Year 1
Welcome to Year One!
Teacher: Miss Johnston
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Terry (Monday, Wednesday-Friday)
Key Information:
PE - Wednesday and Thursday
Phonics Wallets: Due back each Thursday
Reading Practise Books: Due back each Thursday
Library book: Due back each Thursday
Phonics Screening Check Meeting
Thank you to all parents who joined me for the phonics screening check meeting. If you didn't manage to make it, click the link below to see the information from the meeting. Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions you still have.
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If you'd like to play some phonics games to help practise reading alien words, here are two fun ones!
https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/odd-and-bob?phase=5
https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/phonics-frog?phase=5
Spring Term
This term we will be spending more time working as a class and less time choosing our own learning.
In English we will be watching the moving image 'Once in a Lifetime' to inspire our English writing. We will be drawing on our knowledge of our science unit to write a report on our favourite reptiles using the 'Big Book of Beasts' as an example. We will be reading and writing our own seaside poems before finishing the year writing stories using 'Stick Man' and some of our Intrepid Explorers from our geography unit as stimuli.
In Maths we will continue to consolidate our understanding of place value to 100 and continue to use our known facts to derive related subtraction and addition. We will learn how to find half and quarter of shapes and number linking them to our understanding of telling the time to the quarter hour. We will continue to count in groups of 2, 5, 10 and use all of our knowledge to solve mathematical problems.
Our topics units will focus history, including comparing the lives of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria. We will also be exploring the world with our Intrepid Explorers unit, focused on Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong. In Science we will think about how to classify animals and conduct some experiments into plant growth. We will continue to learn and compare the faiths of Christianity and Sikhism. We would welcome any parents who have any expertise in any of our units this term to come and visit us in class!
Later in the term we would love to organise a visit to our local library - watch this space!
Reptile Visits!
This week, we have been lucky to have a visit from a tortoise! This has helped us consolidate our knowledge of reptiles. We have learned that tortoises lay eggs, have scales and a backbone. We know that they have claws and legs like some other reptiles too.
Links to Home Learning Websites:
Phonics:
Monster Phonics Screening Test
Maths:
App - White Rose 1 minute maths