Whiteley Year one

 Friday 17th January This week at school, we continued our learning about the Great Fire of London. In English we learnt to identify nouns and verbs and we wrote simple sentences with subject verb agreement e.g. "The fire is burning the houses." Dance This half term we are working on Dance in our indoor P.E. sessions. This week we created a dance using pathways after looking at some falling leaves.  We worked hard to move to the rhythm of the music and worked well with our partners.                                                    Phonics In Phonics this week we have continued to revisit our Phase 5 graphemes to develop our confidence in reading and writing words with these sounds.  This week we have revisited ay, a_e, ei, eigh  and ey . You might like to play the games on Bug c...

Friday 10th January Welcome back to school.  We hope that you enjoyed the Christmas break together. This week as part of our History learning, we have been finding out about The Great Fire of London.  We placed the fire on our class timeline and discussed pictures and paintings of the Fire.  We composed questions and talked about where, when and why the fire started . This week, we started to visit the computer suite in Key Stage 2. Each week half of the class will do an activity in the suite.  This week we have been learning how to use a mouse to control the computer in order to use the programme "Paint" - a tricky skill to master! Reading This week we will be asking you to do the "second" read of your child's phonic reading book at home.  They will do the "first" read as a group in school.  We will then do the "third" read with your child at school next week so that we can focus on developing your child's understanding of the text inclu...