Year 1

Welcome to Year 1!

Mrs Newman

Mrs Hunjan

Mrs Hodges

This half term our topic is Road Trip Rio!

During this half term, children will be learning about Brazilian carnivals. They will explore Brazilian fruits, crafts and dances. We will be reading lots of poems and trying to recite some from heart. Using these as inspiration, we will create our own poems. Our maths will be learning place value to 100, telling the time and using money.

In computing, we will be programming animations – using scratchJr. Please feel free to download ScratchJr App for tablets (iPad or Android), or install ScratchJr for computers (https://jfo8000.github.io/ScratchJr-Desktop/). We will be using world maps to identify the UK and Brazil and locate other countries, as well as the continents and oceans. We will also identify similarities and differences between physical and

human features of the UK and Brazil.

In design and technology, we will be making fruit kebabs and we will be asking if you could come along and help us in class with these ON THE 3RD JULY.

All help is gratefully received.

We will be learning athletic skills and playing target games. Also we will be observing changes in the environment and much more!

Please see the curriculum newsletter for more detail.

If you would like to come and help in the classroom, hear readers or do library sessions, please come and

speak to us, we would love to see you!

Do not forget to check below for each week’s

phonics we are learning.

Phonic sheets for parents - week by week coverage

Phonics games Lots of games and worksheets

Marvellous Maths!

Help for parents with maths

Addition and subtraction games

Estimating on a number line

Subtraction games

Addition games - varying levels

sharing maths https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/dogs/

Capacity games https://wordwall.net/en-gb/community/capacity-game

Cat maths

Identify numbers

2-D patterns

Telling the time games.

Number splat 100 square Recognise and paint numbers to 100. Can you see any number patterns? What numbers do you recognise?

Practice on many different year one maths skills.

Jigsaw - Our Jigsaw theme is Changing Me.

We will be learning about changes in our lives, changes

in what we have learnt and what it will be like

in year 2 and naming body parts.

There is a wonderful website below that is useful for your child and for you as a parent. It has games and information about feelings, health, illnesses and sections on body image, mental health and much more. There is also a section for you, the parent, to refer to for information on the school nurse and it shows local Solihull support services.

Press here to access the website - health for kids.