In Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation (SPAG) this half term we will be focussing on

• Using question marks
• Using exclamation marks
• Using prepositions

In Whole Class Reading we will be focussing on texts linked to our literacy lessons.

In these lessons we will focus on a range of skills including:

• Reading with expression and using intonation, making sure we use punctuation to support us.
• Exploring new vocabulary to use in our writing
• Retrieving information from what we have read
• Sequencing events that we have read about
• Inferring extra information using the clues we have spotted in the text
• Predicting what may happen next or the information we will read about under each subheading
• We will also be having a big focus on understanding the difference between fiction and non-fiction and looking at all the features we would find in non-fiction books

All of these skills will be introduced through our reading dog characters!

In Literacy we will be exploring lots of genres and be given a wide variety of writing opportunities.

• Weeks 1 and 2 – Voices in the Park – we will be recognising main characters and their typical characteristics. We will write character descriptions and story snippets from different points of view.
• Weeks 3 and 4 – Heanor – we will be using the photographs and information we find out from our walk and research to make our own non-fiction book about Heanor. We will be designing front covers, creating contents pages, using headings and subheadings to organise information and of course recording all of the interesting facts down for our parents to read!
• Weeks 5 and 6 – Katie Morag in London – we will be creating information texts about a town (Heanor) and a city (London) and comparing the two. We will be using labels, diagrams, extended captions and lists.

Phonics

We will teach phonics to the whole class together and will run same day intervention sessions for children requiring further consolidation to help them to keep up.

 Here are some helpful documents which we have shared before:

Twinkl Phonics Level 5 Information for parents 

Meet the Level 5 Twinkl phonics family! 

Letter formation guidance

Below we will attach parent information sheets which will explain the learning for each week in phonics so you can support your child at home.

We have now started level 5 phonics. This half term we are focussing on:

Spring 2 week 1 – recapping split digraphs

Spring 2 week 2 parent information sheet oe and oe saying oa

Spring 2 week 3 parent information sheet wh saying w

Spring 2 week 4 parent information sheet c saying s

Spring 2 week 5 parent information sheet ph saying f

Spring 2 week 6 parent information sheet ee saying e

 

Reading

In school we will listen to your child read their reading book at least once every week, please make sure that it is in school every day.  Please support your child with reading by listening to them read regularly at home.  Just a couple of pages every day makes a huge difference to their confidence.  Remember to record on the Go read app or Boom reader website every time you hear your child read.  Reading is the most important piece of homework you can do with your child at this age as reading is the key that unlocks all other areas of learning.  To be successful writers, children first have to be confident and successful readers so your support is invaluable.

Helping with Literacy at Home

You can help your child at home by:

• Practising common exception words - reading and spelling. Click here to view year one common exception words.
• Talk about what they are learning in class that week.
• Encourage your child to read out any writing they complete at home to check it makes sense.
• Read with your child at least 3 times a week.

Please click here to see our year 1 literacy non-negotiables,  otherwise known as our 'ALWAYS skills'.

Numeracy

Instead of following White Rose Learning Scheme of Learning we are now completing a spiral curriculum to ensure the children are exposed to each objective more than once. This helps the children retain learning and build fluency and confidence. 

In Maths our units are ‘Place Value within 50’, ‘Addition and Subtraction’ ‘Length and Height’ ‘ Position and Direction’ and  ‘Weight’. The objectives we will looking at this half term are:

• counting from 20 to 50
• -counting by making groups of 10
• -looking at groups of tens and ones / partitioning in to tens and ones
• -the number line to 50 and estimating on a number line to 50
• -working out 1 more and 1 less
• -adding by counting on
• Adding one using number bonds
• Doubles and near doubles
• Subtracting using number bonds
• Subtraction by counting back
• Subtraction by finding the difference
• Related number problems and missing number problems
• Compare and measure the length of things using standard (cm) and non-standard units (objects)
• Describing turns and position
• Ordinal numbers
• Comparing and measuring weight and mass

In addition to these objectives covered in maths lessons we will also have daily counting stick practise focussing on our chanting of the 2s, 5s and 10s times tables.

Helping with maths at Home

• Talking about the learning they have done in class.
• Practise counting to 20 forwards and backwards
• Practising counting in 2's, 5's and 10's
• Practise recalling addition, subtraction and number facts to 10 and then to 20.
• Encouraging your child to count - add money, count out objects, calculate how many will be left, estimate how many there are etc
  
  Please click here to see our year 1 maths non-negotiables, otherwise known as our 'ALWAYS skills'.

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