Sycamore Class (Year 1)
Welcome to Sycamore Class!
Staff
Class teacher: Miss Bailey
Class Teaching Assistant: Mrs Hosken and Miss Richmond
PPA Class Teacher: Mrs Bolejko (Thursday PM)
Term 1 Key Information
- We have outdoor PE on a Wednesday morning and Indoor PE on a Thursday morning.
- Friday 4th September FRIENDS Tea and Talk in Olive Branch
- Saturday 12th September FRIENDS boot fair
- Tuesday 15th September - Day 1 Happy Photos - Siblings and Individuals
- Monday 21st September - Harvest Festival in school for Year 1 children
- Wednesday 30th September - Book Look 15:15-15:40
- Friday 2nd October - Book Look 14:30-14:50
- Friday 16th October - FRIENDS Barn Dance Disco 13:45-14:30 (Year 1)
- Friday 23rd October - FRIENDS non-uniform day in exchange for teddies
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Term 1 Connected Learning
Our Connected Learning question in Term 1 is ‘What can we find in our school?’
In History, we will be looking at the life of Mae Jemison, celebrating Black History Month during October.
In Geography, we will look at our school grounds and at weather patterns in our country. We will also study the North and South Poles.
In Science, the children will be exploring each of their five senses. This will involve using each sense to investigate how it is used and compare their findings.
Each sense will be explored each week, with objectives such as ‘What factors affect our sense of taste?’ (where we will be tasting food, blind folded). Also, looking at our sense of sight, testing whether everyone sees the same image in an optical illusion.
In RE, we will be looking at what Christians believe about God, using stories from the Bible as a reference.
In Music, we will be looking at the difference between pulse and rhythm. In ICT, we will be learning about E-safety. In PSHE, we will be learning about boundaries and expectations. In DT, we will be designing, making and evaluating a sandwich to take to the South Pole to follow our English focus story.
Key Texts
Maths Year 1
Blog
Timetables
Newsletters
Home Learning
Spellings
Year 1 First 100 High Frequency Words
Useful websites
This list is not exhaustive, but these (mostly) free websites can help to continue to develop skills at home. Please let the class teacher know if you have found a good website we could add to our list!
GENERAL
Games for various subjects: https://www.ictgames.com/
Help for home learning: http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/
CBeebies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Scratch Jr: (programming): https://www.scratchjr.org/
Hour Of code: https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn
ENGLISH
Purple Mash (School Login Required): https://www.purplemash.com/login/
Education City (School Login Required) https://www.educationcity.com/
PHONICS
Cued Articulation JWS Phases 3 and 5 https://youtu.be/9E2LN7_x7EY
MATHS
Maths games:https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
Maths Playground: https://www.mathplayground.com/
Number Bonds:https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
CONNECTED LEARNING
British Antarctic Survey: https://www.bas.ac.uk/
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps
Google Earth: https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/
National Geographic Kids: http://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Home Learning
We do a termly home learning project which can be found here, and on Seesaw (log in information can be found in the children's Reading Records). In addition, we would appreciate you reading daily with your child and encouraging them to complete any activities sent home.
Seesaw will also be used by us to post: Home learning challenges, Reading challenges and class information. Your child can then choose whether to bring their work into class or respond via Seesaw.
Please contact the Office (on 01233 614660, or email on office@john-wesley.org.uk) if you have any questions or need help with navigating Seesaw.
What can you do at home?
Reading
Read a book you haven't read before (Oxford Owls has some good free books to read online!)
Read and follow some instructions.
Put your books in alphabetical order.
Rank your story books from most to least favourite.
Choose a word or a sound to hunt for - how many times can you find it?
Read to your toys - they love books as well.
Writing
Keep a diary every day. This is a really good way to get your feelings out and can be a really good piece of history.
Make up a story about one of your favourite characters from a book or a film.
Draw and write your own comic book.
Write the lyrics to your favourite song, but change them a little bit!
Use different writing tools, like felt pens, crayons, chalk or paint to write with.
Maths
Play Countdown. Can you make a target number using only random numbers?
Counting - How many toys do you own?
Sorting - Can you sort your toys into groups, based upon certain criteria (i.e. soft, fluffy, metal, plastic).
Sorting - Can you order toys from largest to smallest? Heaviest to lightest?
Find and write down all objects with numbers on them in the house. How many do you have?
Measure and record the length of a bean plant as the days go on.
Bake a cake.
How many small containers of water fit into one large container?
Other activities
Build a den from blankets and pillows. Use it as a reading area.
Make something using real tools (with supervision!)
Learn computer science.
Learn a language as a family.
DIY Science Experiments.
Make a treasure hunt around the house.