Friday 20^th March

This week has been surreal. Thank you parents for uploading all the work. Children your “Colour Poems” were amazing!

Children please remember to read every day and keep a record in your reading diary. If you have time you can send us reading videos.

Work for today

Life Skills – Lay the table for Shabbat

Phonics – This work is on Espresso. Children you will have to tell your parents which work you do, you’ll recognise it when it appears on the screen. Group 1 click on Phase 3 – “er”. Group 2 click on Phase 5 alternative spellings – “ear”.

Spellings – On Classroom you will find a list of the Common Exception Words for Y1/ Y2 words. Please learn 5/10 a week and ask an adult to test you each Friday.

Maths - Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Complete the number activities which include ordering and missing number sequences.

Wishing you Shabbat Shalom and keep well.

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Thursday 19th March

As you are aware, each day we will be posting work for the children. We understand that many of you are working from home and have commitments to fulfil. We don't want you to feel overwhelmed - don't feel you have to do everything. We will aim to keep a balance between using an ipad/laptop or worksheets. In addition, let the children play outside if the weather permits, listen to music, colour and build. They can even help with chores around the house. But most importantly (as you know) they will need lots of cuddles! You are parents first, you don't have to be teachers and this isn't forever.

We hope that you are all keeping safe and well. Children, we miss seeing you on a daily basis so please send us messages and photos!

You can start each day with your favourite "Wake Up" routine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gUbdNbu6ak  

Please make sure that you read every day. Use the Oxford Owl website or read a book from home.

Work for today

• Maths - Today we will continue our work on measuring length and height. Please watch the PowerPoint and then complete the 2 worksheets            
• Creative writing - read the poem from Mrs Sondhelm and then write your own Colour Poem. Start each line the same way as Mrs Sondhelm: Red is ......, Blue is ......
• Remember to make each sentence interesting 
• Science -Following on from our Science work on animals, here are two activities for you to complete. Try to do one of the activities. You can do both if you wish. 

  The first activity involves using a key to work out which animal is which. It is probably best to cut the pictures out first and then group them using the first clue and then subsequent clues to help you work out which animal goes where. Enjoy! 

Please see below details about uploading your work to Classroom.

Take care,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Tuesday 17th March

We hope that you all managed to complete the work from yesterday. Please see below details explaining how to upload the work. Please make any comments in the private box.

Today's work

• Maths - Espresso - Measuring
•              Topmarks - Odd and Even
• English - Zoo sheet - Capital letters and full stops
• English - Reading 
• Geography - Espresso - Water transport

Have a good day,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

JS Monday 16th March

Please answer the following questions:

1. What is the name of the Chag we celebrate after Purim?

2. Which Jewish month is the Chag in?

3. How many days do we celebrate this Chag for? And how many in Israel?

4. Name 5 foods we are not allowed to eat in this Chag.

5. What is the special name given to the first night of this Chag?

6. Name all 6 foods on the seder plate

Please continue reading your Aleph Champ books and practice the pages set.

If you are able please go further than the pages set.

Monday 16th March

As school is closed today, please find below instructions to find Year 1 work:

1. Go to google.co.uk
2. Sign in using your child's email address and password
3. Click on the apps box (square with 9 dots icon)
4. Click on Classroom
5. Click on Y1 2020
6. Then click on classwork to view assignments

There are 4 assignments - Maths, Reading, Ivrit and PE

Have a good day,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 13/3/20

What an exciting week this has been. 

Our STEM activities started on Monday with a special assembly. Mrs Dalwai, who is not only a teacher, but a virologist, talked to us about COVID -19. She explained about the virus and how it spreads. We watched a video by Dr Chris and Dr X  https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51342366 and a video about handwashing https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51342366. Mrs Steel demonstrated some interesting experiments which included making a kebab balloon, listening to different pitches made from blowing straws and making a volcano.

Purim at Kerem was amazing. The children looked wonderful in their fancy dress costumes and their Zumba moves were very professional.

In Maths this week we have been counting in 2's and 5's. We have also been investigating odd and even numbers. Try this activity  ( Enter the biggest two-digit even/odd number you can think of that uses the digit:) - https://nrich.maths.org/7431 - you can also change the interactivity to find even numbers.

