Welcome to Rabbits

2019-20 Rabbits
Class Teacher Miss Durkan
Teaching Assistant Mrs Blanchard
Communications
 Term 1 – Newsletter

Our Learning Journey
Our first learning journey in year 1 will be “How can I be part of the community?”. Throughout the term, the children will learn about different diversity in our Hoo village today as well as learning about the local jobs. The children will be sharing pictures of themselves from when they were babies to talk about how they have changed over time. The children will also find out about the history of the village and how it has changed and grown over the years.

Our work in English this term is going to be based around our learning journey and will link to the children and their lives or families and wishes. The key skills we will be focusing on will be writing using full stops, capital letters and finger spaces, as well as presenting work neatly in a lined English book for the very first time. By the end of the term, your child would have written about who is in their family and what they want to be when they grow up.

In Mathematics, we will be focusing on number and place value to ensure that all children have a good understanding of numbers to ten so we can build skills on this for the rest of the year.

Term 1 – Activities 

  • Sharing baby photos and discussing events within our personal timeline
  • Comparing old and new Hoo using pictures, maps and speakers
  • Discussing our families and special people in our lives.
  • Learning about diversity of different families and talking about the things that make us special.
  • Celebrating diversity of different cultures/backgrounds within our community
  • Learning about different job roles in the community and sharing jobs the children want to do when they grow up
  • Self-portraits in the style of different artists

Term 1 – Key Words
  • Community
  • Responsibilities
  • Job roles
  • Special people
  • Culture
  • Unique/special
  • Diversity
  • Village
  • Family

Online Learning  

Phonics links

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/

Maths links

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers

How can you support your child?
  • Familiarise yourself with the Read Write Inc program by going onto https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/. Then practise reading the sounds and Read Write Inc books with your child.
  • Practise the weekly spellings at home. Practise reading and writing these words and applying this within a sentence.
  • Please can you encourage your child to read at least 5 times a week and sign their contact book.
  • Practise writing sentences with full stops, capital letters and finger spaces.
  • Practise accurate number formation and letter formation.