Welcome back and we hope that you have had an enjoyable and restful break. It was lovely to see the children fresh and ready to learn.
This week in English we have been reading poems by Tony Mitton. On Monday we read a poem called Dazzling Diggers.
This week in English we have been reading poems by Tony Mitton. On Monday we read a poem called Dazzling Diggers.
We talked about our favourite words and noticed that Tony Mitton had
used alliteration and rhyme. Ask your
child what their favourite word or phrase was and can they tell you which words
use alliteration and which words rhyme. We then repeated the activity in our colour
groups with other poems by Tony Mitton about vehicles.
We had to remember to
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say the words together
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keep to the rhythm
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invent actions to go with poem
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say it loud enough so when you perform it to everyone
they can hear the words
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work as a team
On Friday we wrote our own sentences to match pictures of
vehicle. We had to choose our very best
words just like a real poet. Next week
we will be writing our own vehicle poems.
Over the weekend you may like to help your child think of their best two
words to describe the vehicles below saying what the vehicle is like and how it
moves.
We have been using the Tony Mitton vehicle books this
week you may like to go to the library and see if you could borrow one or use
the link to read
‘Cool Cars’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EQFJfzu68k
Or ‘Roaring Rockets’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcPGkajRDN4
In phonics this week we have been
learning about the digraphs ‘oo’ and ‘ue’.
Can your child show you how they use
their phoneme fingers to segment the word ‘rescue’ and then blend it back
together again?
Can they do the same with the word 'baboon'and 'kangaroo'.
Can they spot the digraph in the words above. Is there only one digraph in these words or
do they have more than one?
Can they read these alien word
quoop, bloot, strue, drues.
This week in maths we have been adding within 20. We thought
about different strategies we could use when working out how many ‘more’ we
need from a given number. For example,
we could use our number facts, look at our fingers, count on using our fingers,
use a tens frame, use Numicon or a number line. We then wrote sentences,
filling in the blanks to make 10.
We then though about how we can use our knowledge of making 10 to
make numbers to 20. For example, if I have 8 and need 15, know I need 2 more to
make 10, and then ‘bridging 10’ I need 5 more to make 15. So I need 2 + 5 more
= 7 more.
The next day we practised adding by counting on and bridging
through 10. For example, if I am adding 8 + 7 I can first add 2 from the 7 to
‘bridge’ through 10, and as 7 is 2 + 5 I then need to add 5 more. So 8 + 7 = 8
+ 2 + 5 = 15. This is probably easier to show on a number line!
On Friday we use our addition skills to solve missing number
problems. We decided on our own strategy to calculate the missing number and
made sure we used careful counting! Here are some examples of the problems we
solved:
In D&T this term we are learning about vehicles. This week we began by thinking about the purposes of different vehicles. We looked at pictures and toy vehicle and had to say what we thought they were designed to do. Ask your child what features an ice cream van has to make it fit for its purpose.
We also learnt about the different
parts of a vehicle. We learnt to
identify the wheels, the chassis, the axles, the body and the cab and as a
group we labelled a lorry.
In history this half term we will be
investigating how transport has changed over time. We have started by thinking
about how we travel now and how that would have been different in the past. We
thought the first cars looked very cold and uncomfortable! Here are some
pictures of different transport that we put into a time line. You could ask
your child to put them in chronological order and to compare them.
We hope that you have a lovely weekend and we are looking forward to our trip to Stockwood Park Discovery Centre next Friday. Please return any consent forms as soon as you can.
Year One team