On Thursday we had so much building bird nests as part of STEM week. We watched some time-lapsed videos of birds building their nests in Spring. We discussed what sorts of materials birds would use and the techniques that they would use to build their nests. We went on a short nature walk and collected items to build our birds nest and then designed and built our own using collage. Take a look at our fabulous STEM nests!

Today we continued our STEM activities and made models of famous London landmarks. We used VR (virtual reality) to look at these buildings and then worked with Year 6 to build them from junk.

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 6/3/20

English

• Handa's Surprise - My favourite part of the story ...
• Retelling the story
• Writing a story about receiving a letter with details of a surprise

Maths

• Vocabulary - more than, less than equal to
• Comparing objects using <, > and = 
• Comparing numbers using <, > and =
• Ordering numbers

• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering

Geography

• Using compass points to navigate around a Safari map

Purim

• Please refer to the letter from Mrs Hill regarding Mishloach Manot
• We will be drawing lots to exchange the Mishloach Manot  

Please remember to send Tzedakah every Fri. Our charity is Chai Cancer Care.

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 28/2/20

Welcome back after the half term break. The children have enjoyed sharing their news about their skiing trips and visits to museums, soft play, the cinema and ice rinks. Many thanks for all the lovely winter photos. Please remember to send some for our seasons display.

This week we have been enjoying reading the lovely book ‘Handa’s Surprise’ which tells the story of a little girl from a Kenyan village and her surprising journey to take her friend a gift. The children loved listening to it, sequencing the events and retelling the narrative from memory.  On Thursday, when it was sleeting, we wrote "Snow" stories with Mrs Sondhelm!

In Maths we have started our new topic of place value and have been counting forwards and backwards from different numbers. We have used practical equipment to represent numbers and have grouped them into tens and ones. We have also found 1 more and 1 less than different numbers. See photos below.

Place Value activities : https://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/ 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zw4g2nb

In Geography, we explored the animals that live in Kenya and followed clues to place them on a Safari map. In Science, we did a fun sorting activity on carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. See photo below.

We are collecting junk modelling items (clean recyclables such as kitchen roll tubes, cardboard boxes, washed out plastic bottles) for a special activity on Friday 13th March. Please send anything suitable into school.

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 14/2/20

This has been a very busy and exciting week.

Book week activities 

Monday 

Hot seating- Guess the characters?

Character quizzes

Tuesday

Reciting our poem to the whole school 

Wednesday 

Author session - Hiawyn Oram read us 3 stories: Angry Arthur, Ned and the Joybaloo, Flat Cat

                          She answered our many questions and she told us about her work as an author.

Thursday 

Year 2 Debate

Whole school read

Tu Bishvat

On Monday we had a fruit party and made an almond tree.

Maths

This week we have been exploring number facts e.g. if 9+3=12, then 3+9=12, and 12-9=3, and 12-3=9. We also compared number statements to see if one was greater than, less than or equal to the other.

During half term please help your child to learn the number facts to 10/20. 

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/smoothie/

We spent some time this week learning how to set our work out carefully. The children did brilliantly with our new rule - 'One digit in each box'

Science

In our Science lessons this week we started learning about the food that different animals eat. We learnt the terms herbivore, carnivore and omnivore. The children's exiting knowledge was excellent and we had a brilliant class discussion.

The children enjoyed watching the link below so we have included it on the blog this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yrikH2QEFA

Winter display 

For the last few years we have had at least one snowy day so that we could add winter photos to our Seasons display. As my wish for snow has not been granted, please can you take a winter photo during half term for our display. Any skiing photos would be most welcome.

Wishing you Shabbat Shalom and a lovely half term.

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Jewish Studies

In this week's Parsha Yitro, the children learnt how Hashem asked lots of different nations if they would like his special present - the Torah, but they all said “No”. However, the Jewish people answered “Yes”.  The Jewish people stood around Har Sinai and Moshe went up the mountain to Hashem to receive the Luchot - the 10 commandments.  We discussed all of the 10 commandments, but concentrated on (4) keep Shabbat, (5) listen to your parents, (8) do not steal and (9) do not lie.

Week ending 7/2/20

This week has been so special for Year 1. The children were really excited to receive their very own Siddur and it has been wonderful to see the joy they are experiencing when saying their Tefillot. (see photos below) Mazaltov! Year 1 we are so proud of you, your performance at the Chagigat Siddur was amazing.

