Weekly News! 25.4.25
What a fantastic first week back we have had!
Recycled materials needed!
If you have any recycled materials we could use for our art this term, please could you give them to the Year 1 teachers. We would be grateful for any donations.
Shoe boxes
If you have any spare shoe boxes you no longer need, please could Year 1 have them for their Design Technology project.
Maths
This week in maths, we have been learning about place value!
To start the week off, we used base 10 and partitioned numbers into tens and ones using our part, part, whole model. We even challenged ourselves to write our answer, e.g. 17 = 1 ten and 7 ones.
On Wednesday, we worked with our learning partner and we regrouped numbers into tens and ones. To help us, we used an array of different resources using counters and base ten. To end the week, we looked at partitioning and recombining numbers and even challenged ourselves with numbers up to 100!
Next week in maths we will be looking at 3d shapes.
Fact of the week
Our fact of the week this week is:
7+0=7
0+7=7
7-0=7
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.
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 in to 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.
Thematic
We introduced the children to our thematic unit Toy Maker! We started off our learning with the big question: What are toys made from? We had great ideas for this. We then used this to springboard into our learning where we first discussed the different between an object and the material it is made from. We learnt to name materials such as plastic, metal, glass, rock, wood and water by exploring the objects and materials. At the end of the lesson, we learnt about 2 scientists who we will be learning about over this thematic unit: Charles Macintosh and Charlotte McCurdy.
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