Year 1 Blog

Hello,

This is the last week of organised spellings for Year 1. I've attached some activities for this week and these will go home on Monday next week.

I will endeavour to create between 10 and 20 spelling words for each child for the summer holidays. These will be personalised to your child and will come from the core spelling words for Year 1. These spellings are words that are expected to be spelt correctly by the end of Year 1. If your child can already spell these words then I will look at some of the Year 2 list with a view to preparation for the academic year ahead. 

Bear with me as this will take some preparation as I look through their different writing and topic books to find their individual words.

Mrs Jones

For various reasons, it has taken a while for us to be able to sort accounts out for the children in Y1. However, we do now have passwords and these will be going home with you by the end of the week.

It is really important that the children complete the initial assessments independently and use this by themselves as much as possible: the website is set up to react to how the children get on. If they are supported then these questions and they score correctly, it will be deemed as understood so the app will not continue to set practice questions. If a child persistently gets a question type incorrect then the app will set more of these type in order to help them to move on and develop their speed.

It's a fantastic maths resource and the children will be really motivated to use it. 

Details to follow!

Wow, what a lot of fun we had last week in maths learning the cha cha slide!

As well as being a lot of fun, we had learning at the heart. We have been practising using directional and positional vocabulary so this was a great opportunity to reinforce 'left', 'right', 'backwards' and 'side'.

Also, last week we found out about full, half, quarter and three quarter turns so hopefully your child has come home talking enthusiastically about these. We enjoyed playing Simon Says and following instructions.

Here is the link to the video we saw (just in case you want to dust off your trainers and have a go!): https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Cha-Cha+Slide+Original+Version&&view=detail&mid=AF311DC144F0727C42D0AF311DC144F0727C42D0&&FORM=VRDGAR