As mentioned, reading is part of this year's homework, along with weekly spellings, both of which will help with the end-of-year phonics screening check. Children will need to practise their spellings weekly. Your child has a spelling book with their words listed, and the quiz will take place on Wednesday. Please do not use the book to practise with.

If you would like to complete additional activities to support your child's learning, I have outlined some suggestions below.

Autumn 1

English skills

-Write own name with correct formation of capital letter and lowercase letters.

-Write all capital and lowercase letters correctly. 

-Read and write tricky words; I, no, go, to, the, into, we, be, she, me, he, you, are, her, was, all, they, my. 

-Blend and segment single phonemes (sounds) in short words. 

-Blend and segment sounds ck, sh, ch, th, ng, wh, ai, ay, a-e, ea, ee, e, ea, y in words. 

-Write a simple sentence using finger spaces. 

-Write a sentence using 'and' and 'but'.

-Write a question using a question mark. 

Maths skills 

- Form the digits 0-9 correctly from the correct starting point. 

-Read and recognise the numbers 0-10.

-Recognise numbers to 20 as words. 

-Count objects accurately.

- Count out objects accurately from a larger amount. 

-Sort objects into different groups and explain their reasons/thinking. 

-count on from any number using numbers up to 10. 

-1 more/1 less than any number up to 10 (can use a written number line for this or objects to practically add/take away from an amount.)

-Compare amounts and numbers using the language more than, less than, equal to (ask your child to count out 2 amounts up to 10 and then discuss/ask your child to compare the numbers always starting with the amount on the left). 

Science

-Observe how trees and plants can change throughout seasons.

-How does some trees change throughout the seasons, can you display this in a creative way?

-How does weather change throughout the seasons?

History 

-Research the life of Walter Tull and the challenges he faced, what can we learn from him?

Art

-Explore colour mixing, and how we can use colour to show different emotions. 

Geography

-Can you look at a variety of maps? How do they use symbols?