Summer 1

 As Writers ...

Our text this half term is Toys in Space by Mini Grey.  

We will be working towards writing a fantasy story about some toys who are taken onto a spaceship. We will be changing the characters in the story.

Mastery Keys:

• Join words and clauses using and
• Punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
• Add suffixes where no change is needed to the root word e.g. ed, -ing, -er, -est
• Change the meaning of verbs and adjectives by adding the prefix un 

As Mathematicians... 

This term in Maths the children be learning about: 

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Position and direction

The WhiteRose app on Apple and Android have some great games to practive maths skills that we are practicing in school.

As Historians...

In History this term we will be answering the question 'How are the toys that I play with different to the toys that children played with in the past?'

We will be looking at:

• What toys do we play with today?
• What toys did our parents and grandparents play with?
• What were toys like at different times during the past?
• What is different between old and new toys?

As Designers...

 In DT this half term we will be designing and making a windmill. 

Key Skills:

• Follow design criteria to meet the needs of a user.
• Make a stable structure.
• Make functioning sails/blades that attach to the supporting structure.
• Improve their windmill.

As Artists...

In Art this half term we will be developing our understanding of sculpture and build upon our making skills. Our theme will be birds, wildlife and habitats!

As Scientists ...

In science this term we will be learning about plants!

We will be able to :

• Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
• Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Phonics

Every day Year 1 will have a phonics lesson. At Little Leigh Primary School we follow the Essential Letters and Sounds scheme of work.   Please see the 'Files to Download' section at the bottom of the page to download all resources to help support your child with Phonics at home.

Here are two useful links to help support parents with the pronunciation of sounds that we are learning:

https://vimeo.com/753931102/b9a2f8194f  - Phase 3 Pronunciation Video

https://vimeo.com/753933192/43104a30e0 - Phase 5 Pronunciation Video

Seasons

Throughout our time in Year 1, we will be taking part in local walks around our village and down to the canal. This will take part four times throughout the year. We will be looking for signs of the different seasons and analysing what changes we can see as the season changes. This will link to our Science and Geography learning, allowing us to take part in field work, map skills, looking at human and physical features and plants. 

Online resources:

1. http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html

Here you will find a fun phonics game where the children have to select the letters to make the words using their phonics sounds.

2. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources

Here you will find different games where the children have to read and sort the real and nonsense words.

3. http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/

Here you will find information and resources about the different phonics phases.

4. https://lettersandsounds.org.uk/for-home/y2-phonics-screening-check-revision

Here you will find different video’s for home learning, revising all the phonics sounds.

  5. http://www.mrthorne.com/ 

Here you will find phonics videos that are very useful for pronunciation of sounds.

  6. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ 

Here you will find a  great selection of games to support all areas of learning.