Year 1 (Otter and Rabbit Classes)

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We have started our new unit in English this week. Our teachers found an egg on the field and using our detective skills we thought it might be a dragon egg! This has helped us with writing descriptive words in our English work this week when we designed our own dragon!

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We have been looking at lift-the-flap books this week as a different way authors provide information to us. We thought this was quite an exciting way of learning something new and so we designed our own class information page about castles using a lift-the-flap style.

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We have moved onto our summer unit ‘Power, Monarchy, Conflict and Peace’ this week. The children are really enjoying this unit and it has generated lots of discussion. The children saw a short video of the Queen’s coronation, in black and white, and realised just how long ago it was!

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We have continued and completed our unit on instruction writing. We started the week by looking at the features of an instruction text, such as what you need, introduction, numbers etc. Then we revised the rules for making a word plural; adding s and adding es. The children have written some brilliant instructions for ‘How to Look After a Hedgehog’. We will be sending our instructions to the person asking for our help.

Highlights of the week:

We have started our unit on instruction writing. We will be using the text ‘How to Catch a Star’ as our text for the next two weeks. The children started the week looking at some of the less familiar language within the story before being introduced to the book itself. The children got to use their note taking skills to research hedgehogs towards the end of the week. This is because Mrs Le Peuple found a note on the pavement asking for anyone who can offer advice as to how to look after a hedgehog and we thought the year 1 children could help out!

Highlights of the week:

We have been looking at the structure of writing a story this week and had a go at writing our own stories. We started off using a story mountain to help us plan our story into a beginning, middle and end, before writing our own from our plan. Earlier in the week, we had a revision session looking at joining our sentences with ‘and’. Some of the children found this quite tricky and this will be something we keep returning to throughout the year.

Homework for this week -

Comparing length

It has been so lovely to welcome the children back this week. We hope you all had a wonderful half term holiday.

Homework for this week -

We will be sending home a phonics worksheet to support our learning of o-e as well as a maths activity. We hope the children enjoy sharing their new learning with you.