Weekly News! 31.1.25
What a wonderful week we have had in Year 1 take a look at what we have been up to....
Maths
This week in maths, we have been learning about inverse! We learnt the inverse of addition is subtraction and we used this knowledge to make links between number facts. For example, because we know that 4+2=6, we also know that 6–2=4. We then practised finding all possible facts in a number fact family with our partners. We even Challenged ourselves once we were confident in finding all possible facts, we used our number line to find the total of two numbers. Then we wrote down the related number facts.
Later in the week, we learnt what word problems are and had a look at some examples together. We picked out the key words which helped us to know whether we would need to add or subtract to solve the word problem.
Next week, we will be looking at mass.
Fact of the week
Our fact of the week this week is:
6+4=10
4+6=10
10-6=4
10-4=6
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.
Children will also be completing a writing showpiece each Friday. This week, they have been writing about how food can be cut, peeled or grated, linking to our thematic learning.
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.
Thematic
This week we have continued our unit I Care About Me, This week, we learnt that all food must be grown, farmed or caught and that all food produce comes from either a plant or an animal. Then we used the scientific skill of identifying and classifying to sort foods into groups. We even challenged ourselves with tricker food products such as bread and jam and strawberry yogurt. On Thursday we planned a healthy meal using the Eatwell plate and had a go at cutting, peeling and grating! After planning the healthy meals yesterday, today we were able to make them! We used the Eatwell plate to ensure our portions were the right size to get the right amount of each food group so that our brains and bodies can be healthy. We made sure to use our equipment safely in the way we were shown when cutting, grating, and peeling ingredients.
