The worksheets we recommend below in maths and English will help to increase their skills in these subjects at home. They reflect the learning your child will be using in school based on the National Curriculum. This is only a cross section of the worksheets in maths and English so please explore the site to discover tasks and activities to support your child's particular needs.
Much of the work done in school in year 1 are practical activities such as:
- telling the time
- naming shapes
- using money
- to count forwards and backwards up to 100
- addition and subtraction to 20
- times tables
- the use of objects
- telling the time
- common shapes
- about fractions beginning with a half and a quarter of a quantity or shape.
Year 1 is a time when children enjoy stories, play in the house corner and shop at school and then learn associated words. This increases their vocabulary and helps them to use words correctly.
Phonic learning will continue and they will learn common letter groups such as 'ea' and 'th'. Spellings will link to the phonic sounds learnt.
Development of handwriting will continue as they learn to write the lower and upper case alphabet as well as numbers 0 to 9.
They will begin to put words together to form short sentences which will include capital letters and full stops. They love listening to stories at the end of the day and then going home and sharing all the new words they have learnt. So, encourage them to enjoy doing these things.
- 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.
Animals, including humans
- identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
- identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
- describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets)
- identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense.
- distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made
- identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock
- describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials
- compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties.
- observe changes across the four seasons
- observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.
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