity and a given number. The children have really enjoyed this unit and loved exploring with concrete objects. Next week, we will commence our position and direction unit, the children will learn about turns, left and right and positions as well as ordinal numbers.
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In English the children completed the Words unit of Arts week exploring poetry. They started the week by creating a rap with MC Grammar.
Followed by drawing a character which was inspired by a piece of poetry that they had listened too. The children were then challenged to create a list of words to describe their characters. Finally, the children created list poems about their characters.
We spent the afternoons completing the 2D mark Making activities.
On Monday we explored the different ways in which we can make a mark on paper. We followed this up by investigating the works of Joan Miro and completed a blind drawing activity, which was lots of fun. On Wednesday the children explored different artistic mediums (charcoal, oil pastels, chalks and pencils) to create pictures of different types of hair. On Thursday, we learnt about colour, shape and styles (skills builders). When learning about colour the children mixed oil pastels to create the different colours that they could see in their faces. In the shape activity the children spend time investigating the different shapes that they could see in images of their faces. Finally for the style activity the children had a go at creating a portrait of either Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift using oil pastels in the style of Jean Michael Basquiat or Van Gogh. Finally, on Friday the children created their very own self-portrait using a medium of their choice
RWI Home learning:
Practice your story green words and red words from your home reading book on a piece of paper at home. These can be found on the How to help your child read this book page.
Challenge: Can you use the words in sentences?
I thought in addition to your reading homework that you could complete one of the Sky Arts Take home activity sheets. I have posted both of them to SeeSaw.
It feels somewhat strange commencing the final half-term of the year, it seems to have passed by so, so quickly this year. The children have commenced the half-term with great gusto!
In maths we have finished our multiplication and division unit. The children have spend time creating arrays, equal groups and solving investigations. Next week will see us start our Fractions unit.
In English the children have continued with their units on diaries. I have been blown away by the vocabulary choices made by the children as they pretended to be Thomas Farriner. Next week, we will be putting the finishing touches to our diaries and I cannot wait to read the finished articles.
RWI Home learning:
Practice your story green words and red words from your home reading book on a piece of paper at home. These can be found on the How to help your child read this book page.
Challenge: Can you use the words in sentences?
**PHONICS SCREENER**
On Tuesday, the children will be sitting their phonics screener (I know they are all going to be absolute superstars!), therefore rather than setting the usual homework on Seesaw I thought the children might enjoy playing some phonics based games:
What another busy week in Class 1! The children have worked extremely hard as usual and I cannot believe how much they have achieved over the course of another four day week! I thin k one of the highlights had to be our Science investigation linked to plants; How many plants can we find in the local area. The children hunted high and low all over the school site to find wild flowers, plants planted by us and trees.
Maths
In maths this week the children have continued their work on Measurement; this week learning all about capacity. Using both non-conventional methods and conventional methods. The children have also
In English the children have completed their acrostic poems on the Great Fire of London and they all did a fantastic job, the vocabulary and descriptions that they crafted were beautiful.
RWI Home learning:
Practice your story green words and red words from your home reading book on a piece of paper at home. These can be found on the How to help your child read this book page.
Challenge: Can you use the words in sentences?
Maths
Once again the maths homework for this week can be found on Seesaw. You do not need to complete each page. Please see details below as to which task you should complete:
Big Red Table: Page 4.
Yellow and Blue Table: Page 3.
Mrs Campey’s Red Table: Page 2.
The answer sheet can be found of Page 5, but this is for the adults at home to use if needed.
You do not need to print off the sheet, simple write over the top of the sheet using the pen function. If you have any problems with Seesaw, please do come and see me and I will be happy to help.
Free Choice
There are two options to choose between; one linked to Science and the other linked to English.
Science: Go on a flower hunt at home/out and about this week to see if you can find an example of a plant planted by us, a wild flower and a tree. You could either draw your finds or take and picture and upload to Seesaw.
English: Write an acrostic poem linked to a subject of your choosing.
I hope I find you well, I am writing this blog prior to our visit to Howsham Mill and I am very much looking forward to our trip on Friday and I will provide an updated blog/images our trip hopefully on Friday.
It has been wonderful spending a full week with the children this week, despite my amazing course at the STEM centre last week, I did miss the children and it has been great this week support their learning for the entire week.
Maths
In maths this week the children have continued their work on Measurement; this week learning all about Mass. Using both non-conventional methods and conventional methods. The children have enjoyed learning about terminology associated with Mass in addition to experimenting with weighing items using scales as well as solving problems associated with Mass.
In English the children have continued with their unit on Acrostic poems. We have struggled recently with using capital letters and suitable punctuation to close sentences, therefore we have practiced this skill this week in addition to using conjunctions to join sentences, related clauses and related information.
RWI Home learning:
Practice your story green words and red words from your home reading book on a piece of paper at home. These can be found on the How to help your child read this book page.
Challenge: Can you use the words in sentences?
Maths
Once again the maths homework for this week can be found on Seesaw. You do not need to complete each page. Please see details below as to which task you should complete:
Big Red Table: Page 4.
Yellow and Blue Table: Page 3.
Mrs Campey’s Red Table: Page 2.
The answer sheet can be found of Page 5, but this is for the adults at home to use if needed.
You do not need to print off the sheet, simple write over the top of the sheet using the pen function. If you have any problems with Seesaw, please do come and see me and I will be happy to help.
English
I have set a task on Seesaw linked to capital letters, please ensure that you double check which activity to complete as it is slightly different to the maths groups, all is explained on Seesaw.
I can’t believe that I am writing the first blog of the summer term! I feel like the week has only just got started and here we are at Friday already! However, as you may be aware I was away from school for the start of the week on a very exciting course at the National STEM Learning Centre at the University of York. The theme of the course was teaching Primary Science Outdoors (although there is lots of scope to apply the skills learnt across the curriculum). I am very much looking forward to applying the skills learnt into lessons over the coming weeks.
Whilst I was away, the children were in the capable hands of Mrs Atkinson and the year 1 team, who were very pleased to tell me that the children had worked very hard and had been a pleasure to teach.
Maths
In maths the children have been working on a Measurement unit; learning about length and height; measuring using non-conventional methods to start followed by conventional methods. Next week, will see us continuing the theme of measurement, however we will be looking at mass and volume.
English
In English the children have commenced a new unit based upon Acrostic poems. To make the most of our learning time, we have chosen to make a cross-curricular link with our history unit; The Great Fire of London; therefore the children will be writing their poems based upon this subject area.
RWI Home learning:
Practice your story green words and red words from your home reading book on a piece of paper at home. These can be found on the How to help your child read this book page.
Challenge: Can you use the words in sentences?
Maths
The maths homework for this week can be found on Seesaw. I was hoping to post three separate sheets; but unfortunately technology has got the best of me on this occasion; with this in mind, You do not need to complete each page. Please see details below as to which task you should complete:
Big Red Table: Page 4.
Yellow and Blue Table: Page 3.
Mrs Campey’s Red Table: Page 2.
The answer sheet can be found of Page 5, but this is for the adults at home to use if needed.
You do not need to print off the sheet, simple write over the top of the sheet using the pen function. If you have any problems with Seesaw, please do come and see me and I will be happy to help.
English/History
Although we have only scratched the surface of the Great Fire of London, I am confident that the children will be able to complete this task based upon the videos that we have watched in school this week.
Task
Write a list to explain how the people of London tried to stop the fire.
If you are feeling creative you may wish to include drawings on your page.
