We have had a wonderful and week this week, here has what we have been up to…

Read, Write Inc

This week we continued our Read, Write Inc. lessons. We have been focussing on our beautiful handwriting and making sure we use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence and a full stop at the end. We have continued learning how to tick and fix our own spellings and are excellent at it!

In each reading folder, there is a sound card and list of red words. Any practise with these at home would be extremely helpful and support your child’s reading and writing at home.

Maths

This week in maths we have been learning about distance, height and length. We started the week by looking at some important vocabulary, including: distance, near, far away from, close, further away from, length, shortest, longest, height, tallest and equal. We used our vocabulary to describe how far we are from our house to the moon and school. We then took part in a range of activities, where we had to use the vocabulary further. Take a look at what we got up to…

We then moved on our learning to look at length and height. We had to compare items in the classroom and decide whether they were long, short, tall or equal. To end the week we used cubes to measure objects in the classroom, some of us even estimated how many cubes long or tall something was and check to see if our estimations were correct!

Geography

This week, we started off my looking at the 7 continents. We visited a class museum, where we had to visit each continent and add it on to our map! We loved feeling how cold the ice was from the Antarctica, and how the sand may have felt like in Africa. (Please ask us to sing you the 7 Continents Song! – we are so good at it!) We then learnt all about the equator and how those continents near the equator are hotter than the places further away from it. We ended the week by learning about the 5 oceans and making a wonderful class scrap book about our learning this week.

 

Nativity…

As you may be aware, we have sent those children who wanted to speak in the Nativity, words home for them to learn. We have also written what costume they will need. We are still organising the non-speaking roles and all children should know which character they are next week. Please could you let us know if you cannot find a suitable costume and we will try our best to provide one for you. Thank you in advance! We can’t wait for you to see our performance!

Next week…

Next week we will be continuing to work hard on our sounds, reading and writing in our Read, Write Inc lessons.

In Maths, we will be learning about measurement.

In our afternoon sessions, we will be doing Science and Design Technology. We will be designing and making products to measure the weather, so please do bring in some junk modelling materials if you can (the insides of loo rolls and kitchen rolls, and large plastic bottles in particular) would be great!

Love to Learn:

This week we would love for you to take a look at all the set 2 sounds and put them into a word. For example; ay – clay.

We would also like you to practise your sounds as much as possible :)

Other news:

Tuesday will be the Sports Project day. Children will need to wear full school uniform this day with trainers.

Thursday will be PE day. Please can the children come into school in their PE kit. Just a reminder this should be blue or black shorts/ trousers and a plain white top.

Doors will continue to open in the morning at 8:30am. Registration will be at the slightly earlier time of 8:45am (doors close at this time)

Read at 3 - Every Friday at 3 our doors will be open for you to come in and read with your child, please note, this will be for the full 15 minutes and children should not leave any earlier. Their books will be set up and ready for you to come in and enjoy listening to their wonderful reading.

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 our Chilton Heroes assembly and there are also individual class prizes to be won :)

Mrs Howard will be teaching Team Topaz on a Wednesday and Team Aqua on a Thursday.

Dates to remember:

Monday 12th December – Yr 1 Christmas performance at 9:15am… We can't wait!

On Monday 28th November, we will be having a non-school uniform day. On this day we ask the children to bring in a bottle for our Tombola. In addition, on Monday 21st November, we will be sending a white bag home. We ask the children decorate these and add a treat to the bag, for example some sweets or crayons. We would like these brought into school on Monday 28th November, ready to be sold at the Festival on Tuesday.

On Tuesday 29th November, the Chilton Fundraisers will be holding a 'Christmas Lantern Festival' from 3.15-4.15 on the school field. Mr. Redwood and the school choir will be leading the Christmas carols. There will be hot chocolate and festive cakes available, a tombola, a Christmas shop and a handful of festive games to play.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mrs Winchcombe, Miss Bryson and all the Year 1 team.

Mrs Poppy Winchcombe – Team Topaz – poppy.winchcombe@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Miss Polly Bryson – Team Aqua - polly.bryson@chiltonprimary.co.uk