Rabbit Class
WELCOME TO YEAR 1!
Teacher: Miss Stonehouse
TAs: Mrs Norris and Mrs Potter
Welcome to Term 3! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year. 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 3 Termly Overview
Term 3
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 3, we will be focusing on place value to 20. We will then be using this knowledge to begin to add and subtract within 20.
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 0-10, and that all numbers are formed correctly.
- Practise counting with your child and encourage 1-1 correspondence, for example putting the correct number of objects with a numeral.
- Regularly talk about number with your child, asking them questions such as 'What is 1 more than 4?' White Rose have an app available on the app store called 'White Rose 1 minute Maths'. It would be great to focus on the category 'Subitising' to begin this term if you would like additional practise. This is something we are focusing on during our 'Mastering number' sessions whereby the children can recognise a number without counting.
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 3, 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.
Writing
This term, we are focusing on the book 'Topsy and Tim visit London'. We will be learning the skills needed to write an information text based on London. We will continue to develop our sentence construction skills as well as grammar.
This is linked to our topic 'Bright lights big city' and we are focusing on London. It would be great to fully immerse your child in everything about London including the great fire of London which we will begin exploring in Term 4. If you complete any work/research about London at home, I would love to see it!
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
Bright Lights, Big City
This is our overarching project for terms 3 and 4. This project will teach us about the capital city of England, London. We are going to find out about famous landmarks, transport and history. We'll be stepping back in time to discover what happened in the Great Fire of London. Where did it start? Where did it end? We'll be making our own bread just like the bakery on Pudding Lane. Afterwards, we'll need to get a black cab and think about how to make our own moving taxi!
As part of our Connected Curriculum, we also have smaller companion projects focusing on other areas of the curriculum. These include:
Rain and Sunrays Seasonal changes Taxi!