Hello Ladybirds and Caterpillars
Thank you for your emails
over the last week. We hope you are
enjoying our new topic: Splendid Skies. We
also hope you are enjoying our new Power of Reading Book: Lila and the Secret
of the Rain.
Please find below the tasks
for this week.
As an extra challenge, can
you use pre-cursive handwriting for all your work this week?
Maths
This week, White Rose are repeating
some lessons that we completed earlier in the lockdown. We are therefore doing a mixture of the
Week 7 work and the alternative lessons.
Links for each lesson’s video and worksheets can be found below.
Monday - Can you count in 2s? Worksheet
Tuesday - Can you count in 5s? Worksheet
Wednesday - Can you read, write and count numbers
to 50? Worksheet
Thursday - Can you use place value for numbers to
50? Worksheet
Friday - Can you complete the Friday Maths
Challenge?
Consolidate this learning
with practical activities, such as:
·
counting
games, practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
·
with
videos and songs such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EemjeA2Djjw
·
playing
games such as Deep Discoveries, Deep Sea Five, Don’t Be Shellfish and High Five
on Education City.
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English
Monday – Can
you listen to and discuss a wide range of stories and give your opinion?
Re-watch to the whole story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm5D7Mrxm5o
Talk about with your child about their first responses to the
story. What did they like and/ or
dislike? Provide your child with an
oral scaffold for example: the most memorable part of the story was...
because...; my top moment in the story was... because... and ask them to
identify their favourite part of the narrative. Encourage children to give reasons for
their choices.
Ask the children to write about their favourite part of the
story. Encourage them to use correct
punctuation and grammar (full stops and capital letters) and to revisit
writing to check that it makes sense. Can
they write more than one sentence?
Possible sentence starters:
I enjoyed this story because… My favourite part was…because… I also like it when…
I
found it interesting when…
Tuesday –
Handwriting
These words are taken from the Phase 2 to 5 High
Frequency words list.
Write each word 3 times using your best
pre-cursive handwriting.
house
make very from
with this
The school also subscribes to a handwriting
package called Letterjoin
(click to access), which you can access at home using these login
details.
Wednesday – Can you sequence and retell events using
adverbials?
Explain that the main
events are the main things which happen in a story and they must be told in
the right order for the story to make sense.
Use the story sequencing cards (click
here) to put the story into the right order.
Ask the children to retell
the story using adverbials such as: first,
after some time, then, next, after that, finally.
The children could draw a
horizontal journey map showing Lila’s journey, make stick puppets or just use
the sequencing cards to help them.
Thursday - Phonics
Use the Phase 5 sound mat to practise reading all the Phase 5 sounds –
click
here.
If there are any your child doesn’t know you may want to focus on
reading words with these sounds in this week.
You can also print off these alien words (click
here) and hide them around the house. How many can you find? They contain a mixture of Phase 3, 4 and 5
sounds. Can you sound them out and
blend them together accurately? Were there any you found tricky?
Friday – Can you rehearse
orally what you are going to write? Can
you write sentences using finger spaces, capital letters and full stops?
Today we are going to do some drama. We would like the children to put themselves
in role as Lila. Either re-watch the
story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm5D7Mrxm5o), or
use the sequencing cards from last lesson, to stop at different points in the
story and discuss: how is Lila feeling here?
What is she thinking? How will
she show this through her body language and facial expressions? You could take some photos of your child
freeze-framing Lila in a particular scene.
Write 2 or 3 thought bubbles in role as Lila at different points in
the story. You could print your
pictures and stick your thought bubbles next to them.
Use your phonics to help you spell and think carefully about capital
letters, full stops and neat handwriting.
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Geography
Can you identify seasonal and
daily weather patterns in the UK?
What is the weather like in
Kenya? How is it different to here in the UK?
Did you find where Kenya was on a map? Whereabouts is it in the world? Remember when we learnt about the 7
continents? Well, Kenya is in the
continent of Africa.
Is this near the equator? Does
this mean it is a hot or cold place?
This week we would like you to keep a weather diary for here in the UK
and for Kenya in Africa. Use the internet,
for example BBC weather, to find out the weather and temperature for both
places and record on your weather diary (click
here for worksheet).
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Art
Can you learn about famous artists, discuss similarities and
differences and make links to your own work?
Look at, talk about and compare weather-themed
paintings created by different famous artists – click
here to view them. Describe what
you can see. Can you hunt for clues in the paintings to
identify the seasons shown? Remember
that seasons are different to weather but certain weather is associated with
particular seasons.
Can you create a painting (or drawing) of the weather outside or you
own imaginative weather scenario? Compare
it to the paintings you saw earlier.
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Science
Can you perform a simple science experiment, observe closely
and answer questions?
This week, if you have the
listed equipment, we thought it would be fun for you to create your own cloud
in a jar!
Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF2f024KMu4 and
download the instructions – click
here.
What is happening? What do
you notice? Why is it doing that?
For an extra bit of fun,
you could make some cloud dough to play with – https://www.powerfulmothering.com/how-to-make-cloud-dough-recipe/
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Daily Tasks
Phonics - using Letters and Sounds daily live phonics
lessons. Sessions take place Monday-Friday at 10.30am for Year 1 and
at 11am for children who may need a little extra help with their sounds and
blending. Alternatively, to practise
specific sounds, you could use the Alphablocks videos online or select Phonics
Play games, such as Buried Treasure or Acorn Adventures for that sound.
Reading - a book/comic/Bug Club to
develop reading skills. We will allocate extra books on Bug Club
when we notice you are getting low, or you can let us know when you email us.
In
addition, if you are a Lexia user, please continue to use this from home.
The Year 1 Team
