This week, Year One’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect.
I can remember what I’ve learnt about ordering numbers to 10.
Since the beginning of the year, we have been learning lots about numbers to 10. To link with one of our 8R’s for learning, ‘remembering’ the children have a sheet to complete in their books to see if they can remember what they have been taught.
The homework should be completed by Thursday 12 October.
This week, our spellings focus on words which contain the ‘air’ and ‘ear’ trigraph.
| chair |
| flair |
| hair |
| fear |
| gear |
| clear |
Our Talk Time homework got us discussing who we would take with us if we went back in time. We talk in partners first, sharing who we would take.
Then, we all listened as a table.
Finally, we shared some with the class that we thought were particularly interesting:
Pia would take David Attenborough and she would visit the person who invented plastic. Together, they would explain to the inventor what problems their invention would cause. We thought this was a brilliant, thoughtful idea.
Ishaan would take Thomas because he has such a good historical knowledge.
Ripley would take Gottlieb Daimler to see what cars used to look like. He would also visit the year 0 to see whether Jesus actually was born then.
Lewis would take Lewis Hamilton and together they would go back in time to meet Ayrton Senna.
Ethan would need a minibus for his trip! He said he’d take Thomas, a translator, friends and Owen from Jurassic World.
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Thursday 11 October.
I can use a range of sentence structures.
The children have been given a story starter for them to continue. So far this year, we’ve learnt about different ways we can start our sentences, using conjunctions to extend our ideas and using commas to clarify meaning. We’ve also been working on reducing the number of errors in our work, especially squashed sentences.
Ask us what a squashed sentence (sometimes called a ‘run-on’ sentence) is. Here’s an example: He walked through the door it was amazing.
In their piece of writing, the children should try to show off the skills we’ve practised so far and try to make as few mistakes as possible.
All of the spellings this week have -fer endings and we’re learning how to add a suffix to these words. There will be no test on Friday but your child needs to practise adding suffixes to these words correctly. Sometimes you need to double the ‘r’ and sometimes you don’t.
All children should be practising their spellings in their homework book, using the techniques suggested at the back which we also use in class.
This week’s time tables test will be on the 4 x table but we’ll be challenging ourselves with the more difficult questions we’ve been practising recently. We’re improving every day with these.
The whole school thoroughly enjoyed watching the Hobgoblin Theatre performance of A History of Britain this morning. It was very fun and very informative.
Year 5 and 6 were then lucky enough to attend a drama workshop from them which was equally fun and equally informative.
We warmed up…
We moulded each other into people from different points in history…
We got into groups and created tableaus of different events in history…
At home, ask us about the performance and about what we learnt about the history of Britain from it. You’ll be amazed!
This week’s Rs of Learning are remember and reflect.
We played some memory games, discussing how our short and long term memory work and developing some techniques to enable us to remember more.
We reflect on our learning lots and we’re pretty good at it too. Take a look at the blob tree that we sometimes use and discuss it with your child at home.
We’ve gone way back in time this week, right back to the Stone Age when the wheel was first invented. Through our Reading, Writing and Topic lessons, we’ve learnt all about the wheel (and axel), made our own Lego chariots, and written some great instructions for how to make them.
At home, ask us about the wheel and about our learning this week. It’s been really fun!
Last week, Year One went on a walk around the local area to kick off our ‘Time Travel’ topic. The aim of the walk was to compare old and new houses. The children took pictures of all different houses and wrote notes about the differences between old and new houses.
We’ve discussed what the expectations are for spelling practice today as this is a crucial part of our ability to improve with something that we all find difficult.
Here are some good examples of spelling practice to help the children know what to do for their homework.
Practising creatively will make it more enjoyable and encourages you to notice which parts of a word are tricky. There are lots of ideas in the back of your homework book for this.
Make sure you follow the instruction if you’re given a spelling activity. The activity was to come up with –ible and –able words and then create word families for them. Rohan has followed that instruction.
