Welcome to Year 1 - Ash Class

Teacher - Miss Farish

LSA - Miss Kettle

Class Email - ash@connectedlearningmat.co.uk

Any questions, worries or concerns please feel free to email Miss Farish via this email - she will do her best to reply to you ASAP.

Things to remember: 

Spring

English - Talk for Writing

In English, we have been looking at the Gruffalo and Knuffle bunny. Using these texts we focused on using adjectives, rhyming words and sequencing a story.

Phonics

We have now made started with stage 2 sounds in phonics.

It would be great to still practice the sounds in stage 1 to make sure we remember them.

Please click on the hyperlinks to view videos of 'Song of Sounds'

Stage 1 song

Stage 2 song

PhonicsPlay is a great website for children to access to practice their phonic skills from home. 

Reading

We aim to change your child's reading book every Tuesday and Friday. This ensures each child has the opportunity to read their book within school to an adult twice a week and with their family at home to develop their segmenting, blending and overall fluency skills.

Children may start to get new books which they will get quizzed on within school once they are ready. This shows that the children are understanding what is happening in the book as they read it.

Each child will be sent home with tricky and green word bookmarks. It would be brilliant if you could practice the tricky words and green words to support your child's fluency when reading. 

Make sure to keep the bookmarks as they are a great tool to use again and again.

Guided Reading

This term we will look at loads of different books by many different authors.

- We will talk about the different parts of the book like; the front and back cover, the spine, the title, the blurb ect.

- We will predict what might happen in the story just from looking at the front cover and from reading a few pages.

- We will use our inference skills to discuss how the characters are feeling in the stories. 

- We will use out sequencing skills to put the stories in order. 

- We will also discuss our likes, dislikes, patterns and puzzles about the story.

Maths

During this term Year 1 explored the topics of place value to 50, measuring height and length, as well as measuring mass and volume.

We are lucky enough to be able to have access to some new Maths games which will be handed out soon to be taken home, brought back and then swapped with peers.

Science - 

This term we have been looking at different parts of a plant and the weather.

We planted some watercress and studied how the roots grow, stem and leaves grow. After a couple days of  observations, we noticed the plants were leaning and growing towards the window. The children we able to identify that the plant was trying to grow towards the sunlight which was an incredible discovery for the class.

The children have also made a rain gauge, wind socks and have been measuring the temperature daily!