Year 1: Maple, Pine

Teacher contacts:

Mrs Reay

naomireay@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Mrs Harris

merrynharris@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Miss Puckey

claudia.puckey@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk (This email address is currently not available, please message the office with messages for Miss Puckey).

Year 1 weekly update - Friday 29^th November

Dear Parents/Carers,

This week we have continued to practise our Nativity and have been getting used to using the stage!

Nativity

The children have been working really hard and we are getting excited for our performances next week.

If we have asked you for anything towards your child’s costume then please remember that we need all costumes in school by Monday 2^nd December, in a named carrier bag.

We will have a dress rehearsal for siblings to watch within school on Tuesday 3^rd December. The performances on Thursday 5^th December will be at 2pm and 5:30pm. Children will need to be returned to school at 5:00pm to give them time to get changed into their costumes please.

We will not be giving out tickets for the performances but please remember that space is limited and we can only have 2 people in the audience per child, due to our fire safety restrictions.

If your child has got lines to learn, then please continue to support them to read their lines using a loud, clear voice! Thank you for your support with this.

Bike track

We are hoping to be able to do a bike track session next Friday 6^th December as a nice treat after a busy week. At the moment the weather isn’t looking the best so we will keep an eye on this and will confirm next week but wanted to give you advanced notice.

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 dark green house, learning the words: friend, school, come, some, one, once. 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: