Hello Year 1,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. On Friday, Noah, Oliver and Charlotte’s caterpillars arrived. I will keep you updated on the school blog.

I hope you were all good yesterday for Father’s day.  Noah and Oliver made their dad breakfast in bed.

Over the next few weeks, school will be having our own sock Olympics. Keep checking the school blog for more information.  It sounds like great fun.

Keep up the hard work and I will see you all soon.

Don’t forget to keep in touch with the blogg, twitter or email school.

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 ‘Serene Seasons’ 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) This week you will be listening to an information text.

• To listen to an information text - In this lesson, we will listen to an information text about a fictional creature called a green-winged flay
• To create a creature - In this lesson, you will have a chance to create your own creature. You will need to think carefully about the different parts of its body.
• To develop my creature - In this lesson, we will be thinking about where our new characters live, their habitat, and what they eat, their diet. You will need a piece of paper and a pencil.
• To begin to write my information text - In this lesson, we will start to write our information text. You will need a piece of lined paper and a pencil.
• To continue to write my information text - Today, we will complete our information texts and edit our work to ensure that we have all included our own ideas.

Maths

In maths, I would like you to continue using the White Rose Daily lessons. This week we are learning about numbers to 100.

• Counting to 100
• Partitioning numbers
• Comparing numbers (1)
• Comparing numbers (2)
• 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)

TOPIC Being Sorry

Reveal:

LEARNING FOCUS 5: Saying sorry.

Use the picture of children making up after a quarrel from Church’s Story 2 page 45. Sometimes we quarrel with each other and have arguments, it is important to say sorry and to forgive others when they say sorry to us.  God always forgives us when we are sorry.

Here is a suggestion for a sorry prayer, which focuses on God’s love.

God, our Father, thank you for loving me.                                                                                   I am sorry for the times I have not shown love to others.                                                         Help me always to live like Jesus.  Amen.

Can you write your own sorry prayer and illustrate it?

LEARNING FOCUS 6: We are happy when we love one another.

Read A New Rule based on John 13:34-35.  In John’s gospel, we hear about a new rule Jesus gave us.  It is a rule which Jesus always kept.  Jesus is always there to help us. 

Using the picture from God’s Story 2 pages 72-73 talk about the actions of the children.  When we are living out Jesus’ new rule to ‘love one another’ this is shown in our thoughts and actions.  Discuss what else the children could say and do to show they were living out the new rule. (Shaking hands as a sign of peace etc.)  It is good to make up when we don’t keep this rule and try not to let it happen again. 

During Mass, after the Our Father, the people are invited to share with one another a sign of peace.  They can shake hands and say, ‘Peace be with you’.  In this way, they are living out Jesus’ new rule by showing they want to be friends with one another.

Can you record on a template of a hand ways we can live out Jesus’ new rule?

Foundation Subjects

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

Who was Sir Ernest Shackleton?

Today, we will be learning all about the incredible adventures of Sir Ernest Shackleton. He wanted to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Sadly, after 4 attempts to get there, he never made it. During this lesson, we look back at the heroic journey Shackleton and his team took, trying to reach the South Pole.

Who is Sir Ranulph Fiennes?

Today we are going to be learning about the exciting life of Sir Ranulph Fiennes. He has been called the world’s greatest living explorer! Ranulph is a British explorer who is attempting a new record-breaking challenge to raise money for charity. If he succeeds, he will become the first person to cross the North and South Poles and climb the highest mountain on each of the world’s seven continents. He has 3 continents to go.

What are the 5 senses?

Today we are going to be learning about the five senses. Our bodies do some amazing things. They allow us to see the wonderful world around us, hear things and taste delicious foods. We will be looking at which body part relates to each sense and conducting a sound exploration using our ears.

To investigate warm and cool colours.

In today’s lesson, we will be focusing on how colours can be categorised into warm and cool. Warm colours help us think of warm and cosy things, while cool colours may remind us of fresh, calm and chilly things. We will create a piece of work inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe, who used warm and cool colours in her artwork. You will need a piece of paper, a pencil and some paints or colouring pencils.

PE - Sock Olympics

This year, Sports Day is looking a little different! Due to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics been postponed until 2021, ST.TERESAS have planned a Sock Olympics just for you! Keep checking the school blog for more information.

PSHE

Looking after Your Wellbeing activities

Singing

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

OUT OF THE ARK MUSIC

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

SING UP

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!