What a busy spring term we have had! The children have worked hard to retain facts that they have been taught in all their subjects. They have enjoyed learning about Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands. We researched about hot and cold countries including what it is like to live there. Their knowledge of wild and garden plants is growing and we will continue our work about plants into next term. As the weather warms we will be planting lots of flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Everyone’s reading is improving as we develop our phonic knowledge. Phase 5 is quite tricky as there are lots of ways to make the same sound. Our group reading sessions use books and resources from Little Wandle. On Thursdays, children will bring home a copy of the book that they have read in class that week. They must return this the following Thursday in order to take home the new book. We have a limited amount of books so we need to take good care of them. They will continue to bring home a matched Phonics Bug book to support their reading. This can be changed more regularly than once a week. We encourage children to read a book more than once to develop their fluency. Ask your child to read out loud as if they are performing. This will improve their expression and reading to the punctuation. Not all children need to point to each word any more!
The children have really enjoyed the variety of books that we have studied in our English lessons. They love listening to stories and pretending to be the characters in our Hot Seating sessions! Some of the questions and answers are very original and they are having to improvise a lot more.
In maths, they are beginning to multiply by making equal groups and then using repeated addition to find the total. Most children can count forwards in 2s, 5s and 10s. However, all need more help to do this backwards!
Over the Easter break, please start to introduce your child to o’clock and half past using a clock with hands. Most of the clocks we see around our homes are moving to digital: Alexa, phones, tablets, microwave… we still need to learn how to read the time on an analogue clock!
Here is the overview for next term:
Summer 1 Year 1 Curriculum Map
Have wonderful Easter!
Mrs Dowell, Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Savory.