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.