Handwriting success in Year 1 and 2!

16th November 2016admin
Year 1 and 2 are working really hard on their handwriting.
In Year 2, we have introduced the terms ‘ascenders’ and ‘descenders’ to help them position their letters correctly on the handwriting lines.
In both Year 1 and Year 2, the children are familiar with the story of brave monkey and scared monkey to help them understand which letters start at the top pink link (brave monkey’s branch) and which letters start at the top grey line (scared monkey’s branch).
Please visitĀ http://kineticletters.co.uk/ to learn more about the Kinetic letters programme, or speak to your child’s class teacher.
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Use this guide to help your child form their letters correctly at home:IMG_7634

A brilliant second week back!

By c pinder13th November 2016

Year One have had a very busy second week back at school, lots of determined muscles were needed! This meant that many children in Year One achieved ticks on their determined target cards, for targets such as trying again, eye contact and volunteering for jobs – Well done!

In Literacy we have continued our writing sequence from Rosie’s Walk and invented our own versions of the text. For Maths, our focus has been place value, looking at ordering numbers, finding one more/one less than a given number, applying the children’s knowledge of counting forwards and backwards. Our Project lessons have continued with our ‘All About Me’ topic, taking inspiration from our trip to the park to look at our local area. Next week, we will be using our knowledge of our local area and country to compare it to another country in Europe, which will be very exciting!

 

Thank you to anyone who brought in leaves, conkers and twigs for our Autumnal areas. If you find some on a walk this weekend, we would love to have them in our class so that we can continue to explore and learn about the season.

 

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year One team.

Our trip to the park!

By c pinder6th November 2016

Thank you once again to all of the parent helpers who made this trip possible. We had such a great trip to the park and the children are excited to now link this to their learning!

 

A fantastic half term!

By c pinder26th October 2016

What a brilliant half term we have had in Year One! Every child has worked so hard to be determined in all that they do, whether that is in their learning or making new relationships on the playground.

In the last week of term, we had lots of excitement in the air when the children discovered eggs in their classrooms! We had a lot of speculation as to where the eggs may have come from, this lead us to exploring our new text ‘Rosie’s Walk’.

 

By c pinder26th October 2016

We seem to have set a trend in 1b! A big thank you to Trupesh for coming in to readĀ one of our favourites, ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’, to us. If you would like to share a story with your child’s class, please let their teacher know.

 

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All about me in year 1c

By 24th October 2016
On Friday, we spent the afternoon transforming our environment for our All About Me project. We used paper plates, crepe paper and other crafty bits to create a portrait of ourselves. We also designed our own luggage labels, ready for the next phase of our project: the World. When we return, we will be looking at the United Kingdom and the different countries within it. We will also be looking at the flags of these countries. We will also begin to explore Europe – I wonder how many European countries we already know?
We look forward to you viewing our art when we return back to school!