Year 1 - Rainbow Fish & Elmer
Year 1 - Summer 1
As readers
Our class book this half term is ‘Dear Earth’. As a class, we will be retrieving information from the text as well as using our inference skills to understand the message from the story.
As a key stage, we will be continuing to work on our reading using the Read Write Inc. Scheme. The children will all be reassessed before the Easter break, and if necessary, settled into their new groups at the start of the new half term. Parents should expect to receive a copy of the reading book the children are currently reading in their phonics groups, as well as a ‘Book Bag’ book.
As writers
Using our book, ‘Dear Earth’ as inspiration, we will be exploring our world and discovering what is special about the Earth. We will be looking at the different features of our world, and finding out which of these features are our favourite, for example, the fiery volcanos, the glistening, blue oceans, as well as considering where, on Earth, we would like to visit. This will lead us onto our fiction writing piece: a love letter to the Earth, which will continue to build on our description skills.
Key vocabulary: infer, features, adjectives, moral, first person, persuasion.
As mathematicians
We will be starting our new topic, mass and capacity, learning about using scales to balance objects, along with exploring which containers of various shapes hold the most or least. In addition, we will be looking at patterns within the 2, 5, and 10 times table. Finally, we will be understanding the term ‘equal’, as well as starting to understand the term ‘half’ in preparation for fractions in the last half term of the year.
Key vocabulary: balance, scales, capacity, less, more, equal, half, double, patterns, sequence, groups.
As scientists
We will be exploring our science topic ‘Human – Senses and the body’. We will start by identifying what body parts we have, and then investigating how they move and which senses are connected to that body part.
Key vocabulary: Touch, taste, smell, sight, sound, skin, activity, movement, elbow, ankle, shoulder.
As geographers
Using our geography topic ‘Around the World’, we will be travelling around the world to examine and compare what life is like in other countries, looking at the different traditions, as well as exploring the different features of these countries. This topic will be part of our non-fiction writing focus as mentioned above.
Key vocabulary: Europe, continent, culture Asia, tradition, population, Bondi Beach, boomerangs, didgeridoo, Ayers Rock, Sydney Opera House, landmark, president, independent, climate.
As artists
We will be examining the work of artist, Lubaina Himid, and how she produces work that expresses love, friendship and kindness. We will be thinking about pattern and texture and using Lubaina’s paintings as inspiration to recreate our own artistic creations that express our own friendships filled with love and kindness.
Key vocabulary: pattern, texture, bright, colour, collage, mixed media, identity.
