Homework
As mentioned, reading is part of this year’s homework along with weekly spellings which will both help with the end of year phonics screen check. Children will need to practise spellings weekly. Your child has a spelling book with their spellings listed and the quiz date will be on a Tuesday. Please do not use the book to practise in. Your child will also have a login card to a website called Spelling Shed which years 1-6 use. There are various games on there to help your child learn in an alternative way if you prefer. If your child gets most of the spellings correct, they will receive 1 house point.
If you require further homework, our class page will have objectives listed in the homework section which will provide some ideas of things you can do with your child at home to help cover skills taught in the classroom. Practical games, interaction/talking with adults and practising skills using the ideas given on the class page benefit children in Year 1, therefore worksheets will not be given out as part of homework.
Skills in English
- Read and write tricky words from the word mat
- Think of own ideas for a picture and write these as sentences using 'and', 'so', 'but' and 'because'.
- Remember word order when writing sentences
- Know when to use a capital letter and where to put a full stop
- Write questions using question words and a question mark
- Write exclamation sentences using a capital letter and exclamation mark at the end
- Blend and segment sounds when reading and writing
Skills in Maths
- Count in 10s to 50
- Read any number up to 50
- Count forwards and backwards from any number up to 50
- Represent any number up to 50 using tens and ones
- Partition a number up to 50 into tens and ones
- Identify 1 more/1 less than a number up to 50
- Compare lengths and heights using vocabulary such as taller, longer and shorter
- Measure objects using non-standard units of measurements; e.g. using cubes or paper clips to measure the length of a glue stick
- Use a ruler to measure objects to the nearest cm
- Practical measuring to identify objects which are heavier or lighter
- Practical measuring to identify objects which are full, empty, half-full, almost full or almost empty
Learning from other areas of the Curriculum:
- Look at different types of materials, what they are used for and some of the properties of these materials
- Use properties of materials to describe them such has hard, soft, flexible, strong, transparent, hard-wearing, etc.
- Look at forces of push and pull using a magnet
- Practical experiments to understand buoyancy
- Create different types of lines such as straight, wavy, zig-zag, etc.
- Experiment with different media (chalks, paint, crayon, pencil) and different amounts of pressure when drawing lines
- Name and identify the seas around the UK
- Name and locate all 5 oceans
- Understand which ocean is the smallest and which is the largest
- Begin understanding the different layers of the ocean and the types of animals which live there
If your child wants to share with the class what they have been working on at home, we are more than happy to show this when we have a few spare minutes. They can bring the work into school and we can put it in our basket ready to show others! Please note we do not show toys brought into school - these should be kept at home.