Teacher – Sashana Francis-Waite
HLTA – Lorraine Phillips
TA – Lesley Hams
TA – Violet Ramdass
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 dropHistory: 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
- Use the correct vocabulary to describe different types of dwellings.
- Understand how houses differ for their purpose and location.
- Know the difference between a factory, an office and a shop and know these are not houses.
- Identify a farm.
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
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: MAKE A SCULPTURE (LINK WITH MATERIALS)
- Know the materials used in making a sculpture
- Ask and answer questions about the starting points for their work
- Choose from a range of materials
- Try out tools and techniques
- Create a sculpture for a home
- Review what they have done and how they feel
CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR THE MORE ABLE PUPILS
- Evaluate the effectiveness of using different types of materials.
- Design and create a more complex animal with extra detail.
CROSS CURRICULAR LINKS
Digital Media: Use Purple Mash Paint Projects – create a digital painting of a familiar house/building using special paint tools
- LI: To explore the tools in a painting program to make a pictureT: DESIGN A HOME
- Use own experiences when developing ideas.
- Clarify their ideas through discussion.
- Make suggestions as how to proceed.
- Assemble, join and combine 2D and 3D modelling techniques using glues and masking tape.
- Make simple hinges.
- Know how to make structures more stable.
- Use construction kits to aid modelling.
- Evaluate the product they have made.
CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR MORE ABLE PUPILS
- Create more detailed houses (e.g. diff types of windows, roofs, doors)
- Use more challenging joining techniques.
- Combine with maths skills to find exact measurements for the pieces that need to be joined.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.E (Please follow the Val Sabin scheme of work)
Gymnastic, dance and gamesR.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 books about farm animals
- Write a simple guide to plants/trees/flowers found in the local area.Literacy books which link to the topic:
- On The Way Home
- Hansel And Gretl
- The Three Little Pigs
- This Is Our House
- Cave Baby
Maths topic Links: (work to be in topic/Science books)
- Count, read, write and add door numbers
- Solve simple word problems about house numbers or the numbers of rooms in houses from long ago
- Guess how many years old a house is
- Use comparative language to compare the age of homes and the number of rooms in a home
- Count how many different types there are in a street
- Use comparative language to describe and compare different types of buildings
- Sequence the types of building in a street using language such as ‘before, after and next’.