We hope you are all keeping well. Thank you for all your emails and photos,
which always put a smile on our faces.
Here are the activities for the penultimate (last but one) week of our
summer term. We look forward to seeing
how you got on with these.
English
This week in English, we are focusing on Year 1 grammar and punctuation
objectives and are looking at plurals, suffixes and prefixes.
Monday – Can you form plurals using ‘s’
and ‘es’?
Look at
the PowerPoint
presentation to introduce the children to the concept of plurals. Children should understand that singular means
‘one’ and plural is more than one, e.g. one dog, two dogs. They will learn that many words just add an ‘s’
in the plural, but those ending in ‘x’, ‘s’, ‘z’, ‘ss’, ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ add ‘es’
. Watch the video https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-are-singular-and-plural
to consolidate the learning in the PowerPoint. Ask children to complete the activity
(this also practices some numbers, which they did for last week’s handwriting)
The
following game can be used to reinforce the idea of singular and plural: https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/singular-or-plural-1.html
Tuesday
– Handwriting
Write each word 3
times using your best pre-cursive handwriting.
eight
nine ten eleven
twelve thirteen
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 add the suffixes
-ing, -er and -ed to make new words?
Show
children the PowerPoint
explaining that suffixes are letters that are added to the end of a word to
make new words. We are focusing on the
suffixes -ing, -er and -ed, so for example, help becomes helping,
helper, helped. Ask the
children to make words ending with these suffixes using the pictures to
prompt them. Complete the suffix activity
sheet.
Thursday -
Phonics
If there are any your child doesn’t
know you may want to focus on reading words with these sounds in this week.
Can you complete the home
learning challenge sheet to recap a selection of phase 5 sounds?
Friday –
Can you add the prefix un- to make a new word with the opposite meaning?
Work through the PowerPoint
introducing the children to the prefix un-. Discuss how this changes the
meaning of the word to the opposite, i.e. lucky becomes unlucky. Complete
the activity
making new un- words.
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Maths
This week we are back to following the White Rose home
learning lessons with a focus on fractions (finding a half and quarter).
Please go to https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/
‘Summer Term – Week 11’ for the daily videos. Below are the links to the
worksheets for each day:
Monday – Can you find a half? Worksheet
Tuesday – Can you find a half? Worksheet
Wednesday – Can you find a quarter? Worksheet
Thursday – Can you find a quarter? Worksheet
Friday – Can you complete the Friday maths challenge?
Question 1 and 2 are most suitable for KS1 children.
https://wrm-13b48.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Family-Challenge-Friday-3rd-July.pdf
If you have
found this week's maths easy you could try these reasoning and problem solving
questions as an extension – click
here
Consolidation activities:
·
Cut different whole pieces of
food into halves and quarters (such an apple, cucumber, cake or chocolate
bar). Remember that they need to be equal-sized pieces.
·
Share amounts into half (two
equal groups) or quarters (four equal groups) such as peas, coins, beads,
sweets, etc.
·
Search for the following
games on Education City: ‘Half-and-half’, ‘Half-Baked’, ‘Half Your Cake and
Eat it’, ‘Shape it Up’, ‘Chop it Up’, ‘Share it Out’.
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Geography:
Can you identify the similarities in climate, weather, plants and
animals between two different locations?
Recap the knowledge children have gained in Year 1 about
the world:
·
The Earth is made up of 7 continents.
·
A continent is a large area of land.
·
Each continent has lots of individual countries.
·
The name of the 7 continents – This is a link to the song we
used in school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqsCWZtZlk4
·
The equator and hot and cold areas in the world.
Look at a map of the world
and ask children to locate the continents of Africa and Antarctica.
Explore Antarctica by looking at the PowerPoint – click here
Explore Africa by looking at
the PowerPoint – click
here
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Music:
Can you use
your voices expressively and creatively by singing songs?
Can you play
tuned and untuned instruments?
We would
like to children to enjoy a music session this week but we appreciate this is
difficult to do at home without a range of instruments to use. We have
therefore found some body percussion resources that the children at home can
enjoy.
Go to: https://www.norfolkmusichub.org.uk/site/beat-goes-on-body-percussion-resources/
Sign in with the password: Beat123!
Scroll
down and click on ‘Primary Resources’
Watch the
first video*, especially the first part where you copy different body
percussion moves / sounds. Can you copy him and make the same sounds with
your body?
*Please note if you open the above web-link on your phone or tablet you may need to switch to 'View Desktop version of site' in your settings to see the videos.
Listen some
weather sounds – Go to https://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/Weather
and click on ‘sound type’ – you will then see a selection of sound-bite clips
for different types of weather that you can listen to.
Think
about what a sunny, windy, rainy or stormy composition might sound like and
have a go at making our own. If you have some instruments at home you could
use those, but if not can you challenge yourself to do it with body
percussion instead?
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PE
Can you play some PE games?
Visit this
website and choose 2 or 3 different activities to do:
I have had
a look through them and here are some of my favourites:
·
Noughts and Crosses (an active version!)
·
The Blue Egg (children may know it as rob the nest)
·
Avoid the Defenders (dribbling practise)
·
Blast Off or Top Ten (both throwing games)
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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 https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/, such as Speed Trial, Buried Treasure or Acorn Adventures for that sound. Children are very familiar with Phonics Play and will be able to show you how to use it.
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. Please note, for books to be removed from the outstanding total, children need to complete all the questions in each book (denoted on selected pages by the bug icon).
In addition, if you are a Lexia user, please continue to use this from home.
The Year 1 Team
