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27 January 2012

Your homework this week is Creative and is due in on Wednesday 01 February.

I can design a brand new animal that would suit living in the Arctic. 

Think of all the work we have done in class about how animals have adapted to living in the polar regions.

Think of the following:

• habitat map
• position in food chain
• shelter/safety
• food the creature eats and how it gets it
• predator or prey?
• camouflage and colour
• teeth
• feet and eyes
• any other special features

You can include writing and labelled drawings to show your learning.

27 January 2012

This week, the spellings are words where the e has to be dropped when adding ing.

Children will be tested on the words in the ing column. They will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 3 February.

27 January 2011

This week’s spellings are all verbs in the past tense that end with ‘ed’.

The suffix ‘ed’ features in a lot of past tense verbs which will help your child with their narrative writing at the moment.

27 January 2012

Like last week, we’re practising words which have split diagraphs.  The last ‘e’ in the words isn’t a sound that we say, but it works with another letter to change, for example, slim (with a short ‘i’ sound) to slime (with a longer ‘i’ sound).

These will be tested on Friday 03 February.

27 January 2012

This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 01 February.

I know what a hero is.

It links to our new topic, Heroes. Your child could produce a:

• poster
• draw a picture
• write some sentences
• do some research

Remember, homework should stick to one page of the Homework Book, but the page can be extended with flaps, pull out sections or some other creative way.

27 January 2012

This week’s spellings are words with the ‘igh’ letter pattern which creates a long ‘i’ sound. Your child will be tested on Friday 04 February 2012.

• high
• night
• height
• light
• right
• fight
• tight
• light
• might
• sight

Great effort from everyone!

This is just one of the comments that was made about the Year 1 assembly on Thursday 19.01.12.

Well done to all of the children for making a great effort in the assembly; the confidence and pride was very evident throughout the assembly.

“Really well done, a confident, happy and relaxed class and it showed!”

Another parent commented: “Excellent confident voices. Well done! I’m scared of the wolf.”

We would like to say a special well done to…

• Manya for learning a lot of words: she was so confident and took the responsibility of learning her words.
• Haider showed that he can stand up in front of people and speak confidently and he has asked for more words next time!
• Luke and Owen for their very clear speaking voices.

“Another great example of all the children participating with great confidence and such positive peer review.”

Well done to Year 1 and thank you to all the friends and family who came along to share our assembly.

Learning to write

Now that your child knows lots of letter sounds, they are keen to use their phonic knowledge to write. The process of writing is not easy and research has shown that for some children, especially boys, holding a pencil can be physically painful if the muscles of the thumb and fingers are not strong enough.

Why not try some of the following activities at home to help develop the necessary muscles for writing:

• paint with fingers and with a variety of brushes
• use dough and plasticine to pound, roll, mould and pinch
• use scissors, hole punches and staplers
• pick up and sort collections of pulses, pasta and buttons
• let your child help prepare fruit and vegetables by cutting and pealing
• do up buttons and zips independently

Please encourage your child to write at home and hold the pencil correctly.  However, remember that if your child’s muscles are not ready, forcing them to write at length may put them off. Practising a little every day and doing some of the above activities is far more beneficial than a longer period of writing practice.

This week’s phonemes

This week, the new phonemes are ai, ee, igh and oa.

Remember to say the letter names (‘ay’, not ‘ah’) and encourage your child to join up the letters when writing.

This week’s ‘tricky words’ are my and was.

20 January 2012

This week, we’re learning to spell words with the split diagraph ‘i-e‘.  This changes a short ‘i’ sound (as in ‘Tim’ and ‘rid’) to a longer ‘i’ sound (as in ‘time’ and ‘ride’).

These words will be tested on Friday 27 January 2012.