Friday 26th October

Thank you for coming to our assembly – we hope you enjoyed it! We were very proud of all the children: they were confident, happy and full of enthusiasm. In fact, just as they have been through this whole, long half term! We hope you gained an insight into our learning by visiting the classrooms and we are sure you are impressed with how much progress they have made already!

In English this week we have been applying all our learning from this half term to write our own versions of Jack and the Beanstalk, in the style of Polar Bear, Polar Bear. We tried to remember to:

• ·         Hold our pencils correctly
• ·         Form our letters correctly
• ·         Use our phoneme fingers to spell words
• ·         Start each sentence with a capital letter
• ·         Write the letters on the line
• ·         Use finger spaces between each word
• Finish each sentence with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.

What a lot to remember – oh, and to write in the format of Polar Bear, Polar Bear! We hope you enjoyed sharing your child’s story after assembly.  

This week in maths we have been revisiting our learning from Reception of addition.  We used the part whole model to help the children understand that a number can be partitioned into two or more parts.

On Monday we looked at this part whole image and decided which were the parts and which was the whole.

Can your child partition five? Is there just one way? How many ways can they find?
We worked in pairs using the part whole model to partition numbers. We used counters to help us.

On Wednesday we recorded using the part whole model. We started with counters, then moved on to numbers and then tried to find different ways to partition the same number.

On Friday we used the symbols for addition + and equals =.

3+2=5. 

We reinforced the vocabulary for addition too - plus, add, and, equal to

3 cubes plus 2 cubes is equal to 5 cubes

or 3 cubes add 2 cubes is equal to 5 cubes
or 3 cubes and 2 cubes is equal to 5 cubes

We looked at a range of images and had to write a number sentence  to match the image using the + and = symbols.

Can your child tell you the addition number sentence to go with these images below.

At home during half term  you may like to use the part whole models and ask your child which are the parts and which is the whole.  Remember we are embedding the numbers from 0-10.

We have been using the game ‘Hit the Button’ to practise quick recall of addition facts within 10.  The children are given one part and the whole and have to work out the missing part. Follow the link to play the game. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Your child may also like to practise forming their numbers from 0 to 9 correctly.  This will help them in their maths lessons.

This week in art we painted our own ‘Colour field’ paintings in the style of Mark Rothko. We used primary colours to mix our own shades and secondary colours. We used photos of landscapes as our inspiration.

Thank you for your help and support this half term, it is much appreciated. We hope you all have a happy, safe and restful half term break and we look forward to seeing you again on Monday 5^th November.

Year One Team

Friday 19th October

This week in English we have been ‘embedding’ the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. First we listened to the story again and he thought about how Jack was feeling at different times. We used interesting words to describe his feelings. We pretended that it was the next day and we were Jack. We pretended to phone our grandparents to tell them about the events of the previous day. We tried to ask questions and use interesting words to describe what had happened. We then watched some pairs and we praised awesome words, good listening, good questions and good explaining that we had seen. The next day we focused on our writing when we thought about what jack to say and recorded our ideas on ‘speech bubbles’. We tried to really hard to: Get the sentence in our heads Start with a capital letter Use finger spaces between words Sit our letters on the line Hold the pencil correctly Form our letters correctly You will be able to see the results of our efforts when you come to the classrooms after assembly next week. We then used our learning from book week to link the format of Eric Carle’s Polar Bear, Polar Bear and the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We asked each other questions and replied following the plot of Jack and the Beanstalk, and the format of Polar Bear. Here are some examples to explain! Jack, Jack what do you see? I see Mum looking at me. Mum, Mum, what do you see? I see a cow that needs to be sold. Ask your child if they can demonstrate for you! You will be able to see some more of this style at the assembly next week  There is a performance of 'Full of Beans' at Stockwood this Saturday. It is based on Jack and the Beanstalk and further details can be found here.  https://www.lutonculture.com/whats-on/whats-on/2018/10/20/full-of-beans/2600?from=%252Fwhats-on%252F%2523search  In maths this week we began the week by comparing objects.  We used the vocabulary equal to, more, less, greater than and fewer than.  We started with pictorial representations and had to say which had more/greater than or less/fewer than.  We used the equal to sign = and  introduced the more than > and less than  <  signs to make the sentences correct.  Ask your child how they know which sign is which. Here is a good pictorial representation to talk about  We then moved on to comparing objects with bigger numbers and  had to remember to do careful counting not sloppy.   On Tuesday we then compared two numbers using the vocabulary and signs for equal to, more, less, greater than and fewer than. You may like to play the game we played in school at home. At the end of the lesson we looked at this problem and talked about it with our learning partners. Which statement is incorrect ? 8 > 4 7 < 10 3 > 6 Prove it. On Wednesday in pairs we ordered a wide range of numerical representations from fewest/smallest to greatest/biggest.   On Friday we looked at a number- line and counted forwards and backwards to 10.  After that we quickly  located different numbers on the number-line between 0-10. Using a number-line we had to do the following. Some of us challenged ourselves to put the numbers on a number-line with only 0 and 10 or 1 and 9. This week in art we learnt about a new artist called Mark Rothko. He painted colour field painting and colour mixed his own colours using the three primary colours. We explored using the primary colours to colour mix our own secondary colours and painting them as  blocks or strips like Mark Rothko.  Thank you very much for sending in such a wide range of plants – we were delighted! The children looked carefully at their plant and described it in detail. They then look at their partner’s plants and the children compared them – saying what was the same and what was different. Discuss what is the same and what is different is a really useful activity you could try at home.   We hope that you have a good weekend, we can't believe there is only one week left until half term. Or a few days until our assembly - eeek! If your child has brought individual words home to practise, please encourage them to learn them and to read slowly and loudly. All children have been given 'group' words to learn and help practising these will make for a much better assembly on Thursday! With many thanks for your help and we look forward to seeing you then. Have a god weekend! Year One Team