Bumblebee and Dragonfly Classes

Subject

Content

RWI (Phonics and Reading) and English (Writing and SPaG)

Children will continue to work within their RWI groups to increase their fluency by sight reading common exception words and other high frequency words, while still sounding out new and unfamiliar words using Fred Talk. Additionally we will be exploring some poetry this half term, looking at ‘One, Two, Buckle my Shoe’ as well as ‘On the Ning, Nong, Nang’.

We will be continuing to work on our sentence structures using ‘get set for writing’ as a basis to build up children’s independent writing. This will be focused at the purple book level of Read Write Inc. in line with the year 1 expected standards.

Maths

The children will be continuing with addition and subtraction within 10. They will be focusing largely on subtraction learning how to manipulate the numbers and write related number facts. After we have finished this we will be looking at 2D and 3D shapes, exploring their properties and how we know which are which.

Science

In science, we are looking at animals this half-term. We are exploring how animals are classified e.g. mammal, amphibian, reptile etc. and finding out what attributes each group of animal has. We will also look at the different diets animals can have and the difference between wild animals and domestic pets. Finally, we will look at how to label parts of animals using basic scientific terminology. To support this unit of work, we will visit Banham Zoo.

Geography

In geography this half term, we are looking at spatial sense. We are exploring aerial perspectives and maps before looking at cartographers and how they represent physical and human features on an area of a map. The children will learn how symbols are used and how to apply them to their own map work.

Art

This half-term we move on to exploring line. We will start by looking at the different types of lines that artists use and the materials they use to create them. We will look at the work of Rembrandt, Klee and Miro (particularly ‘Saskia in a Straw Hat’, ‘Family Outing’ and ‘Peinture’). We will recreate some parts of these artists work and produce our own artwork in their styles.

P.E

We will have two PE lessons a week this half-term on Mondays and Tuesdays.

We will continue on from last half-term with our gymnastics topic, exploring further jumps and shapes to build into sequences.

We will also start our ball skills topic to explore dribbling, catching and throwing skills.

PSHE

In PSHE, we will be completing the jigsaw piece on ‘Celebrating Difference’. This will allow children to explore what is the same and different about themselves and others and some of their unique qualities and skills.

Music

This half-term we are going to be practising our great new nativity songs from ‘Simply the Nativity’. There are 8 fun songs with actions we will rehearse and sing as a choir.

We will also be looking at Samba music and its origins in Brazil.

DT

In DT we will be doing another cooking topic on Mince Pies and Jam tarts, getting the children in the Christmas spirit and learning about pastry.

Computing

In Computing we will be completing some digital painting, creating shapes and using skills from our previous topic to help us.

Science

Geography

Art

Music