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Storytime – Goldilocks & The Three Bears
Friday 15th January 2021
Good morning children,
Today we are recapping the phonics sounds that we have learned this week, please see the resources on phonicsplay.co.uk and the activity sheet. We are recapping numbers 6/7 from Ten Town and working on the online app – Numbots. If you need any logins for these, please just let me know and I will resend them.
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- Literacy – Phonics (Recapping m/d, Lexia & Phonicsplay.co.uk)
Buried Treasure (phonicsplay.co.uk) Blending real and nonsense words game – phase 2
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- Numeracy – Ten Town (Recapping quantities and language linking to the numbers 6/7)
- Topic – Science – Make your own Frost
See the instructions of how to make your own frost at home. Talk about how water can freeze and then melt again.
Friday 15th Jan 2021 – All worksheets
Thursday 14th January 2021
Good morning children,
Today we have more videos to watch of Mrs Morton delivering phonics and Ten Town sessions. We are beginning to look at different religions in RE, starting with Judaism.
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- Literacy – Reading & Phonics New sound /d/ – see sheet & video attached.
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- Numeracy – Ten Town New Number /7/ – see sheet & Video attached.
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- Topic – RE – Judaism – Rosh Hashanah (The festival of New Year and New Beginnings). Good things and Bad things that have happened this year activity sheet.
Thursday 14th Jan 2021 – All worksheets
Wednesday 13th January 2021
Good morning children,
Today we are continuing to recap phase 2 sounds, focusing on ten town number recognition and how they are formed, as well as labelling the different parts of a rocket.
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- Literacy – Story Sequencing – Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
Get out your child’s work from previous day. Look at the sequencing, if it is sequenced incorrectly talk about the correct order of the story before starting todays activity. It would be great if you could read a different version of the story either online or if you have the book copy because today we are going to retell the story in our own words. Get your child to look at the pictures and using their own words retell the story. Adults scribe alongside so we can see the story and language used.
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- Numeracy – What number is next?
Start by counting in 1’s up to 10, and then up to 20. Do this together with your child before letting them have a go independently. Talk about the word (more) what does it mean? The number gets bigger…. It is the next number you say etc.
Using household items make 2 groups of objects, get your child to count each group then talk about which one has more in it.
Move onto the sheet which is all about what number comes next. (1 more than). If your child is struggling then explain to them that they need to count up to the number in their head, and then think about which number comes next. I have attached a number line for visual support if your child is struggling with this concept. Again, let them try this themselves and make notes on their progress so we can follow up in school.
Number line: fish number line-01.jpg (1168×826) (printplaylearn.com)
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- Topic – PSHCE – Belonging to a Family
Think about the people who live in your house, they are you closest family members; then your extended family – those who may live in different houses. Draw the people in your house and label it along with their names and titles.
Wednesday 13th Jan 2021 – All worksheets
Tuesday 12th January 2021
Hello children,
Today we will be starting our traditional tales work in literacy.
A traditional tale is a story that has been told and re-told for many years, and consequently, becomes a story that almost everyone knows. Traditional tales are also referred to as fairy stories or fairy tales. Stories such as Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Jack and the Beanstalk are all traditional stories.
In Numeracy, we will be ordering numbers up to 5. Then if we have got those in the correct order we will be challenged with ordering the numbers up to 10. If your child is struggling, please write it on the sheets so we can work on this 1-1 when we get back to school – don’t just do it for them or tell them the answers as this will prevent them making the best progress possible J
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- Literacy – Story Sequencing – Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.
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With your child, read the online story of Goldilocks and the 3 bears (see link for online story if you do not have a hardcopy of the book at home Traditionaltales (communication4all.co.uk)). Then get your child to cut out the pictures and stick them in the correct order. Use lots of talk and encourage your child to tell you what is happening in the story. You could use key vocabulary such as; What is happening at the beginning? What is happening in the middle? What is happening at the end?
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- Numeracy – Ordering numbers up to 5 and then 10.
Start with the online video to help children remember the orders of the numbers, before working through the activity sheet.
School Radio – Counting songs, Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer (bbc.co.uk)
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- Topic – PE
Try and get yourself dressed into your PE kit completely independently…. Without mam and dad & Check out the link that we will be doing in class:
Super Mood Movers – Friends and family – BBC Teach
Tuesday 12th Jan 2021 – All worksheets
Monday 11th January 2021
Good Morning Class 1!
