Author: Mrs Weekes

As part of our Literacy learning we have been reading lots of traditional tales.  We have been learning about characters, good and bad, and investigating lots of different plots and settings.  Last week we did a “Big Write” where we had to have a go at writing our own traditional tales; here are a couple of our stories showing how much learning we have done.  Check out our story language and punctuation!  Look at how our handwriting has improved.

We are very proud of our story writing.   Mrs Weekes and Mrs Maver are amazed at the improvements we have made.

Enjoy reading our traditional tales!

This week Year 1 have been thinking about the word “learning.”  They were asked to think about different questions:

• What is learning?
• How do we learn best?
• How do you go about learning something new?
• How do you know you have learned something new?

They are working really well together and came up with some great ideas about learning!

We had a fantastic morning at Allerton Grange High School on Wednesday. After a breezy walk to the school the children were taught by some Year 10 pupils.  They had planned some great activities including general fitness, ball skills and dance.  We then walked back to Moortown helped along by the wind!  Thank you to the pupils and staff at Allerton Grange and thank you to the Year 1 children who were brilliant representatives of Moortown Primary.

We have been learning even more about sentences.  We all know that a sentence needs:

• to make sense
• a full stop at the end
• a capital letter at the beginning

Now we are even adding a conjunction.  A conjunction is a word that joins two sentences together.  We have been learning to use “but”, “and” and “because”.

Look at our super sentences!

In Year 1 we spend time every day reading; it might be reading with an adult or it might be reading independently.  Please remember that it is important to read “real” books as well as the reading books that the children bring home; your child will become a much more fluent reader if they experience a wide range of books.  There will be a leaflet coming home soon with some questions you can ask your child when they have read a book as it is essential that they understand the different features of the text. 

Enjoy some reading time with your child; it is a very valuable and enjoyable time!

We have only been back two weeks and we have done so much already.  The children have made a brilliant start to 2011; they are working hard and have learnt basketball skills and circus skills.   Ask them what they learnt in the circus skills workshop but don’t let them spin your plates as they only practised with plastic ones!

In the story of “The Little Red Hen”, nobody would help her make the bread.  She did it all by herself.  When we made some bread in Year 1, we worked together as a team and look at the fabulous bread we made.

As well as being fantastic playground designers, Year 1 have proved that they are also very creative when it comes to puppets.  All they were given was a wooden spoon and some material and they came up with some really different ideas.  We were joined by wizards, a werewolf, Harry Potter and many more characters.  As you may have noticed, these additions have been brought home as the children were so proud of them.  We hope that you continue to enjoy many puppet shows!!