Curriculum Information for Parents – Year 1 Term 2A – 2015 Topic

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Curriculum Information for Parents – Year 1
Term 2A – 2015
Topic - Toys
WHAT WE WILL DO AT SCHOOL
WHAT YOU CAN DO AT HOME
o Read daily for 10 minutes at home
 Recognise a variety of
o Assist your child with learning
instructional texts
their ‘word walls’
o Read and follow simple sets of
o Help your child to read and follow
instructions
some simple instructions e.g. how
o Write a set of simple instructions
to make a cake or a simple toy
for various activities
such as a kite
o Recognise alphabetical order and
o Notice instructions when out with
use a simple picture dictionary
your child, e.g. please pay here
o Learn to read and spell high
and please queue this way
frequency words
o Share a simple picture dictionary
with your child
o Count in 10s
o Use a 100 square to play number
o Understand and use ordinal
games and practice number
numbers e.g. 1st, 2nd , 3rd
recognition
o Know addition pairs that add up
o Ask your child what the date is
to 8, e.g. 5+3/4+4/7+1/6+2
o When looking at a list of items ask
o Use positional words e.g. above,
them which is 3rd, 10th, 20th
below, beside, left and right
o Practice fast recall of number
o Compare two or more weights by
totals up to 8 e.g. 3+3, 5+2, 4+4
direct comparison, e.g. the pencil
o Indicate the hour and half hour on
is lighter than the book
clocks at various times of the day
o Read o’clock and half past
e.g. bath time/bedtime/teatime
o Recognise that a force is a push
o Talk about the forces being used
or pull
at home e.g. pushing a toy car,
o Understand that forces help us to
pulling a drawer open, shutting a
move our bodies and everyday
door
objects
o Play with play dough or plasticine
o Begin to test and describe the
to show how forces change the
forces we use
shape of objects
o Know that forces such as push,
o Play with your child using a
pull and twist can change the
variety of toys. Identify pushes
shape of objects
and pulls
o Understand wind is moving air
o When playing at the park discuss
and it can push or blow objects to
with your child the forces used to
make them move
move across the apparatus
o Describe toys from home and
o Find one or two toys for your
identify some simple properties
child to bring to school
o Recognise differences between
o Look at photographs of old toys
old and new toys
and make comparisons with
o Sort toys according to a given
modern toys
criteria
o Share some of your own
o Order toys on a timeline
childhood games with your child
o Follow instructions to make a
o Research toys using the internet
simple toy
to make comparisons between old
and new toys