Year 1 Archive
Year 1 Spring 2014 - 2
In Year 1 throughout Spring 2 our areas and topics of learning this term are:
Science: Living/non living... plants, animals, humans.
As part of the topic we will look at and sort things into living and not living. We will investigate what all living things need to survive and thrive. We will especially concentrate on plants by planting and investigating seeds.
Role play area:
Our role play area is starting off as a Garden Centre but this area may change as the term progresses.
Art:
We will be looking at some of the work of Vincent Van Gough and Georgia O’Keefe, especially their flower art, so that we can produce our own work inspired by what we see. We will be working in paper, oil pastels and water colour and using some tone in our creative work. We will be looking at real flowers to inspire our own work too.
We may also use seeds to create a piece of art and use IT to design a picture.
Literacy:
Stories with repeating patterns (Fiction)
We will use ‘Bring the Rain to Kapati’ and ‘Handa’s Hen’ as two of our main texts. We will be using description in our work.
Traditional Tales (Fiction)
We will be listening to an oral story, and reading two main texts: ‘The House that Jack Built’ and ‘Anancy and Mr Dry Bone’ to discuss settings, plots and characters. We will be writing our own versions of the stories.
Humorous Poems (Poetry)
Humerous poetry will give the children the opportunity to explore capital letters. The children will consider ways to join sentences together and how to write creatively.
Numeracy
Our main focus of learning will be:
Number and place value in two or three digit numbers
Addition and subtraction including money
Number bonds
Measures: weight
Doubles and halves.
Measuring length, including finding the difference.
R/E
We will be covering a unit about ‘Following Jesus’.
We will consider how Jesus chose 12 special friends but that he also chooses us.
We will hear and respond to the story of ‘The Good Samaritan’.
We will think about how we can welcome Jesus into our homes, lives and families this Lent.
We will reflect on ‘Good Friday’.
Welcome back after the half term and we hope you all had a lovely break.
May you and your child enjoy this half term.
Mrs Farmer.
In Year 1 throughout Spring 1 our areas and topics of learning this term are:
Science:
Pushes and pulls/forces.
We will think about how things move and that pushes and pulls are examples of forces.
We will look at and investigate toys and playground equipment.
History:
As part of this topic your child will consider how vehicles have changed over the years and we will look particularly at cars and bikes.
Geography:
We will be looking at maps and following routes.
The children will be considering how they get to school and using the data to create graphs.
Design:
We will be designing and making moving toys.
Role play area:
Our role play area is starting off as a Mechanics’ Garage but this area may change as the term progresses.
Literacy:
Stories with repeating patterns (Fiction).
We will use ‘Bring the Rain to Kapati’ and ‘Handa’s Hen’ as two of our main texts.
Instructions (Non fiction):
We will use two humorous non fiction texts to inspire the children to give, receive and write instructions.
‘Don’t Let the pigeon stay up late’ and ‘Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus’ by Mo Willems.
Information (Non Fiction):
‘The Usborne Book of Big Machines’ will complement and support our topic on pushes and pulls with the children encouraged to find out about big machines and what they can do. We will also make up a fantasy vehicle and write labels and captions.
Numeracy:
Our main focus of learning will be:
Number and place value
Addition and subtraction including money
Number bonds
Measures: weight
Time: o’clock and half past
Doubles and halves.
Odds and evens
Data: collecting and sorting data in pictograms and graphs.
R/E:
Families and celebrations
Belonging to a family
The family of Jesus
Jesus in the temple
Our church family and Baptism
Welcome back after the Christmas holiday and we hope you all had a lovely break.
May you and your child enjoy this new 2014 term.
Mrs Farmer
Year 1 Autumn 2013 - 2 Overview.
Welcome back to all the children and their parents. This half term is another busy one.
Literacy
Fiction.... We are using ‘Owl Babies’ and ‘ Oscar and The Bat’ to inspire us in writing a story about a bat. We are looking at writing a beginning, a middle and an ending.
Non Fiction... We are using different sources... books, sites and powerpoint slides to research bats or owls. We are creating our own non fiction texts.
We are looking at the features of non fiction texts so that we can decide what to include in our own work.
We are looking at Glossaries and Indexes so that we can see how to include these in our own work.
Stories with repeating patterns.... We are using ‘ Harvey Slumfenberger’ by John Burningham to improve our own writing. We will be learning a repeated phrase and creating our own sequences of events..
We will be describing Fr Christmas.
Numeracy
- Doubling numbers to at least 5+5
- Halving by sharing by 2 to find even and odd numbers.
- Naming, describing and sorting 2D shapes.
- Finding 1/10 more/less.
- Finding 2 more/less.
- Partitioning 10s into pairs and writing additions.
- Partitioning 6, 7 and 10.
- Adding by counting on.
We are reciting and ordering days of the week and months.
We are practising our counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and number bonds.
Our topic is LIGHT and DARK...
We are thinking about Diwali and we have a visitor or two to help us with this.
We are tasting Indian food, listening to stories, learning Indian dance and using role play to investigate story.
We are looking at what makes the dark light, naming light sources and investigating light.
We are creating dark and light pictures and looking at ‘The Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gogh to inspire our own pictures.
R/E... Advent and Mary’s Story.
We hope your child enjoys the half term.
Mrs Farmer.
This is a busy term and of course we will be thinking about Christmas through our art, story and R/E lessons.
Welcome to the first term of Year 1
Dear Parents/Carers
Welcome to the first term of Year 1. I hope you and your child/children had a happy holiday and that you enjoyed the better weather and rain!
Here are a few general details to try to make the transition for you and your child into Year 1 an easier one:
P/E - Monday and Thursday
Your child must have a full P/E kit to take part.
