Category: Year 1 – St Francis of Assisi

Due to the snow day on Friday, the children did not receive their handwriting, spelling or maths home learning books. The spellings are all online and so we will still do our normal spell check on Wednesday. However, I do not expect that the maths or handwriting home learning is completed by Wednesday. Instead, I will hand out the books on Monday and get the children to return the home learning by Wednesday 13th February.

Thank you, and I look forward to seeing you all again on Monday!

Mrs Teixeira 🙂

Dear all,

I hope that you and your children had a restful Christmas break filled with happiness and good health. I would just like to say a big thank you for your kind cards and gifts. It is an absolutely pleasure to teach your children and I am looking forward to getting back into the classroom tomorrow!

This is just a quick reminder that the children do have PE on a Monday afternoon so can you please ensure that they have their PE kits to hand!

I look forward to seeing all of you tomorrow ready for another busy half term!

Mrs Teixeira 🙂

Dear all,

You will now find Year 1’s home learning under the tab on the right hand side. The password is the one discussed at our parent meeting in the first couple of weeks of term.

Thank you,

Mrs Teixeira

Below, you will find pictures of the hand made Advent wreaths sent in over the past week. The children clearly enjoyed making them and enjoyed discussing all they had learnt at home. They look fantastic!

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This week, the children learnt all about our senses and which parts of our body are associated with which sense. For this, the children conducted experiments in a carousel style activity.

Smell The children used smelling pots and had to try and guess what was in each pot. Some guessed lavender and some guessed cinnamon. 

Taste The children played a game in which they were given some fruit and they had to use their sense of taste to decide what the food was. They particularly enjoyed this one!

Touch The children were given a bag with different objects in and had to guess what the objects were according to their properties.

Sight The children played ‘Kim’s Game’ with Mrs Ruffell. This involved looking at objects in a tray and memorising them. Mrs Ruffell then took an object out of the tray and the children had to identify which object was missing. They were very good at this one!

Sound One child came into the middle of the circle and had to shout, “Stop!” The child who was holding a puppet had to say something and the child in the middle had to use their sense of sound to identify the child. 

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Another week has flown by in Year 1!

During maths, we looked at number bonds and discovered that numbers can be ‘split’ in lots of different ways. The children have all used their manipulatives (cubes) really well to show this and have quickly moved onto pictures to show their thinking. Super work!

Our current computing topic is about programming toys and today, we looked at what an algorithm is. The children learnt that it is a set of instructions and, when these instructions are put onto a computer, this is called programming. The children used all of their learning from geography to direct their friends around the dining room, using words such as left, right, forwards and backwards. 

Next week, we will begin our new RE topic and information about this will be put onto the blog.

Have a lovely weekend! 🙂

Mrs Teixeira

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Another wonderful week was had in Year 1 this week! The children completed their poems about noises around the school and then performed them to the class. I was extremely impressed with the way in which the children spoke confidently and clearly. I am sure that they are looking forward to sharing these with you at the next Sharing Friday!

Thank you for all of your support in home reading. I have been reading your comments and it is extremely encouraging to see how much is being done at home.

Each morning, I will ask different Guided Reading groups to change their books and they will therefore need their books out of their bags and will need to put them on my chair. If you could please remind the children of this on their particular day and, if you are unsure of their group, they know them. The timetable for this is as follows:

Monday Group 5

Tuesday Group 1

Wednesday Group 2

Thursday Group 3

Friday Group 4

Alongside home reading of their school book, could I please ask that the children continue to practise their High Frequency Words which were sent home last year from Reception. If you do not have them, then please send a note in with your child and I can get some sorted for you. It is important that the children are able to sight read these words as some are ‘tricky’ which cannot be sounded out with phonics. Short, snappy testing of these words each day will really help the children’s reading and writing!

Autumn

Today, we started to look at the months of the year and the seasons. The children understood that we are in September and that the season is autumn. In order to support this learning, could the children please look for some signs of autumn over the weekend (dry leaves etc) and bring some in to share on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend and thank you for all of your support!

Mrs Teixeira 🙂