What a fantastic final week we have had! Take a look what we have been up to….

Easter Parade

Thank you for coming to see the children’s wonderful bonnet parade. All the bonnets were exceptional this year!

Do you have any of the following….?

We are so excited to be getting out in the Year One garden more now that the sun has come out. We have been busy during Power Play, planting lots of summer flowering bulbs, fertilising the soil with coffee grounds and egg shells and watering the flower bed. The children have been asking so many great questions and they have enjoyed talking about times when they have planted seeds or bulbs at home. They're really looking forward to seeing the flowers start to grow.

We would love to add more plants to outdoor area. If you have any of the following spare at home, we would be so grateful for donations:

Plants (outdoor/indoor)

Cuttings of plants

Plant pots of all sizes

Seed sowing trays

Seeds/bulbs

Watering cans

Maths

This week in maths, we have been learning about time! We know that when the minute hand is on the 12, it is o’clock. When the minute hand is on the 6, it is half past. We used our clocks on the carpet to make various times which showed o’clock and half past. Then we went to our tables and practised reading clock faces and writing the times down with our partner. One of us wrote the answer whilst the other made the same time on our clock face. Then we switched over.

Fact of the week

Our fact of the week this week is:

6+0=6

0+6=6

6-0=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.

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.

RE

On Monday, we started learning about who Jesus was and the events in his life that shape the Christian faith. We used drama to understand the feelings of different people including his followers, his mother and his enemies at different events during Jesus’ life. The events were; Jesus’ birth; Jesus teaching his followers; Jesus performing miracles; Jesus gets arrested; Jesus’ crucifixion; Jesus appearing after death.

On Wednesday, we learnt that a parable is a story and that they teach us lessons. We were all able to describe the story, by using puppets to help us act it out.  We know that Christians believe Jesus taught the parable of the lost son to show that God rejoices when people come back to him. Take a look at our parable telling!

Today we looked at the parable of the good Samaritan, the message that Jesus was trying to teach is to be helpful and kind to others. We spoke about how we could show ‘helping hands’ and wrote one way we could help someone this week.

Next term our unit is Toy Maker! We will look at the Big Question for this unit ‘What are toys made of? We will also look at a range of toys, discuss the difference between an object and the material that it is made from. Through this learning, children will learn the names of a variety of everyday materials (e.g. wood, plastic, metal, glass, water and rock).

Love to Learn

We have loved seeing all your wonderful Love to Learn books this term, thank you for all your hard work. 

For this weeks love to learn we would love you to make a diary of your Easter holidays, This could be using pictures, writing or both!

Show and Tell

A reminder that children should not be bringing any toys into school as these can get easily broken or lost. If children would like to do show and tell, please email a picture of the show and tell to class teacher(s) and we can use this when the children share with the class. Please could all parents ensure that children are not bringing toys etc in from home.

Other news

Children are no longer required to wear trainers into school on a Monday.

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.

Next tern our Read at 3 will continue every Friday at 3pm this is where we would love to invite you into our classrooms and read with your child for 15 minutes

Dates to remember
Term 5 Dates for your Diary

Tuesday 22nd April – School starts at the usual time

25th April – Year 1 Come dine with me picnic at 12pm

25th April – Year 1 phonics screen meeting with parents at 3pm

5th May – Bank Holiday

6th May – Thrive Coffee Afternoon at 3.30pm

15th May – Year 1 class assembly 2.50-3.05

22nd May – Key Stage One Viking Games at Chilton

23rd May – Be here, Be you, Belong celebration. Children can come to school wearing anything they feel represents them as part of our ‘Dress to Express’ day. We will have a parade at 2pm on the field to celebrate this, to which our families are all invited.

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