Children's Mental Health Week

• Naming different feelings
• Discussion about occasions when they have felt in different ways and how parts of our face can change when we feel different emotions.  
• Discussion about how we can’t always tell how people feel from the outside and that the message of our "Inside Out Day" is to be more aware of people around us and how they are feeling. 
• Meditation during Tefillah
• Songs about feelings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvMx-roJxRw&t=547s 

Maths

• Using and applying number bonds to solve simple problems

English

• Grammar - knowing that verbs are action words
• Choosing the correct verb to fit in a sentence
• Speech bubbles about feelings 

Other

• Music - beginning to learn songs for our visit to the Barbican
• Next week is Book Week - Scholastic Book Fair after school Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
• The children have a poem in their bags to practise for our Poetry afternoon next Tuesday. Please help them to learn it by heart.
• Please make sure that your child brings a water bottle on a Monday and please name all snacks

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 31/1/20

Maths

• Number bonds to 20 - please help your child to learn so that they have quick mental recall
• Near Neighbours - using known facts to work out related + and - e.g 7+ 7=14 so 7+8= 15, 9- 6=3 so      9-7=2

English

• Grammar - dictionary work
• We wrote fabulous descriptions of zoo animals using adjectives and alliteration.
• In creative writing the children enjoyed making up stories about an animal that escaped from the zoo and the adventures that their animals got up to.

Science

• We played a game of animal opposites. The children had to find their partner as quickly as possible.
• We learnt about the similarities and differences between birds 🦢 🦅   and reptiles 🦎. 

Geography

• Comparing the climates of Kenya and the UK

Other

• Jewellery - children should only wear stud earrings. On a Monday and Wednesday these should be removed or covered with tape.

Next week

• Monday 3rd of February E-Safety Talk for ALL parents (Nursery-Y6), taking place in the main school - from 7:30pm-9:30pm 
• Chagigat Siddur -The children have been practising very hard and we look forward to celebrating with you on Tuesday. Children should come dressed in their Shabbat clothes.

Should anything different be happening at home, however insignificant you think it is, please do let us know. The smallest of changes can have an impact on a child's mood or behaviour and knowing things in advance helps us to be aware of possible changes and be ready to offer support. These might include but are not limited to, a parent being away from home on business, a member of the family being in hospital, a bereavement, a break in etc 

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg.

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Week ending 24/1/20

Maths

• Add one digit and two digit numbers to 20, including 0

• Counting on and recording in different ways: number lines, 10 frames, number sentences
• Very easy game -http://www.hbschool.com/activity/numberline1_5_04/
• Counting on and back - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

English

• Grammar - plurals - adding "s" to a noun
• Dear Zoo story - Letter writing to ask the Zoo to send an animal (links with Science and Geography)
• Comprehension - Mammals

Other

• Geography - Packing a case for a Safari holiday, discussing weather conditions in Kenya
• Science - characteristics of mammals
• Chagigat Siddur - please make sure that the children practise their lines and the song

As a school we have decided to take part in the Warm Smile initiative. It does not involve raising  any money, just performing acts of kindness. Please see the details attached.

Next Friday, 31st January, is Blue-ish Jewish Day. Children should dress in blue and bring a £1 donation (see below).

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 17/01/20

This week we enjoyed finding out about the continents and seas of the world. We located Africa and Kenya on a world map. We listened to the 'Just So' story by Rudyard Kipling called The Elephant's Child. It explains how the elephant came to have such a long trunk. We also read the story of Anansi and his Eight Thin Legs. The children enjoyed writing sentences about their favourite part of the story. Please ask the children to tell you about the stories and what they liked.

In Maths, we worked on making teen numbers using different pictures, words, digits and mathematical apparatus. The children learnt that the numbers 11 - 19 are made up of 1 ten and some ones. 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/

In Science, we had fun sorting animals into 5 different groups. We learnt a catchy song too. See link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHYi4fqeEdw

In class we will be reading to the children for 10 minutes each day and this can be included in the daily minutes for the Everyone Reads Challenge.

Thank you to those children who have bringing Tzedakah on a Friday. Our charity until the end of the month is Spread a Smile. 

