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Year 1
Mrs Marsh teaches Year 1 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs Eeley teaches Year 1 on Thursday and Friday.
To contact either Mrs Marsh or Mrs Eeley, please email lmarsh@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk or
seeley@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk
Please contact us if you have any questions or worries. We will do our best to answer them as soon as possible.
CLASS NOTICES
- We go outside to play whatever the weather so please bring in waterproofs and wellies.
- It is PE on Monday so you need to wear your PE kit to school. If it is not raining we will be outside so make sure you wear something warm.
- Don’t forget to bring in your reading records every day. On Thursdays we count your reading signatures.
January 27th
Can you believe we are half way through the term already! Time is whizzing past.
The children have been working really hard in all subjects and having great fun with their learning – especially forest school!
In English we have continued to write sentences linked to Funnybones as well as creating our sentences. We have been looking at plurals and using these in our writing. We read Snowball by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet and used plurals to write our own objects which the snowball collected when it was rolling. We have also been using the computers to draw pictures of the skeletons and to write sentences about our picture.
We have also been using the beebot app and using our computer skills to control the beebots around tracks.
We have continued looking at teen numbers in maths using a number line to help us order numbers. We looked really carefully at the teen numbers and tried to understand that each number has one 10 and a given number of ones. EG 12 has one 10 and 2 ones. Understanding this helps the children see the place value of each number.
We have also been investigating shapes and had great excitement when Mr Barnard also taught a session.
What fun we have had in art, colour mixing using just the primary colours! First of all we created a colour wheel by mixing yellow with blue, yellow with red and blue with red. Secondly we started with one of the primary colours and then created a picture by painting a stripe after adding a small bit of secondary colour, then repeating. This can be seen in the picture below.
In geography we have continued to look at maps and keys. We used the story Funnybones to create our own maps of the story.
In science we have been naming body parts. We also carried out an investigation to see who in the class has the biggest feet. Ask your child to see if they can remember!
We are now moving on to investigating our five senses.
We've been playing lots of listening games in our PE basic skills lessons and have been throwing lots of moves in our dance sessions - both of which we have really enjoyed.
In phonics we have been consolidating our digraphs, in spellings we have looked at past tense and plurals and in maths mastery we have been looking at number bonds.
As you can see we have been really busy!
Happy New Year to you all. We hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas and are excited, like us, for the new year. Can we also take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for all your cards and presents. It was very kind of you.
Our theme of The Three Little Pigs ended with the children making houses in DT which we then tried to blow down like the Big Bad Wolf. The children wrote their own version of the story of Dear Santa. They did this completely independently using the writing skills they had learnt during the year. We hope you enjoyed their performances in the nativity. The children all tried so hard and looked beautiful.
Our theme this term is based around the book “Funnybones” and ties in to the whole school focus of health and wellbeing. You can find our theme web here.
In maths we have been looking at teen numbers and ensuring that we understand the place value of these numbers. On a Friday we will be looking at shape, space and measure.
In English we have been writing past tense sentences about the characters in the book, focussing especially on verbs. We have continued to try and remember to use our phonic knowledge, capital letters, fingers spaces and full stops.
We had fun in art with primary colours and as a warm up painted a picture in the style of Mondrian.
We also painted a few pictures of the skeletons from our story.
This term we are enjoying dance lessons in PE. We are all very impressive movers!
Science and DT are closely linked this term and we will be looking at the five senses and creating a healthy smoothie.
We have been looking at maps once again in geography and how important a key is. This is leading to us creating a map of the town in our book. We will make up our own key for the features we add to the map.
25th November
Thank you to all of you who came and supported our assembly. It was wonderful to see so many of you. We were so proud of the children. They all tried so hard. It really is an achievement standing up in front of so many people and saying your lines.
In English we have continued to use our knowledge of sentence construction to write sentences connected to the story of the Three Little Pigs. We have been working hard at making our handwriting neater too and forming our letters correctly.
In maths we have once again been using the whole part model to demonstrate our understanding of number bonds. This week we have been rearranging the sentence to have the answer first. Their home work should have demonstrated this for you.
Last week was anti- bullying week and the theme was “Choose Respect”. We thought about all of the different ways in which we could demonstrate respect to people around us.
In history we have been looking once again at a variety of different types of houses and discussed what they might be made from.
In science we have been looking at everyday materials.
In DT we used the knowledge we have of freestanding structures to build walls. We looked at different layouts of bricks to create the strongest wall. We used these walls to protect Humpty Dumpty and we then tested the strength of them by rolling balls to see if we could knock our walls down.
11th November
Welcome back to our new term. We hope you all had a wonderful break; the children have been telling us all about the amazing things they got up to. It was lovely to see you all at parent's evening and to be able to share your child's journey with you.
This term our new book is The Three Little Pigs.
We have immersed ourselves in the story already and the children have enjoyed telling the story using various props within the classroom. Our role play area has been transformed into a construction site and the children look very efficient with their safety glasses and clipboards!
