5 Oct 2018

Year 1 Update – Week 7

Please let us know if you are able to help out with FMS this coming Tuesday afternoon as we need an extra person to support the sessions.

Tuesday 9th October: Parent Teacher Consultations

Thursday 11th October: Parent Teacher Consultations

Friday 12th October: Last day of school before the half term holiday. Dress Casual Day

There have been lots of examples of good team work and sharing this week. The students are able to talk more carefully as they play and explain ideas to classmates. We have sorted different types of books and continued learning that we can all be readers and writers. We have been learning about addition and starting to record our counting and calculations carefully.

This Friday we enjoyed watching 5D’s class assembly and were encouraged to think about the different things we can be grateful for. The children were captivated by the songs, videos and dance, with many feeling proud of elder siblings and friends.

The central idea for this unit is: We connect with each other to create learning communities

The lines of inquiry for this unit are:

How we can get to know each other and ourselves (Connection)
Different types of learning and play (Form)
How to make our classroom a place for successful for learning (Function)

Our investigators have been out and about again looking for learning around the school. We now have a wonderful collection of ideas and examples to share in whole class discussion times. Next week we will be thinking about our own learning within the classrooms and helping children notice the different skills they are developing across the school day.

Hot Lunches

Many of the Year One children are enjoying the hot lunches provided by DCK. Please make sure when you are ordering the lunches each month that you have a discussion with your child about what they would like to eat and that they are involved in the process of choosing their lunches. By doing this you can avoid any upsets at lunchtime and it also ensures that your child will eat what has been chosen.

Please note that DCK will not accept any lunch orders after the specified deadlines and that the form provided in the home-school diary must be used to make any lunch orders.

Naming Uniform

Please ensure that all school uniform is clearly labelled with your child’s name and class. We are still finding a lot of new uniform in our lost and found box that has not been named. Just this week, we had two pairs of shoes that had been mixed up after a lunchtime activity. If they had been named we would have been able to return the shoes to their rightful owners without upset and tears. Please help us with this. Thank you.

maths

The focus for this unit will be for the children to be able to:

Recall addition facts for single-digit numbers and related subtraction facts

Solve simple addition and subtraction problems using concrete material (manipulatives)

Solve simple addition and subtraction problems using strategies including part/whole

Recognise patterns in the number system

Continual practice and recall for number bonds will be a continued focus along with fluent counting on and back from numbers other than zero. We are also going to be enjoying and hearing different counting songs and linking the operations of addition and subtraction to what is happening. We will be playing different dice and number card games and carefully matching objects to the numbers used.

Mathletics:

Please help the children to complete the Mathletics tasks that have been assigned to your child. The children can also enjoy Maths Live and play other children live across the world.

Phonics:

Our phonemes for this unit are:

s m a c t g p o

Our camera words for this unit are:

she, to, are, I, the, was

Our current phonics unit will be coming to an end so we will be looking out for the children applying their new knowledge to their own reading and writing. When reading familiar stories we will be introducing the 5 finger retelling model to help children organise their thoughts about the stories. We are also going to explore how to make our own books about play as a way to extend writing beyond one simple idea.

http://3teacherchicks.blogspot.com/2012/03/retelling.html

Due to the public holiday there was no Golden Book assembly on Monday. The next Golden Book assembly will be on Monday 8th October 2018.

The Importance of Developing Attention and Listening

Why is attention important?

Children have to learn to focus their attention on to different things. This usually starts with attending to people, then to objects, then being able to share their attention between people and objects.

Children need to develop their attention skills before they learn to understand words and learn to talk.

Children need to be able to attend and concentrate so that they can learn new skills, including how to communicate.

Why is listening important?

Children may hear what you say but not listen to what you say. Listening to language involves hearing the words, attending to them and thinking about them.

Children need to be able to listen to and recognise the sounds that make up words and sentences so that they can learn to understand and use words and sentences themselves.

The different sounds we use in our speech can sound very similar to one another when children are learning language.

Children often need to practise listening to a range of different sounds to develop this skill.

What helps?

Strategies to develop attention

Reduce distractions. This might include removing other toys.

Turn the TV or background music off.

Choose a time of day when you and the child are fresh and in a good frame of mind.

Watch the child to see what interests them and follow their lead. Join in with what they are doing.

“People games” (tickles, singing, rhymes etc) are often the best type of activity to start with to get a child’s attention.

If using a toy, play with one toy at a time in many different ways to keep the child’s interest. Don’t be concerned about using the toy in a different way from usual. Using the toy in an unusual way might just be the thing to get the child’s attention.

Keep activities short and stop when the child loses interest.

Keep your play exciting by using different tones of voice and facial expression.

Using pauses during play can build in an element of anticipation. For example pausing before ‘go’ in ‘ready, steady, go’ games, and waiting for the child to indicate that they want the next step to happen.

Follow the child’s lead throughout the play. Play with what interests them.

Try to get the child to the end of an activity even if it only lasts a few seconds. For games with a definite endpoint encourage the child to complete the final step, even if you do the rest of it, for example, you do most of a jigsaw and let them put the last piece in.

Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/cslt 1

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