I hope you have all had a fantastic weekend and had an opportunity to play in the snow at home! This week we are learning new phase 2 sounds in phonics so I will be posting pre-recorded sessions when we learn the new sounds so that every child gets the same input ready for when we are back at school.
On Monday, we always change our reading books so a new book will be given out this week; see below. We are also learning new Ten Town numbers so I will pre-record a short video about this to start the week.
Keep sending me your lovely home learning it is great to see.
Today we are starting with:
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- Literacy – Reading: See the reading book scanned in the link below. Phonics New Sound /m/ – see sheet & video attached
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- Numeracy – Ten Town New Number /6/ – see sheet & Video attached.
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- Topic – Cut & Stick Rocket Design
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Monday 11th Jan 2021 – All worksheets
Friday Storytime – How to Catch a star by Oliver Jeffers
Love to Read – Topic Books!
BooksForTopics: Storytime Online
Check out this link for excellent story readings on Youtube; all of the books chosen are read aloud by their fabulous authors and illustrators! Keep inspiring that Love for Reading! 🙂
Some of the wonderful home learning this week…
Friday 8th January 2021
Good morning children,
I hope you are all enjoying our new topic; planets J Today we are continuing to recap phase 2 sounds, focusing on ten town number recognition and how they are formed, as well as labelling the different parts of a rocket.
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- Literacy – Phonics (I&N)
- Numeracy – Ten Town (Recapping quantities and language linking to the number 4)
- Topic – Planets
Friday Literacy, Numeracy, Topic
Thursday 7th January 2021
Good morning children,
I hope you are all enjoying our new topic; planets J Today we are continuing to recap phase 2 sounds, focusing on ten town number recognition and how they are formed, as well as labelling the different parts of a rocket.
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- Literacy – Phonics (T&P)
- Numeracy – Ten Town (Recapping quantities and language linking to the number 3)
- Topic – Planets
Thursday Literacy, Numeracy, Topic
Split pin Astronauts
We hope you have had as much fun making your split pin astronauts as we have today! Please send them in for us to look at yours too!
Snow!!!!
Today we looked out of the window and saw it was SNOWING!! We explored freezing and melting with the ice 🙂
Space Launch
Key Workers First Day Back
For the children in school, we had a strange but great first day back. We missed all of our friends who are working from home but enjoyed seeing your photos that you had sent to Mrs Morton showing us what you were all up to 🙂
Wednesday 6th January 2021
Hello children,
Today we are going to be recapping some of our phase 2 sounds that we learned last half term, continuing with ten town number recognition and building a split pin astronaut. If anyone needs hard copies of these delivering then please let us know – we will get them to you as soon as possible. Please continue to send us the lovely home learning activities you are doing so we can collect them together in our books and share them once we are back together as a whole class. The links for the worksheets to be downloaded will be uploaded tomorrow.
- Literacy – Phonics (S&A) Literacy
- Numeracy – Ten Town (Recapping quantities and language linking to the number 2) Numeracy
- Topic – Planets intro: Split Pin Astronaut Planets
Useful websites and apps for you children that we use both in school and at home are:
- Lexia
- Numbots
- Teach your monster to read
- Phonics Play
- Oxford Reading Tree
Educational programmes for children to watch and join in with are; Numberblocks / Alphablocks 🙂
Welcome Back – Tuesday 5th January 2021
Good Morning Class 1. I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas with your family sharing lots of special time together! Today is my first day back in Class 1 too – I am very excited to be starting the new term with you all; even though it looks very different to how we expected. I will be adding all of your parents to a group email later today so we can share all of the successes of our new topic; Planets!
We are starting the new year with home learning; each day I will upload your activities for that day and a home learning pack will be sent out on a weekly basis so you will also have a paper copy of everything, please send all of your lovely work back into me I would love to see it and put it in your school books.
Today we are starting with
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- Literacy – Reading Reading
- Numeracy – Ten Town (Recapping quantities and language linking to the numbers 0 and 1) Numbers 0 – 1
- Topic – P.E Supermovers (see link below)
- Topic – Planets intro: Design your own spaceship Design a Spaceship
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/just-for-fun-springwatch-l1/z6f7rj6
Virtual Christingle Service 2020
The children of Nettlesworth Primary school are proud to share with you, our first ever virtual Christingle service. We hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas to you all! 🎄
What on Elf ?!!!!!
