Getting to Know You KS1

Getting to Know You KS1

This resource consists of a selection of activities aimed at KS1 to help get to know your new class at the start of the first term.

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What's in the pack?:

• Main Activities
• Supporting Resources

Early Learning Goal Links

Communication and Language
- Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions
- Hold conversation when engaged in back-and-forth exchanges with their teacher and peers
- Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary

Literacy
- Say a sound for each letter in the alphabet and at least 10 digraphs
- Spell words by identifying sounds in them and representing the sounds with a letter or letters

Mathematics
- Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system
- Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally

National Curriculum Objectives

Spoken language
- listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
- maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
- participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates
- gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)

English Year 1: Spell words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught
English Year 1: Use letter names to distinguish between alternative spellings of the same sound
English Year 1: (1G3.3) Joining words and joining clauses using ‘and’
English Year 2: Spell by segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly
English Year 2: (2G3.2) Expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]

Mathematics Year 1: (1N1a) Count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, or from any given number
Mathematics Year 1: (1N1b) Count in multiples of twos, fives and tens
Mathematics Year 2: (2N1) Count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward or backward
Mathematics Year 2: (2C6) Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers

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