Year 1 Learning- Term 2, Week 5

Diary dates

Wednesday 4th December – Henleaze Highstreet Festival – choir performance 4pm

Thursday 11th December – Carol Service at St Peter’s Church 2pm – parents invited. More details to follow

Wednesday 17th December – Xmas lunch and Xmas parties. More details to follow

English

Phonics:

This week we will be starting our phase 5 learning teaching our new phase 5 sounds known as ‘split digraphs’

A-e (cake), e-e (concrete), i-e (pine) , o-e (bone)

Spelling Common Exception Words: were there one little

Writing
This week we will be writing about the poem The owl and the pussy cat. 

Reading
We will continue reading one to one with children throughout the week and changing books. Please ensure books are brought in daily.

Maths   

Maths fluency skills:
Ordering numbers to 20 

Recall of number bonds to 10 

No. recognition to 20

Number formation within 20

Recall of 1 more/less within 20

Addition and subtraction facts within 10

Main learning is our Place Value within 20 unit.  We will learn:

-To use number bonds to 10 add 3 single digit numbers efficiently

– To use part part whole models to find related addition and subtraction facts

Wider Curriculum

Shine PE 

Class PE- We will be starting yoga

Science: This week we will be thinking about what makes an animal.

Music- To understand Rondo form and to create a class composition based on this structure.

Computing – Using click and drag skills and drawing shapes

R+WV – We will be learning to recognise that most Christian people believe Jesus is the son of God and lived as God on Earth.

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