Friday 27th February

World Book Day Next Week- Thursday 5th March 

On this day we will be walking to Waterstones to spend our World book day voucher and listen to a story.

1B and 1R are very short of volunteers to accompany them to Waterstones on Thursday morning.  Please can you let us know if you can support them.


This week we have started our history learning about the Titanic.  We have approached this from the point of view of a passenger - Delia McDermott who travelled on the Titanic as a third class passenger.  Delia bought a new hat for her journey and we discussed the differences between the clothes worn by different groups of people, rich and poor in 1912.  We discussed how the lives of rich and poor people were very different in 1912.  Next week we will learn more about how Delia travelled on the Titanic and what happened next.
Science

This week we continued our science longitudinal investigation - finding out about the animals that live in our pond at the end of winter and the beginning of spring.  We discussed how this had changed from our findings in the autumn.
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 alternative graphemes for the oa digraph - these are o_e, oe, ow and o.
You might like to play the games on Bug club which practise these sounds.
If you would like an extra read to practise the sounds above, we have allocated the books below to Bug Club;
Animal skeletons, Snow Monster and Fun in the Snow.

Maths 
We have continued our work counting in 2s and 10s and solving problems using this knowledge e.g. If there are 10 bikes, how many wheels will they have?  We sorted groups of objects into 2s and described our sets saying how many "lots of" 2 we had and how many altogether.

Class Performances
In Year One our class performances are in the spring term at 2pm.
The dates are as follows;
1J - Monday 23rd March
1B - Wednesday 25th March
1R - Thursday 26th March
We would love you to join us at our performances!



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