Red Nose Day
A big thank you to everyone who wore RED on Friday - you all looked fantastic! We will let you know how much was raised in total next week.Recognise anyone?
Literacy
For the next few weeks, we will be focussing our work on Traditional Tales. I love this, as the children are so familiar with them, as many of them have heard them as bedtime stories. As this is a great opportunity for bedtime stories, why not use this as an opportunity to really push a love of reading at home. Why not buy a Sunday newspaper and let your child SEE YOU reading...or make time to read that novel or autobiography that was bought as a Christmas gift?
We will be looking at the story of Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The children will be expected to be able to name the main characters and events of the stories, as well as being able to sequence the events in chronological order. Why not make a story board, or film strip of the story – then cut it up. See if your child can put the events back in the correct order, whilst retelling the story.
The children will also be trying to earn their equity cards this week, by exploring how the use of their voice can make a story sound more interesting. Try raising your voice at the end of a sentence and see if they can predict what will happen next...
”What big EYES you have grandma!...All the better to SEE YOU WITH!”
If you do read a traditional story with your child this week, please do let us know in the diaries, as the children will be creating a bar chart showing all the favourite stories in their ICT sessions.
By the end of this week, the children:
Must be able to identify the main characters and events in a traditional tale
Should be able to sequence the main events in chronological order
Could retell a traditional tale in chronological order using story language
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/html/fiction/fairytale2/fairytale.htm this has lots of examples of Traditional Tales, with activities to support ideas reading and writing. It does takes a while to download, but the activities and ideas are well worth it.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-red-riding-hood.htm some great activities to print and make to do with Little Red Riding Hood. If you have the time to navigate through some of the other tales on this site, they are well worth a look. We will be revisiting this site over the course of this topic.
http://www.penguinreaders.com/pyr/resources/index.html This may seem quite a daunting site when you first look at it. It isn’t a game that your child can play on, more of activities that can be carried out with you. Although it is based on a particular publisher’s books, it can be used with any version. The PDF files (that open in Acrobat Reader) have a brief overview of the story, it origins and some ideas of activities that you can do at home. The chants are a great way of helping children to remember the order of events in the stories, with having to read the whole story. This will be a great hook for them when they come to write their own versions in a couple of weeks time.
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/~odenbach/pigs/pigs.html Wow! This brought back many memories of childhood!
When listening to your child read at home, try asking them some of these questions, in order to help with their comprehension:·
Where does the story take place?·
When did the story take place?·
What did he/she look like?·
Who was he/she?·
Where did he/she live?·
Who are the characters in the book?·
Where in the book would you find?·
What do you think is happening here?·
What happened in the story?·
What might this mean?·
Through whose eyes is the story told?·
Which part of the story best describes the setting?·
What words and/or phrases do this?·
What part of the story do you like best?
There are lots of other ways to support your child’s reading, but why not try some of these ideas?·
Make your new book into a caption or concertina book·
Play a game using text from the book·
Re-order chopped up sentences or word from the book·
Write your own story based on the book and illustrate·
Re-tell the story with finger puppets·
Re-read familiar texts with the same high frequency words·
Paint a picture of a favourite character, part of the story, etc
Recommended reading
As part of our drive to raise standards in reading, particularly fostering a life-long love of reading for boys, we are currently compiling a list of recommended reads for each age phase. We aim to recommend many more titles, for when you are browsing in Borders at the weekend, but for ages 5-7, we recommend this:
The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers
HarperCollins, 978 0 00 718227 5
With a title like this it just has to be a good choice. Henry loves books, literally
loves them, from the odd nibbled corner to the whole thing, he gobbles the lot. The more pages and books he eats the smarter he grows, until he gets some sort of over-knowing indigestion with everything mixed up inside. The only cure is to stick to absorbing things by reading instead. A wonderful book! If you do read this with your child, please do let us know what you think by leaving a comment on this blog, or send us an e-mail through the Year 1 pages on http://www.stvincentsprimary.co.uk/
A big thank you to Mrs Narraway, our literacy leader, for recommending this title!
Phonics
The children are working really hard with the patterns we have been learning. This week, we will be consolidating work on the patterns ‘wh’ and ‘ph’. This links in with the question words from their information texts: who, where, what, why and when You could support this work at home, by investigating whether they can find words which contain these patterns in reading materials.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/index.shtml escape the maze has some great games on to enable the children to apply their phonic knowledge learned over the past few weeks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/fpoem.shtml for those children working on the long vowel patterns – some great poems!
