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.

I hope you enjoyed your learning on Monday. I noticed lots of fantastic art creations. Also some great puppet performances of our new story this week.

We are continuing with our ‘The Enormous Turnip’ work this week, with a focus on remembering familiar and repetitive stories.

Can you read it again today  – this time encourage your child to recite as much of it as possible by themselves. Then can you order the story in the correct sequence? You can do this by cutting out and sticking the sequencing pictures attached. Or you make your own by simply drawing a grid on a piece of paper and your child could draw their own lovely pictures in order themselves. You could try to label what is happening in each picture.

The-enormous-turnip-story-sequencing-cards

Also, look out for an Enormous Turnip themed jigsaw on your PurpleMash 2do.

Finally, for phonics today please continue to practise this week’s spellings. Here is a game you could use or copy for fun too.

ing board game

Keep an eye out for Miss Hammond’s great phonics video’s too. Well done everyone.

Hello Year 1. We were so lucky to have a beautiful, warm Easter holidays. We have planned some nice things for you to kick-start your final term in Year 1.

We sent spellings out on the last day before the holidays. Please practise these today, ready for your test on Friday. You could turn this into the 4-in-a-row style game attached below either by printing or on paper.  ing suffix 4 in a row game

As part of our new Science growing theme, we are beginning the new story of ‘The Enormous Turnip’. In Y1 it is important to learn and recite familiar tales in order. Please read the story to your child and encourage them to join in with the repetitive familiar parts.

When you have finished the story, see if your child can order the story. They could do this by acting out the story (We would love to see pictures of this) or they could make their own character puppets either by drawing their own puppets and cutting them out or using the templates provided if you have a printer.

Can they repeat all the words? Can they introduce new characters in order?

Here is a copy of the story and resources you may need.

The Enormous Turnip Story PowerPoint

The-Enormous-Turnip-Stick-Puppets

We are looking forward to seeing your Literacy work today.

Hello Year 1. We hope you had a good Easter break!

We are starting some new topics for the Summer Term. Attached below is the overview of what we would normally cover in class during this term. We will try and tailor home schooling tasks as closely as possible to cover these areas until schools reopen.

Year 1 Curriculum Overview Summer 2020

We look forward to hearing from you all soon and seeing your amazing work.

The Year 1 Team.

Hello Y1! Well done for making it to the end of term and continuing all the amazing work at home that you would in class. It will make all the difference and we are incredibly proud of you all!

Here are some lesson ideas for Friday.

Friday is spelling day again – so can parents test you on the spellings you have practised at home all week? Again, please send your scores to Mrs Goodwin and Mrs Lee via the PurpleMash email as they cannot wait to hear how you get on.

Here are the next set of spellings which you may already have a paper copy of:

Year 1 spellings Spring Week 12 suffix ing

Mrs Goodwin’s Group spellings e-e

Mrs Lee’s Group (recap or er)

For Literacy today there is a final game linked to our theme of suffixes this week. This time we are looking at plurals. On PurpleMash a 2do has been set to match the singular (one object) to the plural (more than one object) e.g cat to cats. This is a fun memory style game so have fun!

We have also popped on a fun Science/Art activity as our topic of Materials comes to an end. Can you draw a picture of your house, choosing the correct materials it is made from? Here is a picture I have attempted of my house :) It is trickier than it looks!

Here are the activities for today for Literacy and Phonics:

Miss Hammond is continuing to make her videos to help keep up the practise at home of the phonics flashcards and year 1 sounds. You could play the 4-in-a-row game again as that proved popular today.

In addition to this there is a new game in your 2do’s on PurpleMash, linked to your spellings. This is a little fun quiz. You can set the time to show the words for as little or as long a time as you like.

Then, for Literacy put your suffix knowledge into practise with this activity:

You choose the correct word ending for the word. Maybe you can write some sentences of your own with the year 1 word endings? You could use words from the game or even words from your spellings.

Hope you enjoy this. You will be suffix experts in no time!