Teacher – Sashana Francis-Waite

HLTA       – Lorraine Phillips

 

Year 1: Term 2

Home Sweet Home

Science: 1ST HALF: MATERIALS (see SoW for more detail)

  • Distinguish between an object and material from which it’s made.
  • Identify and name a variety of everyday materials – including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock.
  • Describe the simple physical properties of everyday materials.
  • Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties.

Writing Links

  • Write instructions to create an umbrella

Maths Links

  • Count everyday materials in groups of 2, 5 and 10
  • Use comparative language to describe the simple physical properties of everyday materials

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS

DIGITAL RESEARCH: Use Purple Mash Simple City Recycling Centre Activity to sort different objects using drag and drop

  • Explore online games and simulations with drag and dropScience: 2ND HALF: PLANTS (See SoW for more detail)
  • Identify and name a variety of common, wild and garden plants – including deciduous and evergreen trees.
  • Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants –including trees.

Writing Links

  • Write a fact file about trees
  • Write a leaflet about looking after plants

Maths Links

  • Use a ruler to measure in cm
  • Use comparative language to describe differences in plants
  • Use names of common 2D shapes to describe differences in plants

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS

DIGITAL RESEARCH: Use Purple Mash Simple City Garden Centre Activity to create a gardening scene using drag and drop

  • Explore online games and simulations with drag and dropSCIENCE VOCABULARY: metal plastic  paper  clay  rock  fabric sand  hard  soft  stretchy  stiff  shiny  dull  rough  smooth  bendy  waterproof  absorbent  opaque  transparent  waterproof  strong  harder  smoother  group  material

SCIENCE VOCABULARY:  deciduous  evergreen  leaves  flowers  blossom  petals  fruit  roots  bulb  seed  trunk  branches  stem

History: HOMES

  • Discuss what sort of homes people live in today.
  • Know what homes look like from the outside (recognise windows, doors and chimneys)
  • Describe and draw details of different homes from different eras through local visits.
  • Identify how houses have changed through different periods ( material/roof/windows/toilets etc)
  • Identify some of the difference between a modern/old house.
  • Identify the rooms in houses from long ago (parlour/larder)
  • Use clues to infer the use of an object from the past.
  • Show understanding of an aspect of home life from the past by using role play (link into the home corner)

CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS

  • Use comparative lang to describe features of different homesGeography: HOMES AND THE LOCAL AREA
  • Create a map of the school using different symbols
  • Create a simple map of your route to school.
  • Use simple compass directions and locational and directional language to describe the features and routes on a map.
  • Use aerial photos of the local areas to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features.
  • Devise a key (link to map work of the school and the route to school)
  • Identify different types of homes in the local environment.
  • Identify different types of homes in the world.
  • Sort buildings into residential and non-residential
  • Use the correct vocabulary to describe different types of dwellings.
  • Identify different types of rooms you might find in a home and the objects you would find in them.
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CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS

  • Count houses in 2s, 5s or 10s.
  • Make a poster for a shop.

DIGITAL MEDIA: Take digital photos of local houses and buildings, and materials used in the school building

LI: To take a digital photo of their own choice of subject

HISTORY VOCABULARY:  parlour   larder  washboard   hearth  carpet beater   privy  tin bath   washstand 

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY: terraced  detached  flat  cottage  bungalow  house  mansion   residential  yurt  igloo  villa

CHALLENGES FOR THE MORE ABLE IN HISTORY – HOMES.

  • Explain why you would rather live in your house than a house from the past.
  • Order the houses from different eras according to how comfortable they would be to live in.
  • Would you rather have glass windows or a flushing toilet? Explain your reasons why.
  • Give the reasons why a larder was a good place for storing food.
  • Why was a castle a good place for a king or queen to live in?
  • CHALLENGES FOR THE MORE ABLE IN GEOGRAPHY – HOMES.
  • Rank the different housing types (e.g. bungalow/flat/mansion/cottage/castle/house)
  • Explain why there are more flats in a city.
  • Look at an aerial map – what different types of buildings can you spot?
  • Plan a house for a hot/cold area.

 

ART: DRAWING AND PRINTING (link to creating wall paper for a home)

  • Complete a colour wheel and identify primary and secondary colours.
  • Mix primary colours to make secondary colours.
  • Use pencil to create observational drawings of natural items (shells, seed heads, rocks, leaves, feathers etc.)
  • Develop pencil drawings using oil pastels to add detail.
  • Observe and draw shapes including lines.
  • Make relief prints using plasticine to make a printing plate.
  • Use rollers and printing inks.
  • Make an individual abstract design using different printsT: DESIGN A HOME
  • Explore different techniques for joining.
  • Select materials from a limited range that will meet the design criteria.
  • Identify the tools used.
  • Join appropriately for different materials and situations –e.g. the use of glue, tape etc.
  • Test different methods of enabling structures to remain stable.
  • Explore how to make structures stronger.
  • Explore ideas by rearranging materials.
  • Use drawings to record ideas as they are developed.
  • Discuss their work as it progresses.
  • Evaluate the finished product. Music:
  • Use their voices creatively by singing songs, chants and rhymes.
  • Play untuned instruments musically.
  • Listen with concentration to wide range of high quality recorded music.
  • Experiment with sound using interrelated dimensions of music

P.E (Please follow the Val Sabin scheme of work)

Gymnastic, dance and games

R.E 

What does it mean to be a Muslim?

  • What makes a community?
  • Who was Muhammed (PBUH)?
  • Which objects are special for Muslims?
  • How do Muslims show they belong to Islam?
  • What celebrations do Muslims take part in?
  • What does it mean to be a Muslim?
  • What does it mean to be a Hindu?
  • What is karma?
  • Who is Brahman?
  • Who was Krishna?
  • How can puja help a Hindu lead a good life?
  • What does the Aum (Om) symbol mean? Computing: CODING, PROGRAMMING AND COMPUTER GAMES
  • Understand and create simple everyday step-by-step algorithms.
  • Use simple commands to control the movement and actions of a person or onscreen object.
  • Use symbols for direction, distance and turn it in a simple program or sequence of actions.
  • Explore games and simulations with drag/drop and basic variables.
  • Identify obvious errors and correct them.

Entitlement and enrichment: Surrey Docks Farm/ Local park/ visit the City of London/ Dulwich village.

Topic writing links: (please teach during Friday’s literacy lesson and work in topic/Science books:

  • Write a description of a home
  • Write a short description of a village, a city and a town.
  • Create a sign for their own shop – create a poster advertising its products
  • Write a simple picture book about farm animals
  • Write a simple guide to plants/trees/flowers found in the local area.
  • Create a map and create symbols for it.
  • Write a simple estate agents’ guide for a house from the past.
  • Write a description of a home from around the world.
  • Write instructions for creating a model home.
  • Write a simple art gallery information card for the print created in art. Literacy books which link to the topic:
  • On The Way Home
  • Hansel And Gretel
  • The Three Little Pigs
  • This Is Our House
  • Cave Baby