Friday 5th December 

Special Request

We will be starting our weaving unit of Art next week.  If you have any ribbons (paper or fabric), fabric or Christmas paper that you would be able to donate, we would be very grateful.
Christmas Cards
In Year One we encourage the children to make one Christmas card for the class rather than give out lots of individual cards.
This means that we can really value your child's card and message and share it with the class and it is more sustainable for our environment too.
Thank you!

Art

This week we have continued to be inspired by the work of the artist Barbara Rae. We have created our own paintings in the style of the artist.  We created a background for our painting using a wash of dark and light colours and sketched an Arctic animal to go on the foreground.

English


In English we wrote descriptions of Arctic settings using adjectives. We tried hard to extend our sentences with "and".

Maths

In Maths this week we have been working with numbers to 50 to find the number that is one more and one less than a given number.  We have been recording one more and one less as addition and subtraction number sentences.

It would be great if you could start to practise counting forwards to 50 and backwards from 50 to zero with your child making sure they use "ty" and "teen" correctly when pronouncing their numbers.

Geography
In Geography this week we learnt about hot and cold places in the world.  We identified the Equator and learnt how hot places in the world are nearer to the Equator and cold places are further away.

We were lucky enough to have a live assembly from Antarctica. Explorer Robert Swan spoke to us.
See the link below
Live link

Phonics

In Phonics we have learnt the alternative graphemes for or.  

au (launch), aw (claw) and al (walk). 

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 'because' and 'work'.  This makes such a difference to how your child remembers and applies this new learning in class. Please 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 alternative "or" graphemes above, we have allocated the books below;
Boring, Boring! and Creepy-Crawly Hunt

Christmas Dates

Secret Santa - Friday 12th December
Christmas Jumper and Christmas Dinner day - Tuesday 16th December
Carols on the Piazza - Tuesday 16th December - 6.15pm
Last day of term - Friday 19th December 12.05pm  early finish.


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