What skills to revise during the holidays? 

During the holidays, it would be greatly appreciated if you could revise the following:

Mathematics

Pre Primary

• Count forward in sequence to 100.
• Make collections up to 20.
• Counts backwards from 20.
• Start counting from any point.
• Use the strategy ‘counting on’. 
• Read numerals, identifies numerals and matches to quantities 0-20.
• Count each object once only.
• Compare collections according to quantity i.e. ‘more’, ‘less’, ‘same as’, ‘not the same as’. 
• Copy and continue a pattern with objects, drawings, sounds and movements.
• Create a pattern with objects, drawings, sounds and movements.
• Recognise patterns in the environment.
• Sort and classify familiar objects and explains the basis for these classifications.
• Model adding and sharing using a variety of practical strategies.
• Add and subtract small quantities.
• Describe position and movement i.e. in front, behind, next to, under, on, in, between, forwards, backwards and towards.
• Follow and give simple directions to guide a friend around an obstacle path. 
• Use direct comparison to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more.
• Use everyday language associated with measurement attributes.
• Use indirect comparison to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more.
• Identify the days of the week and link to specific familiar events.
• Name 2D shapes – circle, rectangle, triangle, square.
• Describe attributes of 2D shapes.

Year One

• Orally count to 200 and from 100 from any starting point.
• Orally count from 0 by 2s to 100.
• Know and use ordinal numbers from 1st to 31st.
• Identify odd and even numbers to 20. 
• Read and understand basic facts to 20 (addition and subtraction).
• Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems to 30 using concrete materials, illustrations, counting on, counting back and number bonds. 
• Name and order the days of the week.
• Name the seasons.
• Name and order the months of the year.
• Know the duration of an hour, day, week and month.
• Measure and compare length, capacity, area and mass of pairs of objects using uniform informal units.
• Tell the time (hour and half hour).
• Recognise and classify 2D and 3D shapes using basic attributes and features.
• Identify outcomes of familiar events involving chance and describe them using everyday language such as “will happen”, “won’t happen” or “might happen”.
• Choose simple questions and gathering responses to collect data.
• Draw simple data displays.
• Represent data with objects and drawings (one to one correspondence).

English 

Pre Primary

·        Listen, respond to and join in with rhymes, poems, chants and songs.

·        Ask and answers questions to clarify understanding.

·        Recognise 100 high frequency words.

·        Identify question marks, exclamation marks, bold print, full stops, speech marks and commas.

·        Explain capital letters are for names and the beginning of a sentence.

·        Explain that full stops signal the end of a sentence.

·        Sequence events and everyday happenings.

·        Identify the title, author, word, letter, space and page.

·        Discuss characters and main events in imaginative texts.

·        Differentiate between fiction and non-fiction texts.

·        Spell 50 high frequency words.

·        Write one or more simple sentences to retell events and experiences.

Year One

·        Identify R- Controlled Vowels, which is when 'Bossy r' bosses the vowel to make a new sound (ir, ur, er (fern), er (mother), ar and or).

·        Recognise the first 200 high frequency words (fast and consistent).

·        Use adjectives, nouns and verbs correctly in sentences.

·        Provide examples of homophones.  

·        Spell the first 150 high frequency words.

·        Write recounts and procedures, with neat writing and approximately one page in length.

·        Use full stops, capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks appropriately. 

Kind regards

Miss Ryan