Hi everyone.
Welcome back.
English and History are linked this week as we have been reading the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. We learned about the reason for the plot and the key events that occurred. We used a timeline to show when it happened. The children made predictions about what might happen as the story unfolded and had fun sequencing the events. They created questions for King James I for a ‘Hot Seating’ activity and compared the buildings and landscape of London then and now.
In Maths, we have been learning to benchmark the numbers 0, 5 and 10 on a number line to show how plotting these numbers can help us to subitise and to calculate. We explored written numbers to 20 and how they can be formed by 10 and some more. 19 is 10 and 9 more.
During continuous provision, the children have created firework pictures using natural materials and different art mediums. They used numicon to make teen numbers. In the construction area, they built the London landmarks and role played the Gunpowder Plot.
In phonics, we have been revisiting the Phase 5 sounds: i-e, o-e, ue, c making a s sound as in the word city. A split digraph is a digraph (two letters that make one sound) separated by a consonant, most commonly with a silent ‘e’ at the end of the word. We have been reading words with these sounds as well as reading and writing sentences to help us with our spelling. We have also introduced the harder to read and write words: any, many, again.
Please continue to read with them daily and mark this in their reading log. Keep practising all the phonics sounds on the list provided before the half term break.
This half term Year 1 will have two PE lessons a week, one on a Monday morning and one on Wednesday morning.
Thank you for your continuous support.
Have a wonderful weekend.
