Year 1: Maple, Pine

Teacher contacts:

Mrs Reay

naomireay@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Mrs Harris

merrynharris@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Miss Puckey

claudiapuckey@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Year 1 weekly update – Friday 21st March

Dear Parents/Carers,

The children have enjoyed engaging in their new maths units, focusing on length and height and measuring volume and capacity. We had a lovely afternoon in the sun, going on a senses walk around the school. In English, we have been focusing on adjectives and using these to describe nouns. The children have completed lots of lovely, descriptive writing.

Volunteers still needed:

Over the next coming weeks, we will be completing a DT project with a focus on sewing. We are looking for any parent volunteers who are free and willing to help us on these days:

Tuesday 25^th March – 9-10am, 11:10-12pm and 1-2pm

If you are available for any of these dates/times, could you please let your child’s teacher know. We would be very appreciative of any help we can get. Thank you!

Homework

Reading - please read at home 5 times each week and record this in your reading log. Reading logs will be checked every Friday.

Spellings - Spelling homework is to use Little Birds spelling to support spelling of common exception words. Click on the following link to take you to the game https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/ Along the top where it says ‘Year’, select number 1 for Year 1. This week, we are focussing on the light blue house, learning the words: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Once you have clicked on the house, press go. Your child will get to study the word to see how to spell it and then has to drag the tiles up to spell it. Playing this more than once will help to secure their spelling of the words. Please record in your child’s purple homework book once they have completed their homework. Alternatively, you may like to get them to practise spelling the words into their homework book. We plan to continue with the same spellings for two weeks at a time.

Maths – please play on NumBots for 10 minutes, 3 times each week. Your child has a new NumBots log in which is stuck inside their purple homework book, alongside a letter explaining how to use NumBots. Please support your child to login to NumBots independently so that they can use this skill to practise NumBots during challenge time in school.

Bring a book from home

Each week we will ask a child from each class to bring in their favourite book from home to share with the class. We will inform you through our newsletter which child’s turn it is to bring in their book for the following week.

When we return after half term it will be: