Whiteley Year one

 Friday 8th November We have really enjoyed our history learning this week about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. We have learnt a rhyme to help us remember the eventful day in 1605. Can your child remember it? You may enjoy watching and discussing the videos together at home.  BBC Teach videos Guy Fawkes sequencing cards Phonics In phonics we have learnt the alternative graphemes for igh (l ight ). (ie (p ie ), i-e (p i p e ), y (sk y ), i (ch i ld).  Please can we ask that you make sure that you read the allocated Bug Club  book  this week with your child to practise the new digraphs and new tricky words 'water' and 'where'.  This makes such a difference to how your child remembers and applies this new learning in class. P lease see the sticker in your child's reading log for the name of the book to read. Thank you We have also allocated some games on Bug Club to practise reading and spelling words with these sounds. If you fancy an extra read to practise the al

  Friday 25th October This week we have started our longitudinal science project to find out if the animals that live in the pond change throughout the seasons.  We will go pond dipping in the autumn, winter, spring and summer and find out about the animals that live in the pond.  The most common animal that we found in the pond in the autumn was a dragonfly nymph. Phonics This week at school we have continued learning our new Phase 5 sounds and tricky words.  Please can we ask that you make sure that you read the allocated Bug Club book this week with your child to practise the new digraphs "ea", "e_e", "ey", "ie" and "y" and new tricky words 'called', 'asked' and 'looked'.  This makes such a difference to how your child remembers and applies this new learning in class.  Thank you! We have also allocated some games on Bug Club to practise reading and spelling words with these sounds. If you fancy an extra read a

Friday 18th October This week at school, as part of our science learning, we have started to find out how animals use their senses to survive. We have used our own senses to explore activities in the outdoor classroom.  We identified food stuffs using our sense of smell and learnt how our sense of smell protects us from eating foods that have gone bad.  We made and explored different sizes of ear trumpet to find out how they changed the volume of sound that we heard.     On Wednesday we had a super visit from Zoo Lab.  We learnt how different animals use their senses to find food and escape from predators. Phonics This week at school we have continued learning our new Phase 5 sounds and tricky words.  Please can we ask that you make sure that you read the allocated Bug Club book this week with your child to practise the new digraphs "ay", "a_e", "eigh", "ey" and "ei" and new tricky words 'Mr' and 'Mrs'.  This makes such

  Friday 11th October This week at school we have started learning our Phase 5 sounds and tricky words.  Please can we ask that you make sure that you read the allocated Bug Club book this week with your child to practise the new digraphs ph and wh and new tricky words 'oh' and 'their'.  This makes such a difference to how your child remembers and applies this new learning in class.  Thank you! We have also allocated some games on Bug Club to practise reading and spelling words with these sounds. If you fancy an extra read to practise the 'ph' and 'wh' sounds, we have allocated the books below; Dolphins, Whizz, Whooperoo and What a winner! Thank you! Science        In Science this week we have been learning how animals use movement to survive.  We discussed how animals move to find food and avoid predators.  We went for a walk in the woods to find animals and observe how they move.  We drew careful pictures of the animals that we collected. Maths This we

  Friday 4th October Maths This week in Maths we have been learning to represent groups using  whole/part models and number sentences - see image above.  We have worked on solving simple problems e.g. There are 2 birds in the tree, how many more birds do we need to make 5? Try the games below 1 more game adding to 10 game Phonics In Phonics this week we have spent our last week consolidating Phase 4 Phonics - words with adjacent consonants and phase 4 tricky words. Next week we will be starting to learn the new Phase 5 digraphs wh and ph.  Thank you for working on the reading challenge at home with your child.  We are noticing such a difference in the confidence of the children who are reading each day at home. We have had a delivery of bronze rocket badges so when your child completes their bronze reading challenge please let us know. P.E. We have been doing a great job learning to participate in team games in P.E.  These practise the skills of changing speed and direction.  We were r

  Friday 27th September Thank you for ensuring that your child is arriving promptly at school.  It has made such a difference  in each class  to the start of the school day. In science this week we have been learning that animals need food to survive, and that food gives them energy to move and material to grow. The children have learnt that all animals are different and so eat different foods. Some only eat plants (herbivores), some eat other animals (carnivores) and some eat both (omnivores).  A predator is an animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals. Prey is an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.    The children have used this information and vocabulary to make a simple food chain.  You might like to watch the food chain video below. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3c2xnb   We have allocated the book "Rabbits" to share together on Bug Club to practise the language introduced above. This week we have also done some first hand observations o