Welcome to Squirrels Class (Year 1)

We are a happy and friendly class who welcome you to share our lovely learning.

Class Teacher: Mrs Horne

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Franssen   

 Learning Support Assistant: Miss Swinden (mornings)

Welcome to Squirrels class page. 

PE days are Monday and Wednesday this half-term. Library day is Tuesday.

This half-term we are focussing on Art and Geography.  Please come to school in your PE kit on Mondays and Wednesdays. Please read at home with your child every day. It is really important that you support your child with their reading at home. 

Each week the children will come home with spellings to have a go at copying out. If your child brings their completed spellings back into school, they will get a star face on their chart.  There will be no formal spelling test. Homework will not start until January 2027.

October

In our Geography lessons this half term we have been learning about our local area and the physical and human features that we find in Woking. We enjoyed going on a local area walk into Woking. We visited the alien, Christchurch, the library and the train station. We saw different shops, restaurants, cafes and estate agents.

We looked at all different housing types and learnt the words detached, terraced and semi-detached.

We then went to Boundary park and had great fun playing with our friends. We decided we are very lucky to have all of these things near our school.

In our Science lessons we have been learning about animals including humans. We have been learning about our five different senses and did experiments using them. We loved smelling and tasting different foods!

September

The children have settled in well to Squirrels Class. They have been getting used to being with each other again, taking turns and sharing. We have spent the first few days of term learning new routines and exploring the classroom and outdoor area. 

We have been learning about squirrels and other woodland creatures. We have read stories about squirrels, watched videos and wrote our own facts. We painted our own squirrels using pointillism and leaf printing.

In our Geography lesson we learnt that we live in the United Kingdom. The children liked using the atlases to look at flags and try and find countries that they have visited.

In our Maths lessons we have been starting to look at one more and one less. We used ten frames and double-sided counters to count out a number and then add one more.

We were very lucky to join in with an online event hosted by the British Library to see and hear Julia Donaldson reading her new story Gruffalo Granny. The children loved trying to draw their own Gruffalo Granny with Axel Scheffler demonstrating his own illustration.

Please read with your child and practise their set 2 RWI sounds. They are in their planners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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