It has been another wonderful week in Year 1!

Local area walk for Year 1

On Thursday 27^th March, Year 1 will be going on a local area walk to consolidate some of the learning we will have completed in our thematic unit this term. Team Sapphire will be leaving at 9am and Team Cornflower at 9:45am. If you are a helper, please wait at the office and we will come and collect you. Children will need to wear their school uniform and must have a coat in school on this day. Many thanks.

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

Phonics Meeting

Many thanks to the families who were able to attend the phonics screen information meeting this afternoon. We have attached the PowerPoint and past phonics screen papers for you to look at. If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher. Many thanks.

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. On Friday, we completed a writing task where we had to write facts about James Cook.

Maths

This week in maths, we have been learning to put objects into equal groups and had a go at counting in different steps (e.g. if there are 5 objects in a group, we had to skip count in 5s). We have also learned to double numbers, starting with single digit numbers and then challenging ourselves to double some 2 digit numbers! We also solved some doubling word problems.

  

Next week, we will be learning to divide. We will be learning to divide by sharing (where we have an amount and share it out equally to a given number of people) and by grouping (where we have an amount and we have to put it into groups of a given number and work out how many groups can be made).

Fact of the week

Our fact of the week this week is:

3+0=3

0+3=3

3-0=3

Thematic

At the start of the week, we learned about the different diets that animals can have and sorted them into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. During the week, we also learned about how we can find out about the past (e.g. by books, research, TV programmes etc). We learned about 2 explorers: James Cook and Charles Darwin. We found out why they are famous and learned some interesting facts about their adventures.

  

Next week, we will be learning about the compass directions: north, south, east and west. We will also be learning about the seas which surround the United Kingdom, that the UK is part of Europe and we will be learning about the 7 continents of the world.

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 into 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

We would like the children to consolidate their learning on doubling. We would like them to use household objects (e.g. pasta, socks, pencils etc) or even outdoor natural materials (stones, twigs, leaves etc) to double numbers. For example, if you are finding double 6, children will collect 6 leaves and then another 6 leaves to find that double 6 is 12. You can record this in Love to Learn books, take photographs (these can be stuck into books or emailed to class teachers).

Love to Learn books need to be returned on Wednesday each week.

Other news

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 will take place each Friday at 3pm in Year 1 classrooms (next Friday 21^st March is parent book look ahead of Parent Teacher Consultations)

Dates to remember

21st March – Red nose day/Rock your socks day for Downs Syndrome awareness. This year Red Nose Day is celebrating its 40th anniversary, originating in 1985. We would like to invite children to come into school in 1980s dress up. Children are invited to wear odd socks as part of their outfit to show support for Rock your socks Downs Syndrome awareness day.

21st March – Parents invited into school from 3.15 to look at their child’s learning prior to parent teacher consultations

24th March – Parent teacher consultation week

27th March – Year 1 local area walk

2nd April at 9.05am – Easter Bonnet Parade for Reception, year 1 and year 2 in school hall

3rd April – Easter Egg Hunts in school

3rd April – Last day of term. School finishes at usual time.

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