Totally ROAR-SOME!
Welcome back! Happy 2024! I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas and new year! I am glad to get back to routine now as I definitely got to that point where I didn’t know what day of the week it was! Although a dreary and rainy start to the term, the children have all been in good spirits this week and always manage to keep a smile on their faces. “A day where you witness at least one child’s smile is always a day well spent.” Well I love my days when I’m in school and I consider myself lucky to have 30 smiles each morning. Our Dinosaur topic has been thriving already with us all completing some dinosaur art on Thursday afternoon which the children loved!
The children had a great time with Mr Walker for our Dinosaur Workshop. They all enjoyed becoming paleontologists, discovering fossils and using photos to see if they could identify what the fossils originally were thousands of years ago. They discovered a dragonfly, skulls of a T-Rex as well as some dinosaur feet. They also loved meeting some real life dinosaurs that scientists have brought back to life! It was ROAR-SOME!
In English, we started the week off with sharing and writing about our news from Christmas. The children loved sharing what Father Christmas had left them under the tree! Some very lucky children indeed! Next week, we will be using the books ‘There’s a T-Rex in town’ and ‘There’s a Stegosaurus on the stairs’ by Ruth Symons to find out facts about dinosaurs, make comparisons and speak in full sentences. We will be thinking about what it would be like if a dinosaur visited our school and what the dinosaur may find difficult. We will then learn about how connectives can be used to extend our sentences to support our writing at the end of the week.
In maths, we have been practising reading, writing and ordering numbers to 50. We have also been finding 1 more and 1 less of numbers to 50. Next week, we will be learning about the place value in different numbers. We will use a range of apparatus to build, and then draw numbers from 20-50. We will spend lots of time talking about how the numbers are built using the appropriate vocabulary of tens and ones.
Just a few reminders:
- Please make sure all your child’s belongings are labelled. Things do go missing and I’m convinced there is a black hole somewhere in the school that sucks them in and they never come back.
- Please send your child’s water bottle and book bag into school every day.
- Our Year 1 PE day is on a Monday.
- Reading books in school are changed once a week and this will be every Monday. The books will be collected in in the morning and a new one will be issued that same afternoon.
- Library books are changed on a Friday during our library time. The children are also welcome to change their books during lunchtimes when the library is open.
Dates:
Tuesday 30th January face to face 3.30pm-6.30pm
Wednesday 31st January virtual 4pm-7pm
Mrs Ford and the Year 1 team.