This week’s Learning in Year 1 at a glance

Year 1

Learning Link:

Homes and Families

Animal Hunt

At the end of the term the children will take part in a S=P+A+C+E themed challenge to practise the skills they have learnt during their first term in Year 1.

Mrs Terracotta – mrsterracotta@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Mrs Nardini – mrsnardini@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Year 1 curriculum evening presentation

Year Group Reminders

Week A

Weekly reminders:

Monday: School Closed

Tuesday: Reading books returned and story sacks to go home.

Wednesday: PE kit to be worn for 1T & 1D

Friday: Story sack to be returned to school. Mufti – bring in a bottle for the Christmas Fayre.

Any other reminders:

SCHOOL IS CLOSED ON MONDAY

Friday 6^th December – wear a Christmas Jumper and Accessories and donate to CAFOD world gifts. Bring a bottle for the Christmas Fayre.

Wednesday 11^th is Christmas Lunch

Friday 13^th is Christmas Shopping Day

Please can we ask that you and your child look after all the items in the story sacks. It took a very long time to put this lovely resource together for the children to enjoy and some of the items are already getting lost or broken. Thank you

12^th December is the Year 1 Advent Service.  Please help your child learn their line if they have one.  Please see the following link to some of the songs for the service.  Can you listen to them with your child and help them learn the words please.  Thank you.

Child in a Manger Born

Away in a Manger

All children should be sent in with a coat as it is getting very cold.

Please make sure your child has a named water bottle and an individual snack (1 piece of fruit or 1 piece of veg) for every day.

‘Space for me’ (Show and Tell) 

·         This will take place on Friday 6^th December BLUE GROUP ONLY.

·         Please bring in something to do with our learning at school.              Here are some ideas to help you.

·         Maths:  Addition and Subtraction

·         RE:

·         Science: We will be digging up the materials that we buried and looking at what is compostable.

·         Geography: We are learning about the 5 main oceans of the world.

Reading for Pleasure

1D: How Many Legs

1T: The Littlest Watchman

RE

LC:  The Angels brought the message of Jesus’ birth to the shepherds

·         I wonder why God sent his Angels?

·         What does this part of the story show us about who Jesus really was.

·         How did the shepherds feel when they saw the Angels?

·         We will be thinking about how the shepherds felt when they saw Jesus.

English

LC: We are learning about Proper nouns and why they always have a capital letter.

Reading

·         Reading for pleasure book or story sack (non decodable, to be shared or read with an adult):  Sent out Monday return on Friday.

·         Little Wandle Reading book:  (decodable, to read to an adult):  Sent out Friday return on Monday.

•      Please record all reading in their reading record books.

•      If it is a school book please record the name of the book followed by (RS).  RS = Reading Scheme.

•      If it is a book they have chosen to read for pleasure, record the name of the book followed by (RP).  RP = reading for pleasure.

Focus vocabulary this week: capital letter, finger spaces, tricky words, full stop, nouns, proper nouns and adjectives.

Reading and Phonics

SPAG

We have been learning about proper nouns like Mrs Terracotta and why they should always have a capital letter.  We have been thinking of adjectives to describe these nouns to make our writing more interesting.

Maths

We will be continuing to look at subtraction.  We will be using a number line to subtract. Children can work out a subtraction number sentence by counting how many steps back on a number line they need to jump to arrive at the answer, recognising that the number of steps is one of the numbers in the subtraction. Children can relate the – sign to counting back.

Science

We will be digging up the materials we buried in the garden before half term to see how compostable they are.  What has broken down best out of the wood, metal, paper and plastic.

DT

Computing

LC: We will be continuing to learn about technology and how to use a computer.

History

We will be looking at how many continents there are, naming them all and locating them in our Atlas.

French

Music

PE

Develop key movement skills which include balance, jump, hop, run, speed, agility, dodge, skip, coordination.

Balls skills

Track a moving ball and move their body to intercept or catch. Beginning to dribble a ball with my hands and feet. Throw overarm. Work cooperatively with a partner. Recognise changes in my body when I do exercise.

Sending and receiving

Throw and catch over varying distances. Develop rolling and tracking skills. Applying sending and receiving skills with your feet.

Learning for Life

Homework

Enjoy your story sack from Tuesday 3^rd December to Friday 6^th December

Reading Record books will go home on a Tuesday or Wednesday.  Please write all your child’s reading in here.

•      If it is a school book please record the name of the book followed by (RS).  RS = Reading Scheme.

•      If it is a book they have chosen to read for pleasure, record the name of the book followed by (RP).  RP = reading for pleasure.

Keep using your phonics cards to practice your letters and sounds. This should be done little and often.  This really helps bed in your children’s learning and improves their reading massively.  Have you tried a treasure hunt with your phonics cards around a room to make it more fun.  Please also practice the tricky words.  They have quite a lot to learn now and some children find them difficult.  The more we practice the easier it is for them to learn them.  Little and often.  We use them as passwords to get in the classroom.  Maybe you could get your child to make a password for you all for something.  They love writing them as passwords.