Spring Term 2025
Useful information:
Spring 1 - PE will be on Monday and Wednesday each week. Please have a PE kit in School.
Please read with your child a minimum of 3 times a week.
Your child will receive 2 phonics reading books every 3/4 days. These will be at a suitable phonics level for your child.
Your child will also receive a home reading book each week - this is to be shared with an adult as may have trickier words for your child to decode.
Spellings will be sent home on Mondays. Please rehearse with your child ready for a fortnightly test.
WC 13th January 2025.
In English this week we shared a lovely book called ‘The Proudest Blue’ about two siblings sharing a new experience of wearing a first hijab. The story inspired us to write some super descriptive sentences about the beautiful, blue hijab and how the girl felt wearing it. We shared some lovely feelings vocabulary - proud, admired, respected. It gave everyone an opportunity to consider how it also feels if you hear unkind or confusing comments if you wear something different but most importantly to be proud of who you are. The children also really related to how they support a sibling or a friend with a new experience too - showing great kindness Year 1 - welldone.
In Maths, we have continued to count to twenty. We have had a great week exploring all the teen numbers and understanding twenty. We have used the CBeebies maths ‘Numberblocks’ series to help us.Have a watch:
We accurately recognised and made different numbers with different manipulatives.
We have continued to work hard in phonics and on our tricky spellings and handwriting each day. We had a fun dance lesson with Dance Lobo on Monday afternoon and followed the steps carefully. In Geography, we labelled new images of our Lincolnshire countryside and we are beginning to understand and explain the differences between the human and physical features. For Art, we really enjoyed using tracing skills. In Science, we had lots of fun finding objects made of different materials around our own classroom - fabulous job!
WC 6th January 2025.
Welcome back for our first Spring term! Great to have everyone back.
We started our learning with our new story, 'How to Catch a Star' by Oliver Jeffers. We have written about how the little boy could try to catch a star of his own to play with. We hoped he could play tig or hide and seek with his star. We tried leaping and springing up to grab one but just couldn’t reach! We made our own sparkly star and wrote about how our stars glistened and shone like the moon. As the story moved on, we realised the fallen star was actually a reflection. Everyone was relieved for a joyful ending where we wrote how our little boy finally found his very own star washed up on the sand.
In Maths, we have been looking in more depth at the numbers between 11 and 16. We have split our numbers into tens and ones using different maths equipment. We have matched numerals with number words and accurately counted amounts.
We have already started with this terms spellings and worked hard on how to perfect our handwriting. We are working on our orientation of letters and making sure we start our letter formation in the correct place. In PSHE, we are thinking about dreams and goals this term. For Geography, we have started to think about the differences between town and countryside.
In Science, this term's learning will be all about different materials - we started this week by thinking about the different properties of objects. We played a game trying to identify objects in a bag by our sense of touch - describing what we could feel eg:bumpy bubble wrap, smooth cold spoon and a hard wooden train track.
In PE, we are dancing with Dance Lobo on Mondays and doing games with Mr Godson on Wednesdays. Please have PE kit in School each week.
Finally, thank you for such super involvement for the School Rock Kidz day today! Wow!
