Friday 27th March 2020
Staying Healthy
Start your day off with some P.E. with Joe Wicks! Follow the link and get active.
Reading
Miss Walker's and Miss Howes' Groups: Log on to Oxford Owl and choose a book from the 'Age 6-7' section. Complete Activities 1 and 2 which you will find at the top of the page.
Miss Rowland’s Group: Find the book ‘What’s That Noise?’ on Oxford Reading Owl. Read the key words, common exception words and challenge words on the inside cover. Read the story and talk about the different noises mentioned in the book to an adult in your house. Write 4 sentences and draw a picture about one of the noises mentioned in the book.
Miss Upton's, Mrs Hussain's and Miss Potter's Groups: Log on to Education City (your username and password will be in your home learning book). Click on Subject - English - Year 1 - Letters and Sounds. Choose two activities from the 'Phase 3' area to complete.
Challenge: Now try a 'Phase 4' activity.
Writing
Follow this link and watch the clip. Imagine that you are Secret Agent Walter Beckett. Write what has happened with the pigeons. Make sure you include:
- Conjunctions
- Subordinate clauses
- A question sentence
- An exclamation sentence
Challenge: Can you add a simile too?
Maths
Miss Howes’ and Miss Walker’s Groups: Recap all of the bonds to 10. Your first one is 1 + 9 = 10. Now write the others in your home learning book.
Click on the link to the White Rose Home Learning page. Click on 'Year 1' and have a look at 'Lesson 2'. Complete the activity in the pink box and then check your answers.
Miss Higgins' Groups: Follow the link to the TopMarks website and play the game 'Meteor Multiplication' to keep your times tables fresh in your mind.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division
Then follow the link below to the 'Coin Cruncher'. Use your addition skills to add up different coin values to make certain amounts.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/money
Miss Rowland’s Maths Group: Follow the link to TopMarks Fraction Matcher. Try to complete levels 1, 2 and 3!
Topic
Watch the clip: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z7qd7ty.
You will have seen lots of different materials and some of these we talked about and looked at in class last week. In your home learning book, write down a list of all the materials you can spot in the clip. What could those materials be made into? What would they be best for? Are they strong? Bendy? Soft? Hard? Which ones are waterproof?
Brain Breaks
Get dancing with this fun YouTube video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpz36D0WaDg
Thursday 26th March 2020
Staying Healthy
Look after your mind with a relaxing meditation with Jamie. Find somewhere comfortable and follow the link to get started.
Reading
Miss Walker's and Miss Howes' Groups: Log on to Oxford Owl and choose a book from the 'Age 6-7' section. In your home learning book answer these questions:
- Why have you chosen this book?
- What type of book is it? Fiction? Non-fiction? Happy? Sad? Serious? Funny?
- Who do you think the main characters are going to be?
- What do you think might happen in the story?
Now read your story.
Challenge: Read your story again but this time think about the expression in your voice.
Miss Rowland's Group: Log on to Oxford Owl and find the book ‘Wild Weather’. Before reading the story, read the inside cover and answer the prediction questions. After reading the book, write a sentence with each of the glossary words in.
Miss Upton's, Mrs Hussain's and Miss Potter's Groups: Log on to Oxford Owl and choose a book to read with your grown up. Now answer these questions out loud to your grown up:
- Where is it set?
- Who are the main characters?
- What happened in the story?
- What was your favourite part?
Writing
Follow the link. Think of words and phrases to describe what you can see. Complete the 'Sick Sentences!' activity and see if you can turn them in to super sentences in your home learning book. Think about:
- Conjunctions
- Expanded noun phrases
- Adverbs
Maths
Miss Howes’ and Miss Walker’s Groups: Practise your ‘Learn Its’ – remember you need to know these off-by-heart:
2+3
3+3
4+3
5+3
6+3.
Now watch the video. Go on a shape hunt around your home. How many different shapes can you find?
Miss Rowland’s Group/Miss Higgins' Group: Log on to 'MyMaths' then the 'Home Learning Section Year 2'. Recap your understanding of quarters by completing Lesson 4 (recognise a quarter) and Lesson 5 (find a quarter).
Topic
In PSHE, we have been looking closely at what our strengths are. What is a strength? What are your strengths? Draw a picture of yourself and label yourself with at least 5 strengths that you have in your home learning book.
Brain Breaks
Give yourself regular brain breaks by following the link and finding a fun GoNoodle activity!
Wednesday 25th March 2020
Staying Healthy
Start your day off with some P.E. with Joe Wicks! Follow the link and get active!
Reading
Miss Walker’s and Miss Howes’ Groups: Log in to Oxford Owl and find the book 'Escape of the Giant Chicken'. Read the text carefully and complete Activities 1 and 2 which you will find at the top of the screen.
