We are getting stuck into our road safety awareness week. As a school we shared our thinking about how to stay safe on our scooters and bikes on Monday. On Tuesday, many of the children brought in their scooters and the class were treated to a scooter safety session run by Helen from Sustrans. In this session children explored where good places to take their scooters are and where is not safe. Helen set up a ‘road’ and ‘pavement’ in the playground and children practiced using their control travelling along the pavement. They then progressed to using their agility to safely navigate around potential hazards they may encounter on the pavement. The class were also shown how to safely break and come off of their scooter. Thank you Helen and Sustrans!

Starting from next week, the whole school will be participating in a Leg it to Lapland competition. We are encouraging all children to try for 2 weeks to walk, scooter, cycle… into school. If you can, have a go at leaving the car behind or parking a little further from the school. How many miles can you do?

We are rocking and rolling with our vocabulary project! As you may have seen in the classroom, Year 1 have started their journey of discovering exciting new Tier 2 words by each day having a new word of the day. Year 1 have been eager to discover the new words and have loved trying them out in their own sentences. Over the past two weeks we have been discovering Tier 2 words from the book Augustus and his Smile. The children have had the opportunity to explore these words visually (through seeing the word and pictures of what it means), audibly (through hearing the word and descriptions of the word’s meaning), verbally (through using the word in their speech) and physically (by acting out the word’s meaning). The children have really enjoyed their first two weeks and are now starting their new book to discover even more words.

Here are some of our Tier 2 words. Can you put them into a sentence?

Home Learning Year 1 to be completed by Monday 26^th November.

Practice reading these words with the mp ending:

lamp                    hump

stamp                   bump

thump                   shrimp

Can you find any of these words in your reading book?

CHALLENGE:

Can you practice writing these words? Can you use these words in a sentence?

Home Learning Tasks:

• Can you complete our missing number hundreds square?
• Who is your favourite character from your favourite book?

Why are they your favourite?

Can you describe or draw what they are like?

• How do you see? Can you see in the dark? Why/why not?
• Can you tell me about your weekend?
• Can you take a picture of you sharing/reading your favourite book? You can take the picture anywhere! We would love to use these photos for our display. You can email this photo to the school admin if you are unable to print at home admin@haytorview.devon.sch.uk

In the class you may have seen our new bedtime story box. This is a box filled with some of my personal favourite and special stories that I would like to share. This box can only be opened by adults (because it is super special!) so please take a look with your child if you haven’t already and choose a book to snuggle down to at home. We hope this box can add to your bedtime experience and make those special moments of sharing a book together even better. If you have any suggestions of books you would like to add into the box, please let me know.

In Year 1 and across the school we are passionate about sharing our love of books! We would like to invite you to take a picture reading together. This can be from a cook book, leaflet, a BugClub story… you can be creative! Please hand your picture into me (Miss Hall) so we can spread the word that reading is great.

Home Learning Year 1 to be completed by Monday 19^th November.

Practice reading these words with the ew phoneme:

chew                    flew

new                     brew

few                     stew

Can you find any of these words in your reading book?

CHALLENGE:

Can you practice writing these words? Can you use these words in a sentence?

Home Learning Tasks:

• What is your favourite book?

Why is it your favourite book?

What happens in the story?

• Can you take a picture of you sharing/reading your favourite book? You can take the picture anywhere! We would love to use these photos for our display.
• How are shadows made? Can you show how the light travels from the torch to the hand?
• Can you tell me about your weekend?

Home Learning Year 1 to be completed by Monday 12^th November.

Practice reading these words with the ear phoneme:

hear                    beard

tear                     fear

rear                     dear

Can you find any of these words in your reading book?

CHALLENGE:

Can you practice writing these words?

Home Learning Tasks:

• Can you use one (or more!) of the ear words to write a super sentence? Remember capital letters at the start of your sentence and a full stop at the end.
• How many steps is it from your front door to your kitchen? To your bedroom? To the bathroom?
• How did you work it out?
• How did you make it fair?
• What is it like in Autumn? It’s Autumn now! What can you see outside? What else have you noticed?
• Can you tell me about your weekend?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Our put the treasure in the bucket activity.

In PE children engage in what we call our ‘Vigorous Activities’. during our Vigorous Activities we aim to increase our heart rate and promote being active. We have different stations which vary each week. This week we had: star jumps, put the treasure in the bucket, shuttle runs, weaving and step ups on the bench. The children will have around 20 seconds on each activity before moving onto the next one.

 Bench step ups.

I wonder if you could create your own Vigorous Activity stations at home? We would love to hear your ideas!

As part of the children’s learning around the commemorations of the Centenary of the ending of World War 1, we have been incredibly privileged and fortunate to be able to ask questions to a real soldier and find out first hand what a soldier’s life is like.

This gave the children (and parents who join us for our assemblies ) a chance to really think about why we lay poppies in November and to say a big ‘Thank You’ for the sacrifices soldiers, sailors and airmen, have made, and continue to make, to keep us all safe.

Home Learning Year 1 to be completed by Monday 15^th October.

Practice reading these words:

there                     by

your                     ask

home                    they

Can you find any of these words in your reading book?

CHALLENGE:

Can you practice writing these words?

Home Learning Tasks:

• What does it mean to be healthy? Can draw me your favourite healthy meal?

CHALLENGE: can you label your meal?

• How many fingers are there in your whole family? How did you work it out? Can you show me?
• Can you tell me about your weekend?
• When is your birthday? What season is your birthday in? What can you see in that season?

Home Learning Year 1 to be completed by Monday 8^th October.

Practice reading these words:

they                    ask

where                  one

there                   once

Can you find any of these words in your reading book?

CHALLENGE:

Can you practice writing these words?

Home Learning Tasks:

• Can you write all of the numbers from 1-20? 1 2 3 4 5…
• Can you create your own new sweet for Willy Wonka’s factory? How will it look? How will it taste? What is special about it?
• Can you tell me about your weekend?