To help us with our learning about our local area in Geography, the children will get an opportunity to take Travelling Ted on a journey of your local area for two days.
Whether you’re off to a swimming lesson or playing in your local park, take Ted along and get a picture of him. Even if you’re walking to school or going to Rainbows, show us Ted’s journey of your local area. Don’t forget to fill in his journal so we can see where Ted has travelled to locally.
Ted will start his travels today, working in alphabetical order through the children’s names in the register. Please make sure Ted is returned after two days, with his journal and a completed entry. Feel free to send photographs in the Google classroom or via the office.
It’s been another busy week for Year 1. We have really enjoyed starting our new book in English, the Naughty Bus by Jan Oke. We have been using our new found knowledge of buses to write sentences with full stops and capital letters.
We have also enjoyed using apparatus in PE this week. We experimented with travelling across the benches using different parts of our bodies, at a variety of heights. Here are some pictures of us in action:
In our RE topic Belonging, will be focusing on the first Sacrament, Baptism. It would be great if the children could bring in their baptismal candles, photos from their baptism or even their gowns to share with the class. Thank you to the children that have already brought in their baptismal candles.
If your child needs to change their tricky words in their reading folders, please have a look at the below list of tricky words for Year 1. Please tick off the words your child is confident with and practice the words they are finding tricky.
This should be completed in addition with reading the colour banded books in your child’s reading folder too.
Our RE topic for the next four weeks is based around the theme of Waiting.
We will be considering the big questions:
How do you feel when you are waiting for something you like?
What do you find difficult about waiting?
What can you do to make waiting easier?
How can we best prepare for Christmas?
Advent is a time when we appreciate the love in our lives and prepare to celebrate love becoming a reality in the person of Jesus. Christians at Christmas celebrate the gift of Jesus, given by God as a sign and expression of God’s love. Giving and receiving reflects the truth that all life is given by God and life is given meaning through the gift of Jesus.
Word of God
“This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven. Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.” (1 John 4: 10-12)
Prayer and reflection:
Today a Saviour is born! In the stillness of the night God enters human history through the birth of his only Son. He is our peace and hope. In him we praise God for his goodness to us in giving us so great a gift. Amen.
We shall be focuses on the following scriptures:
Luke 1: 26-31, 38 – God’s Story 2 page 55 Luke 1: 39-45 – God’s Story 2 page 56 Luke 2: 1-7 – God’s Story 2 page 58 Luke 2: 8-20 – God’s Story 2 page 59
Play ‘hide and seek’ inside or out – discuss how it feels to be the person who is waiting. You could write these feelings down, accompanied by a picture.
Another busy week for Year 1 this week. We took part in National Fitness Day this week. We used our PE lesson to complete as many minute long activities to help improve our fitness as possible. We completed hopscotch, circle leg in the air, hula, flap your arms like a bird, crab walk, dance, sit down and stand up all for a minute each. We had a lot fun!
Please don’t forget that the orange spelling book and blue homework folder are due in every Wednesday. This then gives us time to stick in the new homework for the next week.
We’ve also created a borrow box for books the children can take home and read with their adult as an extra reading challenge. There is also a handy prompt bookmark with each book with questions you can ask your child before, during and after reading the story. Please don’t forget to sign the books in and out using the log, found in the basket.
It’s been another busy week for Year 1 this week. We really enjoyed today’s Mercy mass, putting all our hymn practice into… practice! Thank you for everyone who joined us and for the picnic afterwards too. The weather was kind to us!
Thank you again to parents who attended the parent morning on Tuesday. If you were unable to make it, the slides and curriculum overview should have been sent out to everyone. I have also popped a copy of the curriculum overview on our Google classroom.
Please don’t forget to accept your child’s invite for the Google classroom to access the assigned homework. Thank you to the parents who have let me know about any issues so far, we will get these sorted. If you do not have access to a printer, please see me for a copy of the handwriting homework.
What a wonderful first week we have had in Year 1! It been a tiring week but a week of learning and getting into our new routines. Well done to all the children for trying their best this week.
We now have PE every Monday and Wednesday, please ensure your child has brought in their PE kit ready for these lessons.
Parents, don’t forget the Year 1 parent morning on Tuesday 14th September at 9am. It will be held in the classroom and you’ll be able to find out what we’ll be getting up to in Year 1. It’s also an opportunity for you to ask any questions about the up and coming year.
What a busy couple of days we have had settling into our new classroom. We have really enjoyed seeing our friends again and getting to know our new teachers, Miss Battams and Mrs Brunt.
Thank you to the children who have brought in their PE kits already. Please make sure you have your kits with you next week as our PE days are Monday and Wednesday.
If you also have any reading books or records at home, please bring them in so we can updated them.
Have a great weekend and keep your eyes peeled for more information on the Year 1’s parents’ morning.
A huge thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your extremely kind words and gifts. I am very grateful!
It has been an absolute pleasure to teach your children and inspire their learning. What a year it has been! The class has been so resilient and have shined bright every single day. I am very lucky to have been able to be their teacher.
I wish you all a restful and fun summer! Hopefully the sun stays shining like today.
I will be leaving my Youtube videos up so if you have a spare moment, please feel free to put them on for the children to what. I do recommend keeping Phonics fresh in their minds. Great websites are
www.phonicsplay.com
www.phonicsbloom.com
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Thank you again and I’m sure our paths will cross again.
This week the children were challenged to complete 4 tricky challenges. The class were very enthusiastic and enjoyed completing them.
In English we are looking at the story Here Comes Mr Postmouse. We looked at the journey of mail. We shall be spending next week writing letters.
In Maths, we are securing our understanding of Numbers to 40 and making sure we have a good understanding of place value.
We have continued our topics on The UK and Plants. The children have each planted a flower each and various vegetables. They are keeping a diary entry of their flower to watch it grow.
The class looked fab all in red. Thank you for supporting Comic Relief.
After Easter, I shall be setting home learning every Friday which can be found on our Google Classroom. It shall consist of spellings each week and a topic based activity every couple of weeks.