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/wordTree.html click on menu and enter the high frequency words or patterns your child is currently working on. These will be saved for the next time you open the game.
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/phaseThreeAS1_v2.html scroll through the sounds on the rainbow and use the letters on the set of cards to make new words. You will need to have the sound turned up for this one!
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/helpAhedgehog_v4.html a lovely new game which supports children in their reading of high frequency words. You could also enter your own words using the phonemes they are currently working on, and getting the children to practice their blending skills.
Numeracy
We move back to work on number activities this week.
We will be adding and subtracting 10 and multiples of 10, such as 20, 30, 40 etc. We will also be looking at adding and subtracting 9 and 11. 9 and 11 are ‘nearly’ 10.
So, when adding 9 to a number, add 10 and then take 1 away.
Similarly, when taking away 9, take away 10 and add 1. 30 – 9... Say 30 – 10 = 20
Then give one back = 21
Once the children have mastered this, they could be able to add and subtract 19 and 21, using the same method.
A really useful numeracy tool to have at home for this, is a hundred square. You already have one of these in your homework books and in the back of the diaries, so please do try to find some time to practice using them, to count on and back. If you would like a larger version, please do let us know through the diaries.
By the end of the week, the children:
MUST: Be able to add by counting on. Be able to add two multiples of 10 by counting on in 10’s.
SHOULD: Be able to subtract a multiple of 10 from a 2 digit number by counting back in 10’s.
COULD: Be able to add and subtract 9,11, 19, 21 by adding and subtracting 10 and 20.
http://www.ictgames.com/fairy2.html adding 9 fairy http://www.ictgames.com/100huntadd9.html use the 100 square to add 9 to the target number http://www.ictgames.com/100huntadd11.html adding 11 http://www.ictgames.com/technowithflock.html this made me laugh! A tortoise, with goggles jumping +10, -10 on a number line!! http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/bugs/bugrace3.html a game to play in pairs to add 2 two-digit numbers
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Function%20wheel%20v6.swf click on the add and take wheel to guess the function of each wheel. http://www.ictgames.com/countonconvict.html find the difference between two numbers
Science
Oh we have a real problem this week! Cinderella has become the victim of the Health and Safety officer and they won't allow her to go to the ball without special clothing! It has to be reflective, as they have heard that she will flee the ball at midnight and the coaches and others won't be able to see her otherwise! The children will receive an e-mail from the Fairy Godmother, asking for their help in designing a new outfit for her, which is reflective and will help her be seen in the dark! Not to be outdone, the prince will need a reflective outfit too, for when he leaves to search for his princess when the clock strikes 12!
Yes, we have gone slightly mad, but I KNOW the children will just love this challenge!
By the end of the week, the children will:
· recognise that a shiny object needs a light source if it is to shine;
· that a shiny object will not shine in a dark place;
· predict whether they expect reflective materials to shine near a light source.
Here I Am
We begin our new topic of GROWING this week.
By the end of the week, the children will:
Recognise different patterns of growth.
Reflect on their own growth patterns.
Respect and appreciate that each of us grows in a variety of different ways.
We will also be celebrating Mass in the hall this Thursday at 9.15am, on the theme on Reconciliation. You are most welcome to join us. If you would like to leave any pushchairs in the infant area during Mass, please feel free to do so.
Children in Year 5 will be receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time this Wednesday, in an Away Day at St. Joseph’s Church. I am sure you will join us, in remembering them in our thoughts and prayers this week.
Friends of St. Vincent’s
Once again, the Friends are working hard to raise funds for some great new playground equipment for the benefit of our children, and so they are organising a GO 4 GOLD SCHEME. Any old/unwanted gold can help us to raise funds. On Friday, you should have received an envelope to put the gold in and we would ask that these are returned as soon as possible and no later than THURSDAY 26TH MARCH.
In order to prevent the children from just ‘helping themselves’ to your finest jewellery, we need you to sign the envelope and complete some information on the envelope. Unfortunately, we will not be able to accept the gold without it. If your child’s name and class is on the envelope too, their name will be entered into an Easter draw, to will a HUGE Easter Egg! I think this may have prompted the GOLD search on Friday evening! As an idea of the amount which could be raised, if every child in school brought just one small stud earring, school would raise approximately £1600!
There will also be an Easter raffle held, to win an Easter Egg and a cuddly toy. Tickets cost 50p per strip and are available from the school office. The draw for this, will take place on 9th April.
I think that’s all for this week.
Year 1 team x
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