As mentioned, reading is part of this year's homework, along with weekly spellings, both of which will help with the end-of-year phonics screening check. Children will need to practise their spellings weekly. Your child has a spelling book with their words listed, and the quiz will take place on Wednesday. Please do not use the book to practise with.

If you would like to complete additional activities to support your child's learning, I have outlined some suggestions below.

Spring 1

Skills in English

• Read and write common exception words (sent home last term)
• Remember word order when writing sentences. Sentences must contain a subject, a predicate (an action) and have the correct punctuation.
• -Use ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘because’ in sentences.
• Write questions using question words and question marks.
• Blend and segment sounds when reading and writing.
• Blend and segment sounds ck, sh, ch, ng, wh, ai, ay, ea, ee, e, y, oa, o, ow, oe, er, ir, ur, ou, ow, oo, ue and ew in words.
• Maintain present tense when writing.
• Understand what a command is.
• Write a simple set of instructions.

Skills in Maths

• Read and recognise the numbers 0-20
• Recognise and write numbers to 20 in words.
• Number bonds to 20. E.g. __________ + ___________ = 20
• Find doubles
• Subtract by counting back
• Missing number problems e.g. 12 - ______ = 9 or 16 + _______ = 19
• Be able to represent numbers through drawings (tens and ones)
• Count in 10s to 50.
• Read any number up to 50.
• Identify 1 more/1 less than a number up to 50.
• Be able to partition numbers up to 50 in tens and ones.

Learning from other areas of the Curriculum

• Name and identify the seas around the UK
• Name and locate all 5 oceans. 
• Understand which ocean is the smallest and which is the largest. 
• Begin understanding the different layer of the ocean and the types of animals which live there. 
• Discuss and explore why oceans are so important. 
• Discuss and explore what problems plastic can cause. 
• Practise simple stitching to join two pieces of material together.
• Begin looking at different types of materials, what they are used for and some of the properties of these materials.