Spring 1  - Space: Do you need wings to fly?

Some books we are exploring:

Beegu

What ever next.

How to catch a star.

Some English work we will be practising:

Writing sentences including a Capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.

Orally rehearsing the sentences we want to write.

Using our 40+ phonemes to spell words.

Write our year 1 common exception words correctly.

Become familiar with known stories and rhymes.

Some maths we will be developing:

Finding half of a shape 

Addition and Subtraction using number lines

Number bonds to 10/20

Tell the time to the hour and half the hour

Counting in 2's and 10's

Some of our topic learning:

Art

Will be exploring the famous Artist: Vincent Van Gogh.

Science

Will explore materials: We will find the best materials suitable to make a rocket and a star catching machine.

Computing

We will be mastering logging on to purple mash, we will explore the different apps on this system. We will also explore pictograms and how these are used to collect data.

History

We will explore Neil Armstrong, Tim Peake's and Mae Jemison

Autumn Term 2 - Is it real or is it fantasy?

Some books we are exploring:

The Three Little Pigs 

Jack and the Beanstalk

Hansel and Gretal

Some english work we will be practicing:

Writing sentences including a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.

Orally rehearsing the sentences we want to write.

Using taught sounds to spell words

Write known common exception words correctly. 

Become familiar with knnown stories and rhymes.

Some maths we will be developing:

Counting in 1's and 10's, using coins to support. 

Partioning numbers to 10. 

Addition and subtraction using numbers we are secure with.

Begin to see the relationship between addition and subtraction. 

To practice our number formation.

Some of our topic learning:

Art will be spent introducing our very own sketch books where we will look at watercolour and the work of Claude Monet. 

Our science focus is materials and their properties.

Computing:

We will be continuing to develop out confidence with logging in. We will also be beginning our Purple Mash unit of 'grouping and sorting'. 

Autumn Term 1 - Can anyone be a Superhero?

Some books we are exploring:

Supertato

Supertato vs Evil Pea

The Mean Green Time Machine

Some writing we will be practicing:

Labelling Supertato

Writing simple sentences about our own supertatos

Exploring simple noun phrases

Using a capital letter and a full stop

Remembering to include finger spaces

Some maths we will be developing:

Number order

More and less 

Counting up to 20 and then 50

Counting up in tens

Subtraction and addition

Topic learning:

We will have a hero dress up day (either fictional or real life)

Romeo the therapy dog visit 

Our science will involve naming parts of the human body and exploring our senses

In history we will look at real life heroes including - Florence Nightingale and Amelia Earhart

Through art we are hoping to create a colour wash background with a superhero silhouette scene 

Exploring the internet safely:

We will begin using Purple Mash and will be working on independently logging on using our own usernames and passwords.