JSD Year 1 Newsletter
Week Ending Friday 14th March 2014
What have we done this week?
Literacy
This week the children have been writing adventure stories about ‘Traction Man’. Some children wrote in the format of a comic strip and others in a story format. They tried hard to write in sentences , remembering capital letters and full stops. They also created some speech bubbles to go with a Traction Man picture. The children thought about what the character might say.
The children then stepped away from ‘Traction Man’ and looked at some tricky high frequency words. The children thought about sentence structure and wrote sentences containing the words help, can, brown, blue, hero, the, when and book.
Numeracy
The children were learning about clocks again and revising times of o’clock and half past. They also looked at organising information into simple tables. Mental maths tested the children’s rapid recall of maths facts.
Useful Vocabulary:
Reading time
Time
Lunchtime
Home time
Bedtime
Night-time
O’clock
Half Past
Long hand
Short hand
Organise and interpret information
Table
Row
Column
Information
Least, most
Fewer, more
First
Science
Art
This week the children created split pin Traction Men with moving arms and legs. We also drew around some children and made life size super hero pictures. Look out for these around the school.
ICT
Other Information
It was lovely to see the children sharing their favourite pieces of work with their parents on Monday morning. The leaves that parent’s comments were written on have been made into a tree which is on display in the atrium. Likewise it was lovely to catch up with so many parents at the parent consultations this week.
On Friday 21st March the children are invited to bring in their favourite action hero toy into school. The children will talk to their class for a few minutes about why their toy is a ‘hero’. The children can bring in traditional heroes ie plastic action men or Powder Puff girls and so forth. If the children don’t have a ‘traditional’ action hero then they can bring in one toy and explain why it is heroic, ie a stuffed teddy that helped save their dolls, a toy doll who has done heroic deeds for their other toys and so forth.
Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 1 Team