Our learning objectives this week are:

Maths – This week will be focussing on multiplication. We will be doubling numbers to 20 and develop our understanding that doubling is multiplying by 2. We will be counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and drawing arrays to show multiplication number sentences.

English – This week we will continue our unit of non-fiction writing and will use a non-fiction text to find information and pick our the relevant information, we will using our planning to write a non-fiction text on Ladybirds and begin to research and make notes on a mini-beast of our own choice.

Science– Children will continue their animals and human science topic with Mrs Evans. Last week they enjoyed learning about an exoskeleton which links very well with the caterpillars in our classroom at the moment.

PE- We will continue our throwing and catching within the game of Lacrosse and we will be developing our fitness.

RE- We will continue to learn about our new religion Hinduism.

Successes 

Congratulations to Lee, Amira-Lee, Alana, Adeena, Sophie, Ziyan, Mario, Yousef and Hamydah for receiving merit cards this week.

Other Information

Please keep asking your child the time at home. It is expected that in Year 1 children are able to read the analogue clock to o’clock and half past. Most children can do this but just need consolidation with half past as they tend to get confused as the hour hand moves further towards the next hour. Why not challenge your child to tell the time to quarter to and quarter past as well as asking simple time problem – ‘it’s 10 o’clock, what time will it be in an hour?’

Our caterpillars are now a week old and have grown loads in the past week. We have observed them growing and moving and have noticed how they have been shredding their exoskeleton. We are hoping that next week they will turn into their cocoon. Look at the pictures below they show the growth of the caterpillars from day 1, day 5 and 1 week old.

We’ve had a really good first week back and the children have been working really hard.

Our learning objectives this week are:

Maths – This week will be focussing again on time and will be telling the time to the hour and half hour and develop our understanding that the big hand is the minute hand and that the short hand is the hour hand. We will also be writing the time in words for example ‘half past six’. We will be using language relating to the days of the week and months of the year. We will also be comparing, describing and solving practical problems for time [for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later] and measure and begin to record time.

English – This week we will start our new unit of non-fiction writing and will be learning to write a non-chronological report on an insect. We will be asking questions about insects and record them using a question mark, identify the features of a non-fiction book, begin to recognise and use alphabetical order, use a non-fiction text to find information and pick our the relevant information and we will be solving riddles to discover the insect being described.

Science– Children will continue their animals and human science topic with Mrs Evans.

PE- We will continue our throwing and catching within the game of Lacrosse. Children will also have a PE session on Friday with Miss Handley.

RE- We will start to learn about our new religion Hinduism.

Successes 

Congratulations to Simone, Lucas and Alana who received a merit card this week.

Well done to all of you who have brought in your garden. I have been so impressed with them all. They are all different and are AMAZING! So thank you to all of you who helped your child produce brilliant homework. Take a look at some of the gardens below. Just so you know the gardens will be displayed in school for this half term as I want to show other year groups the brilliant homework we have produced then at the end of this half term the children can take their gardens home.

Other Information

On Friday 28th April we are having a whole school photo so please make sure your child is at school on this day.

Year 1 had an exciting delivery on Friday 21st April. Our caterpillars have been delivered and will enhance the children’s learning for both our science topic and our topic for this term. We will be able to witness the caterpillars transform into a butterfly and the stages that happen in this life cycle. We have 10 caterpillars and are really excited to watch them grow and transform into a beautiful butterfly. Check out our tiny caterpillars below (they’re the tiny black splodges!)