Last week, we set you a guided reading activity based on a story called ‘A Monster Surprise’, and we loved seeing your creative work and hearing that so many of you had enjoyed this story. We would like to share another story with you today. This one is called ‘The Making of Milton’. You can listen to the story being read at this link:

(also included on the PDF of activities below)

We have included here some questions to discuss and some fun activities that you may like to have a go at, at home. Some of these activities may take a little bit more time so please don’t feel like they all must be completed today – you may like to spread them out over the week. We can’t wait to see your creative projects this week! 😃

The Making of Milton Questions and Activities

How to make your own jar of courage

Jar of Courage Instruction writing

As we are entering Friday afternoon, we just wanted to say a big well done on completing your first week of home learning (to parents and children!). This week, we have all had a totally new experience and everybody has had challenges to overcome, but we are so impressed with the effort and hard work that has gone into home learning. We have loved all the pictures and work that you have sent us  – it really looks like the children are enjoying their learning at home!

We thought it might be nice to send out a little reflection to end the week, so that you can think about 5 important things that you have accomplished or enjoyed in your first week of home learning (this could be for the children – or for the adults). This doesn’t necessarily need to be written down, we just thought it might be a nice activity to talk about – or even just to think about!

You may also know, that on a Friday afternoon in school we choose our Star of the Week. This week, we thought all pupils who have been working hard at home may deserve their special certificate so maybe you can decide together what you are most proud of this week. It could be working hard at PE, creating a lovely drawing or painting, perhaps a piece of writing that you are really proud of or maybe you have been working really hard on your Maths activities this week. Whatever is is, we would love to see your certificates and reasons on the blog or email.

Thank you for all of your hard work,

Year 1 Team ⭐

Hi Year 1,

We hope you have had a super first week in your home schools 😊 Here are your two morning activities for Friday.

Science

We would like you to have a go at some writing linked to our Science topic of ‘Everyday Materials’. This activity has been set as a 2Do on PurpleMash.  You need to choose three materials to write about. You can choose three pictures from the clip art box on the right hand side to drag into your work. In the writing boxes, you can write a sentence telling us a little bit of information about that material. You might like to think about what the material is called, what properties it has and what it can be used for. On the left hand side, there are some prompts and sentence starters that you could use!

Here is what your work might look like. This piece of work has even been marked with the sunshine pen – can you remember what you need to use to get the sunshine pen?

Maths

You have been working really hard this week to practise finding one more and one less. Today, is your final lesson on finding one more and one less so I have given you a selection of challenges. You can decide which one, or ones, you would like to have a go at. Don’t forget you can also continue practising by playing the computer games we have recommended this week.

Friday 27th

We hope you enjoy your activities today!

Miss McCullagh and Miss Hailey 🙂🙂

Well done to those children who managed to have a go at the 1 more and 1 less activity on PurpleMash. The game is still open so you could continue to practise today :)

Here is today’s Maths activity:

We are really loving seeing all of your fantastic work on the blog, the email and on PurpleMash. Well done everyone!

Don’t forget to also try to complete two afternoon projects per week. The afternoon projects sheet has been posted on the blog and is also in your paper packs. You may also like to have a look at the Guided Reading activity posted on Wednesday.

Best wishes,

Miss McCullagh 😊

We have found a lovely story that we would like to share with you at home. The story is an e-book so you can listen to it being read – using a tablet, laptop or phone. On the document below, you will find lots of questions and fun activities that you could do at home, based on this story. You may like to spread the activities over two days.

A Monster Surprise Questions and Activities

One of the activities asks you to design your own monster, using the monster body parts on this sheet.

Roll and Build your own Monster

I even had at go at this activity at home, after I had listened to the story! Here is the monster I designed using the dice game. I would love to see some of your monster creations on the blog too – or you could e-mail them to us!

Keep up with all the brilliant work!

Best wishes,

Year 1 Team 😃