Y1 - what are your children doing at the moment?

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Hello everyone. I am waiting for my Y1 DD to be given a school place. In the meantime, I am using WHSmith spelling and Adding books to keep up her skills. But I was wondering, what are your Y1 children working on at the moment? That might inspire me to 'teach' my DD something.

Thank you

My ds3 has just started year one, they are working on phonics briefly each morning and when they write are expected to write 2-3 sentences - each monday they write about something they did over the weekend. In maths they are working on number bonds to 10 and counting in 2s 5s and 10s. They are looking at seaside holidays in the past, themselves as babies and how they've changed, materials and what things are made of, light and dark etc.

Similar to fuzzymum - number bonds (I think to 25 or 30), reading books (continued from Reception), spellings (have a spelling test each week). Not sure what else as I only know this much because it requires homework - anything that happens in school is not divulged to me!!

Wonderful that's so helpful. A bit shocked about spelling and writing sentences though!

The spellings aren't too bad - house, about, don't, from, by, I'm, our (can't think of the rest at the minute) & he's made to spell the words out loud & then write them down during the spelling test.

I can't see the logic / rationale for the particular words - they all seem random to me, but I assume there is a method there somewhere.

Phase 3... brilliant, thanks

DS2's topic is superheroes. They are also looking at festivals e.g. harvest festival. Maths - counting in 2,5,10 and simple sums. They are writing in sentences making sure they use correct capitals and full stops, working towards joined up writing.

I may be wrong but I thought at year 1 was meant to be phase 5 (alternative sounds)?

My DD is working on sentence construction (full stops and capital letters), doing alternative graphemes for their Reception sounds (today she did ay instead of ai). In maths they are doing one more and one less using the number square. Topic is Great Fire of London.
They are working really hard and she is exhausted! No spellings yet or homework except reading but that will come in a few weeks I think.

Yes wigglywoowoo Y1is meant to be working at phase 5.

How do you know what the phases are? If I told you his spellings, would you know the phase or how I find out?

Wiggly yes it is Phase 5, but as digraphs mainly iyswim, the phase there list will be aiming at getting very fast recall of sight vocab and for it not to be sounded out - including "tricky words" which aren't sounded out anyway as the rules don't apply - p3 tricky words are: all, he, she, we, my, are, they, (scratching head, can't remember them all sorry) maybe hunt around sites like Primary Resources and look at this on Twinkl

There is no sight vocabulary in the phases.
www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFES-00281-2007

Second line of my last post is "phase THREE" not "there" blame tiny phone keypad

His spellings might give a clue to the phase onedev but they might not and not all schools follow L&S.

Sorry Mrz... I'm in SEN and we work a bit differently

I'm a SENCO MrsShrek3 ... so I guess I'm in SEN too but it doesn't change anything there still isn't any sight vocabulary in L&S phases

Thanks Mrz. Probably best I don't think too much about it - he's happy & seems to be doing really well at a very good academic school so think im best leaving them to it

I have absolutely no idea
no homework has been sent
no spellings
am i supposed to know what phases she's on???

Seem to be doing more writing than reception. Just a sentence at a time often though, concentrating on Capital letter, finger spaces. And latest thing according to DS is joined up writing, which is errrr a little premature for him really if it is true as he needs practice on the normal writing first! Maybe that was his own inspiration, or maybe he will just get better gradually! Phonics- DS gave me a phonics test today where he plays teacher with the phonics cards and I was quite impressed- errr they are the harder ones eg "cious, tious" and the ones "i-e". He said they were all doing them. Haven't had any spellings yet but think they are coming. Reading book and library book. Some Maths, number bonds to 10.

My Y1s are learning that one sound can be written in different ways and one spelling can represent different sounds. Some of the children are doing number bonds to 20 some 10 and some 5. Our topic is The Moon. (famous person Neil Armstrong, making rockets -forces)

My year one apparently does "nothing" in school :)
But she had carrot cake for pudding today.

I've got to be honest my Y1 class are doing nothing too [grrr]

I have absolutely no idea what my yr 1 DS does at school, unless it involves PE. I know he does PE because he comes home in his kit.

When he does tell me stuff I can guarantee it won't be true.