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Term 2
We hope that you all had a fun half term break! This term we start practising our Nativity! Please look out for your child's part and any clothes that they will need over the next couple of weeks.
English
The children will continue their ‘Drawing Club’ adventures. Each week we will focus on a story, traditional tale or animation and we will be developing our vocabulary knowledge and use our learnt phonics to build words for our 'code'.
This term we will be sharing The Best Diwali Ever, Elmer and the Rainbow, The Rainbow Flamingo, The day the Crayons Quit, Rainbow Hands, Mogs Christmas, The Christmas Nativity Tale.
Handwriting
Year 1 children will be learning to show correct letter formation of ascenders (tall letters) and descenders (those that go below the line) starting and finishing in the correct place. EYFS children will be focusing on the correct grapheme formation linked to each sound.
Reading
Children will be sent books home linked to our phonics scheme - they are at a LOWER level then their ability to encourage fluency, confidence and a love of reading. So practising at home will help to embed your child’s learning. We ask that children read a minimum of three times a week (blending, fluency, expression) in order to develop familiarity with the story. Please sign your child’s reading record so we know that you have read.
We continue to have weekly certificates and prizes for reading at home!
Maths
This term in Maths, the EYFS children will be exploring composition by focusing on the preliminary skills - the concept of ‘wholes’ and ‘parts’. By investigating their own bodies and familiar toys they will begin to understand that whole things are often made up of smaller parts and that a whole is, therefore, bigger than its parts.
The Y1 children will be learning to add and subtract within 10. This will lead into the children starting exploring number bonds and think about how these relate to addition and subtraction number sentences. To end the term the children will be naming and sorting 2D and 3D shapes and exploring patterns.
Science
We will be continuing our exploration of the seasons, building our own weather station and recording the daily weather. As we approach winter we will learn how animals prepare for the cold weather.
History
We will be considering what our grandparents and great grandparents childhoods were like. we will explore their toys and the games that they played when they were younger.
DT
We are going to explore 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' foods and design and make our own healthy sandwich.
Term 1
Welcome to Blossom class! Mrs McDowall is class teacher Monday-Wednesdays and Mrs Grant is in class on Thursdays and Fridays. Miss Parton and Miss Hale are our class TAs. Please feel free to talk to any of our wonderful team if you have any questions or queries.
We hope that you all had an relaxing and fun filled summer break, we are looking forward to hearing about everyone's holiday adventures in the coming weeks.
Later in the term we will have parents evening to discuss how your child has settled in school. Please look out for dates in the newsletter.
Our Year 1 and EYFS children are taught separately in the mornings for Phonics, Maths and English.
Please ensure ALL items of clothing and shoes are clearly named and that your child has spare clothes including socks and pants to be used in case of accidents, wet or mud kitchen play days! Autumn is such a changeable season, so please can children bring a sun hat and pop on sun cream on before school on sunny days and bring a raincoat when the weather is more unsettled. As the term goes on please provide a pair of wellies for us to access outdoor provision every day.
English
The children will be starting their ‘Drawing Club’ adventures soon! Each week we will focus on a story, traditional tale or animation and we will be developing our vocabulary knowledge, mark making skills and create our own characters and settings.
The Year 1 children will continue their Drawing Club journey and will be focusing on using finger spaces and capital letters consistently in their writing, as well as spotting them in our reading books. We are encouraging the children to re-read their writing and explain what they have written to the adults and children.
This term we will be sharing The Colour Monster, On Sudden Hill, Wolf Girl, Something Else, Pumpkin Soup, Funnybones and Meg and Mog.
The handwriting target for KS1, is to show correct letter formation: lower-case letters of the correct size in relation to one another, and starting and finishing in the correct place. EYFS children will be focusing on the correct grapheme formation linked to its sound.
Reading
EYFS children will be given their first 'reading' book soon. These are wordless books while the children are beginning their phonics journey. A wordless book allows children to increase their storytelling skills, expand vocabulary and begin to make predictions. Please enjoy sharing these with your children. How many stories can you make?
Year 1 children will continue to read our books that are linked to the phonics scheme, so practising at home will help to embed your child’s learning. We ask that children read a minimum of three times a week (blending, fluency, expression) in order to develop familiarity with the story. Please sign your child’s reading record so we know that you have read.
We have weekly certificates and prizes for reading at home!
Maths
This term in Maths, the EYFS children will be focusing on subitising (when you can how many there are in a small group of objects by 'just seeing' and knowing, without needing to count). We then move onto counting and understanding cardinality (understanding that the last number you count is how many there are) and ordinality (correctly sequencing number e.g to know that 4 comes before 5 and after 3 in the sequence of numbers).
Year 1s will begin the year focusing on numbers 1-10, comparing values and finding one more and one less. We will order numbers on a number track and begin to explore addition using part, whole models.
Science
We will learn about the names of our (seen) body parts and identify our 5 senses. Using our senses we will explore the natural world and towards the end of the term we will start our topic on Autumn focusing on how leaves change through the seasons.
Geography
We will be learning about the UK including the 4 countries and their capital cities. We will begin to explore maps and how we use them. Using this knowledge we will create our own maps of school and the local area in a variety of ways.
Star of the Week
On Fridays we hold a celebration assembly at school. We celebrate learning both in school (The star of the week) and learning outside of school. If your child has earned a certificate/medal/badge for their achievements in swimming, gymnastics, other sports etc. Then please drop them into school so we can celebrate those achievements with them too!
Our Blossom class friends (Buddy the dog, Rosie the Whale and Daisy the Tiger) are excited to visit the homes of our star of the week this year! They love their little adventures and look forward to their weekends away!
Please help your child fill in the diary with a short piece of your child's writing or draw a picture or stick in a photo of the things they get up to at home with your child. Please return our class friend to school the following Monday for us to share the experiences together in class.