No jewellery allowed at any time.
Spellings - Friday
Topic - Senses/Ourselves
NOTE - PLEASE WOULD YOU SEND IN YOUR CHILD’S FAVOURITE TOY THIS WEEK (Wed 4th SEPT) .
PLEASE LABEL ALL YOUR CHILD’S CLOTHES AS THINGS CAN SO EASILY GO MISSING.
ALSO
Your child will receive a homework wallet . Please look after this and its contents and send it in with your child each week by Tuesday.
Your child will have a number task most weeks and this may be to learn something off by heart like number bonds or counting or to do a set piece of work on paper or practically.
EACH WEEK
Please help your child to learn their spellings and to read their reading book.
Thank you.
Mary Farmer
Autumn 1 2013
This term we will be covering these areas:
Literacy
- Stories with familiar settings and relating to own experiences of toys.
- Role play in a toy shop.
- Poems... the senses.
- Signs and labels.
We will be learning to write in sentences and to improve our writing.
Numeracy
- Ordering numbers, place value and partitioning teen(17,18 etc) numbers.
- Adding up, including adding money, and taking away.
- Telling the time and events in the day... o’clock and half past.
- Measuring length.
- Counting in ones and tens.
- Halving shapes...... Recognising and finding the fractions ½ and ¼.
- Doubling numbers up to 5.
- Knowing odd and even numbers.
- Ordering the days of the week and months of the year.
Some of these things can be practised at home in little tasks and practical activities. Please call in to school to see me if you want help with ideas for this and look out for any homework sent home
Topic
Our topic this term is senses and ourselves and there will be plenty of opportunity to investigate the senses through science investigations.
I am hoping to create a senses workshop in our role play area after a couple of weeks. We will be linking our literacy work to this topic with a focus on senses poems and with story and using our favourite toys as an inspiration for some speaking, listening, role play and writing.
Art
We will be drawing portraits and using toys as well to inspire our creative side.
R/E
- God made me and loves me.
- God’s wonderfully created world.
Geography
A simple map/plan.
History
A brief look at old and new toys
Year 1 Summer Term 2013 - 2
Class 1 Year 1.... areas covered during Summer 2 term.
Welcome back to all the children after the half term. It is lovely to be back with you.
Literacy.
Traditional stories... retelling familiar events and acting out stories. Recognising and using repeated story language., describing characters, writing simple stories.
Fantasy alien stories.... reading, recapping and writing their own story. Describe and create an alien. Illustrate their work.
Instructions... following and writing simple instructions.
Poems.... using interesting words and description to write verses for poems. Performing a favourite poem.
Recounting.... recount a real event and using good time openers.
Numeracy
Number sequences
Odd and even
Addition and subtraction including adding 9
Problem solving set in real life
Money... totals and change
Capacity
Organising data and solving problems.
Topic
Materials... sorting and using, describing properties.
R/E
Miracles
Year 1 Summer Term 2013
Topic: Space
We have learned about our solar system, we have learned lots about different planets and can name them, in order. We have done some fantastic alien silhouette art work, using chalk. We have studied the moon landings and have designed and made our own moon buggies, space stations and rockets.
Literacy: We have studied the story of ‘Beegu’ the alien and written postcards as Beegu to our parents in space. We have written our own space stories using drama and role play and have written descriptions of aliens and planets.
Numeracy: We have been learning to tell the time. We have been working on adding and subtracting ten using number lines. We have been learning how to balance additions. We have been working with money- recognising coins and their values and how to pay for things.
Year 1 Spring Term 2013
Topic: Our topic has been ‘Colours of the world’ we have learned the colours of the rainbow, made colour spinners and looked at the link between colours and the way we feel. We have used the work of Piet Mondrian to inspire some art work using different mediums.
We have listened to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and devised movement/dance pieces based on each season.
We have explored the colours of Africa- looking more deeply into the culture, music and wildlife of the continent.
Literacy: In literacy we have been looking at the story of The Rainbow Fish, we have explored the themes of the story through drama and role play. We have sequenced the main events and retold the story.
We have looked at the children’s author Julia Donaldson and written book reviews for our favourite stories.
Numeracy: In numeracy we have been learning our number bonds to 10 and 20. We have been learning about one more and one less. We have looked at doubling and halving.
We have collected data about our favourite colour and produced pictograms and bar charts.
Dear Parents.
Welcome to Class 1, Year 1.
Some reminders
P/E..... Tuesday and Thursday
Your child must have a full P/E kit to take part.
No Jewellery allowed.
Spellings... Fridays.
Topic... Autumn 1.... senses.
Homework... Your child will receive a homework wallet. Please look after this and its contents. (100 square, number line, pencil)
Your child will have a number or maths task each week. We try to send this Thursday or Friday and you should return it by Tuesday at the latest.
Please let us know if you experience any problems.
Please label ALL your child’s clothes as things can go missing.
Thanks,
M Farmer.
Class 1 year 1 Autumn Term
During this half term Class 1 will be covering the following things:
In Literacy......
Stories with repeating patterns and from a range of cultures.
Instructions.... Including Reading "Oi Get off our Train" by John Burningham and looking at orders and commands.
Christmas .... poems and letters. .... Reading Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas present.
In Numeracy.....
One/two more/less
Shape: position/direction
2D and 3D shapes
Count on 2,3,4. Put the largest number first to add.
Time... recognise o’clock.
Days of week and months
Doubles.
Halves of shapes.
In Science......
Light and dark....
Sources of light.
In ART and D/T.....
Based on "A Starry Night" by Van Gogh.
Making a moving shadow puppet.