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 13th December

Year 1 have now completed their first term in "Big School" and have learnt so many new things. Please continue to read with your child during the holidays and if you have time take them to the library. Here are some online sight words/phonic games some children might like to play: 

https://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurEggs_phonics/mobile/

https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/sightwords

This week the children have been rehearsing for their performance today and are looking forward to entertaining everyone.

The children really enjoyed their time at Forest School and in our English lessons they wrote about all the different activities and which ones they liked best. 

With the General Election in mind, Kerem held their own elections. The candidates from Year 5 explained their manifestos and yesterday the children voted for 3 parties: Vision, Transform and Tomorrow. The Transform Party won the Kerem Election.

Wishing you Shabbat Shalom, Chanukah Sameach and a lovely holiday.

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 6th December 

It’s hard to believe that we only have one week left of term. The children have worked hard and we are delighted with the progress they have made. 

Thank you to those parents who met with us on Monday and to those who joined our last session of Forest School.

This week:

Maths

• Naming 2D and 3D shapes and describing their properties
• 2D shape investigation - arranging 4 triangles to try and make a rectangle, trapezium and parallelogram

English

• Rhyming words - introducing onset and rime
• Rhyming poems - Have you seen ....
• Chanukah riddles - see below

Art

• Collage in the style of Piet Mondrian 

Other

• End of term show - boys to wear denim jeans and a plain coloured t-shirt, girls to wear a denim/plain skirt and plain coloured t-shirt
• Finding out about the way Scottish children celebrate St Andrew’s Day

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg 

Week ending 29.11.19

Thank you to those parents who came to the Consultation Evening on Wednesday. We looking forward to meet the remaining parents on Monday.

Kerem Cares Tzedakah are raising money for Spread a Smile (see the beautiful posters below made by Annabelle and Ariel). Please remember to bring tzedakah on a Friday.

This week

Maths

• Subtraction - counting back on a number line
• Subtraction - finding the difference

English

• Rhyming words
• Rhyming poems

Other

• Newsbites
• Art - completing collage portraits in the style of Picasso
• Please remember that parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles etc are invited to join the children at Forest School next Thursday 
• Please make sure that your child's coat is named

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 22/11/19

Thank you for supporting our event to raise money for Grief Encounter. Please see our purple class photo below.

This week:

English 

• Writing holiday news
• Writing their own idea for the "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?" story
• Sentence writing about brown bears
• Topsy and Tim Help a Friend (link to Anti Bullying Week) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhH9NCtaZt8&feature=share

Maths

• Introducing our new topic of subtraction
• Using structured apparatus to find how many left
• Formal subtraction calculations e.g. 10 - 6 =
• 1step subtraction word problems
• Vocabulary - subtract, minus, take away, less, less than

Other

• Art - Collage portrait in the style of Picasso
• Weekly Newsbites

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 14/11/11

Maths Week

The children have had great fun this week.

Monday - Finding domino totals and solving a puzzle to arrange dominoes in different ways

Tuesday - Maths Quiz - see photos 

Wednesday - Maths carousel activities - working as teams to crack the code

There have also been Maths competitions each day.

English/French

• Story - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• Story - Ours brun, dis-mois ce que tu vois? The children learnt the French words for the animals and the colours

Children’s Grief Awareness Week UK/Mitzvah Day

As you know Sunday is Mitzvah Day. At Kerem our mitzvah will be to raise money for the charity Grief Encounter. On Wednesday 20th November Kerem is going 'PURPLE' (see flyer below). As it’s a PE day please adapt your child’s PE kit accordingly e.g. purple T-shirt/sweatshirt/socks/hairband. Please bring a donation £2. 

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely long weekend!

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 8/11/19

Maths

• Continued with number bonds to 10 and 20
• Early addition
• Using ten frames to set out sums as both picture and number equations
• Please practise so that your child  learns by heart all the bonds for the numbers:

             5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1oa6o0fMKk

              6  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIyEWSoz9UY

              7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-PD8cUAvys

              8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtsVRgXt8CM

              9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoOrRWYtv9c

            10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9tjBUiXs0

English/History/Art

• The Gunpowder Plot – Sequencing the story, writing captions and sentences
• Story – Sparks in the Sky
• Creative writing - Firework Senses poem
• Firework paintings

Forest School

• The children sang their way to Forest School
• The children had great fun playing the game Hunter, Mouse, Fox
• Learning how to use secateurs to cut willow branches
• Craft activities - using willow to create dream catchers, crowns and stars

Maths Week

• Next week is Maths Week at Kerem and there will be lots of exciting activities for the children.

