Friday 8th March

We had a super day on World Book Day and spread the word that you can read at any time of day, anywhere and with anyone.  Thank you for helping your children choose their books and costumes.  Just look at all the wonderful costumes!

The children all talked to their learning partners about the book they had bought in and had the opportunity to write their own book review.  They were also able to share their books with each other.  During the week the children have also created their own book token design for the World Book Day competition.  We are sending these home as you may like to send it off to the address given in the Bulletin.  We have filled in all the details apart from your child’s surname and age.

This week  in English we continued our learning about non chronological reports.

We have made our own non fiction books about Harpenden and as a class co- constructed a toolkit of what a good non chronological report looks like.

We began the week by writing the first section entitled ‘Where is Harpenden?’ We could choose to use these relevant words in our sentences. The following day we wrote the second section entitled ‘Harpenden in the Past’ We reminded ourselves of what we had learnt about Harpenden in the past last week and used these pictures and a wordbank to help us when composing our sentences.

We could chose to use some of these sentence starters.

In the past….

A long time ago……

In Harpenden there was…..

Did you know….?

On Wednesday we wrote the third section entitled ‘Harpenden Today’

We reminded ourselves of what we had learnt about Harpenden in the present day,  last week and used these pictures and a wordbank to help us when composing our sentences.

                                    

We could chose to use some of these sentence starters.

In Harpenden now…..

Today Harpenden has…

Did you know……?

On Friday we had a ChIL and could chose to add more interesting facts about Harpenden  or write a blurb to hook the reader in.

During the ChIL we worked with the adults to edit and improve our books.

Home Learning  You may like to follow the link to find out more about Harpenden, there is a wealth of information and something that will appeal to everyone.  Within the website there is a section entitled Walks about Harpenden that you may like to do. http://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/page.aspx?id=4

Your child may like to write some more simple sentences about Harpenden.  Can they challenge themselves to using the joining word ‘and’or ‘because’ to make the sentence more interesting.  Remember it needs to have relevant facts and words. Use the toolkit above to see what a good report looks like. They may like to bring their sentences in to share with the rest of the class.

Phonics

This week in phonics we have been learning about the split digraph ‘u-e’ and consolidating  ‘ew’ ‘oo’ and ‘ue’

Can your child show you how they use their phoneme fingers to segment these words fortune, include, salute, flute, nephew, knew, new, baboon, kangaroo, spoon, rescue, tissue, continue, fuel, and then blend them back together again? Can they spot the digraph or spilt digraph in the words above.

Is there only one digraph in these words or do some have more than one?

Can they read these alien words – strupe, mube, glews, yewm, quoop, floons, slues, tuel

Spelling ideas.

Perhaps you could get your child to think of a sentence using the words above with this week’s digraphs and the sentence starter  Today………    to practise the common exception words.

Don’t forget all the Year 1 common exception words are in your child’s Progress Book.

This week in maths we have been learning about measuring. We started by comparing the height and length of objects using the words longer, shorter, taller or equal. We each found a measuring object of our choice and measured objects in the playground. Please encourage your child to compare the length and height of objects using these words.

The next day we compared pictures of objects, using mathematical vocabulary. Here are some examples:

On Wednesday we measured the length and height of objects using non-standard measures. We chose our own non-standard measures and these included our hands, multi-link, number lines, leaflets and water bottles. We recorded our measurements.

Finally we have been reasoning and problem solving using our learning about measuring. Here are some examples:

Please think of some reasoning and problem solving questions you can ask your child. These do not need to be written down, just ask questions as you walk to school! 

 

In art we are working collaboratively to make a group collage of a Harpenden building. We have looked carefully at the patterns and shapes in our chosen building.    Each week over the next three weeks we will be using different techniques and materials that will then be used in our group collage.

   Last week we used the ipad to take photos and this week we made rubbings of     
   different surfaces.

In computing we have been continuing our learning about word processing. This week we have been using the shift key to create symbols, and checking that we can save our work in our own files. Please continue to help your child practise their typing skills. This website is a fun way to do this:

https://toybox.tools.bbc.co.uk/activities/id/activity-dance-mat-typing/exitGameUrl/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fguides%2Fz3c6tfr

Have a great weekend.

The Year One Team