Mrs Allcock, Mrs Masters, Miss Lowe, Miss Newson, Mrs Ziemelis, Miss Wright, Mrs Scott and Ms Mayers welcome you to Year 1. Remember 'You never know what you can do until you try!’
English
Instead of an author of the term, this year we are looking at exploring lots of different books with the children. We encourage the children to talk about books they like to read at home, sometimes they want to bring their books into school and its great to share different stories! Here are some authors that we recommend:
In reading and writing we will be focusing on using our phonics and becoming familiar with a variety of texts.
Challenge yourself to write a shopping list, a postcard or a story at home using these skills.
Mathematics
We begin each session with an interactive activity called ‘Power Up’ where all children have the time to practise previous taught methods and strategies. In future weeks we will be exploring numbers to 50 and measuring length, height weight and volume. Practising skills such as addition, subtraction, place value and using cm and ml to measure.
Spellings are given out each Friday to learn for a test the following week. Please remember to practise little and often and apply each in your independent writing.Spellings will be sent home to learn from Friday 11th October 2019.
Homework is handed out each Friday and to be completed by the following Wednesday.
Activities range from our current English, Mathematic and Topic work.
Topic
In history we are learning about homes from the past and comparing them to modern day homes. We will be looking at Victorian artefacts and discussing these.
Our topic this term is humans and animals. We have currently looked at different parts of the body and the diets of a variety of animals e.g. herbivores, omnivores and carnivores. We will soon be looking at categories of animals such as reptiles, mammals, amphibians and insects.
This term we will using a variety of computer programmes to create pieces of artwork. We will be thinking about using 2D and 3D shapes. The children will learn to use a range of tools on each programme and also will develop their mouse and keyboard skills.