Today we came into school to discover that the classrooms had been over ran by cheeky elves! We need to work hard this week to get them back on Santa’s nice list so they can help him make all of the toys in time for Christmas!
Christmas Crafts
We have been getting into the festive spirit in class 1, making our Christmas calendars, cards and tree decorations to take home – Have a very Merry Christmas from our home to yours 🙂
Virtual Christingle
Class 1 have ad soooo much fun creating their Christingle Orange and learning about what all of the different parts of it mean to the Christian religion 🙂
Virtual Nativity
Class 1 & 2 are excited to bring to your screens their first ever virtual nativity, grab your sweeties and soft drinks and get ready to enjoy the show from the comfort of your own homes!
Merry Christmas to you all! 🎄🎅🏼☃️
Junk Models
Today we had lots of fun creating our junk model vehicles. Look at how amazing they are!
Big Sing 2020
Today we enjoyed joining in with the Durham Music Services Christmas Big Sing. We listened to the brass band playing and joined in singing Christmas songs.
Twas’ the night before Christmas
Class 1 loved decorating the whole school tree in their bubble this afternoon – it was just as magical as always and the children loved the big switch on! 🙂
1st December 2020
Today the children entered to a Winter Wonderland of a classroom! It was so exciting! 🙂
Luke’s Link to the Transport Topic
Luke brought in some fabulous photos of his mam’s job occupation – we were all so delighted to share the photos wehich link so well to our transport topic in Class 1. All of us want to be wqagon drivers now 🙂
Remembrance Day 2020
Today, 11.11.20 we have been learning about all of the hard working a dedicated people in our world who fought for our country in many different ways and for those who continue to do so now. We tuned in for a virtual Armistice service as a whole school and decorated Poppy’s on stones to put on display outside of the gates for our parents to see at drop off and pick up times. ❤️
Forest Schools with OAESES
We have had so much fun working with Rio and Alice from Oases today! We took part in lots of fun activities on our school field; making forest characters for our stories, listening to directions to find the woodland creature clues, and working as a team to complete jigsaws. Mrs Morton came along to join us because she can’t wait to get us back to our forest schools site after Christmas! 🌳
Welcome Back – Autumn 2
Hello there 👋🏼
We hope you have had a wonderful half term break! The children have chosen their topic for the next 7 weeks and it is going to be ‘Transport’. We are going to be looking at the different ways we make journeys near and far. The children have been fascinated with garages so our role play area is now a car garage where the mechanics get to work fixing and solving problems. So if anyone needs some air for a flat tyre, we know just the place! 😉
Happy Halloween 2020
We have had the best week getting into the Halloween spirit; carving pumpkins, dressing in Halloween colours, Halloween arts and a crafts and not forgetting eating delicious Halloween cakes donated as a treat by our parent group! Have a spoooktacular half term 🎃
Mini mathematicians
This half term we have been working really hard with Mrs Plant to learn how to take turns and share our resources as well as play number games to consolidate recognition and place value up to 10 and some to 20. This is one of our favourites…
Our Virtual Harvest Festival
Bike Ability with Coach Darren 🚲
Today some of our friends in class 1 were chosen to work with coach Darren on the balance bikes. We practised getting on and off the bike safely, learned about the safety equipment needed when riding a bike and practised balance and coordination skills when moving on the bikes. Those who weren’t picked for this event, do not worry as you will be picked for another later in the year! 😊
Our first day 🙌🏼
Today was our first day back to school and for some of us our first ever visit to our new classroom after leaving pre-school. Mrs Morton & Mrs Plant were sooo proud of how well we settled in and were even prouder of the way we followed instructions, listened carefully and used our manners in school! As always our year 1 children who are in the class were impeccable role models to the younger children and they were so happy to be back in their familiar learning environment after a lot of unpredicted changes seen within the previous summer term.
Here are some of our highlights from the day 😁
Welcome Back 👋🏼
Hello everyone, and welcome to the new school year. Class 1 are so excited to welcome some of our new members as well as re-join with some of our year 1 children. Our topic for this half term is ‘Marvellous Me’… Here is what our indoor learning environment looks like! We can’t wait to learn and explore with our friends 😁
