Hello Year 1,

It was lovely to see some of your faces in school last week.  I hope you all had a nice weekend even though the weather wasn’t great. 

Remember to get in touch to share all the good work you have been doing at home.

Have a good week.

Mrs Burrows x

This week’s activities are:

ENGLISH

Phonics

Watch RWI speed sound sessions - If your child has watched all of the sounds and now knows them confidently, please move onto the next set of speed sounds.

RWI Phonics lessons at home
Free Read Write Inc. Phonics lessons on Facebook and YouTube for children to watch at home; three short Speed Sound lessons every day.

• Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30 am (Mrs Wright's and Mrs Atherton's RWI groups)
• Set 2 Speed Sounds at 10.00 am (Mrs Kubiak’s RWI group)
• Set 3 Speed Sounds at 10.30 am (Mrs Burrows’ and Miss Perry's and Mrs Hewitt’s)

Recap the sound from the phonics at home booklet, write five words with the sound into your books. Can you put some of these words into a sentence?

Play a phonic game on Education City.

Reading 

• Please READ a book each day - Using home readers, Bug Club, Oxford Owl or your own books.
• Complete another read and respond activity for a book that you have read this week 
• Complete ‘Make a Minibeast Mansion’ comprehension (Link below)
• Play on Teach My Monster to read
• Listen to a story

Writing 

I would like you to complete the five English lessons from the Oak Academy (Link below, click on picture)  

• To listen to a story -This week, we will hear and learn the story of The Very Noisy Night by Diane Henry.
• To commit a story to memory -Today, we are going to be drawing our story maps to help us to commit the story to memory. There will be challenge at the end of the lesson to tell the story independently.
• To use exclamation marks - In our story, there are lots of times where a character speaks with intense emotion, so today we will be learning how to use exclamation marks.
• To begin to write our story - Today, we are going to start to write our story. You will need your story map ready to help you to remember what happens.
• To continue to write our story - Today, we will finish of our story and edit our work. We will be particularly checking that we have used exclamation marks in the right place.

Maths

In maths, I would like you to continue using the White Rose Daily lessons. This week we are learning about counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. There are five lessons to complete over the week.

• Count in 2s
• Count in 5s
• Count in 10s
• Add equal groups
• Friday maths challenge

There is a short clip on each lesson and an activity sheets below.

Play maths games on Education City

Remember for any extra maths activities, play some games through top marks website or watch some Jack Hartman maths videos on YouTube.

Come and See (RE)

NEW TOPIC Being Sorry

Reveal:

LEARNING FOCUS 1: Jesus helps us when we make wrong choices.

Talk about the qualities of being a good friend and discuss making right/wrong choices. Look at the picture in God’s Story 2 page 68.  Explain how Jesus was gathering a group of people to help him spread the Good News.  He chose people who would follow him faithfully and would be sorry for when they made wrong choices.  Levi the tax collector was one of those people.

This is what happened:

One day Jesus saw Levi, the tax collector, sitting at his table collecting people’s taxes. Jesus knew Levi had not always been honest, but still he asked him to follow his way. Levi was really pleased at Jesus’ invitation and he got up and said: ‘Come to my house I am going to have a big party to celebrate.’  Levi changed his ways and became a friend of Jesus.

Based on Luke 5: 27-31

Can you imagine they are Levi and to write a note of thanks to Jesus for helping him to change his ways?

Or

Can you write a sorry prayer together, that Levi might have said to Jesus, saying why he was sorry?

LEARNING FOCUS 2: Jesus forgives us when we make wrong choices.

Jesus met a chief tax collector, called Zacchaeus.  Read his story God’s Story 2 pages 70-71 Good News for Zacchaeus, based on Luke 19:1-10.   Look at the picture from page 70 and explain that when we make wrong choices like Zacchaeus did, we need to show that we are sorry in some way.

These are two separate stories about Zacchaeus

1. Levi gave a big party to say he was sorry.  
2. Zacchaeus gave his money to the poor and the people he had cheated to show he was sorry.

Can you act out one of the stories?

Or

Can you make a story board of the events?

Foundation Subjects

The Oak academy has some fantastic foundation lessons prepared. Please click on each lesson title for the link.

History: What is an explorer? 

In this unit of work, we will be learning all about a variety of different explorers who made history. In this lesson, we will be learning about what an explorer is and focusing on the qualities and attributes that an explorer may have.

Science: What is hibernation?  

In this lesson we will be learning all about hibernation. It is really important for certain animals to hibernate to protect themselves during the cold winter months. We will be looking at different animals who hibernate, when they hibernate, what they do to prepare for hibernation and where they go to hibernate.

History: Who is Amelia Earhart?  

In today’s lesson, we are going to be learning all about Amelia Earhart. She is one of America’s most well-known and adventurous aviators, who made history when she completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. We will be listening to and then drawing the story of her incredible life.

Creative: To create shadow art  

In this lesson, we will be learning all about light and how to create shadows. The shadows will be our source of inspiration for our artwork today. We will be discussing different types of materials which help shadows to form.

PSHE

Weekly wellbeing Journal

Singing

Have a go at some of the activities and sing along!

Join in with Song of the Week. With weekly teaching and other super songs and resources.

BBC Bitesize

Here is the link for BBC Bitesize website. Each day there will be a maths, an English and a foundation subject activity for you to have a go at if you wish.

Have Fun!

Speak soon.