Miss Rowland’s Group: Log in to Oxford Owl and find the book ‘When Animals Invade’ to read. Make sure you read all the common exception words and challenge words on the inside page before reading the book. When you have finished reading the book, answer the three questions on the last page and write your answers in your home learning book.
Writing
Write a 'Setting Description'. Follow the link and complete the activities.
Maths
Miss Howes’ and Miss Walker’s Groups: Practise your ‘Learn Its’ – remember you need to know these
off-by-heart:
2+2
3+2
4+2
5+2
6+2.
Click on the link to the White Rose Home Learning page. Click on 'Year 1' and have a look at 'Lesson 1'. Complete the activity in the pink box and then check your answers.
Miss Rowland’s/Miss Higgins' Maths Group: Log on to 'MyMaths' then the 'Home Learning Section Year 2'. Recap your understanding of a half by working through Lesson 2 (recognise a half) and Lesson 3 (find a half). Choose three activities from this worksheet to complete as your Gold challenge.
Topic
Choose an animal that you know lays eggs. Research your animal. Make a fact file (like these ones), including everything you have found out about that animal.
Brain Breaks
Give your brain a rest by following the link to a fun Go Noodle activity!
Tuesday 24th March 2020
Book of the Day
Log onto ‘Oxford Reading Owl’ (find your user and password in your home learning book).
Find the ‘Happy Birthday Winnie’ book and read it with your grown up. Make a birthday party invitation in your home learning book to Winnie’s birthday party. Where is it taking place? When is it happening? Do you want your guests to bring anything to the party?
Phonics Task
Log onto Education City using your Purple Mash password. Click on: Subject- English- Year 1- Letters and Sounds.
Miss Howes’ Phonics Group - Recap any of the phase 4 and 5 clips and complete the activities. Complete 2 sounds today please.
Miss Rowland’s Phonics Group- click on 'Spot the Frog' phase 4 sounds. Play the clip and complete the activities.
Miss Stephenson’s Phonics Group- click on 'Soil Spoil' ‘oi’ sound. Play the clip and complete the activities.
Miss Walker’s/Mrs Salthouse’s Group- click on 'Pack a Rucksack' ‘ck’ sound. Play the clip and complete the activities.
Maths Task
Miss Howes' Maths Group
Go around your house picking up 6 different objects (with your adult’s help). Put them in order of tallest to shortest, heaviest to lightest. Do this 3 times with different items.
Miss Higgins’ Maths Group:
Look at different coins with your grown up that they have in their purse or wallet and discuss their values.
Log onto the Espresso website (logins found in home learning book) and click on the KS1 tab then click on the ‘Maths’ section. Click on the ‘Money’ section then the activities. You then need to complete the ‘Ordering combination of coins’ activities.
https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/home/index.html
Miss Rowland’s Maths Group
Have a look at the clock in your house. What time does it say? Complete a time table of your day including times for when you got up, when you had breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as any other activities you did throughout the day.
Have a go at the top marks ‘Tell the Time’ game.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time
Work through each task it gives you. Have a go at all 5!
Topic Task
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSgoPdKQFQ ‘The Easter Story’ to refresh your memory of the story we looked at in class last week. Find your adult and retell the story to them.
Draw 4 different parts of the story and write 4 sentences for each picture. Try and include a question and exclamation mark if you can.
Monday 23rd March 2020
Book of the Day
Log onto ‘Oxford Reading Owl’ (find your user name and password in your home learning book).
Find ‘The Magic Paintbrush’ book. Read it with your grown up and complete ‘Play Activity 1 and 2’ located above the book on the website.
Literacy Task
Write a book review on ‘The Magic Paintbrush’.
Then write the story in your own words and answer these questions about the story:
- Did you enjoy it? Why?
- What was your favourite part? Why?
- Who was your favourite character? Why?
- Would you recommend this book to another child? Who and why?
Maths Task
Miss Howes’ Group
Keep those times tables fresh in your brains. Write out your 2x and 5x tables in your home learning book. Then chant them to your grown up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWMPqh04o4 sing along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfRVYPcfecE sing along.
Miss Rowland’s/Miss Higgins’ Group
Keep those times tables fresh in your brains. Write out your 2x, 5x, 10x and 3x tables in your home learning book. You know these! Challenge yourself and write out your 4 times table too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzVyBQ5uTbo sing along.
Then answer these multiplication and division word problems in your home learning book.
Topic Task
Read ‘Danny the Duck with No Quack’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DMvtvfPf-Q
Think about the time we had the ducklings in school. Draw a picture of the ducklings and label each one. Write underneath a favourite memory you have of when we had the ducklings in Teams 5 and 6. Try and include conjunctions and a subordinate clause if you can in your writing.