Class 1 children have had a super first week of school. All the children have settled in really well and we are really proud of them all.

This week has been all about settling into daily Class 1 and school routines and making new friends.  The children were very excited on Wednesday to be put into School Houses and have the chance to meet older children in the same house.

Maths

This term Reception children will be concentrating on numbers 1 – 5 and Year One children on numbers up to 10. This week we looked at what 1 is – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjan6evga7g&list=PLsCbn8m6nYGYD9Ju5_ygJSUhaCRNGM8UT

and what happens when there is another one.

Year 1 children concentrated on looking at one more and number facts for 2.

Our song for Maths is 1,2,3,4,5

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Phonics

This week the children have looked at ‘m’ – Maisy mountain, mountain.  The children have found objects that begin with sound, found the sound and practised forming the sound.   m

Year 1 children concentrated on Word Time activities – segmenting and blending CVC words.

This Term our Topic is based on Nursery Rhymes. Please find attached an overview of what we will be covering for the term.

one two three four five

Next Week:

Tuesday – Forest School Session 1 of 6  (Children to come to school ready)

Wednesday – PE – Balance Bike Session 1 of 6.   It would be useful if you could put a pair of jogging pants / long leggings into your child’s PE bag.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

Read Write inc:

This week the children have revised the trigraph ear – ‘Hear with  your ear’ and looked at the trigraph –  ure – ‘sure it’s pure’

ear            ure

Over the week the class revise words containing sounds from all the sets that we have covered:

green words 1           green words 2         green words 3

Maths:

The Class have continued to explore teen numbers, this week they have concentrated on 16, 17 and 18.  The children have used a variety of resources to support their learning including: numicon, unifix and 20 frames (plus counters).  The children are getting very good at explaining how they make these numbers and been able to explain to an adult or their friend what they know and how they know.

‘This is 16, because I have one 10 numicon and a 6 numicon.  10 add 6 is 16.’

The children have also displayed their number bond knowledge –  ‘this is 16 because I gave one 10 numicon,  4 numicon and a 2 numicon, 4 and 2 make 6, 10 and 6 is 16!’

One child told me, he had a “ magic crew” and in his crew there are numbers 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 number blocks. “ look what happens when we join them together.”

He added the number 5 and 4 numberblock. “This makes 9”
Then he  added the 3 “ this makes 12”
“ 2 more make 14 and 1 more is 15.”

Class 1 have had a busy couple of weeks since they came back from the half term holiday.

Read Write Inc:

The children have looked at:  ew – ‘Chew the Stew’, ire – ‘Fire, Fire’ and ear – :What can you hear?’

ew         ire        ear

Maths:

Over the last 2 weeks Class 1 have concentrated on two digit numbers and looked closely at tens and ones (early place value).  We have had hands-on lessons using our tens and ones.  The children have used the language of ‘One ten and 3 ones make 13’ and have had to prove how they know this.  Some examples have included :

‘I know it is 13 because because there are 3 ones and one 10. 13 is one more than 12.  I know there are 10 (on the 20 frame) and 3 ones underneath.  It’s not 14 because there are only 3 ones.’   So far we have looked at numbers up to 15.

Read Write Inc

This week the children have looked at ‘ow’ – brown cow and ‘ai’ – snail in the rain.

ow         ai

Literacy

This week we have talked about the setting of our story – ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and thought about where else it could be set and different ways Max could travel to get there.

The children chose a Wild Thing from the story to  describe and then created their own Wild Thing and wrote about them.

Maths

We started the week watching – https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bp2qlb/numberblocks-series-3-flatland

We revised 2 d shapes and sorted them The children also looked at other objects in the class room and decided on different sorting criteria.

Read Write Inc

This week the children have looked at the digraphs – ‘ur’ – Nurse with a purse and ‘er’ – a better letter.

ur/er

The children have completed word time activities and written sentences using words that contains these sounds.

Literacy

We have continued with our Class Story – ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ .  As a whole class and then in small groups the children have acted like the Wild Things,, sounded like the Wild Things and used words to describe the Wild Things.

Maths

This week we have concentrated on adding and subtracting 2 from 1 digit numbers.

The children used the following sentences to describe their calculations –   ‘8 is the whole: 2 is a part and 6 is a part and 8 is the whole’  (with actions)

‘8 minus 2 is 6’ ‘2 taken from 8 is 6’

‘2 add 4 is 6’, ‘4 add 2 is 6’