What a great week we have had in Year 1. The weather has been very warm, and the children have continued to shine! A huge well done to the children for their year group assembly. We hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for helping the children to learn their lines at home. It is very much appreciated.

Read, Write Inc.

This week in Read, Write Inc. we have been reviewing sounds we know and learning new sounds. We have continued to use our sounds to read and write words, phrases and sentences. In particular, we have been looking for special friends in our words, saying the sounds and reading the word. Any practise at home reading a word by finding the special friends, saying the sounds and reading the word would be greatly appreciated! We have also been working hard on our handwriting and writing sentences with capital letters and full stops. On Friday, children wrote a story where they were travelling through the different seasons.

Maths

This week in maths, we have been learning about sorting objects. We have used Carroll and Venn diagrams to do this.

  

Fact of the week

Our fact of the week this week is:

2+5=7

5+2=7

7-2=5

7-5=2

Thematic

We started the week by learning about the seasons, what the weather is like in these seasons, what you might wear in these seasons and how the length of daylight changes in the different seasons. Our oracy outcome for this term was to speak to Year R children about how a strawberry plant grows. We also took part in our end of thematic quiz. We really impressed our teachers with what we have remembered from this term!

   

Next week, we will be having a computing day on Monday. Friday is number sense day for the whole school. We will be learning what different jobs there are, the difference between needs and wants and the specific skills you may need for particular jobs.

Reading

Mondays – RWI books to be changed by an adult. Please could ALL reading wallets be put in the trays so that we can check who has earned a certificate.

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays – children can change their learning zone book (the one with the coloured sticker on). Please help them to have this book ready to change when they come into the classroom in the mornings. Thank you!

Children will bring home two books in their reading folders, one being a RWI home book. Children are expected to try and read this three times during the week to ensure they are building on their reading fluency. The RWI home books will be changed, by an adult, every Monday.

The other book (with the coloured sticker) should be changed independently by the child themselves (on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)- first thing in the morning is a great time to do this! These books can be changed as regularly as needed.

Please listen to your child read as much as possible at home and record this in their reading records. Every week, one child from each class will receive a reading certificate in an assembly.

Children will also get a certificate for every 20 times they read so it is important that the reading record gets signed every time they read at home. BOTH RWI BOOKS AND THE LEARNING ZONE BOOKS CAN BE RECORDED IN THE READING RECORDS!

There will also be a sticker in your child’s reading record which will explain which skill they are working on with regards to their reading.

If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher.

Love to Learn

This week, ahead of Number Sense Day on Friday, we would like you to talk to family members or friends of the family and find out about their jobs. What is their job? What do they have to do in their job? What skills/interests do they have to have to do their job? There is no expectation to record any responses as this will be a ‘talking’ activity.

Other news

PE is on a Tuesday afternoon. Children need to wear a plain white t-shirt, black or navy bottoms and a plain black or blue sweatshirt.

Read at 3 will take place each Friday at 3pm in Year 1 classrooms (Friday 25^th April will be a phonics screen meeting for parents so children will be collected at 3:15pm)

Dates to remember

10th July Sports Day – KS2 9.15-12 Reception and KS1 1.30-3

11th July – Reports go out to parents

14th, 15th 16th July – Transition days; children to spend these days with their new class teachers

17th July – Inflatable fun day in school for all children

18th July – School finishes at 2pm for Reception to Year 5

Makaton

We noticed parents were keen to find out a little bit more about the Makaton signs we have been teaching the Year 1 children. Each week we have a sign of the week; we will now be putting our sign of the week on the blog. This week it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR-w6i-emNo

If you would like to contact us, please feel free to email, alternatively we are available to catch at the end of the day or the start of the day by the door.

Team Cornflower: eloise.hall@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Team Sapphire: nicki.cotton@chiltonprimary.co.uk and elaine.howard@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Miss Hall, Mrs Cotton and Mrs Howard