1. Home Learning activities
Year 1 class news at
Ysgol y Ddraig
This week…
We have been:
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.
Reading our home reading books and cards.
Enjoying a Samba Assembly and workshop
Practising the Samba rhythms from our workshop.
Adding 10s and 1s
Practising adding and taking away
Identifying patterns in addition and subtraction calculations
Counting on in 1Os from a given number
Playing Snail 100 to visualise counting in 10s and units
Researching the Amazon rainforest using websites and booklets
Completing a reading comprehension about the Amazon rainforest
Writing Amazon animal facts sheets using information cards
Researching about snakes
Drawing and labelling a snake
Writing facts about a snake
Sharing our Home Learning rainforest facts with the class.
Practising Body Shapes in PE.
Week Ending:
Friday 19th May 2017
Reminders
PTA Quacky Duck Race will be held at Llantwit Major beach on Saturday 10th June
Ducks are available to purchase from school for £1 for the PTA Quacky Duck Race
PE days are Thursdays - kit needed for indoors and outside.
Please can you clearly label all clothing/lunchboxes/water bottles
Home reading books - please make a comment in the yellow record book and return the plastic sets of word cards each week
Fruit snack is available for 20p per day or children may bring their own.
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Foundation Phase Sports Day will be held at school during the morning of Thursday 15th June
Please could you send in some empty and washed tin cans to help us
with a creative project next week!
Home Learning activities
Please practise some rapid mental additions (6+4, 16+4, 20+10, etc) with your child and when they are answering confidently, please try some take away calculations.
Please support your child in learning how to log in to Active Learn independently. A new game called “Balloon Pop” has been allocated this week to support the adding and subtraction calculations that we have been practising.
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