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Y1 - what are your children doing at the moment?

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InspiredToBoot · 18/09/2012 13:27

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

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ISeeThreadPeople · 18/09/2012 22:17

Well today David told Holly that Father Christmas doesn't exist. Holly poked David with a paper clip and Holly and David had to sit and think about their behaviour. Holly cried a bit. David said it's not his fault Father Christmas isn't real...

*names changed to protect rl identities

DD's y1 class are doing all sorts. They have a list of what they are all doing and then there's obvious variations to account for ability/interest. Current topics are all about me and houses and homes. They have daily phonics lessons.

Literacy is writing sentences daily, writing basic stories, studying stories from various cultures, reading factual texts, understanding and creating captions, understanding and using dictionaries, reading and writing poetry.

Maths is counting, addition, subtraction, shapes, problem solving, estimating, comparing, measuring using non-standard objects. They count in 2s, 5s, 10s etc and beyond if they're able. It's tailored to them tbh and there's quite a lot of variation here.

They're doing a lot of body/senses stuff and basic science experiments with some outdoor materials work.

They do ICT which is currently concentrating on keyboard skills and mouse control, plus assembling texts and using word banks.

RE is currently about belonging in various forms.

History wise they're doing homes over the years, constructing timelines and doing family and personal histories projects.

They also have a design technology element which is currently moving pictures (dd made a dancing skeleton today in fact).

Plus as many reading books as they like, most children being on a coloured band. DD changes her books each morning and brings a handful home. She has a weekly spelling test too and she has to practise at home. She has 12 spellings on her current list.

onedev · 18/09/2012 22:59

Tgger, joined up writing could well be true as my DS told me they were practising this last week. Grin

RueDeWakening · 19/09/2012 00:07

Today, DD sang Jingle Bells with the rest of her table but it was OK because she didn't start it. They were meant to be doing writing at the time, only A asked DD how to spell brown, but she got it wrong because she thought it was broun, the teacher told them all the right way to spell it, then F started singing and they all joined in. They even sang the bit about Batman smells, it was really funny. Then E walked past their table and she joined in too, and on the way back she joined in again. At lunchtime DD was right at the back of the line which was really lucky because something happened that could only happen to the people right at the back. Mrs X (reception teacher from last year) and reception TA were outside, and DD banged on the window, and they WAVED! :o :o

What she's doing academically, I have no idea :o

LeFreak · 19/09/2012 00:13

DD spends all day playing maths bingo on the "ipad"

Apparently

Hmm
youonlysingwhenyourewinning · 19/09/2012 00:28

Well, unfortunately I can't give you any specifics, but my dd tells me daily that y1 is "all work work work"

It's usually accompanied by this face -> Hmm

Bless.

mumblecrumble · 19/09/2012 00:44

From what i can gather:

Counting and understanding when numbers are higher or lower, from 0 - 50 and basic addition.

Shapes - labeling shapes, playing with shapes to make stuff (blocks of different sizes to make a massive zoo/shop etc depending on what kids like. Making pictures out of shapes (like a robot with square head, circle eyes etc)

Art/describing - they are doing a project on Mackenzie Thorpe and describing his art work, saying what they like and don;t like. This ties in with drawing shape pictures and writing sentences about them.

Reading everything in sight! Lots of talking i think and reading like you are telling a proper story (sentence construction too i think)

Stories. DD loves stories as she likes to imagine things she has never seen in real life.....

Lots of playing and inventing new games with friends. Good for us as DD is an only child. She has been chatting to us about what it means to fall out and love your friends....

Quite fancvy going back to school myself [redundant teacher :( ]

InspiredToBoot · 19/09/2012 10:07

Thank you for your help everyone. How can I teach my daughter the concept of what an 'even' and an 'odd' number is? She does not know about dividing, obviously, she barely knows about addition!

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pimmsgalore · 19/09/2012 10:55

Inspired my DD told me last week if it is in the "2,4,6,8 who do we appreciate" rhyme then it is even otherwise its odd. I asked her what 10 was and she looked Confused and replied "it's not in the rhyme so must be odd but I thought it was even as it's 2 lots of 5"

Not sure the concept is being explained too well in their class.

Other than that and the fact that she now has a "special" basket to pick her books from after last weeks bookgate scandal (my DD was ahead and other mums got cross and demanded their DCs were on the same level) I don't have a clue what she is doing at all.

Although she does have to leave half her packed lunch each day to get outside and play as there is no play in yr1 only work work work but when asked what she did all day the reply is nothing Hmm

wigglywoowoo · 19/09/2012 10:58

When we discussed odd and even numbers, we talked about sharing sweets evenly between us and having an odd sweet left over. DD enjoyed making the numbers odd by eating the sweets.

I'm sure a few teachers will be along soon to advise how it should be covered but have you posted of the home ed board? I'm sure there will be a lot of good advice on there.

prettydaisies · 19/09/2012 11:01

For even and odd numbers ask her to pair things up. If they all pair up even, if one left over odd. Can use whatever she is interested in; cars, sylvanians, socks, sweets etc.

amidaiwish · 19/09/2012 11:15

i home schooled DD2 this time last year, so first term of reception
i got the ks1 age 5-6 Letts maths and literacy books (fairy fantasy ones) which she loved, lots of stickers to put on when she finished !
count to 100
count in 2s, 5s, 10s
number bonds to 10
doubles to 20 (up to 10+10)
lots of reading
a news book whenever we did anything interesting plus general knowledge about where we were, places we'd visited etc...

she went back to school in jan with no problems at all, certainly not behind.

amidaiwish · 19/09/2012 11:15

sorry i mean i home schooled her the first term of year 1 (not reception!)

Wobblypig · 20/09/2012 22:21

Learning about human body- the skeleton and the senses; the history of toys; coins and money

Bigwheel · 21/09/2012 07:34

We're in Wales so according to ds he plays with the sand table, Lego and the dolls house and had mashed carrot for dinner :-)

Bunnyjo · 21/09/2012 08:47

Just got a newsletter home from DD's teacher, which detailed what they're doing.

The topic this term is Victorians; they're doing work about Florence Nightingale and are looking at hospitals, and what they do as part of their science work. They're also looking at their bodies and what they do as part of PSHE. Their daily structure is something like this

8:50am registration
9-9:30am phonics
9:30-10:30am numeracy hour
10:30-10:50am morning break
10:50-12pm literacy
12pm-1pm lunch
1-2:20pm PE, ICT, art. On Friday's they do enrichment and it runs until 3pm.
2:20-2:30pm afternoon break
2:30-3:30pm music, drama, reading with parent/governor/teacher/TA, assemblies.

Probably missed loads out, but that was the gist I got from the newsletter yesterday Grin

Bunnyjo · 21/09/2012 08:48

Why the heck have I put an apostrophe in Fridays, Blush

familyfun · 21/09/2012 14:04

weekly swimming, weekly pe, reading , mind map describing an animal, bi meaning 2 and tri meaning 3, talk about local history last week, spellings, number bonds

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