WELCOME to Year 1 2023

Meet the Teacher Presentation:

Welcome to Year 1 – Meet the teacher

Autumn Term 2

Year 1 Autumn 2 Newsletter:

Year 1 Newsletter November 2023

Home learning: Please bring any homework in on a Friday.

Space – Homework Home learning

Autumn Term 1

Year 1 Autumn 1 Newsletter:

Year 1 Newsletter September 2023

Home learning: Please bring any homework in on a Friday.

London – Homework Home learning

Interview a family member sheet

Spellings:

Parent Guide for SpellingShed

24/11/23

wow, another hectic week at school. This week we have spent some time rehearsing for the nativity, we are getting very good at singing our songs. The rest of the week we have been working very hard! We have looked at both 2D and 3D shapes in our maths lessons, discussing how many sides, faces and vertices each shape has. We did our cold write for our new model text of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff in our literacy lesson. We also had a go at creating a weather forecast, using weather symbols of a map of the UK. Finally, we had a very important discussion about the power of our words. We noticed how negative words and actions can wrinkle our hearts, understanding the importance of kindness and respect.

Just a little reminder that the school will be closed to pupils on Friday (24/11/23) and Monday (27/11/23) due to staff training days. Cannot wait to have them all back in on Tuesday (28/11/23).

17/11/23

It has been a tiring week this week for year 1. We have spent a lot of time doing special quizzes this week, which we actually enjoyed doing, to Miss Sartain’s surprise. We were also lucky enough to have an amazing dawali dance workshop. Of course, we cannot forget the fun of Cogenhoe goes wild on Tuesday, getting to meet the real life Steve Backshall. We couldn’t believe he came all the way to our school when we saw him in Australia on the screen in the morning!

Back to somewhat normal next week, of course with lots of nativity practicing going on.

10/11/23

We have been exploring space a lot this week, both with our busy jobs and with our work in our books. We have had a lot of grammar lessons recently, focusing on structure or a sentence, adjectives, verbs and also correct grammatical order. We have been blowing Miss Sartain away with our maths skills, really trying our hardest with subtraction number sentences.

in our continuous provision this week we have been; using the laptops to research different seasons, designing and writing about our own planets. We made a weather book to track the weather form Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Finally, we have been cutting out sentences and putting them in the write order so they make sense.

03/11/23

First week back has been a blast. We have started very strong on our space topic, showing so much interest and sharing our knowledge we have already. We have been having loads of fun in literacy lessons writing silly sentences! We have been fortunate enough to have a lot of taster sessions for; football, dodgeball and even archery which were all a lot of fun. Tuesday was fabulous and we all looked very scary. Finally, in maths we have been continuing to use part whole models but to subtract not just for addition.

In our continuous provision this week we have been drawing and describing planets using the laptops, we have also been completing part whole models. To help with our literacy, we have been sorting words into verbs and not verbs. We made our own planet stick puppets to act out space scenes with our friends. We also practised some threading and drew different weathers for our science topic.

Additionally, we have begun our nativity practice, learning some new songs. We have already learnt 2 new songs and are working on our third!

20/10/23

Our last week of Autumn 1. This week we have been superstar writers as we wrote amazing sentences using our new vocabulary. We completed our Great Fire of London booklets; we are now experts on the subject. We have had a lot of fun in phonics this week, using fly swatters to slap the phonics sounds and creating phonics spiders. In maths we have been focusing on addition, ensuring to write in full number sentences.

In our continuous provision this week, we have been acting out the The Great Fire of London, filming each others acting. We have been using the laptops and signing into our own spellingshed accounts. For maths, we have been using the dominoes to write addition number sentences.

Our spellings this week will be in our reading diaries, our new sounds for after half term will be au, ey, a-e and e-e.

We can also have a go on SpellingShed and Numbots (passwords are on the front page of our reading diaries) to help our learning at home.

13/10/23

We started this week off with a full harvest/autumn art day. We used the nature items we had collected to create our own collage. We also had a go at some weaving, which was a little bit fiddly but we got there in the end. We talked about the sequence of events of the Great Fire of London and made little books to show what he had learnt. We started a new text in our literary lessons, we have been learning all about Miss Sartain.

In our continuous provision this week we have been; drawing and writing about a family member on the computer, creating part part whole models using the manipulatives and using our phonics to write some cvc words.

06/10/23

We have done lots of music this week. We have learnt that the different letters make different sounds on the chime bars. We know that we can go up the scale and down the scale and that we can change the pitch. We had a go at composing our own music and wrote down our notations. In maths, we can been continuing working on greater than and less than and ordering numbers. In literacy, we have explored verbs and have written our first ever hot write. We did an experiment in our science lesson this week to look at what materials are waterproof and what materials are absorbent. In topic, we are still looking at the Great Fire of London, talking about Samuel Pepys who wrote a very special diary. We had a go at writing our very own diaries as if we were in the year 1666.

