Home Learning 2021

Literacy:

READING

• During the year your child will continue to learn to use a variety of approaches when working out unfamiliar words, e.g. sounding them out or looking for clues in the context.

• He or she will be encouraged to talk and write about:Why they enjoyed a particular part of the story.

• Humour in stories/poems.

• What they think of charactersReasons for event in stories.

• What they think might happen next in a story

• Patterns in the text, e/g/ rhyme, repetition.

• The meanings of words which are new to them

• What they have found out from a non-fiction text Your child will study:Stories and poems with familiar settings

• Stories and poems by significant children’s writers

• Traditional stories

• Humorous stories and poems

• Extended stories Instructions

• Explanations

• Dictionaries, glossaries and other alphabetically ordered texts

• Information books, mainly related to class topics.

WRITING!

Your child will be encouraged to:

• Re-read her/his own writing for sense and punctuation!

• Write in sentences, using capital letters and full stops!

• Add interest to own writing, e.g. by including simple descriptions! Use story or poetry structures to help in their own writing.

• Make simple notes from non-fiction books about topics which interest them! Write their own simple non-fiction texts.

• Learn spellings and spelling patterns (spelling sent home weekly)

• Make basic joins in handwriting and improve letter formation 

What can we do to help?

• Help your child to learn to spell common words.

• Use look, say, cover, write, check.Hear your child read and read to them – make reading fun

• Help your child to practise handwriting – holding a pencil correctly, letter formation and joins.

Numeracy:

• Count, read, write and order whole numbers to at least 100; know what each digit represents (including 0 as a place holder).

• Describe and extend simple number sequences (including odd/even numbers, counting on or back in ones or tens from any two digit number, and so on).

• Understand that subtraction is the inverse of addition; state the subtraction corresponding to a given addition and vice versa.

• Know by heart all addition and subtraction facts for each number to at least 10.

• Use knowledge that addition can be done in any order to do mental calculations more efficiently.

• Understand the operation of multiplication as repeated addition.

• Know and use halving as the inverse of doubling.Say 2, 5 and 10 timetables with confidence and know by heart facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables.

• Estimate, measure and compare lengths, masses and capacities, using standard units; suggest suitable units and equipment for such measurements.

• Read a simple scale to the nearest labelled division, including using a ruler to draw and measure line to the nearest centimetre.

• Use the mathematical names for common 2-D and 3-D shapes; sort shapes and describe some of their features.Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement e.g. forwards, back, left, right.

• Choose and use appropriate operations and efficient calculation strategies to solve problems, explaining how the problem was solved.

What can you do to help?

• Counting to 100 – counting in 2s, 5s, 10s. Then beyond 100 – counting in 100s, 50s.

• Draw your child’s attention to shapes in the environment and encourage them to learn the names of shapes.

• Talk to your child about units of time e.g.: 60 seconds – 1 minute, 60 minutes = 1 hour, 24 hours = 1 day, 7 days = 1 week, 12 months = 1 year.

• Practise telling the time o’clock, half past and quarter past.

• Encourage your child to handle money, add coins and find change from 50p.Make your child aware of patterns that exist in the 2x, 5x and 10x tables

• Practise regularly chanting the 2, 5, and 10 timetables.

Science

This year your child will learn about:

• Growth, keeping healthy

• Electricity

• Forces – pushes and pulls Humans, plants, animals

• Changing materials – heating and cooling, changing shape

What can you do to help?

• Visit the library to find out more about the science topic being covered.

• Encourage your child to help when baking – observing changes such as melting.

• Visit parks and woodlands and look at the habitats of squirrels, birds, rabbits etc.Discuss the effects of electricity in lights, computer etc. and emphasize the safety aspects – no fingers in sockets, no wet hands.