Religious Education

Next week we are thinking about how God takes care of everyone and everything in the world. The children will discuss how this makes us feel and how does God’s example show us how to live our lives.

Home learning: Talk to your child about God’s creation and how we can play our part in taking care of his wonderful world.

             Maths

In Maths next week we will be learning how to count back to find one less than a given a number. The children will be using concrete resources to show this before moving on to recording this using written numbers.

Home Learning:  Ask your child to count back from a number, what comes before each number? Help them find 1 less than a number on the number line. Can they use objects to show you 1 less than a given number?

 English

In our English learning, we are going to be introducing our new class text which is called ‘Lost and Found’ By Oliver Jeffers. The children will be exploring what penguins are like and where they live before starting to read the story.

The children have now started to take home both a reading for enjoyment book and a smaller book which is at their phonic level for them to read to you.

Now that the children have these books, please can you listen to your child read at home and return their reading book and reading record every day. It is very important for your child to be using their phonic knowledge to sound out unfamiliar words.

Home Learning: Talk to your child about animals that live in cold places – what kinds do they know?

If you would like to listen to our new class text with your child please click the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZD1RDY4Q9w

                  Phonics

During this half term, the children will continue to consolidate their Phase 3 sounds and the application of these in order to blend sounds in a range of words. We will be practising our chunking and blending skills for longer words, remembering how this helps us when we see more unfamiliar words.

Please ensure you are reading daily with your child at home, this is very important and can have a huge impact on the development of your child’s reading.

The reading books are matched to the children’s current phonic knowledge and this allows them to apply the sounds that they are learning to their independent reading.

Home Learning: Please look at the video below. This is a guide from Little Wandle that shows you how the children should be pronouncing the sounds they have been taught.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTe5_Em0BHQ

Topmarks is a great website that has lots of fun games for children to play. Try their phonics activities here:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Reminders

As the weather starts to become cooler, please send your child into school with labelled appropriate cool clothing e.g. hats, scarves, jumpers, coats, gloves etc.

It is very important that your children’s clothes are named as young children often forget where they leave things once they are removed, having clothing named makes it much easier to return your children’s items to them!

Swimming and P.E. days for this half-term:

St Bernadette: P.E on Thursdays              St Therese: Swimming on Thursdays

Many thanks from the Year 1 Team