Hopefully your child will have come home with information about what part they are going to be in our play Eddie the Penguin saves the world. Please read the information about costumes as we will be looking to add to these in school. Also if your child does have a speaking part please help them practise their lines and learn them off by heart. Also please help to practise reading loudly and slowly!

Diary dates

Tuesday 4th and Thursday 6th March – Parents Evenings
Thursday 6th March – World Book Day – see details below
Wednesday 26th March, 9:30am – Year 1 performance… Eddie and the Penguin
Friday 16th May – Year 1 trip to the SS Great Britain. More details to follow via email

World Book Day

This Thursday 6th March we will be celebrating this year’s World Book Day – hopefully you will already have seen the communications about this but here is a reminder. This day acknowledges the importance of reading for pleasure and we are in the process of planning some exciting events for the children. This is advance notice that on the day children will be invited to dress up as a character from a book.

We would also like the children to think about themselves as a reader and to discuss how there are lots of examples in life where we read. We are therefore inviting children to create a ‘Reading River’ to celebrate themselves as a reader.

Below is an example of Miss Ross as a reader. It might be that the children enjoy comics or magazines, enjoy baking with you and looking at recipes, read pokemon or top trumps cards as well as having favourite fiction or non-fiction books. They can show these in any way they wish.

More information about World Book Day including how to redeem your token and support to encourage reading at home is available here: https://www.worldbookday.com/families/.

English

Phonics: Phase 5b of our phonics.

Writing: Our class text is Yeti and Bird by Nadia Shireen.

This week we will be writing letters to yeti to help him make a friend. We will also be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday and we have an online author and draw along session on Tuesday with the author of this book:

Reading: Please continue to read daily with your child at home to support. Please remember to log this in your child’s reading record to support us to know if how many times they have read the book at home when we come to read with them.

Maths   

We will be comparing the  mass of objects using the language heavier/lighter/heaviest/lightest.
We will be using non-standard units, such as cubes, to measure mass.

Wider Curriculum

Shine PE 

PE  – We will be learning dances for our play.

Geography – We will be learning about hot and cold places and where they are in relation to the equator.

Music – We will be learning songs for our play! 

Science: This week we will be learning what ‘wild’ plants are and that they grow naturally. People often call these type of plants weeds. Maybe you can spot some of these when walking home from school

PSHE: This week we be learning what appropriate physical contact looks like.

R+WV – We will be continuing to look at what books and stories say about how people should live their lives. This weeks story: Bible – the Good Samaritan