Class 1

Drawing Club – we will work on our sentences and grammar through ‘Drawing Club’ sessions.  We will write our own sentences and stories based on our focus texts – Beegu, The Lighthouse Keepers Mystery and What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside.

Drawing Club is an approach designed by Greg Bottrill that immerses children into a world full of imagination. We have embraced drawing club and can see the joy it brings to the children. It is through drawing club that we open up the magic world of tales and story to the children whilst at the same time enriching their language skills, developing their fine motor and share a special time with them.

Letters

We will write letters to the children starting school in September to welcome them to our school and to tell them all about Class 1.

Spelling and Maths homework (year 1) will be given out on a Thursday. Please use the ‘look, say, cover, write, check’ technique to help your child to learn them. Please return the spelling and maths homework the following Tuesday or before.

Please remember to read and enjoy books with your child as much as possible, it makes such a difference in so many areas of their learning.

Mathematics – Number and Numerical Patterns

Multiplication and Division

Counting in 2’s, counting in 5’s, counting in 10’s, making arrays, grouping and sharing.

Fractions

Recognise, find, and name a ½ and a ¼ as one of two equal parts of an object, shape or quantity.

Geometry

Describe position and direction.

Number – Place Value

Counting to 100, comparing numbers, partitioning, comparing and ordering numbers.

Measurement

Recognising coins, recognising notes, before and after, time to the hour, time to the half hour, writing time, comparing time.

Reception

Building numbers beyond 10

Adding more

Taking away

Subitise (recognise quantities without counting) above 5.

Automatically recall number bonds for numbers 0-5.

Have a deep understanding of number 10, including the composition of each number.

Automatically recall – without reference to rhymes, counting or other aids – number bonds up to 5.

Recall some number bonds to 10, including doubling facts.

Become familiar with two-digit numbers and start to notice patterns within them.

Counting patterns beyond 10.

Doubling

Sharing and grouping

Even and odd numbers

Compose and decompose shapes so that children recognise a shape can have other shapes within it, just as numbers can.

Select, rotate and manipulate shapes in order to develop spatial reasoning skills.

(Year 1)

Understanding the World

We will first learn what algorithms are and then understand how they work by using the computer and the website Discover Coding to give instructions to make objects on the screen move when the program starts.  We will also combine start events and click events in code to make a simple game.

Reception

We will program Beebot to move in different directions and use the Beebot app on the iPads to make it move on the screen.

Understanding the World – The Natural World

We will decide whether something is living, dead or non-living and explain the differences between living and non-living things. We will also describe how a habitat provides for the basic needs of things living there and describe a range of different habitats.

Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.

Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.

Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changing states of matter.

Forest School for Reception continues Wednesdays with Emma Levan.  If the weather has been wet, please bring wellies on a Wednesday.

(Term 5)

Expressive Arts and Design – Creating with Materials

Painting/colour

We will look at Aboriginal art and the use of colour to explore the primary colours and how they can be used to make secondary colours. We will then make colours lighter or darker by adding white or black to them and begin to mix and match colours to artefacts, images, or objects.

Reception

Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools, and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.

Make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories.

(Term 6)

Expressive Arts and Design – Creating with Materials

In term 6 we will learn to demonstrate a range of joining techniques and cut materials safely using tools provided. We will demonstrate a range of cutting and shaping techniques, use simple pop-ups and understand how simple 3-D textile products are made, using a template to create two identical shapes. We will understand and use the term fabric, textile and material correctly when describing and designing products, understand how to join fabrics using different techniques and discuss and identify what gives a product a good quality finish.

Reception

Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.

Physical Development – Gross Motor Skills

Multi-skills

Expressive Arts and Design – Being Imaginative and Expressive

We will use Charanga to explore how different sounds can be organised and identify and organise sounds using simple criteria e.g. loud, soft, high low.

Reception

Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.

Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and (when appropriate) try to move in time with music.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

We will learn to identify and describe where we are on the learning line and explain the stages of the learning line showing an understanding of the learning process. We will explain how germs can be spread, describe simple hygiene routines and explain the importance of good dental hygiene. We will also recognise that exercise and sleep are important to health, name major internal body parts and understand that the body gets energy from food, water and oxygen.

Growing and Changing

We name major internal body parts (heart, lungs, blood, stomach, intestines, brain) and understand and explain the simple bodily processes associated with them.  We will also identify things they could do as a baby, a toddler and can do now and identify the people who help/helped them at those different stages.

Reception

Growing & Changing –

Changes – Seasons, Life stages – plants, animals, humans

Life Stages

Life Stages: Human life stage – who will I be?

Changing bodies

Getting bigger. Me and my body – girls and boys