How does your garden grow? What really happens at Big Barn Farm?
Whitefield Primary School – Reception/Year 1 curriculum (Summer term) Key Reading Texts: Fiction Handa’s Surprise The Enormous Turnip Farmer Duck The Cow that Laid and egg
Key Reading: Non- fiction We will be reading a range of information texts on farms. We will look at a range of adverts and the interesting language used.
Science
To identify and name a range of common garden and wild plants. To label that parts of a plant and understand their purpose. Recognise a push and pull force.
Literacy
To use a wider range of vocabulary. To use connectives to extend our sentences and make them more exciting. To use time connectives to organise a recount. To re-write a familiar story.
Maths Recognise and name 2D shapes. To describe the position of an item. E.g next to, behind etc. To describe movement including, whole, half and quarter turns.
How does your garden grow? What really happens at Big Barn Farm?
Important dates to remember
Learning Challenge
We will be looking at the 4 countries that make up the United Kingdom, their capital cities and the surrounding seas. To understand we have a queen that rules Britain. To compare current Queen Elizabeth with Queen Victoria.
Trips and visitors
How can you help your child at home?
We will take a trip to Gordale Garden Centre. We will visit Greenacres farm.
PE on Fridays Homework available on the school website on Friday. Reading books to be returned on Tuesday and Thursday Spelling books in to school on Wednesday
Talk about the shapes you can see in the environment. Explain to your child where we live and help them to find it on a map. To regularly read with your child. To practise reading and writing high frequency words.
Key Reading: Non- fiction We will be reading a range of information texts on farms. We will look at a range of adverts and the interesting language used.
Science
To identify and name a range of common garden and wild plants. To label that parts of a plant and understand their purpose. Recognise a push and pull force.
Literacy
To use a wider range of vocabulary. To use connectives to extend our sentences and make them more exciting. To use time connectives to organise a recount. To re-write a familiar story.
Maths Recognise and name 2D shapes. To describe the position of an item. E.g next to, behind etc. To describe movement including, whole, half and quarter turns.
How does your garden grow? What really happens at Big Barn Farm?
Important dates to remember
Learning Challenge
We will be looking at the 4 countries that make up the United Kingdom, their capital cities and the surrounding seas. To understand we have a queen that rules Britain. To compare current Queen Elizabeth with Queen Victoria.
Trips and visitors
How can you help your child at home?
We will take a trip to Gordale Garden Centre. We will visit Greenacres farm.
PE on Fridays Homework available on the school website on Friday. Reading books to be returned on Tuesday and Thursday Spelling books in to school on Wednesday
Talk about the shapes you can see in the environment. Explain to your child where we live and help them to find it on a map. To regularly read with your child. To practise reading and writing high frequency words.
