Year 1

Year 1 Homework Blog

• 19th November – If you go down to the woods…
  We started off this week by visiting the wooded area in the school to find a special stick just like Stanley. All the children had time to choose a stick that appealed to them. Once we got back into class, we used our stick to act out what we wanted to do with our sticks and then wrote a label for our stick based on what we wanted them to be. We had all sorts of different ideas ranging from broomsticks to wands! We are continuing to use the book ‘Stanley’s Stick’ to complete writing during our literacy lessons. Off into ...
• 12th November – Stanley’s Stick
  This week we started our new book ‘Stanley’s Stick’ and have learned the book using our ‘Talk for Writing’ skills. The children really enjoyed coming up with ideas for the words in the book. Why not ask your child to tell you the story? Below is a YouTube video of the book. It is all about different imaginary ways that Stanley uses his stick. Year one especially liked the pun at the end – Stanley’s stick is ‘Fantastick’! Next week we will start to complete some writing based on the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfIuIQaOLlY Stanley’s Stick In Power Maths we have working on the unit ...
• 5th November – Starting with a ‘bang’
  It was lovely to welcome back the children on Monday after a week off for half term. I do hope you managed to get some rest and the children managed to recharge their batteries with what is set up to be yet another busy half term. This week we have started looking at Seasonal Change in our Science lessons. In particular, we looked at the names of the four different seasons and tried to think of the weather associated with them. The children thought it was funny when we talked about wearing shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops in the winter and equally ...
• 22nd October – Art Week
  We have made it! I can not believe that we have reached the end of our first half term in Year 1. It has been really lovely getting to speak to most of you at the Parent Consultations this week. It was such a shame that you were not able to come into school and for us to speak in person. I would like to thank all the parents who attend the Tuesday consultations for bearing with me due to the unfortunate Wi-Fi connection. I do hope you found the evenings informative and I look forward to seeing the progress ...
• 15th October – Cheese!
  This week we have been finishing off our R.E. unit of work on ‘Thankfulness’. The children have really enjoyed thinking about how Christians and Jews are thankful in their celebrations of Harvest and Sukkot. We have discussed what it is to be thankful and talked about charity and why it is important in these particular religions. The children came up with some really nice ideas of what they were thankful for. The children are really excited to be practising their song for the Harvest assembly next week. Today we had a whole school run through and we can not wait ...
• 8th October – Talk for Writing
  Good afternoon. As usual, it has been another busy week. Please can I ask you to keep an eye on the whiteboard outside the classroom as it often has important information on it. This week we completed one of our Literacy lessons in the Outdoor Learning Pod. We started looking at a new book in Literacy called Puffin Peter. The children have been introduced to a new way of learning the book through a technique called ‘Talk for Writing’. It is a unique process that uses spoken activities to develop writing skills. Starting off with a story map, the children ...
• 1st October – Autumn is definitely here!
  Good afternoon, Once again, we have had a very busy week. It was so lovely to join in the Reception Buddies assembly this morning and see all the Reception children with their buddies. We couldn’t help but think that the Year 6 children were that little once and we all got excited to think that we will get the opportunity to be a Reception Buddy once we get into Year 6. Our broad beans are continuing to grow. A lot of them now have a stick in with them as we have had to tie the plants up to help them grow ...
• 24th September – An official welcome to Year 1
  Good afternoon. It was so lovely to meet a lot of you at the Class Meeting yesterday. We are slowly getting to learn all your faces and match you to your children especially at the end of the day, so thank you for bearing with us while this happens. I hope that you found the information useful and if you do have any questions that might pop up and you did not get a chance to ask them, please do not hesitate to catch either myself of Mrs Barnes at the door in the morning or in the afternoon at ...
• 17 September – What a busy week!
  Good afternoon. I can not believe that we have come to the end of another week. Once again, the children have been arriving in school in a very calm and happy manner and it is always lovely to be greeted with a smile and a good morning when I open the door. We have been continuing looking at plants. This week we talked about garden plants and the different reasons that people grow them. The children were able to identify tulips, daffodils, roses and apple trees and were able to say if they were a flower or a tree. Our broad beans ...
• 10 September – Welcome to Year 1
  Dear Parents/Carers, Welcome to Year 1! I hope you have a lovely summer break. It has been lovely meeting some of you at the door in the mornings and afternoons and I would like to thank you all for the warm welcome you have given me as a new teacher at Two Waters. I am looking forward to our class meeting which will be coming up in a couple of weeks time (please keep an eye out for upcoming dates in the school newsletter). All the children have come into school so calmly and happily and have settled really quickly into the new ...