Class One activities

Class One have had a busy day today. They have been working with patterns and shapes this morning and recognising numbers. The children have enjoyed counting in French today too! Class One worked hard in Letters and Sounds – they explored the sound ‘h’ today and also Year 1 children worked hard to read and write tricky words and CVCC words, such as bend, belt, lift. This week the sounds covered will be h, b, f, ff. Physical Development this afternoon consisted of moving in different ways around the hall, using markers to know where their own space is, jumping with two feet together and moving with their hands and feet on the floor.

Beanbag targets in Class 1

Class 1 have had a very busy morning outside testing their maths and physical development skills…..

Their task was to aim the beanbag into one of the 3 hoops which were worth 1, 2 and 3 points.  Each time they scored points they added bears to their pot.  The Year 1 children worked very hard to put all the scores into a table and at the end they added them up to find out who had the highest in each team.  We all had lots of fun throwing the beanbags and trying to score as many points as possible!

Well done Class 1!

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Parent helpers for Class 1

We would be very grateful if any parents/grandparents/carers in Class 1 could spare some time each week to come into school to listen to readers.  If you are able to please speak to myself or Mrs Conde to arrange any days you can do each week.

Many thanks for you help,

Mrs Thomas and Mrs Conde

Resources to help your child to learn at home.

Your child will soon have a Letters and Sounds phonics mat to use at home. This can be used when reading to help decode words and for when your child practises writing letters and words at home.

There are several good websites and schemes to use at home to support Letters and Sounds, such as Alphablocks on CBeebies, Phonics Play and www.twinkl.co.uk. I have added links to Class One Resources page so that you can use programmes and games with your child at home. Ask you child to show you things, such as the Numtums clips and the Alphablocks letters and sounds clips.

A busy day in Class One

This morning children have been outside working and playing together in our Early Years yard. The children had access to lots of mathematics themed activities and resources. Many children enjoyed using chalks to write numbers and they also enjoyed finding numbers hidden in the sand area. Some children enjoyed playing maths puzzles and games. We also had some writing numbers using felt pens and pencils. The Year 1 children had a good time working in a group with Mrs Conde. They worked hard to use a number track and identified numbers on their track to match the number of coins dropped into a tin. Mrs Conde then wanted them to find the number on their track which was one more or one less than a given number.

Letters and Sounds was an opportunity for us to learn about the letter ‘g’. The children enjoyed having our Governor Mrs Wendy Horan in to see them working together and using many Letters and Sounds resources. The children from Year 1 worked in a group to use words containing the letter ‘g’ to form sentences. The children wrote their sentences independently and used an illustration too.

This afternoon we are looking forward to Physical Development in the hall. The children will have the opportunity to use mats and to bounce/hop/take big steps across them. The children will also recall how to move around the hall in different ways without bumping into anyone.

The Letters and Sounds for this week are: g, o,c,k.

 

Tuesday 9th September

Class One have had another busy day today. We enjoyed looking through quite a few of the Home Learning Journey books this morning and sharing pictures and information from home. We have worked together to play lots of number and shape games too and some children have also worked with adults to carry out focused number tasks. The children recalled Letters and Sounds from previous days and have found out about the letter ‘n’ today. We also decorated our gingerbread people and have spent time playing and sharing together in our outdoor area.

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Start to the week in Class One

SANY1214 SANY1216 SANY1218 SANY1219 SANY1220 SANY1205 SANY1206 SANY1207 SANY1208 SANY1209 SANY1210Everyone in Class One has had a lovely day so far! The children have been busy doing Letters and Sounds activities (lots of letter recognition activities and even a spelling quiz for the Year 1’s). They have also been very busy baking Gingerbread people. The children enjoyed helping to get all of the ingredients ready and mixing them altogether. Some children volunteered to show photos of their family and talk about who is in their family. At the same time, some children enjoyed learning their numbers through a game called ‘Run, run as fast as you can’ relating to the Gingerbread man story. The Year 1 children worked with myself during assembly time this morning to explore a set of instructions for baking Gingerbread people. The children needed to work together to decide upon the correct order of the instructions and used their Letters and Sounds knowledge to read the instructions carefully.

This afternoon, we are looking forward to PE in the hall – the children will be exploring different ways of moving in and out of each other and being careful not to bump into each other. We will also be getting out mats for the children to move in and out of.

The children were hoping to bring their gingerbread people home tonight but these will be home tomorrow – once we have had time to decorate them!

 

Mrs Foster’s New Arrival

We thought you would be pleased to hear about Mrs Foster’s new arrival Benjamin David born on Friday 25th July weighing 6lbs 15ozs.

Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Foster and big sister Phoebe!

Welcome to Class One!

The children have had a great day in Class One! They have all enjoyed getting to know each other and have been very busy! This morning we read the book ‘The Rainbow Fish’ and discussed the meaning of the story. We talked a lot about friendship. The children told each other their ideas about what makes a good friend and we made a record of their ideas. They all had lovely ideas such as being kind, being helpful, sharing toys and being happy together. The children then started to decorate a scale to make a large class fish on a display board.

The children have shared books and have enjoyed circle time together. They were all very good in the hall at lunch time and had a good time playing on the field together.

Letters and Sounds – we looked at the letter ‘s’ today. We made the ‘ssss’ sound and found out the letter name. Lots of children tried very hard to form the letter ‘s’ in their Busy Bee books. The Year One children enjoyed working together to write a list of words that have ‘s’ at the start or somewhere in the word. They were very good at being organised and worked mostly independently and tried really hard to make sure their handwriting was clear.

We all enjoyed some indoor and outdoor child initiated time towards the end of the day.