This has been yet another fabulous week in Year 1. We are very proud of all of the children who are trying so hard in their learning – well done!

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, children have continued to look at subtracting. We started the week by using jottings to help us solve subtraction calculations. If the calculation was 9-3, we had to draw 9 circles and then cross off 3 to find how many we have left. We also learned how to find the difference. We solved these questions by using cubes and number lines.  

      

Fact of the week

This week we have been reviewing all of the facts of the week we have learned so far this term:

1+1=2

1+2=3

1+3=4

1+4=5

Next week we will be making a simple table and learning to answer questions about the data. We will be consolidating our adding and finding the difference skills to answer these questions.

Thematic

This week we have continued our thematic learning: My Home My Town. To start the week, we learned the difference between a city, town and a village and learned what Ramsgate is. During Power Plays this week, we have been learning to remember what our home address is. We also  learned what human and physical features are and identified these on maps. To the end the week, we looked at aerial photographs and how we can identify key landmarks on these maps.

Next week we will continue to learn about different maps, create our own map of the school and complete our end of thematic learning quiz.

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 in to 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

Well done to all of the children who have been completing their love to learn tasks. We can see that a lot of time and effort has gone in to completing these activities – well done!

This week we would like you to carry out a simple survey at home to find out what people’s favourite things are.  Choose one idea (e.g. favourite colours, favourite animal, favourite season of the year, favourite crisp flavour etc) and record it in a simple table like this (a grown up can help you with the writing but see if you can write the totals yourself):

Crisp flavour	People	Total
Salt and vinegar	Mrs Cotton Mrs Howard	2
Cheese and onion	Miss Hall Miss Wong Miss Burden Mrs Welch	4
Beef	Miss Mirza Mrs Winch Mrs Cheshire	3

Please remember that children are only allowed to use 1 page in their books each week. Thank you!

Love to Learn books need to be returned by next Wednesday.

Other news

Sports Slam (our additional PE lesson) is on a Monday. This is where the children will refine a skill each term, for this term our skill is jumping. Please can the children wear trainers and their normal school uniform on this day.

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 is on every Friday at 3pm this is where we would love to invite you into our classrooms and read with your child for 15 minutes. This will happen every Friday this term.

Dates to remember

Thursday 24th October – Parents invited into look at children’s books at 3.15pm

Friday 25th October – Inset day – School closed to children

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