Beautifully Settled
Another fun and successful week here in Year 1! If you are looking to help out in the Year 1 classes, please make sure you have got your DBS check via the school office. This is also good to have if you would like to help on any school trips etc. We will welcome helpers after the October half term once everyone is settled.
In English this week we have been looking at the book ‘Shark in the Park‘ by Nick Sharratt to help increase our vocabulary and to build and write our own sentences. We have been recapping our phonics and using these to write the words we need. While doing this, we have learnt about adjectives and how it makes a difference to a sentence. We have built and written sentences to describe what we can see. Next week we will be reading the book Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field. We will be learning about what rhyming words are and identifying these in different books. We will then create a list of rhyming couplets, a mind map of rhyming words and we will have a go at writing rhyming sentences.
In maths this week, we have been focusing on the number 5. We have looked at different ways to make the number 5, discussing how the number can be split into different parts. We have also introduced cherry diagrams and the children are gaining an understanding of how they help represent a number. Next week, we will be doing similar but we will be focussing on the number 6.
Doors open at 8.45 every morning and register is taken at 8.55 promptly. Please ensure that your child is in school on time every day as regular lateness has a detrimental effect on a child’s learning and self-esteem. Pick up is at 3.15, we understand that occasional lateness will happen for whatever reason but please do try to be on time for your child.
Book change is every Monday, please listen to your child read the home reading book several times a week and sign the diary to say you have. This way we know that your child has read the book and is ready for a new one. Also, don’t forget to colour the stars on the back page. It’s a maximum of 1 star per day and they can earn their bronze, silver, gold and diamond certificates throughout the year. Please ensure your child has their reading book and diary in school every day. Your child may have also chosen a book from the class boxes, these books are for the children to read or share with a parent at home and your child can change these books themselves when they need a new one.
Just a few reminders:
- Please make sure all your child’s belongings are labelled. Things do go missing and I’m convinced there is a black hole somewhere in the school that sucks them in and they never come back.
- Please send your child’s water bottle and book bag into school every day.
- Hedgehog PE day is on a Monday and Bumblebee’s is on a Tuesday.
- Reading books in school are changed once a week and this will be every Monday. The books will be collected in in the morning and a new one will be issued that same afternoon.
Dates:
17th and 19th September – 2.50pm Welcome Year 1 parents
2nd October – Harvest Festival (details to follow)
21st October – Parents Evening 3.30-6.30pm
22nd October – Parents Evening 5-7pm
25th October – INSET Day
28th October – 1st November – Half Term
27th November – Fleet Festivities
3rd December – Hedgehog Christmas Play AM
3rd December – Bumblebee Christmas Play PM
20th December – Last Day of Term
We are really excited for the year ahead and we have got lots of fun things planned for the children. We like to think of ourselves as a friendly and approachable team and if there is anything you have concerns about, please let us know and we will do our best to help.
Have a lovely weekend, see you next week!
Mrs Ford and the Year 1 team.