Dear Parents,
We were pleased to welcome the children back from quarantine this week and were very impressed with the learning that they had completed at home. Thank you to all the adults who supported this learning.
In English we have continued our adventures with Beegu, the alien who landed in our school. We had such fun acting out scenes from the book and then trying to think like the character. We enjoyed thinking of questions that we would like to ask Beegu and wrote our questions using a question mark. Next week we are planning to create Beegu’s planet so please help your child by sending in a shoe-box for their diorama.
Maths was exciting this week as we took our first step towards deepening our understanding of multiplication. We have been using new vocabulary: rows, columns, arrays, equal, doubles and represents. The children have enjoyed working with a variety of maths resources to get a ‘feel’ for the numbers that they are counting and writing about. We have also been singing counting songs to help us to remember how to count in 2s and 10s.
The children have been very enthusiastic about acting out scenes of when Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon. We imagined the rocket ride to the moon and thought about how it would feel to be in Space with no gravity! We experimented trying to stay in the air for longer by jumping, twirling or launching ourselves but gravity always bought us back down again-it was great fun though!
Next week is book week and I’m sure you are all working with your children on their homemade costumes. Anything goes when you use your imagination so please allow your children to create away, we can’t wait to see the results next Friday at 8am when we watch, and participate in, the ‘World Book Day Parade 2020.’
Have a wonderful weekend!
The Year 1 Team