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

• Stage 2 building single clause sentences pronoun focus
• Subject/verb focus application
• Subject/verb application pronoun focus
• Tenses – past and present

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.

• Week 1 – Cinderella – sequencing and retelling a story
• Week 2 – Cinderella – writing letters in character
• Week 3 – The Gingerbread Man – using talk for writing to retell a traditional story
• Week 4 – Making gingerbread men – instruction writing
• Week 5 – Snow White – writing character descriptions
• Week 6 – Snow White – retelling the story and innovating part of the story ourselves!

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:

Week 1 – Revision and Assessment Week - no new learning

Week 2 – Level 5 week 11 ir saying ur

Week 3 – Level 5 week 12 ue saying oo and yoo

Week 4 – Level 5 week 13 ew saying yoo and oo

Week 5 – Level 5 week 14 y saying ee

Week 6 – Level 5 week 15 aw and au saying or

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

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. The objectives we will looking at this half term are:

• Counting to and from 20
• Understanding the value of 10 (including number bonds to 10)
• Understanding 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 (partitioning in to tens and ones, and using our number bond knowledge)
• Working out 1 more than a given number
• Working our 1 less than a given number
• Using the number line to 20
• Estimating on a number line to 20
• Comparing numbers to 20
• Ordering numbers to 20
• Adding by counting on within numbers to 20
• Adding ones using number bonds
• Finding and making number bonds to 20
• Working out doubles
• Working out near doubles
• Subtracting ones using number bonds
• Subtracting by counting back
• Subtracting by finding the difference
• Working out related facts (addition and subtraction fact families)
• Solving missing number bonds (addition and subtraction)
• Recognising half an object or shape
• Finding half an object or shape
• Recognising half of a quantity
• Finding half of a quantity
• Unitising linked to money
• Recognising coins
• Recognising notes
• Counting coins

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

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