Whiteley Year one

  Friday 28th November Special Request We will be starting our weaving unit of Art in a few weeks time.  If you have any ribbons (paper or fabric), fabric or Christmas paper that you would be able to donate, we would be very grateful. Art This week we have been inspired by the work of the artist Barbara Rae who visited the Arctic and created paintings of her journey. We practised mixing light and darker hues of colours by adding white and black.   English We have read the story of "Iris and Isaac" by Catherine Rayner. We discussed the adjectives used to describe the different Arctic settings.  Next week we will be using adjectives to describe our own Arctic settings. Geography In Geography this week we investigated hot and cold places in our school using thermometers.   Next week this will lead on to investigating hot and cold places on Planet Earth. Maths In Maths this week we have been representing numbers to 20 and beyond on a 20 frame and identifying th...

  Friday 21nd November Resilience Now the weather is getting colder please can you ensure that your child brings labelled gloves and a hat to school each day.  Please can you help your child to learn to put their own gloves on and teach your child to put their gloves in their coat pockets to keep them safe when they are not being used.  Thank you! Geography This week at school we have started our Geography unit of work.  We learnt the names of the seven continents and five oceans and plotted a route to travel from the United Kingdom to Antarctica.  You might like to sing the  Seven continents song  with your child by clicking on this link! Phonics In Phonics we have learnt the alternative graphemes for oa (boat). ow (rainbow),  o_e (nose), o  (post), oe (toe). Please can we again ask that you make sure you read the allocated Bug Club  book  this week with your child to practise the new digraphs and new tricky words ' who ' and ' ag...

  Friday 14th November Thank you for all of the families who are reading the Bug Club book allocated and shown on the sticker in their child's reading log.  It is really important for you to read this book at home with your child as it supports their reading in class with their teacher.  If they do not read the book they find it much harder to recall the new phonics sounds they have learnt that week at school and it is hard for them to develop fluency in reading.  Unfortunately we don't have enough paper copies of Bug club books to practise each week's sound at the same time so we really need your support in reading these books on Bug Club at home. Junk Modelling  This term we are encouraging children to build their resilience by independently junk modelling in the outdoor classroom.  If you have any small cardboard boxes or tubes please can you put them in the junk box outside Class 1J.  No plastic please as the children can't cut plastic safely. Diwa...

                                                      Friday 7th 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 "ee".  These are  ea, e_e, ie, ey and y 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 'looked'. 'called' and 'asked'.  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 o...

Friday 18th October 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.  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 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 alternative "ai" graphemes above, we have allocated the books below; I will amaze you, Dave's Big Day and The Runaway train. Th...

Friday 17th October How animals use their sense to survive This week we really enjoyed our visit from Zoo Lab. We had a chance to hold and stroke some of the animals and learnt some interesting facts about how they use their senses. The animals that visited us were :- Giant African Snail Madagascan Hissing Cockroach Tree Frog Corn Snake Rose Tarantula Science/English You might like to ask your child what facts they can remember about the animals? In English we have been writing sentences about how these animals use their senses to survive.  E.g. The corn snake smells with its tongue and feels with its skin. Reading Please continue to read 3 times the allocated book for your child on Bug Club. You may like to also read together How animals smell,taste and touch . We looked at this book together to find out some more interesting information about how animals use their senses to survive.  We have now started phase 5 phonics. This week the children have learnt 'ph and wh'.  W...