Ladybirds - Year 1
Hello Ladybirds and welcome to our class page!
I hope you have had a restful and relaxing Easter break and are ready for an exciting new term of learning in Year 1.
This term our topic is called Out of this World. It is a history based topic that will be focussed on the question ‘How does Neil Armstrong and Tim Peake’s achievements compare to The Wright Brothers?’ We will be looking at some lovely books in English, focussing on the topic of space withing our science lessons and focussing on using google documents within computing. In mathematics, we will be looking at counting in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s, looking at multiplication and division (through sharing) and continuing to develop our confidnce of number bonds.
At the bottom of this page there are links to resources to support your child in their phonics.
Below is a link to this terms topic map as well as some additional writing resources to support your child at home.
Term 5 Topic Map - Out of this World!
Term 3 Topic Map - The First Flight
Term 2 Topic Map - Where I Live
Writing
At school, we ensure that we undertake a range of writing, including letters, postcards, diaries and cards. This is to allow the children to apply the basic skills of writing in a variety of ways. We want the children to be confident in generating their own ideas for writing as well as regularly and independently including the use of capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We encourage the use of adjectives to provide interest and work regularly on letter formation.
Below are some additional writing activities that you could do with your child to develop confidence. Little and often helps support your child greatly.
Reading
Reading is so important and is such an enjoyable aspect of our day. Please continue to read, share and enjoy books at home with you child. You can also continue to practice any sight words that your child may have.
We are encouraging the children to read daily to their buddy bear. Certificates and coloured ribbons will be awarded to the children for their continued participation in reading at home.
Phonics Bug and e-books
At school, we use Bug Club resources during our Phonics lessons and supporting games and e-books are available for children to use to support their learning at home. Please log in to your child's account using their personal log in details, which are on the front of their reading diary.
Phonics Play also has some interactive reading and spelling games for your child to complete.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Phonics Screen
During the summer term, all Year 1 children complete the statutory Phonics Screening Check (PSC). Any child who does not reach the national standard at the end of Year 1 is given extra support during Year 2 to help them achieve the national standard at the end of Key Stage 1.
With the upcoming phonics screen for Year 1 coming up in June, Please find below documents to support your child with the National Phonics Screening Test. These are past papers for you to use with your child at home.
Maths
In maths we are looking at addition and subtraction with 10 and 20.
we will be looking also at place value up to 50 and will also be completing some additions using these numbers
We are continuing to develop our confidence in finding one more and one less than a given number and will be comparing numbers using greater than, less than and equal to.
We will be reviewing and practicing our number bonds to 10 and 20 as well as our doubles.
There are some lovely dances and counting songs that we do regularly with the children in school as well as some fun interactive games.
I have included links to these below.