Speckled Owls Y1

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Speckled Owls

Teacher: Mrs Epstein

LSA: Miss Hankova

Welcome back and we hope you had a lovely Easter holiday! This half term our topic is Once Upon a Time. We will be focusing on traditional tales. The children will be learning about the features of fairy tales such as good vs bad, talking animals, magic, love, and royalty. We will also be looking at characters and setting. Our two main stories are The Gingerbread Man and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Our PE days have changed to Tuesday and Friday. Please bring in a named PE kit with trainers or plimsolls for outdoors PE when the weather is good.

We will be having a specialist music teacher on Thursdays.

The classrooms are open from 8:30 on a Friday if you would like to come in and read with your child before school starts.

Literacy:

Reading The Gingerbread Man

Reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Retell the stories

Maths:

Counting in 2s, 5s, 10s

Doubling/halving

Repeated addition and arrays

Sharing into groups

Half and quarter of shapes

Geography:

Looking at the settings of fairytales

Noticing similarities and differences in the environments of stories

PE:

Circuit

Ball handling skills

Art/DT:

Learn about artist Orla Kiely

Prints

Music:

Pitch

Exploring sounds

RE:

Special Places

Why churches are special to Christians

Visiting the church

PDL:

Relationships

Computing:

E-safety

Looking at animation to tell a story

Please remember to write in the pink reading diaries every time you read at home and tick any keywords that your child can read by sight.

There are logins for Google Classroom, Bug Club, Mathletics, and EdShed in the front of the pink reading diaries.

We look forward to working with you!