We are all readers!
In KS1, we take reading very seriously. We are so impressed with the children’s dedication to become fantastic, fluent readers. We love hearing the stories they tell, which books they enjoy and most of all we love hearing them read.
In Year 1, we have been doing some ‘freeze frames’ of our class novel this week, The Enchanted Wood. We retold our favourite parts of the story and acted it out.
The Battle of the Bears and the Land of Ice and Snow
The Rocking Land
The Three Bears House
The talking bunnies
In Year 2, the children have been reading short recaps of their favourite chapters in the book. The children have also been using their imagination to draw a picture of a characters house, based on the description in the book. This is the house of Moonface, where everything inside is round!
Help at home by discussing books you have read and ask children to recap parts of the story. Ask children what they enjoyed the most!
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills continue to be really important in Year 1 and 2. We are trying to refine and improve our handwriting and presentation in our books. Using playdough, colouring carefully and cutting out are so useful to help us do this!
Help at home by doing jigsaws, colouring in and letting your child cut out.
Goodbye conkers!
In 1,2B we’ve loved using the conkers we collected to count, organise and play with. We collected 1281 in total. Today, as part of our science learning, we returned them to nature. We threw them into the bushes and trees for the animals or to grow into trees one day. There was even a squirrel busy on the field when we were there.
Reading
KS1 are really enjoying our novel this half term, ‘The Enchanted Wood’ by Enid Blyton.
Everyone has been really engaged during story time and listened very well.
So far in the story we have been introduced to three children, Joe, Frannie and Beth. They have moved to a cottage in the countryside next to a magical forest called the Enchanted Wood. The children have met lots of ‘peculiar characters’ along the way including a Fairy called Silky, a grumpy elf and an unusual man called Moon Face. I wonder if you can guess why that is his name!
Help at home by asking children to recap stories and encourage them to act out their favourite parts.
Funky fingers in 1A
In 1A we have been exercising our fingers and strengthening them ready for our writing learning. Each morning we take part in a dough disco. Our challenge this week was to make the first letter of our names using dough. The children did so well!
Art & Crafts club
We had a fantastic first session at Arts and crafts club this week. The children enjoyed painting leaves in Autumn colours and we added glitter on top to make them sparkle! See what we made below!
1,2B are conker crazy!
We’ve started a little conker collection and it has grown rather large.
We have used the conkers for careful counting in Year 1 and counting in tens in Year 2.
We did a whole class count where everyone counted baskets of 10 until we counted the all – all 680 of them!
PE – ball skills and football
All Year 1 and 2 classes are focusing on ball skills and football this half term.
We’ve worked on keepy uppy and keeping close control of the ball as well as having free play with balls for extra fun!
Living and learning : manners
We have been talking about manners this week in our Living and Learning lessons, but we are always referring to good manners. Manners cost nothing but make a big difference and make our school a happy and healthy place to be!
This included talking about interrupting when someone else is speaking. We need to given everyone a chance to be heard.
Help at home by reinforcing and reminding about good manners.
1A class reward
Over the past few weeks, 1A have been working really hard on following our school rules and remembering 3-2-1-STOP.
3 – silent voices
2 – empty hands
1 – eyes on the speaker
Our class focus has been everyone having ’empty hands’ when an adult in the classroom says ‘3-2-1-STOP’. Today we managed to all do that for the tenth time, so we had some time on the adventure playground as a treat. We had a fantastic time and the children were very responsible and safe.
Well done 1A!
