Year 1 class news at Ysgol y Ddraig This week… We have been: Enjoying meeting our new teachers and seeing our new classroom on “Move up Monday” Enjoying a trip to St Fagans Natural History Museum Consolidating our learning about houses and household items from the past Comparing life in the past with life nowadays Exercising in our 5-a-day sessions. Brushing our teeth with the brush buses. Walking our ‘Daily Mile’. Using our chrome books and iPads to play number and phonic games. Working hard in our RWI groups. Reading our home reading books and cards. Completing reading comprehensions activities. Learning to count in 10s from any 1 or 2-digit number. Learning to multiply by 5. Ordering 2-digit numbers. Halving and doubling within 20, including half of odd numbers within 10. Writing a recount of our trip to St Fagans using time connectives Working in groups to plan our Enterprise week products Designing posters for our products Calculating profit and selling prices for our products Practising our bat and ball skills. Practising our travelling movements. Enjoying watching the Dress Rehearsals of the Year 2 and 4 Summer concerts. Week Ending: Friday 14th July 2017 Reminders Last Day of Term Friday 21st July Please send water bottles into school in addition to a lunchtime drink PE days are Thursdays - kit needed for indoors and outside. Please can you clearly label all clothing/lunchboxes/water bottles Home reading books – please return all books and book bags to school. We will not be issuing any more books this term – all book bags will be passed to the new teachers. Fruit snack is available for 20p per day or children may bring their own. Follow our activities on Twitter @ysgolyddraig Move up Monday 17.7.17 Children will be spending Monday in their new classrooms with their new teachers Miss Cogbill and Mrs Burmingham. Please take children to their new classroom outdoor areas where teachers will be waiting to greet them. Children will need to be collected from the new class at 3:05pm. Next week we are having an “Enterprise week” in school . All classes have been busy making and creating things to sell on a budget of £5 per group. The children have been supported to work out the cost of making their items and then the cost to sell and make a little profit. All children are invited to bring a maximum of £3.50 to school (in a named envelope) on Wednesday to buy items from the school market place, where each class will be selling their products. Summer Disco – the end of term PTA disco is on Thursday 20th July in the school hall from 5:15 – 6:15 pm. Home Learning activities This week we have been writing recounts using time connectives in our writing, (First, Then, After that, Next and Finally) Perhaps you could encourage your child to talk and write about something you do at the weekend, using these time connectives to sequence the events? If you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to ask. Diolch yn Fawr Miss S Grafton, Mrs N Farmer and the year 1 team