It is our assembly on Friday 15th November and we have been working hard learning songs about the story to sing to you.
In maths we have been looking at the whole part model. This is a way of introducing number bonds and using those facts later for addition and subtraction.
In English we have been orally retelling the story and writing sentences linked to this. The children have been using dictation to work on their skills for sentence construction – capital letter, writing on the line, leaving finger spaces, using their phonic knowledge to have a go at spelling and finally putting a small full stop at the end of their sentence which sits on the line.
During cool time the children have been using their art skills and have produced an Andrew Goldsworthy style mandala using items found in the classroom.
21st October
Can you believe we are almost at the end of our first term? Time is passing so quickly.
We had such a lot of fun at Westonbirt. To practice the skills we have learned in geography the children were given maps of the Gruffalo orienteering trail and really tried hard to use them correctly. They turned the map so they were facing the correct way and then looked for features marked on the map with symbols. For example “X” indicated a bench. We all managed to find The Gruffalo and saw his friends – mouse, snake, owl and fox. The children also had spotter charts to find signs of Autumn and we found almost every item. Ask them and see if they can remember any of the items which we had to find. In science we have been looking at specific deciduous trees and also evergreens. The children were really good at spotting all of these trees.
We have continued working very hard learning our phonics; the last two weeks we have focused on split digraphs. In their lessons the children alternatively squash or stretch the sounds to help them read or spell words. The children then complete a task based on these sounds. Ask them to share their new knowledge.
We have been using our art skills to continue our drawing skills. We observed leaves very carefully and then drew exactly what we could see. The children worked so hard and then end results were shown to Mrs Dawson as they were so impressive.
We also have been looking at the work of Andrew Goldsworthy. He uses a lot of natural objects to create art. We collected many objects at Westonbirt and used them to create our own artwork.
We have also used the natural objects to create animals, trees and also faces showing how we were feeling at that moment in time. This tied in nicely with our PSHE when we have been looking at our feelings and how we can deal with our emotions. We have also been talking about who we can talk to if we are feeling sad, anxious, worried, afraid or just want to share our happiness.
7th October
The weeks are flying past and we are having lots of fun in Year 1. Even the wet weather hasn’t stopped us working both inside and out.
We have been working very hard learning our phonics; it is tricky when we have to decide which sound the digraph might make. The only way, if we are unsure, is to say the word both ways. Ask your child to show you using the digraph ie. The magpie says “igh” where as Albie the Cookie says “ee”. If they are reading words such as lie or cookie they can say the word each way to check the best fit.
In geography we have started looking at maps. The children have learnt that a map looks down upon an area so you would see buildings or trees from up above them. They drew their own maps of the deep, dark woods where the Gruffalo and friends live. Perhaps they could show you by drawing a map of where you live.
In science we used observable features, just like scientists, to group animals. We had to look really closely and identify the differences between them. We then grouped them based on the number of legs they have. We have also looked at how weather affects what we can do. We talked about different activities we can do in the snow, when it’s raining and when the sun is shining.
We have written dictated sentences in English using all our knowledge about what a sentence needs. See if your child can tell you and perhaps even demonstrate these skills. We then wrote our own sentences about the Gruffalo. The children really tried hard to choose the correct sounds to use and thought about the presentation of their work, the size of their letters, correctly formed and if they were sat on the line.
Look at these amazing works of art! We have carried on with our learning to draw journey. We looked at how colours or hues can represent emotions. For example, a beautiful sunset can make you feel happy with the warm red, yellow and orange colours. A grey sea might make you feel sad. We then drew a self portrait in the style of Picasso using colours which expressed our emotions at that particular time.
We have been working on our friendship skills as being part of a team supporting each other is very important. We worked collaboratively to make models. Look at this beautiful garden made by two of the children.
Welcome to Year One
We are delighted to welcome both you and your children to an exciting new year in Year One. This term, we will go on a story adventure with the book "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. We will listen to fun stories, orally story tell The Gruffalo and do exciting activities. This will help the children get better at reading, encourage them to use their imaginations, and hopefully love books even more. "The Gruffalo" is all about friendship, being brave, and being creative, all important life skills.
Below you can see the theme web which will give you an overview of the learning which the children will undertake over the next few weeks.
The children have made a great start with their learning. In maths we have been looking at place value. The children have been matching numerals to objects as well as number names. They have carried on with this learning during any non directed time. The pictures below show some of the children enjoying their maths.
In English we have been working hard on our phonics and our handwriting. We have written sentences about what creatures we have seen in the books and labelled the parts of the Gruffalo.
We have have been investigating the weather and have started a weather diary. This links to our science work when we have been talking about the seasons. We went for a walk around the school grounds to look at the trees and discover which ones have started changing colour as we enter autumn.
In PSHE we have been thinking about what we would like our learning environment to be like and how we can work together to achieve this, such as listening to our friends when they are talking and looking after all the equipment. We have been thinking about what qualities a good friend has