Primary One children will be learning and establishing new routines to become more independent learners.

Language & Literacy – During Term 1 Talking & Listening

· Learning to listen

· Taking turns to speak

· Asking and answering questions

· Reciting nursery rhymes Reading (At appropriately differentiated levels)

· Enjoying and talking about stories

· Know that print carries meaning and is read from left to right and top to bottom

· Naming the parts of a book e.g. front, back, spine Writing (At appropriately differentiated levels)

· Find and recognise their name

· Holding their pencil correctly

· Controlling their pencil along different shapes and lines

· Correct use of scissors

· Tracing/writing their name Phonics

· Learning the skills of blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation using sounds ‘a,i,m,s,t,n,o,p,b,c,g,h,d,e,f’

World Around Us (Topic Work) This term our topic is ‘I’m Special’.

Some of the activities we will be involved in are:

· Naming and labelling parts of the body and face

· Exploring and celebrating how we are all different

· Talking and sequencing their personal history from a baby to the present day

· Activities related to keeping healthy/healthy routines

· Exploring and finding out where we live

· Naming parts of the house

· Exploring ways of travelling from home to school

· Exploring our five senses Fine Motor Skills Some of the activities we will be involved in are:

· Using a spoon to move dried pasta from a saucepan to a bowl

· Popping bubble wrap

· Threading Cheerio’s on to dried spaghetti/string

· Use a hole punch to make holes in leaves, paper, card etc.

· Use flour on a baking tray and your finger, a feather or spoon to make patterns, letters, numbers or shapes.