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.

Hello Year 1. We hope you had a lovely weekend in the sunshine.

This week in Literacy we will be putting your knowledge of ‘The Enormous Turnip’ to the test! Over the next couple of days we would like to see if you can write your own version of the story.

You could do this in one of two ways. First of all you may choose to retell the story in your own words. Can you use traditional story language? Can you include each part of the story?

However, if you want more of a challenge, you may choose to put your own twist on the story. You may decide to change the story so that you have a different giant vegetable – such as ‘The Enormous Carrot’ or ‘The Enormous Marrow’.  You could also switch the characters. You may even decide to star in the story yourself!

Monday’s task is to plan your story. We usually do this with a visual story board. Attached is an example you could use or draw your own. You can simplify this to have less boxes if you would rather. Draw what will happen in your story in order. You could label the pictures. You will use this plan to help support you in your story writing the next day. We look forward to seeing all the different things you come up with.

Story Map

For phonics, please practise this weeks spellings. You could try something different and create a spelling scribble like this:

Please see more upcoming  information about phonics lessons on the website.

Hello,

Your learning today is to watch Miss Hammond’s video and practise the flashcards along with her. Then can you practise your final ‘ing’ game for this week before the test tomorrow! This is a slightly different game to the game I posted the other day. It states it is for 3 players but will work just fine for 2 as long as an adult is helping.

-Adding-ing-Board-Game

For Literacy today I would like you to pretend to be the Farmer who planted the Enormous turnip! Yesterday you wrote questions to the farmer, so you know what a shock it was for him to discover that his vegetable had grown so huge. Perhaps your family could interview you pretending to be the farmer to get you into character. Then could you write a diary entry as if you are the farmer? (We looked at how to write diaries when we learnt about the Great Fire of London back in school.) Can you include what you felt like as you describe the events of your day?

You can do this straight onto paper and post to the blog, or you could type it if you would prefer using our blank diary template posted in your 2do’s on PurpleMash. I can’t wait to read your writing.

For phonics today, can you continue to use Miss Hammond’s videos to practise your flashcards. Practise your spellings and then as a little challenge, can you put these words into a sentence?

By now you will be more familiar with our story this week ‘The Enormous Turnip’. Your Literacy work for today is to interview the farmer who planted the turnip seeds. His day turned out very extraordinary, when he discovered his vegetable had grown so large and he needed all that help to pull it out the ground!

Can you think of questions you would like to ask the Farmer? For example, I would love to know ‘How many bowls of soup did your wife make out of such an enormous turnip?’

We learnt about questions in school a few weeks ago, so don’t forget to finish your question with a question mark and keep practising your neatest cursive handwriting. We would love to see your questions to the farmer on the blog.