We have had a wonderful week of learning in Year 1!

Do you have any of the following….?

We are so excited to be getting out in the Year One garden more now that the sun has come out. We have been busy during Power Play, planting lots of summer flowering bulbs, fertilising the soil with coffee grounds and egg shells and watering the flower bed. The children have been asking so many great questions and they have enjoyed talking about times when they have planted seeds or bulbs at home. They're really looking forward to seeing the flowers start to grow.

We would love to add more plants to outdoor area. If you have any of the following spare at home, we would be so grateful for donations:

Plants (outdoor/indoor)

Cuttings of plants

Plant pots of all sizes

Seed sowing trays

Seeds/bulbs

Watering cans

Phonics Meeting

There will be another Phonics Screen meeting for parents on Friday 25^th April at 3:00pm (in place of read at 3). If you attended a few weeks ago, you do not need to come again as it will be the same information (although you are always welcome to come along again if you would like!) The meeting will take place in Team Sapphire. Children are to be collected at 3:15pm.

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.

Maths

This week in maths, we have been learning about ‘half’. We have learned what this means and have been finding half of a shape, object and an amount. We have been amazing at this!

Next week, we will be learning to tell the time to o’clock and half past the hour.

Fact of the week

Our fact of the week this week is:

5+0=5

0+5=5

5-0=5

Thematic

To end our thematic learning for this term, we went on a local area walk to observe what animals and wildlife live close by to the school. We had to listen and look carefully all around us. It was great fun being out of school to do this! We also completed an end of unit quiz to see what we could remember from our learning this term.

Next week, we will be having an RE week where we will learn about what Jesus teaches Christians. We will look at some parables and explore what the meaning of the story is each time.

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

We would like the children to consolidate their learning on halves. We would like them to use their skill of halving around the house, for example, they could cut an apple in half (with adult supervision), they could cut a pizza or cake in half or they could halve an amount e.g. finding ½ of 12 pieces of pasta etc. You could take photos for their book or email them to the class teacher.

Love to Learn books need to be returned on Wednesday each week.

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

2nd April at 9.05am – Easter Bonnet Parade for Reception, year 1 and year 2 in school hall

3rd April – Easter Egg Hunts in school

3rd April – Last day of term. School finishes at usual time.

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. Here are the signs of the week we have taught this term so far.

                                   A drink of water

 

     Toilet               

Bagel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_I2Nr9n8Uk

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