1. What’s in the woods? Spring Term Year 1 Maths Geography Art English
Throughout the term our maths work will include reading, writing numbers to 100 in numerals and to 20 in words. We will continue with addition and subtraction and begin to introduce multiplication and division. We will apply these calculation skills through solving different problems.
We will also be working on money, time, fractions and measure.
Geography
We will be looking at maps and plans of the local area and marking on the different features that we will see on our walk around our local area.
What’s
in the
woods?
Art
We will be looking at Aboriginal style paintings using patterns and dots, and linking this to local common animals by creating our own animal artwork.
Spring Term
Year 1
English
In English we will be looking at the stories of Little Red Riding Hood and The Gruffalo. As you may have heard, Little Red Riding Hood has sent us a video message warning us that the wolf has escaped from story land!
The children will be writing warning posters, letters and retelling both stories.
We will be concentrating on writing accurate sentences using noun phrases, capital letters and full stops.
Science
We will be learning about common animals and their habitats, as well as comparing different types of animals and labelling parts of their bodies.
We will be finding out about how animals are grouped and the physical features which link them together. PE
Both classes will continue to have PE on Mondays. During the cold weather the children will require tracksuit bottoms and a sweatshirt for outdoor PE.
Children also require a pair of trainers or daps as part of their PE kit.
Please make sure all PE kit is labelled with your child’s name.

2. Year 1 Curriculum Newsletter – Spring Term 2018.
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Year 1 Curriculum Newsletter – Spring Term 2018.
Reading
It is essential that you continue to support your child by reading with them at least 3 times a week. And of course, this will help them make their way up the Rainbow Reader system!
We will continue to change home reading books at least twice a week.
We hope to begin a class ‘Lending Library’ this term. Children will be able to borrow a picture book of their choice to enjoy with you at home. Books will be changed every Friday, so please make sure you have your book in school if you want it to be changed.
Every child has a list of the Year 1 common exception words. Please help your child to learn to read these as sight vocabulary as this will help to increase their fluency when reading.
Spelling
We will continue to give children spellings every Monday to be tested the following Monday in their RWInc groups. We ask for your continued support in helping them to learn these.
Maths Homework
As homework this term, we will focus on the number pairs to 10, which will help children to calculate quickly and accurately. Please help your child practice regularly so that they can achieve each week’s target, and reach the top of the target board!
Science Homework
As part of our work on animals we would like you to help your child create a fact file for a common bird/reptile/mammal/fish of their choice. They will need to find out as much information as they can about their chosen animal and then record this information using a combination of writing and pictures. How this
is set out is up to them. The children will need to bring their homework in to school on Monday 29th January as they will have the opportunity to show their work and share what they have learned with the
rest of the class.
Many thanks, the Year 1 team.