My Weekly Timetable

JLS have been excited to create a grade calender to help us keep track of all the important events that happen at school for us. 

We thought it would be a good idea to have a go at making your own weekly calendar at home to help you see what important things you need to do like swimming lessons, reading your home reader, checking the blog, going to football practise, dancing, setting the table for dinner, cleaning my room, polishing my school shoes, bedtime etc.

A Poem in my Pocket

This week is National Literacy and Numeracy Week and the theme for this year is A Poem in my Pocket. Year 1 read the story Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood and illustrated by Don Wood.

Quick as a Cricket story

They were inspired to write a poem using similes and opposites just as the boy did in the story. They planned their writing, wrote a draft which was edited and then published their amazing poems. Year 1 kept their poems in their pockets and shared them with other children and teachers at school.They are very excited to bring their poems home and share them with you!

What's the Time Mr Wolf?

Year 1 have been learning about time and clocks. We have learnt that a clock can be divided into halves and quarters and this can help us tell the time. We noticed that there are 60 minutes on a clock and these are in groups of 5. We have been practising our half past times...we can say it two ways - half past 6 or six thirty (6:30).

Below are some blank clock faces. If you want to print them off at home and put some half past times on them you can then play Crocodile, Crocodile with them...or make your own watches with times on them!

Some Learning at Home activity suggestions

 

A reading activity idea  -  after you read your home reader this week, why don’t you try and be a word detective and find describing words (adjectives) on 3 pages of your home reader.

If you like you could also practice some sight words by playing the following game... 

Click here to play a sight word game

One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab

This week we read the book 'One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab' by April Pulley and Jeff Sayre.

This book challenged us to think about the different ways that we can put numbers together to represent a new number.

In the book, each animal represented a number. 

 We followed a success criteria to show the different ways that we could make the number 10.

 We wonder which numbers you could try to make at home using the success criteria?

Some numbers you might like to try are 12, 20 and 16.

Math activities to play

Below is a link to a website that reinforces some of the concepts we cover at school in Mathematics.
Since we have a hands on approach to problem solving in Mathematics, this site is more directed as question and answer type problems, so we strongly suggest you sit with your child to complete the activities so that you can discuss together what the task is asking them to do. Alternatively you can use some materials you may have at home for your child to use to help them solve the problems and model their thinking.

This is not a compulsory task, but upon reflection from our 3 way conferences and feedback from yourselves we thought we'd offer you and your child some extra activities and resources you can access from home.

Mathematics Link

Bug Club

In the holidays Year One will practise their reading using Bug Club.
To be successful readers and learners using Bug Club, Year One have come up with a success criteria.

Success Criteria

• Ask an adult for permission to use the internet
• Get  your Bug Club license
• Click on the Bug Club link to log in Bug Club Log In Page
• Type in your username
• Type in your password
• Pick a story to read
• LISTEN to the whole story first
• READ the whole story yourself
• ANSWER the reading bug's questions
• Log out until your next visit
• Put your license back in a safe spot

Happy Reading! :)