Author: Louise Askham

KS1 Hub Term 5 Curriculum Newsletter 2020

Rise of the Robots –Toys

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Literacy: We were going to begin the term by looking at the story Dogger by Shirley Hughes, when a child looses his favourite toy. The children were going to write about their favourite toy, giving reasons for their choice. In the story there are other siblings and the children were going to write character descriptions about the children as well as writing their own lost toy story, thinking about
How to start a story, write the middle and the end.

R.E
This term we would have started to learn about Islam and
about who is a Muslim and what do they believe. We
would have looked at the prophet Muhammed and why he is important to Muslims. Then we would have looked at
Stories told by Mohammed and looked at the importance of Mosques in the Islam religion. We have put some links on the additional targets of the children’s reports. Please do have a look at these.

History
We were going to begin the term by looking at the children’s current toys, then their parents toys and Victorian toys. We were going to compare toys from the present and past and see if there were any similarities as well as differences. Then we were going to see how toys have changed over time.

ience
We were going to be

Maths:
This term in Year 1 we would have
covered multiplication and division of 2,5 and 10 x tables, along with
fractions of numbers i.e. half of 4,8,10,12, 6. We would use arrays for multiplication and sharing using the bar method for division and finding fractions of amounts. We would also look at positional and direction; taking whole and half turns.
In Year 2 we would have also being looking at positional and direction—moving shapes half and quarter turns. In addition we would be looking at time up to 5 minute intervals and then problem solving number and shape problems.

Science
We were going to look at materials again and look at different objects and distinguish what they are made from, whether it be wood, plastic, glass, metal, water or rock. We were then going to look at the physical properties of all these
materials and sort the objects into groups.

Art and DT
We were going to look at the Artist Andy Warhol and his toy prints and then children would create their own tile print of a toy. Then we were going to look at moving puppets and see how they were made and get children to design and make their own moving puppet.

PE
We were going to develop our throwing and catching with small balls and then transfer this to tennis and cricket skills using rackets and bats.

SPAG

We would have been using capital letters for names of people, places and days of the week, months of the year. Adding suffix s or es for plurals as well as using adjectives to describe nouns i.e. the little toy bear.
In addition Year 2 would also use adverbs as well as adjectives i.e. the small, brown cuddly bear as well using a variety of conjunctions but, so, or and apostrophe for possession Abbey’s toy doll.
This term we would have finished phase 5 - looking at alternative spelling patterns for ai, ee, c,ch, igh, f, oa, m,oa,oo, n, ow, or ng,o i,r,ar,s,ear,sh,air,v
and the children would have been assessed using the Phonics Screening.
Please do use the Letters and Sounds and Phonics Play websites
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-5-resources.html
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5 Username: march20 Password:home

Phonics

Useful web links

RE https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj3d7ty
Science https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrssgk7
Art goggle image search Andy Warhol toy prints

More books to read

Gorilla by Anthony Browne
I love you Blue Kangaroo by Emma Chister Clark
The Everywhere Bear by Julia Donaldson
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willens
That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell Beegu by Alexis Deacon

Things to try:
- Look at your toys and toys your parents and or grandparents played with
-Sort toys into groups of materials that they are made from
-Design and make a toy from junk modelling
-Look at other Andy Warhol pictures

School website
https://www.archbishopcourtenay.org.uk
Please check your class web page daily
Swifts, Swallows or Chaffinches
and look at blog daily for weekday activities

Home learning:
-Sort your toys into groups of materials they are made from—take photos or draw pictures of toys in labelled material groups
-Make a poster of one Material (Wood, Glass, Plastic,Metal, Rock or Water) and give the properties of the material i.e. hard, soft, flexible, transparent, rough, shiny, smooth etc
-Andy Warhol art - draw, colour, paint pictures in the style of Andy Warhol
-Write your own story about a lost toy after looking at the story of Dogger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD3DURks15E
-write a diary of the things you do during the day with a clock face showing the time that you do them