Other

• Please check that your child’s coat has a loop so that it doesn’t fall off the peg.

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 1/11/19

Thank you for the wonderful autumn photos which are now on display. If you haven’t sent a photo of your child in an autumn setting, please do so asap.

Letters for school

If you have any letters to send to school, please ask your child to post them in the letterbox which is outside the office.

This week:

Maths

• Addition- using the part whole model e.g. the whole is 8 and the two parts are 6 and 2, what else could they be? The whole is 7, one part is 4, what is the other part?
• Number facts to 10
• Games to play
• http://www.ictgames.com/saveTheWhale/
• http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/funkyMummy/index.html - find the missing number to make 10

English

• Creative writing - rhyming witch's spells

Geography

• Naming and locating the 4 countries of the UK
• Aerial photos/Birds Eye View of London and the local area
• Line map of our journey to school

Art

• Using colour to portray happy or sad emotions in a portrait 
• Looking at some of Picasso's portraits

Other

• Please send Tzedakah on a Friday
• Please make sure that the boys have 3 clips in their kippot so that they don't fall off
• All homework folders should be returned in the plastic wallets
• Poppies are being sold at school next week
• Please see the flyer from the Tikkun Olam group

Have a lovely weekend and Shabbat Shalom,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 25/10/19

We hope that you had a lovely Succot and half term.

Next week:

Homework

• Spelling homework will be sent home on Monday. 
• Spelling tests will be on a Friday
• Handwriting 
• Please cover the green homework folder with sticky back plastic
• Please return the folder in the zip wallet every Friday

Autumn photos

• Please email an photo of your child in an autumn setting for our classroom display

Diwali

• Diwali starts on Sunday. Ask your child to tell you what they have learnt about Diwali.

Snacks

• Please do not send sweets for club snacks

Tzedakah

• Please send every Friday

Shabbat Shalom,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 11/10/19

This has been another very short week.

In Maths we have been using a number line to compare numbers and solve word problems. We have now completed our unit on Place Value. Please continue to play the online Maths games.

In English the children have been working hard to develop their reading skills. Please make sure that they continue to read daily during the holidays. 

In PSHE we voted for children to represent Year 1 on the Kerem Cares Councils. Well done to the following children:

Tzedakah - Ariel and Annabelle

Kehilla - Ollie and Ofri

Tikun Olam - Joey and Sophia

We had a wonderful time at Forest School this week. Thank you so much to all the adults who participated. The children have learnt so much this term and enjoyed sharing their knowledge. This week we ventured deep into the forest to build dens. The children listened carefully about how to make timber hitch knots and worked successfully in teams to tie ropes between two trees. They then used mallets to fix twigs to secure a tarpaulin. They decorated their tents with leaves and some children painted their faces with camouflage. We had so much fun and cannot wait to see what adventures we will all have next half term at Forest School.

Tzedakah - Please send every Friday

Wishing you Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 4/10/19

Our week is shown in the photos below. Please discuss them with your child.

The children in Year 1 have been listening carefully and focusing well. Well done Year 1, you have made us very proud.

We didn't vote for the 3 councils today as only 1 child had prepared a short manifesto. We would like Year 1 to participate, so please find time over the weekend to discuss the 3 councils with your child (see previous emails and blog). Voting will now take place on Monday and 2 children will be elected for each council.

Shabbat Shalom and Gmar Chatima Tova,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

JEWISH. STUDIES - 2 October 2019

Dear Parents

I was delighted to hear that many of the children proudly showed you their Rosh Hashana booklet that they made for the Chag.

Most of the children have brought the folder (with booklet intact) back to school, however there are a few who haven’t, please send the folder back to school tomorrow as the Yom Kippur booklet will be added at the end of this week.

Thank you

Mrs Roodyn

Week ending 27.9.19

English

• This week our work was based on the story Peace at Last (see link below)
• Grammar - writing sentences

Maths

• Comparing numbers
• Vocabulary - more than, greater than, most, least, less than, fewer, equals (see videos of children below)
• Introducing the signs < , > and =
• Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Efzu2slaI  
• Game to play: https://gb.education.com/game/less-than-greater-than/

Other

• Art - Peace at Last, "Do Not Disturb" signs
• Geography - 4 countries of the UK

Kerem Cares Councils 

• Please see the email sent this week
• Voting - Friday 4th
• If your child would like to represent Year 1 on any of these councils, please help them to prepare a couple of sentences explaining why they would make a good class rep e.g. I would like to be on the Kerem Cares Tzedakah because I have lots of ideas and want to help children who are unwell ...

