Autumn Term 2007

English:          

Consolidating alphabet; consonants and vowels. Revise  known blends and introduce extension blends, beginning      blends and end blends. Poetry and rhyme.  Spellings. Grammar - revise sentence structure: capital letters, full   stops, finger spaces. Introduce question marks and exclamation marks.  Fiction - story planning, settings, events, order and characters.  Non-fiction - use and layout of texts. Reading/reading comprehension.

Mathematics:

Revising and consolidating numbers to 10, 20 and 100.  Addition/subtraction - consolidating number bonds to 10, numbers to 20, teen numbers, number bonds, adding 10 to 1   digit numbers. Ordering numbers and number names.  Money. Counting in 2s. 2D/3D shapes. Time - digital and analogue: o'clock and half past. Sorting - Venn diagrams.

RE:

Babies, Initiation (learning to belong and to respond) and   Gifts.     

Science:         

Sources of light/sound.  Uses and misuses of electricity.

History:         

Homes: now and then.  Firework night/Guy Fawkes. Poppy Day.

Geography:      

Our journey to school. The local area.

Art              

Links to Homes (History); Themselves; Their homes;  Autumn; Guy Fawkes; Winter; Diwali; Christmas.

D.T.               

Links to History (Homes, Poppy Day); Links to Sound (Musical instrument). Links to Geography (Mapping skills); Links to Literacy (Zig-Zag Book); Links to Christmas (Salt Dough decorations, cards and envelopes).

Spring Term 2008

Science:          The Solar System.   Ourselves/Growing.

History:          Neil Armstrong/Space.  Schools.  

Geography:       Town/Country. Directions.

Summer Term 2008

Science:          Mini beasts.  Caring for our world.

History:          Transport. George Stephenson.  Mary Seagle.

Geography:       Looking at the differences between Leicester and Delhi