Reading
We have put your new shared reading book ‘Oysters Ahoy!’ in your book bags today. Please take a little look over the weekend to familiarise yourself with the text ready for our first shared read on Monday.

Doodle Maths
Please try and spend 10 minutes, 3 times a week answering questions on Doodle Maths to ensure that you are in the Green Zone!

Handwriting
We have been working so hard on our letter formation in our handwriting sessions and the children's letters are continuing to improve. We have been focusing on making sure that we can distinguish between our tall and small letters, and are practising sitting our letters on the line. Any opportunities to practise those alphabet letters at home would be fantastic, we appreciate any time you can put in.

This Week
In English this week we ordered the events from our CLPE book, ‘Beegu’, before writing sentences in the past tense to describe what happened during her time on Earth.

In Maths, the children have been comparing numbers using ‘greater than, less than and equal to’. We used lots of stem sentences to support our learning and used Rekenreks to further show our understanding of numbers.

In Science, the children played a listening game using their hearing senses. They listened to a range of animal noises and had to guess the animal making the noise!

In Humanities, we explored what Victorian school looked like in the past, how children used different equipment to do their learning with and learned that teachers were very strict!

In Art we went on a shape hunt, looking for the different shapes that we could find within our school building. The children drew all of the shapes they could see and could remember lots of their 2D shape names.

We will be visiting St Mary’s Church on Monday 5^th October between 9:00am and 10:30am for our annual Harvest Festival Service. If you are available to help us walk the children down to the church and back, please contact us directly so that we can include you in our numbers – thanks so much in advance!

If you have any cardboard (cereal boxes would be ideal as they are thinner and therefore easier to cut), we would be very grateful if you could send it in with you as we will be practising our cutting and joining skills next week.

Have a lovely weekend.
The Year 1 Team