Today is spelling test day! Good luck in your spelling test and please remember to hand in your score to Mrs Goodwin and Mrs Lee. Next week we are continuing with our split digraph revision.

Miss Hailey and Miss McCullagh’s group: Year 1 spellings Summer Week 3 Revision split digraph

Mrs Goodwin’s group:CG spellings Sum1 Wk 2 o-e

Mrs Lee’s group:AL spellings Sum 1 Wk4 (ou)

We hope you have enjoyed learning about the weather – we have enjoyed seeing your fantastic weather charts coming in.

Today’s learning is about the ‘Seasons’. Can you guess which season is being shown by looking out for visual clues in the PowerPoint attached.Seasons PPT 

Thursday-Four-Seasons-Tree-Drawing-Template_ver_2

You may like to do you own further research about seasons. Then can you use or adapt the sheets attached. Get creative and transform the trees into how they would appear in each season. You may want to use colours, paint or collage for this activity. Then choose one (or more if desired) season you would like to research and write about in more detail.

On PurpleMash you will find a Seasons Quiz to prove your knowledge.

Have fun. Have a fantastic VE Day bank holiday and a lovely, sunny weekend everybody!

Hello Year 1.

For phonics today, practise your spellings for tomorrow’s test – Miss Hammond is still posting her amazing video’s everyday to help you practise your sounds too! Could you put your spellings into sentences? Here is a colouring activity to print or adapt. Identify the real and nonsense split digraph words.

phase 5 a-e colour sheet

Today, can you learn about how weather is measured? Lesson Presentation Measuring the Weather

You will remember I mentioned to save a plastic bottle from your recycling. This is so that you can make your very own rain gauge (a piece of equipment to measure how much rainfall we have)! Mum or Dad may need to help you with this. Attached are some instructions to make it. Also attached is a sheet to take measurements of how much rain you collect each day. You could record this on consecutive days or spread it out over a longer time span due to the weather being sunny/showery at the moment. Activity Sheet Rainfall Rain Gauge Craft Instructions Black and White Rain Gauge Scale

Finally, can you write about how weather affects what activities we can do. What can you do on rainy day? What can you do on a Sunny day? What can you do on a snowy or windy day?

Let us know how you get on!

Today for phonics, practise your spellings. You will be tested Thursday this week instead of Friday due to the VE day bank holiday. Keep watching Miss Hammond’s amazing videos as these will help you with your flashcards and revision.

Our little split digraph memory game on this PowerPoint might help you to remember your spelling rule for this week. Split Digraph matching pairs memory game powerpoint

For Literacy today, continuing with our Weather theme we would like you to have a go at writing your own Springtime poem to celebrate all the sunshine we have had lately! You might like to read some poems first for a bit of inspiration.

You can create your own on paper, or you may like to do it via PurpleMash on your 2do’s.

Finally, you should have received a text to ask you to keep hold of an empty plastic bottle for an upcoming activity! All will be revealed tomorrow.

Have a great day.

Hello Year 1.

This week in phonics and spellings, we are revising split digraphs. Remember, this is when a word has a ‘magic e’ at the end which is silent, but sprinkles it’s magic onto the medial vowel to change it’s sound to a ‘capital letter sound’.  Practise your spellings and then for fun, you may choose this split digraph wordsearch. Here is a paper copy you could print or copy: Split Digraph Wordsearch

Alternatively, here is a link to a website for the wordsearch electronically. Simply follow the link and select the split digraph a-e, o-e, I-e option: http://www.ictgames.com/hybrid.html

For Literacy today, we are learning about the Weather! Read the Weather PowerPoint attached for information: T-T-9655-Year-1-Seasons-Weather-Chart-Powerpoint

Then can you use or adapt the sheets attached to begin your very own weather diary? Record what kind of weather we have each day for a whole week. There are different level sheets depending how tricky you want it to be.

Average Challenge Easy

Finally on PurpleMash, there are some Weather activities for you to complete:

You can create your own weather chart using symbols or create your own weather picture with labels and sentences.

Our Year 1 Geography links perfectly to this, so remember to choose some of the fun tasks Mrs Evans has posted to the website for the afternoon. We cannot wait to see your pictures on the blog! Have fun Year 1.

Well done for another superb week of home learning. We really are so proud of everyone for working hard at home.

Today is spelling test day! Please let mum or dad test you on this week’s jumping orange words and send your scores to Mrs Goodwin and Mrs Lee. Good luck.

It is our last day on ‘The Enormous Turnip’. We hope you have enjoyed this book. Can you tell us your views and opinions by completing a book review?

Book Review

Attached is a template but you could create your own on paper. Alternatively a book review is also set in your PurpleMash 2do section.

Finally, here are the spellings to practise for next week. From now on we will be doing lots of revision!

Miss Hailey and Miss McCullaghs groups: Year 1 spellings Summer Week 2 Revision split digraph

Mrs Goodwin’s group: CG spellings Sum1 Wk 1 i-e

Mrs Lee’s Group: AL spellings Sum 1 Wk3 (ay) 1.5.20

Have a fantastic weekend Year 1!

Hello Year 1

Can you practise your Jumping Orange words today as a 4-in-a-row game? Use the game attached or create your own grid for fun.

jumping orange words 4 in a row game

Well done for working hard on your stories so far. We are looking forward to seeing the completed versions.

Today you may choose to finish these as it was quite a lot to write all in one day! Please continue and complete your stories today either on paper or on your 2create a story.

If however, you did complete the story then head on to PurpleMash for your Literacy tasks for today. There is a spelling game, a friendship task and also a favourite fruit task. Keep up the hard work everyone.

For phonics today, please continue to practise your jumping orange year 1 words. Can you put these words into a sentence? Also watch Miss Hammond’s fantastic video’s, along with the DFE videos.

We hope you enjoyed planning your own story yesterday. There are some great innovations being sent in. We are looking forward to reading ‘The Ginormous Onion’ and ‘The Enormous Beetroot’ to name but a few of the super ideas.

Today’s Literacy is to begin to use your story plan to write your story. Children write at different paces, so it might be a good idea to break their story plan up for them into a beginning, middle and end section. Then write each section one a time. Breaking it up into chunks will make it more achievable. You can then choose whether you want to write the whole story today or you may find it better to spread it out over a couple of days. Much work has been on the computer, so this is a great opportunity to keep up the handwriting practise.

However, if you did prefer to record electronically a new 2do has been set called 2create a story. You can make a real book with words and pictures.

Please share you super stories via the homework blog, or you could email us at newdale.year1@taw.org.uk  We cannot wait to read them.