In our continuous provision this week we have been making Tudor houses and Lego houses for our science experiment. We have been teaching each other a phonics lesson. We have also been practicing our fine motor skills using the geoboards and ordering numbers for maths. Finally, we have been identifying different verbs we can see in an image.

A friendly reminder that an interview with a family member sheet was sent home. Could our grownups at home help us to interview a family member such as mum, dad or grandparent? This will really help us when we write all about our family member. Can I request that all these sheets come back by the 9th October 2023.

Our spellings this week will be in our reading diaries, focusing on recapping previous sounds we have learnt this term.

We can also have a go on SpellingShed and Numbots (passwords are on the front page of our reading diaries) to help our learning at home.

29/09/23

This week in Year One we have innovated our own story of the baby mouse, some children will be writing about tarantulas, some will be writing about crocodiles and some will be writing about unicorns. We have started looking at greater than, less than and equals to in our maths lessons, imaging the symbols are hungry crocodiles who are always greedy and eat the bigger number. Continuing on with our topic of London, we have compared past a present and have begun to look at the Great Fire of London. We are super interested in this topic, learning awesome facts including where and when the fire started. We were also very fortunate to have a special guest from the library come in to talk to us on Tuesday morning. She read us two amazing stories using the story sacks available in the library. In our art lesson this week, we experimented with water colours, adding to our beautiful sketches of Big Ben from a few weeks ago. Finally, we ended the week off well in our celebration assembly, where we could celebrate all those who achieved certificates for showing this terms value of courage.

In our continuous provision this week, we have been writing our own baby mouse stories, comparing numbers using <, > and =. We have been sorting and grouping objects based on their materials and have used the tweezers to place pompoms onto CVC words to build our fine motor strength.

We will have an interview with a family member sheet coming home next week. Could our grownups at home help us to interview a family member such as mum, dad or grandparent? This will really help with our next literacy topic as we will be writing all about our family member.

Our spellings this week will be in our reading diaries, focusing on our four sounds this week (wh, ph, ew, oe)

We can also have a go on SpellingShed and Numbots (passwords are on the front page of our reading diaries) to help our learning at home.

22/09/23

This week in Year 1 has been really fun as we had our computing week. We have learnt how to paint using a laptop and how to write and edit text. We also were super lucky to have Ranger Stu come to visit us. We saw lots of amazing animals such as a tenrec, armadillo, bearded dragon, snake and many more. We learnt how to tell what animals were reptiles, birds, mammals and minibeasts. In literacy we have been looking at tricky words in the story of Baby Mouse. In maths, we have been comparing numbers, deciding which is more and which is less. In science we are still describing materials, looking at their properties.

In our continuous provision this week we have been designing our own tube maps. Describing different materials. Planning our own short story about losing a tooth, having a birthday party or buying a new pet. We have practiced our fine motor skills by cutting out different types of lines.

Our spellings this week will be in our reading diaries, focusing on our four sounds this week (oy, ir, ue, ow)

We can also have a go on SpellingShed and Numbots (passwords are on the front page of our reading diaries) to help our learning at home.

15/09/23

This week in Year One has been fabulous, we’re all settling back into school lovely now. We’ve started to look at our story of Baby Mouse, identifying capital letters and acting out the story. We’ve been doing a lot of practical maths this week, working on counting forwards and backwards using; number lines, tens frames, numicon and counters. We’ve been looking at different properties of materials in our science lessons, even having a go at describing an item in a bag to the rest of the class for us all to guess. To support our topic of London this term, we’ve been looking at different landmarks within London. We also go the opportunity to delve into forest school this week which was great fun! On Thursday we got a chance to play cricket, we were very good, practicing our catching skills.

In our continuous provision this week we have been labeling a mouse, counting forwards using digits and words and having a go at building shape on the peg boards. We have also been matching materials with the material name, writing tricky words out in the sand and writing our own versions of the baby mouse story.

Our spellings this week will be in our reading diaries, focusing on our four sounds this week (ay, ou, ie, ea)

We can also have a go on SpellingShed and Numbots (passwords are on the front page of our reading diaries) to help our learning at home.

08/09/23

Wow, what a start! We have learnt about all the different areas in classrooms, what resources we have and how to use them. We talked about how we complete our busy jobs for our continuous provision and how to take photos using SeeSaw on the iPad!

We have been doing some amazing writing and using our phonics knowledge lots when reading and writing. In maths, we have been counting forwards and backwards as well as representing our numbers using objects. In science, we have been experimenting to find out which material float and sink, looking closely at their properties. Finally, in topic we have learnt a lot about London already. We might even be able to tell you the names of some famous landmarks.

Our spellings for our spellings quiz are in our reading diaries so we can practice them at home, they will also be on spelling shed so we can play games to learn our spellings.