Year 1 vocabulary by category

Adjectives

amazing beautiful big brown clever cold cool fat favourite great hot healthy hungry long new nice
old short silly small tall ugly unhealthy

Animals

butterfly(ies) animal(s) bird(s) cat(s) crocodile(s) dog(s) duck(s)

elephant(s) fish frog(s) giraffe(s) lizard(s) rat(s) snake(s) spider(s) tiger(s)

Classroom objects

bag book desk notebook pen pencil pencil case rubber ruler

Colours

blue green grey orange pink purple red yellow

Fixed phrases

Bye! Cool! Here you are

Heres (your pencil case)

How are you?

How do you spell?

Im fine,

Thanks

Im sorry in a mess

It goes Its OK Look at me My turn Please Sorry Thank you There are This is Wheres?

Food apple(s) banana(s) broccoli cake carrot(s) cheese sandwich chicken coconut(s) corn fruit green
bean(s) hot dog mushroom(s) onions orange juice orange(s) peach(es)

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Primary Year 1 Syllabus

pea(s) pear(s) pepper(s) pineapple(s) pizza potato(es) sausage steak strawberry(ies) sweet(s)
tomato(es) vegetable

Instructions Close (your book) Come back Look for (the rubber) Open (your bag) Pass me (a pen) Put
(the book on the chair) Put away (your book) Sit (at your desk) Take out (your ruler) Tell me Watch
out Write

Numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty

Other vocabulary brother balloon boat day grass ground grow leaf/leaves logs lunch mum robot
sister tangram times (3 times 2 is 6) trees

Shapes circle parallelogram rectangle square triangle diamond

Toys ball bike car computer game doll go-kart kite monster plane train

Verbs dance find go grow guess listen put read run sing speak spend stop take touch turn around
write