Year 1

Autumn 2

This matrix shows the learning in Y1 across all subjects.

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Y1 Geography Autumn 2

Y1 Science – Autumn 2

 

For Autumn 2 we are using the two books shown above to help inspire our curriculum and learning. Our fiction book is Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett. Our non-fiction book is called ‘What’s the season’ by Ruth Owen which also links in wonderfully with our science unit.

Here are some of the other amazing books by Emily Gravett, why not give them a try?

 

In English we will being using these books to build our writing skills. We are focusing a lot on our sentence structure. After we return from our daily phonics session, each English lesson we will start with a focus on our handwriting where we will focus on individual letters and their handwriting family. After this we move on to dictate a sentence which helps us to hold and write a simple sentence (which also links to the handwriting letter we have practised that day.

To start off this half term, we will use talk for writing to learn the story and create our own actions to help us retell the story of Meerkat Mail. We will write simple sentences to describe a setting. This will be completed over a three week block where it will be modelled as a whole class before the children apply the skills for an independent write (which will be based on personal experiences).

For our non-fiction writing we are going to explore the different features of a booklet where we will then create our own booklet about seasons. At the end of the block we will present our booklets to an audience as a spoken presentation.

Every Friday the children will have a poetry focus where they will continue to explore classic poems and rhyming words.

 

In Maths we will start the half term by continuing with addition and subtraction. To support our lessons, we will be doing lots of practical lessons and using a variety of different resources to help us understand different concepts. We will then move on to shapes where we will be exploring, discussing, and identifying 2D and 3D shapes. Towards the end of the term we will also start to look at place value within 20 where we will use our place value to 10 knowledge and build it upon bigger numbers. Four afternoons a week we will complete a Mastering Number intervention as a class. This will help us to build on our mathematical knowledge and increase our fluency/number fact recall.

This half term our focus is Geography. We will be exploring and identifying where the North Pole, South Pole and Equator is on a map and globe. We will understand that the Poles are cold areas of the world and that the Equator is hot. In a reflection the children will summarise their knowledge of hot and cold places by justifying where they would rather live.

In Science we will be looking seasons and trees. We will be identifying and describing the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees. We will also look at a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.  We will then observe changes across the four seasons and observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.

This half term we are going to create a suitcase for Sunny in our DT lessons. We will be looking at Mechanisms, specifically wheels and axles: We will explore wheels and axels and how they work. Then design our product, create it and finally review it.

In Art, the children will be looking at Andy Goldsworthy. We will use his artistic inspiration to explore and create different sculptures and portraits using natural materials.

In RE we will continue to explore Christianity and learning about how Christians believe Jesus’s birth was seen as ‘good news’. We will explore signs and symbols of celebration including advent and what it looks like and how it is to be thankful.

In computing the children will be exploring ‘Digital Painting’. The skills they will focus on include, moving the cursor with the trackpad and clicking on an icon, saving and retrieving work they have created and using an app to create graphical marks or pictures. In addition to this, each week their will be an online safety focus.

In music we will explore a song called ‘’Rhythm in the way we walk’’ for our reggae style and ‘’Banana rap’’ for our hip-hop style.

We will be doing both indoor and outdoor PE lessons each week. In our indoor PE lessons we will be focusing on dance (The Zoo) and in our outdoor lessons we will be focusing on ball skills (Hands 1). P.E. days are on a Mondays and Fridays, although this can sometimes change, so please ensure you are signed up to Class Dojo as any changes will be announced there.

The children will continue to change their books every Wednesday, at the same time as their library book change. They will then receive a RWI book every 3/4 days depending on which level they are on. Please ensure your child brings their books and reading records in daily and you are reading as much as possible at home, including books of your own. Don’t forget about our reading challenges and badges to collect!

 

Homework

Please read with your child every day, even if it is the same book. The children have access to the Read Write Inc page where they can read and quiz on books that they have read in school. This is a great way to further their reading skills. Again, these reads count towards the reading badge challenge too!

Spellings – please practice the year 1 common exception word spellings whenever possible, a few at a time. These need to be learnt by the end of year 1.

Mental maths – use times in the car and any spare 5 minutes to practice mental maths with your child. This could be adding, subtraction, more than or less than etc. White rose 1 minute maths in a fantastic app to download!