Year 1: Maple, Pine

Teacher contacts:

Mrs Harris

merrynharris@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Miss Rich

joannarich@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Year 1 weekly update – Friday 26^th April

Dear Parents/Carers,

This week in English we have been writing commands and statements to tell the character in our book how to look after the Earth, and have made posters.

In maths, we have been learning about arrays and doubles.

Bike track

On Monday 29^th April (next week), we are planning to have a bike track session. Children that can ride a bike confidently and independently are invited to bring their bike to school and will also need to bring their helmet. Bikes with stabilisers and scooters are not permitted on the bike track. Children that are not yet confident riders will still be able to enjoy this session by running or walking around the track. This will be weather permitting so we are keeping our fingers crossed for dry weather on Monday!

Phonics

Mrs Sayers has sent out a sway regarding Phonics Screening Check information. It can be found on this link: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/vWuRur1Z3CCWavx8?ref=Link

Please make sure you read and watch the information, and then confirm on the school gateway app that you have done it.

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 returning to the yellow house, focusing on the words: today, here, there, where, were, are, our. 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 numbots for 10 minutes each week. We recommend 3-4 minutes at a time. This will support your child's fluency in maths.

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.

Next week it will be: