Year 1 - Term 3

Creativity can be inspired by objects around us

​This term our unit of inquiry is ‘Creativity can be inspired by objects around us’
Our unit of inquiry will lead onto considering what it is like to work on a cocoa bean farm and we will look at the production line from bean to bar. During this inquiry, we will expand our knowledge of the different countries and oceans in our world and will relate this to the production line of chocolate. In addition, we will find out about the role the Aztecs had in discovering and making chocolate. Later on in the term, we will design and make our own chocolate bars. We will consider the design of packaging, choose what we would like to include in our chocolate bar and promote our own chocolate bars by persuading our peers to buy them. 

We will be following different lines of inquiry to help us discover:

• What do we know about chocolate?
• What do we know about the Aztecs?
• How does chocolate go from bean to bar?

 
In English, we will be reading ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl. As we start to read this book we will let you know what chapters we are focusing on each week so that you can support your child at home. To start the term, we will begin by writing diary entries from Charlie’s point of view. We will be writing instructions in order to make our own chocolate bars and we will learn how to include imperative verbs. As we read further on, we will write our own newspaper reports based on the main events in the story. At the end of this term we will be reading, retelling and writing poems. One poem that we will be looking at is ‘Chocolate Cake’ by Michael Rosen. 

 In maths this term, we will review geometry with the aim of recognising and naming both 2D and 3D shapes. We will also develop the children’s learning further by extending their place value knowledge using numbers up to 20. We will be comparing numbers, ordering numbers, beginning to learn to count in multiples and solving mathematical problems. Lastly, we will be developing our understanding of addition and subtraction with numbers within 20. We will learn how to add by counting on and how to add by making 10. When learning how to use subtraction we will introduce the concept of crossing the 10. During these maths lessons, we will continue to use the part part whole model and the ten frames, as well as developing our knowledge of number lines. With a clear understanding of how to use addition and subtraction, we will use inverse, filling in missing number sentences and compare representations and number sentences. At the end of this term, we will begin to look at the place value of numbers within 50 and will practise counting up in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s.
You might like to join in with our learning by…

• Using chocolate in a recipe and thinking about where the ingredients came from.
• Writing a description about a chocolate bar that you have eaten using your 5 senses.
• Researching the Aztecs and see what else they were famous for?
• Finding out which countries grow coco beans.
• Imagining you are going to meet Willy Wonka, what would you like to ask him and why?
• Trying some different varieties of chocolate (e.g. milk, dark and white), can you describe the differences between them?

 
Thank you for your ongoing support.