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6 years ago
Posted on 25th Mar 2020 by

Year 1 Guided Reading – Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th March

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 😃

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2020 by

Wednesday 25th March – Year 1 Maths activity

Hi everyone,

For your maths lesson today, we would like you to have a look at what finding one more or one less might look like on a number line (focus on understanding which way we would jump on a number line when we are adding or taking away).  There are two number line challenges below – these could either be printed or copied onto paper.

Following this, a PurpleMash activity has been set to practise finding the answer to number sentences that add 1 or subtract 1.  There are two challenges here; finding one more or one less with numbers up to 21,  or with numbers up to 101 (you may like to start with the first one, then move to the second once your child is secure with numbers up to 21).

You may also like to have a go at this fun helicopter game – using a computer or a tablet. You must listen to the instructions, then help to save the people by finding the answers.  There are 4 levels to choose from. The game can be found at this website:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/chopper-squad

I hope you enjoy these maths games today!

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6 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2020 by

More phonics support…

We hope you are finding Miss Hammond’s videos helpful, along with the Read, Write, Inc videos we advertised yesterday.

Another fantastic help in this difficult time is provided by the website: https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Your child will be familiar with some of their games. They are now providing FREE games.

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6 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2020 by

Year 1 Home Schooling Wednesday 25th March

A massive well done to everyone busy working at home! It has been such a joy to see some of your work on PurpleMash, on the homework blog and even directly to the new Year 1 email address. Please keep them coming :)

Here are some suggested Literacy activities for Wednesday…

A new 2Do has been set on PurpleMash. This links in to work we have been learning in  class recently. We have been learning all about suffixes (word endings). A really fun game is available to drag the word that would make most sense in the sentence.

If you would rather a paper alternative, then you could print the attached sheets or use them as a guide to create you own sentences on paper at home.

Suffixes Worksheet

Also keep practising your spellings everyday. Have fun.

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6 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2020 by

Monday 23rd March in KS1 Hub 🙂

We had a great first day in the KS1 hub. We made the most of the lovely weather and went on a little walk around the school grounds. We used our senses to describe the things we could see, hear, smell and feel and challenged ourselves to write descriptions using two adjectives and a comma. When we returned, we spent some time in the sunshine and drew a picture of some of the things we had seen. We also spent some time practising our spellings and playing a 1 more or 1 less Maths game. As a special treat, at the end of the day, we got to play a board game outside.

We would love to see some of the learning and outdoor activities that you have been doing at home – you can share your work and photos on the blog 🙂

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6 years ago
Posted on 23rd Mar 2020 by

Tuesday 24th March – Year 1 Maths activity

Hello Year 1,

I hope you worked hard to practise finding 1 more and 1 less yesterday. Today, you have got another 1 more and 1 less activity to have a go at, as well as a tricky Maths challenge!

Keep up the good work everyone! :)

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6 years ago
Posted on 23rd Mar 2020 by

Year 1 and 2 Phonics Support at Home!

Here is a helpful video from Miss Hammond. She has created a video to help you continue practising your sounds at home! We hope you find it useful.

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6 years ago
Posted on 23rd Mar 2020 by

Year 1 Phonics and Literacy Tuesday 24th March 2020

Hello,

We hope you have been enjoying the sunshine and getting plenty of fresh air and exercise. It has been great to see some wonderful work on Purple Mash.

A new 2Do has been set for Literacy for Year 1 pupils today. We would like you to interview Paddington Bear! Last week in Literacy, we learnt all about using a question mark when we write a question. We also thought carefully about the words we might use to start a question, such as what, where, when, who, how etc. Can you write some questions for Paddington? If you want to do this on paper at home then this would be fantastic too. What do you think his answers would be? Can you make sure the question mark is the right way round?

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

For phonics, continue to practise your sounds and spellings. Then you could use the ‘Picnic on Pluto’ game to sound and out read real and nonsense words. We play this lots in school.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

Keep your eyes peeled on the website as Miss Hammond is creating her very own videos to practise phonics at home.

Don’t forget to refer to the afternoon activity sheet and also try some of the mindfulness and exercise ideas previously posted.

Keep up the great work everyone.

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6 years ago
Posted on 22nd Mar 2020 by

Year 1 Phonics and Literacy Monday 23rd March 2020

Here are some ideas for phonics and Literacy for your Year 1 child for today.

Phonics

Work through your phonics linked spelling grid provided by school (or found on our spelling page). This is a great opportunity to practise handwriting at the same time. Ruth Miskin’s Read, Write, Inc (the flashcard resources we use in school) are scheduling FREE Read, Write, Inc phonics lessons on Facebook and YouTube for the next two weeks.

Set 1 speed sounds 9.30 and 12.30

Set 2 speed sounds 10.00 and 1.00

Set 3 speed sounds 10.30 and 1.30

Please note, these are streamed live and unavailable at other times.

If you invested in the flashcards, please do practise these daily to help shift them into the long term memory!

 

Literacy

Last week we learnt about adding adjectives into our sentences to make our writing more exciting! We even learnt how to separate more than one adjective with a comma. For example, Paddington Bear has a big, floppy hat.

Can you draw a fantastic picture of Paddington today? Then could you write some sentences underneath your picture to describe what he is like?

We would love to see your super writing posted on the homework blog, or you could email a picture to us directly.