Hello everyone and welcome to a new half
term of learning. We hope you managed to
enjoy some family time over half term and look forward to seeing more of the children’s
wonderful learning over the coming weeks.
This half term our topic is called Splendid
Skies. This is a
Science/Geography focussed topic where we will be learning about the 4 seasons
and seasonal/daily weather patterns. We have
a new Power of Reading book to use for our English, which will be revealed bit
by bit just like last time.
Please find below the tasks for next week.
Maths
This week, White Rose are again
repeating the lessons on measurement that we completed earlier in the
lockdown. We are therefore following
the alternative plan for this week, looking at 3D and 2D shape. Links for each lesson’s video and
worksheets can be found below.
Monday - Can you sort 3D shapes? Worksheet
Tuesday - Can you recognise and name 2D shapes? Worksheet
Wednesday - Can you sort 2D shapes? Worksheet
Thursday - Can you continue patterns with 2D and
3D shapes? Worksheet
Friday - Can you complete the Friday Maths
Challenge?
Go to: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/,
select Week 6 (w/c 1st June).
Consolidate this learning
with practical activities, such as:
·
3D
shape song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cg-Uc556-Q
·
2D
shape song - https://vimeo.com/323186255
·
Playing
games such as Shape Spin, Sunny Shapes and Bar-B-Shapes on Education City.
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English
All the resources and pictures for this week’s English lessons can be found on this PowerPoint. Further links to it are also on the relevant days below.
Monday – Can
you draw on what you already know, background information and vocabulary to
respond to the illustration?
Use this PowerPoint
to look at the pictures of different weather. Discuss the different types of weather and
select which one you like best explaining why. For example: “I like it when the weather is…
because…”
Think about this: What would happen if the sun shone every day
and it never rained? Use your experience of weather, seasons, holidays abroad
etc. to consider your answer.
Now look at the picture from the first page of our new book (.
What do you notice? Have you seen
anywhere like this before?
Write a list of vocabulary that comes to mind when you view
this picture.
Once completed explain that this story is set in Kenya,
Africa. You may wish to locate Kenya
on a world map, globe or on Google Earth.
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.
children then look just make off
The school also subscribes to a handwriting
package called Letterjoin, which you can access at home using these login details.
Wednesday – Can you identify nouns and write noun phrases?
Today we focus on our
grammar knowledge – learning about nouns and noun phrases.
Look at the images of Kenya and Kenyan villages from slide 11 of this week’s PowerPoint.
Work through the slides to remind
the children what a noun is (a person, place or object). We have done a little bit about this before
so hopefully they will remember! Can
they verbally list all the nouns in the pictures?
Explain that when we add an
adjective (a describing word) in front of a noun it becomes a ‘noun phrase’.
Have a go at saying some
noun phrases orally before writing a list of noun phrases for the Kenyan
picture. For example: ‘An orange sun.’
or, even better, ‘A gleaming orange sun.’
For an extra challenge use a conjunction to make your sentence longer: ‘I can see a brown hut and a crackling fire.”
Thursday - Phonics
Complete the phoneme
spotter for the alternative ways of spelling the ‘ai’ phoneme: ai, ay,
a_e.
Friday – Can you make
predictions about what might happen?
Look at the front cover of our new book (from 22 of the PowerPoint) and read the title. What do you think the story might be about? You may
wish to write your prediction.
After watching the story
identify the main characters. What are
their names? How might they feel at
different points in the story?
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Science
Can you identify the four seasons and consider how weather
changes in each season?
Do you already know the 4
seasons? Can you name them in order?
Read, with your grown-up,
this story called ‘Seren’s
Seasons’.
Can you fill a suitcase
with appropriate clothes, footwear and accessories for each season?
Or alternatively, you could
make up a real suitcase with clothes for each season!
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Geography
Can you identify seasonal and
daily weather patterns in the UK?
Identify the current season and observe the weather on a daily basis. Ask and answer questions about the weather,
such as 'Is this weather typical of the season? How is the weather the same or different to
yesterday or the day before?'
Look at the PowerPoint
showing different weather symbols.
Create simple weather symbols using card, coloured pens and pencils. You could make a weather chart to have up in
your house and change the symbol each day to show what the weather is like.
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Computing -
Internet Safety
Can you learn about staying safe
on the internet?
Go to https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/5-7s/ and select Home Activity Pack 2. The storybook
revisits the previous video you watched about sharing pictures online. This will give you two activities about
staying safe online, including a link to a short, age-appropriate video and
song.
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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
