w/c Monday 19th May

Durham were very excited to finally finish the story of 'The Secret of Black Rock.'  It inspired some lovely writing where they were pretending to be Erin from the story and trying to convince everyone else that Black Rock was kind and friendly.  They have also been thinking about how Black Rock protected the oceans and what we might do to do the same.  They all produced informative posters to tell everyone how they can Save Our Seas!

In maths this week we have been learning about position and direction.  So they can now describe full turns, half turns and quarter turns and describe position using ordinal numbers, ie. 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Last week the whole class took part in the sponsored bounce, clocking up an impressive number of bounces as a class - 2900!

We are looking forward to our church service tomorrow and hoping to see some parents and carers their too.

A typical week in Durham 1

Home Learning

Maths & Numbots

To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/#/intro  If you need your child's log-in please ask your class teacher.

In Year 1 we practise our number bonds to 20 and counting up and back in 2s, 5s and 10s. 

We can practise spelling at home through many different activities. Use the links above to give you some more ideas. 

Reading

We recommend children in Year 1 read for at least 15 minutes a day.  Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week. You can record their school reading book or a book they are enjoying from home. 

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Your child will bring home a Read Write Inc. book every week with speed sounds to practise. Children are asked to bring these back in on Tuesday. 

Read Write Inc. Phonics

Please click on the link to view how to pronounce the Read Write Inc sounds.

Click here for Read Write Inc sound pronunciation