Welcome to Key Stage One
Autumn 1- Where do bears live?
Welcome back to all of our children, parents and carers! We hope that you have had a lovely summer holidays and are excited for the Autumn term!
This term, we will be learning all about bears!
Our important person this half term is Hakainde Hichilema!
Hakainde Hichilema is the current president of Zambia. He has been the President since August 2021.
Before becoming the President of Zambia, he worked as a farmer and a business man!
We will be learning why Hakainde Hichilema is important and the impact he has had in Zambia.
In Maths, we will be learning about place value. We will be counting to and recognising numbers to 100. We will learn how to represent numbers using different resources such as objects, cubes, base ten and ones.
We will then use this knowledge to find one more and one less than a given number. We will then move on to addition and subtraction.
We will focus on fact families and representing these in number sentences. We will also use the part-part whole model to complete a range of addition and subtraction questions.
In English, we will be reading the stories 'Three Bears in a Boat, 'The bear and the Piano' and 'A Book of Bears'. We will practice ordering a story, writing a post card and writing a fact file about bears.
We will be using the FANTASTICs to help us uplevel our vocabulary and use more exciting words in our writing! We will then write an exciting setting description using the adjectives that we have learnt.
We cannot wait to share our amazing writing with you!
In Science, we will be look at materials.
We will learn about different materials and go on a material hunt around school to locate them in different areas. We will also look at the properties of materials and discuss why materials are used for different objects.
We will also conduct our own experiment to investigate floating and sinking. We will make predictions before testing if our ideas are correct.
In DT. we will use our knowledge of materials learnt in science to create our own boat for a bear. We will link this learning to our English story book 'Three Bears in a Boat".
We will discuss the materials which would be best to use for a boat, recalling our knowledge from Science. We will also look at the shapes of a boat and how we can make the boat bigger and stronger to carry the bears across the water.
In PSHE, we will be looking at how we can keep ourselves safe and managing risks.
We will then move on to recognising our own feelings and discussing when we have felt certain ways. We will look at how we identify emotions in other people. We will discuss how we can help ourselves and others with our feelings.
We will be continuing with our Read Write Inc Phonics Groups daily to develop our reading skills.
Home Learning:
We are continuing with the homework Rainbow this year, which can be found in the front of the children’s homework books. The children will have a range of tasks to choose from, and their points will be added up each week. Homework books should be returned to school on Wednesdays.
New reading books will be sent out weekly, we ask that you read with your child every day and write a short comment in their reading record to let us know how your child is doing with the book.
Please follow the links below if you wish to continue further learning at home;
Maths - https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/home-learning
Phonics - https://www.ruthmiskin.com/parents/
PE Kit:
PE lesson will continue to take place on a weekly basis every Friday. Please can all children come dressed in their full PE kit with suitable trainers for sport.
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How else can you help at home?
- Read to an adult every day for at least 10 minutes – books can be changed daily at school.
- Complete homework activities as these are often practising skills learnt in class, especially in numeracy and spellings.
- Talk to your children about their topic and encourage them to talk about their school day.
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