Reminders

• Please label all items of clothing
• Please label fruit/vegetable snacks
• Tzedakah on a Friday

Shabbat Shalom and Shana Tova Umetukah,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Jewish Studies

Dear Parents,

The children have enjoyed learning about Rosh Hashana and are really proud of their Yom Tov booklets that they have carefully written and decorated. Please enjoy spending time looking through them with your children.

When the children return to school after Rosh Hashana please return their Chag folders to school with their Rosh Hashana booklet still intact.  Each Chag will have its own booklet placed in this folder.

Wishing you all a Shana Tova

Mrs Roodyn

Week ending 20/9/19

Maths

• Counting forwards and backwards from any given number
• 1 more/1 less
• Game for home: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/chopper-squad
• 1:1 correspondence
• Number words - some children might want to practise recognising and reading number words (https://www.primarygames.com/Number%20Game/question_5.htm)

English

• Story Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis - matching words to pictures
• Story Not a Box by Antoinette Portis - using their imaginations to generate a list of what the box could be if it wasn't a box
• Phonics - igh, oa
• Handwriting - ladder letters l, i, t, u, j, y. Please practise at home- j and y sit on the line 

Geography - Our Country

• Story - Town Mouse and Country Mouse
• Discussion - differences between features of the countryside and town
• Sorting pictures - Countryside or Town

Art

• Completing self-portraits

Reminder

• Please label snacks
• Please remember to send tzedakah on a Friday

On Monday we look forward to welcoming Alexander Slutski to our class. We are excited to meet him and hope that he will be very happy at Kerem.

Have a lovely weekend and Shabbat Shalom,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 15/09/19

We have completed our first full week!

Here's a snapshot:

Maths

• Sorting objects
• Identifying and representing numbers using objects and pictures (see photos)
• Counting, reading and writing numbers
• Try: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/blast-off

English

• Spaces between words (see photos)
• Holiday writing
• Handwriting - Rainbow capitals
• Phonics - revision of sounds - ai, ee
• Listening skills - please reinforce good listening at home, play games like Simon Says

Other

• The children enjoyed their first session at the gym
• Art - self-portraits
• Forest School photos (see below)

Reminders

• School ends at 3.20, please arrive on time as the children get upset
• Please send 2 snacks - please label as the apples look the same!
• Please send Tzedakah on a Friday
• Please clearly label all items of clothing

It was lovely to meet all of you on Wednesday evening and we look forward to receiving the information about your children.

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg

Week ending 6/9/19

Year 1 have had a great start to the new term, becoming familiar with new teachers and new routines.

The children have worked hard at concentrating and listening this week. We have spent time introducing them to their classroom and teaching them about the routines of the school day. They have listened well and are learning to following instructions carefully. Soon it will all be second nature to them ....

So that the children can develop their love for reading, home readers have been sent home today. The children are continuing with their Reception reading levels and these will be adjusted accordingly in the next few weeks. Please write a short comment in the reading journal. Books should be returned on Monday.

On Thursday afternoon, the children had a wonderful first session at Forest School. They thoroughly enjoyed meeting up with the leaders again after the summer holidays. The children were all very enthusiastic and had remembered so much from last year. We all had fun identifying different leaves on a detective hunt. They learnt about some different types of leaves and what trees they came from. We also worked collaboratively in pairs to twist together coloured string in order to produce a strong form of rope. We had so much fun and cannot wait to see what next week has in store. 

The weather on Thursday was lovely, but please check the weather every Thursday morning and supply waterproof or warmer clothing if necessary. 

Please note that our contact email is year1@keremschool.co.uk

At pick up time, children should be collected from the teacher. 

We would like to extend a very warm welcome to Yonat and her family. We hope that they will be very happy at Kerem.

Finally, we are looking forward to meeting with those of you who can attend the Meet the Teacher evening next Wednesday. 

Shabbat Shalom and have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Borman and Mrs Rosenberg