Rabbit Class
WELCOME TO YEAR 1!
Teacher: Miss Stonehouse
TAs: Mrs Norris and Mrs Potter
Welcome to Term 5! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter break and managed to spend time with friends and families. On this page, you will find all the information you may need for the term. Similarly, we will share updates on the Dojo page as and when required. You will also find weekly updates on the Dojo page so you can see what learning your child has been doing each week.
If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Year 1 information booklet
Term 5 Termly Overview
Term 5
Maths
In Maths, we follow the White Rose Maths scheme of learning. Below you will find the overview for the year. We follow this, however, if we feel that the children need extra consolidation of a topic/concept, we may spend a longer time covering this.
In Term 5, we firstly will be completing our unit on mass and volume. We have 1 week left of this and then we are going to move on to multiplication and division. We are going to be starting to explore our 2, 5 and 10 times tables so any additional practise at home would be great!
We know lots of you love to continue Maths learning at home, therefore I have listed some ways in which your can support your child this term.
- Ensure your child can read and write numbers 0-50, and that all numbers are formed correctly.
- Find 1 more and 1 less than a number between 0 and 100. As an extra challenge, can they find 10 more and 10 less? Using a 100 square will help with this.
- Regularly talk about number with your child, asking them questions such as 'What is 1 more than 24?' White Rose have an app available on the app store called 'White Rose 1 minute Maths'. There is a section on here for multiplication and division so this would be a great start for extra practise at home.
Reading
In Year 1, we will be continuing with Floppy's phonics. Floppy's phonics is a rigorous, easy to use, systematic synthetic teaching programme for early reading and writing success.
We cannot stress enough the importance of listening to your child read at home each day. It will support them significantly with their learning and their consolidation of phonetic knowledge.
Below is the English Alphabetic Code your child uses to help them learn to read. We have a focus sound each week that you child will be developing. This will be linked to their weekly spellings (Please see next subheading).
Spelling
Each week, your child will have spellings to learn. In Term 5, your child will have 10 spellings to learn. These spellings will be linked to the spelling rule your child has learnt that week. Please practise these spellings with your child. We will then have a spelling challenge every Friday morning. You will find your child's spellings in their phonics folder.
Spelling shed
Spelling shed is an online, interactive game whereby children can practise their spellings. Each week, I will set an 'assignment' with the week's spellings on. The children can complete games focusing on these words. There are also lots of other word lists that focus on our Year 1 words so you can still play lots of other games too - not just the assignment part :) This is non-compulsory but I have already noticed the impact it is having on children's confidence in spelling tests therefore would really encourage you to support them to take part. I think it is also available as an app. Your child has their own personal login and password which you will find stuck in to the back of their reading log.
Writing
This term, we are focusing on the book 'Whiffy Wilson - the wolf who wouldn't go to school'. This text is to support our narrative writing. We are going to be unpicking the story, describing the characters' and settings using adjectives before creating our own story with lots of the same elements but adding our own imaginative twists! Throughout the term, we are focusing heavily on our spelling, punctuation and grammar. I know that some children find writing tricky so we are really trying to instil all children with a love for writing. If your child wants to complete any writing at home, it could be a story, poem, diary entry, please do send them in - I would love to see their work and for them to have the opportunity to share with their peers - they will inspire each other!
Whole Class Reading
In addition to phonics, we will be starting Whole Class Reading (WCR) using ICLUE. ICLUE is a set of comprehension based reading symbols that help us to focus more specifically on the different comprehension skills. Each symbol will help us to think about each comprehension target explicitly and enable us to explore these targets in greater depth. These targets are listed below:
Inference and deduction
Choices
Locating and retrieving
Understanding
Empathy
Below is an example text that we use. The children will then answer various questions about the text to develop their comprehension knowledge.
Connected Curriculum
School Days
This is our overarching project for terms 5 and 6. This project will teach us all about our school and the locality (Woodchurch and Ashford), both today and in the past. We will be exploring what school used to be like in the Victorian era and will even experience a day in the life of a Victorian child in school (more info to follow!). We are going to be comparing our own schooling experiences to those of children in the Victorian era.
As part of our Connected Curriculum, we also have smaller companion projects focusing on other areas of the curriculum. These include:
Plant parts Street View