Our P1 class teachers this year are Mrs Campbell and Mrs Hamilton
Please see below some information to provide you with more information about the P1 curriculum.
Our project for term 1 is
Homework
Homework will be issued on
PE
P1 pupil’s will receive PE on a Tuesday and Friday
Some tasks pupils can do at home:
| Learn the value of coins | Design a shop and fill your shop with your favourite items. Choose different coins to pay with. | Play shops at home with your family and label and price your items. | Choose different coins to pay with. | Draw the coins that you used. |
| Be a teacher for the day. Teach your family the different phonics sounds. | Can you make as many sound cards as you can and teach your family how to say the sounds correctly | sh ch th
ck ng nk ll ss |
Write as many words as you can
fish chop that trick bang wink small dress etc. |
Create flash cards / sound cards make them as creative and colourful as possible. |
| Create a game that can help you to learn your number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. | Look at the number bond patterns.
Use your number bond booklet |
A game that uses of number bond knowledge to 10, 20, 100. This could be questions, word problems or even mental maths. | Try your game with a family member, does it work? | Make your game as fun as possible |
| Animals and Humans habitat | Research the different habitats of animals from around the world. Choose a habitat and a selection of animals that live there. | Create a habitat using any materials you have at home. | Research the animals chosen, are they herbivores, carnivores or omnivores? What do they like to eat? How do they adapt to their environment? | Animals and Humans habitat Make a poster with all the information you have found |
Encourage Reading and Spelling at home
Encourage your child to join in with reading activities
- Give them access to a wide variety of reading material including: story books, information, poetry, riddles and jokes, children’s magazines, comics, the computer, lists.
- For early readers put labels on objects around the house for example ‘door’ ‘fridge’ ‘fork’ ‘spoon’ etc. Make labels for family names, pets and addresses. Ask your child to spell the words
- Make up labels or lists with your child.
- Use magnetic letters on the fridge. Ask your child to correct incorrectly spelt words.
- Write simple instructions for your child to follow.
Continue to read to your child and make this a cosy relaxed time – even when they’re a fluent reader
- Make the experience interactive. Ask questions about the story, get your child to predict what will happen next, what do they think of the characters? Where is the story set? For older children, talk about the dilemmas facing the characters. Can they predict the endings? Link themes in books with their own experiences.
- Read poetry and rhyming books that play with language, look for familiar spelling patterns.
- Find information in non-fiction books using the contents page or index.
Encourage your child to read out loud
- Early on, prompt them to re-tell stories that you’ve read to them. Encourage them to get the main points of the story in sequence. ‘What happened first? What came next? How did it end?’
- Encourage them to make up stories from pictures in books. Some books are published without words for this purpose.
- Help them learn and recite simple poems and rhymes with actions.
- More confident readers can role-play characters in stories with you. Make this fun, changing the voice for each character. Look at how dialogue is written.
- Involve the whole family – read simple plays together. Encourage expression and varied tone of voice when reading stories.
- Ask them questions about what they’ve read. Why has this happened? Why did the character do or say that? What do they think about what’s happened?
- Get them to predict what will happen, how characters will behave.
- Recite the alphabet and look at simple picture dictionaries. Use more complex dictionaries later on to look up the meanings of new words discovered in reading. Play games with words, i.e. guessing games.
Don’t try to use these all in one go, but do have a go and make it fun
Numeracy
We are working on counting and recognising numbers within 10, 20 and up to 100. We do lots of mental maths in class, working with numbers to 100. We will be exploring numbers, counting, ordering and sequencing numbers. This term we will also be learning how to form numerals correctly. There are lots of ‘hands on’ numeracy activities in the classroom.
We will be learning the months through sharing our birthdays, the days of the week through our morning calendar and time through our daily routines. You can support your child by discussing important times with them such as dinner time, bedtime, weekdays and weekends.
Supportive home learning ideas
- Look for numbers all around.
- Sing number rhymes e.g “5 little frogs”
- Ask what number comes before or after a number.
- Use magnetic numbers to order numbers.
- Look for patterns all around e.g door numbers.
- Numbers on buses, car registration plates
- Ask your child to help you cook/bake – halving, quartering, grams, kilograms.
- Talk about and compare object – biggest, smallest, tallest, shortest, heaviest, lightest.
- Find numbers in books.
- Highlight numbers in magazines and newspapers.
- Practise writing numbers
- Talk about numbers (ages of family members, house numbers, favourite numbers) and find them on the 100 square.
- Use Doorway online to play number games
Literacy
We will be working on identifying and recognising sounds within words & words within sentences using the Read, Write, Inc approach to teaching reading. We very quickly teach how to blend known sounds to make words and are aware that some children are reading some words. As children learn at their own pace we ensure that the correct challenge is set for your child. We share lots of good quality children’s literature and use this opportunity to develop talking and listening skills. Children have many opportunities to predict details and ask and answer questions about texts. Children are encouraged to share experiences and ideas through talking and writing. Children are encouraged to write from day 1, simple marks on paper are valued as the early stages of writing.
Reading books and Home Learning
We read a lot in the early years and share stories and books daily. Sharing books with your children is invaluable and at this stage we encourage lots of discussion around books; the author, illustrator, picture clues, looking for sounds we know, common words, discussing meaning of words, font, asking questions and encouraging your child to ask questions.
Supportive home learning ideas
- Practise writing their own names and identifying letters/sounds within their name.
- Play I-spy games looking for things that begin with the same sound.
- Identify individual letters in words all around.
- Sing songs and rhymes
- Practise the words from the reading book.
- Find rhyming words e.g. cat, hat, sat
- Play “find a word that rhymes with…”
- Orally make up stories
- Remember and repeat a sentence from a book
- Choose a favourite book. Visit the library and find another book written by that author.
- Find words your child can recognise or read in books.
- Find common words in books
- Highlight common words in magazines or newspapers.
- Find capital letters and full stops in books.
- Share stories and information books.
- Use magnetic letters to make words.
- Helping in the house by writing shopping lists, letters, notes.
- Play memory games
- Practise writing letters with water, paint, in sand
- Make letters with playdoh.
Water Bottles
Children may bring a water bottle to school daily. Please fill this bottle with water only. Juice is only allowed as part of a packed lunch.
Health and Wellbeing
We are learning about making friends and sorting things out when they go wrong. We are also learning about keeping safe both in and out of school. We encourage children to develop a growth mindset and to talk about what they are learning and where they are going within their learning
If you have any queries about any of the above or anything else you are concerned about, please speak to me at the end of the day.
- Caterpillar Ordering
- Hit the Button – number bonds to 10/20
- Shape Patterns
- Number Frames – use the tiles to make number bonds up to 20
- Coins – make amounts up to £1 using a variety of coins
- Short Vowel Word Machines
- Starfall – Learn to Read
- Hanging Monkeys
- Sky Writer
Literacy and Numeracy Activities
Do some yoga activities on you tube
Writing
Keep a diary of what you are doing every day.
Help out with some house tasks
Play games such as I spy or board games
