Year 1 Blog - Starling Class

Hello,

Here is your weekly homework / Year 1 reminders blog. 

On Tuesday we will be walking to the church with several parent helpers (thank you) to understand more about how Easter is celebrated by Christians. We are all really looking forward to this! Our class assembly is on Friday - we look forward to sharing what we have been learning about in school with you.

*Your 'special homework' this week relates to maths - there will be a short task in your homework books.

*Spelling activity this week is linked to week 5: /oo/ food, pool, moon, soon, zoo, book, took, foot, wood, good. As usual, I will include a spelling activity in homework books and the words are on Spelling Shed for you to play games this week. 

*Please listen to your child read at least 3 time a week. New books will come home with you on Monday and Thursday.  Please send in any books to be returned on Mondays and Thursdays as well so that we can re-stock our shelves (thank you!). We have also asked the children not to carry water bottles in book bags as we have had a few leaking incidents where books have been water logged and unusable.

*Try to stay in the green zone on doodle by completing your '5 a day' and your assignments. Well done Starlings - you are frequently top of the charts!

Mrs Jones

Wow! What a fabulous week we have had celebrating all things book related!

We have really enjoyed reading a wonderful mixture of stories and loved dressing up as our favourite characters yesterday. You will see some lovely photos below of our costumes.

Thank you to everyone that entered the design your own front cover page. All the entries received a sticker and a winning prize was announced by Miss Seedhouse. 

Don't forget we have another competition running to celebrate Science week. Please bring in any marble run designs by Thursday to be entered into the challenge. There will be a Year One winner who will go into the Base One heat on Thursday afternoon. We look forward to seeing your creativity! 

Hello,

I hope you're all enjoying a great weekend. It is another busy week ahead with book week so I wanted to get in early to talk about what is happening this week. Keep an eye on the blog this week for photos of some of our lovely activities. In Year One we have started Book Club - we do this weekly and rotate the children that we focus on in our discussions around book choice. The children have thoroughly enjoyed it the past few weeks and have talked so much about their favourite books. Over the next few weeks, Mrs Morgan and I will be sprucing up the book corner and we look forward to sharing this with you at the end of the term when you are invited to parents evening.

Huge well done to all the children who have completed their topic homework already. I've been really impressed by the variety and quality of homework. The children are enjoying finding out about Florence Nightingale; thanks for all your support. This week in topic we had a good look at the non-fiction books in our classroom to find out more facts. These are now on our display board and are a very impressive display of knowledge from across the class.

LIBRARY visit - Thank you to all the parents who have said they can help walk us to the library and back. I will email you separately to confirm.  Our trip is on Tuesday 5th March @2:30pm. We will aim to leave school just after 2pm. ALL children must have their LIBRARY cards for this if they wish to borrow a book; without them, they will be unable to take a book home with them. Please send these in either Monday or Tuesday next week and I will carry them to the library and return them back to your child when we return to school to go home with you.

Our dress up as a book character is next Thursday (7th March) and we have lots of other lovely things happening in school to celebrate reading.

CHURCH trip - Time Travelling - Tuesday 19th March 12:55pm - 3:05pm. Again, thanks for the additional parent support to help with this visit by walking to and from the church in Keyworth and accompanying us.  We will have an early lunch for this and aim to leave Crossdale just before 12:30pm. There is a payment on SchoolMoney for a contribution towards the resources used at the church.

*Your 'special homework' this week will be in homework books and returned to you on Tuesday, as usual.

*Spelling activity this week is linked to week 3: split digraphs i-e and o-e. Our ten words this week are: five, ride, like, time, side, home, those, woke, hope, hole.

*Please listen to your child read at least 3 time a week and try to stay in the green zone on doodle by completing your '5 a day' and your assignments. Short and frequent returns to learning really helps to consolidate knowledge!

Mrs Jones