Sampler Day
On Wednesday 6th July the children will take part in a sampler day, where they get to experience their new learning environments and teachers. We are extremely excited to meet the new children coming into Year 1 and have an action packed day of fun and learning with them. Please see our 'Meet the Teacher' PowerPoint below to find out what our classrooms have to offer and more about the expectations as your child transitions into Year 1.
At the end of the school day, please ensure your children know where you will be stood so they can confidently find you and the teachers can identify who you are.
Many thanks,
Mrs Mears, Mr Law and the Year 1 Team.
Weekly Update: 27th June – 1st July
English
This week in English we have been looking at our new class novel, ‘Hello Lighthouse’ written by Sophie Blackall. We have read the story and this week we have retold the part where the lighthouse keeper rows out in a terrible storm to save some sailors who are stranded in the water after their ship has crashed into the rocks; we have discussed the purpose of a lighthouse and the different jobs a lighthouse keeper has; we finished by writing a journal entry in the Lighthouse Keeper’s Log Book.
Maths
In Maths this week we have been looking at money. The children have been learning to recognise different coins and notes and towards the end of the week, the children started to make certain amounts using the coins they had. It was excellent to see the children creating different totals on different ways. As an extra challenge, we specified how many coins we wanted the children to use.
E.g. Make 63p using 6 coins = 50p, 5p, 5p, 1p, 1p, 1p or 20p, 20p, 20p, 1p, 1p, 1p
If you go shopping this weekend and end up with any change in your purses or wallets, pass this to your child and see if they can identify all of the coins and maybe add them up.
Dance from the Heart
On Tuesday morning, the whole school went outside to perform this year’s Dance from the Heart 2022 routine. Whilst the whole routine was a bit of a challenge to remember (just ask the staff!), the children had a great time following the dance leader and perform the whole 5-minute routine. Unfortunately, ‘Dance from the Heart’ has been cancelled over the last couple of years due to the pandemic, so it was lovely to see every child in school outside all together dancing to the same tune with big smiles on faces. A big thanks to all involved from South Ribble School Sports for their support.
Weekly Update: 20th – 24th June
English
This week in English we have been looking at postcards and their features. We have pretended to be ‘Little Phil’ from our latest class story, ‘Ugly Sharkling’ and written a postcard to our mum or dad and told them all about our day at the seaside and adventure with Norman, the shark with no teeth. The children also copied our school address and we reminded them about using capital letters for place names.
Maths
This week the children have been learning all about telling the time. This is always a tricky concept but the children have worked exceptionally hard to understand telling the time to both ‘o’clock’ and to ‘half-past’ using a 12-hour analogue clock. The children are becoming much more familiar with the different hands: second, minute and hour.
Topic
This week in Science we have been looking at grouping animals into the following categories: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish. The children used their investigative skills to look at different animals and see where they would fit best. There were definitely some tricky ones (particularly between the amphibians and reptiles) and some misconceptions about birds (whether a bird is a bird if it can’t fly). The children also found out that we, as humans, are actually mammals.
STEAM Week (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths)
We have also had fun this week celebrating creative arts in school. The children had an objective to create art using nature. We started by collecting natural objects from the outdoor area. Using these, we printed the patterns from the objects onto clay. Our special visitors are going to come back next week to finalise our creations by putting them in a kiln. See pictures below:
Today 1M went on a trip to Lostock Hall Library. We had an introduction to the library session and enjoyed some story telling. We were so pleased as we got to bring a book home to look at with our families. Please ensure that if your child has brought home a book that it is returned by the collection date and that it is taken care of. Thanks to the amazing staff at the library for welcoming the children so nicely!
See slideshow below:
Weekly Update- Friday 17th June
It was wonderful to have all parents and children together for somewhat of a 'normal' sports day once again. It was great fun seeing the children competing against each other whilst having a great time. See slideshow below for some of the highlights.
Year 1 Update- Friday 10th June
We hope you all had a fantastic half term! As usual, the children have returned to school well rested, a super positive attitude and ready for our new learning this term.
Phonics Screening
Well done to all the children who have completed their Phonics Screening Assessments this week. We are so proud of everyone for all their hard work and progress they have made this year in Phonics.
Punch and Judy
Today we have been so lucky to watch a ‘Punch and Judy’ show in school. The children were very excited and contributed enthusiastically throughout the show whilst maintaining high standards of behaviour. Afterwards, we took part in a workshop where the children were able to interact with the puppets and learn a little about the history of Punch and Judy.
Lastly, please ensure your child is wearing their full PE kit on Tuesday 14th June (next Tuesday), as it is our KS1 sports day in the morning. The children have been having great fun practicing for this and are looking forward to the big event!
Weekly Update: 23rd - 26th May
English
This week we have been writing instructions about how to look after caterpillars and if we do this correctly, they may turn into beautiful butterflies. We have watched the metamorphosis happen in class live but watched the instructional video we had been sent when our kits arrived. We broke the writing into 6 parts and started by arranging them in the correct order before choosing appropriate sentence starters to create our own independent instructions. The children now all know how to care for our butterflies (currently at the chrysalis stage) and hopefully they will see several fluttering butterflies when we return back to school after half term.
Maths
This week in maths we have been recapping on previous learning and consolidating our understanding of shape (both 2D + 3D); we have had practical sessions on subtraction and revisited place value and reminded ourselves of ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’. When we return after the holidays we will be spending more time on Place Value and this will extend to number work beyond 50 and within 100.
Jubilee
On Wednesday 25th May we had a day of celebration in school to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II and her 70 years on the throne. The children have designed and created patches that will be put together to create bunting, we have coloured many quintessential British ‘things’ (tea pots, letter boxes, London busses, Union Jack’s etc.) and we even attempted to sing the national anthem, as part of our singing assembly. The children in Year 1 also created and coloured their own crowns, which they wore throughout the day along with their ‘red, white and blue’ non-uniform.
Thank You
As we reach another half term, with only one more to go this academic year, can we once again extend our thank you for all of you support again this term? The children have worked really hard and have certainly earnt their break. When we come back after the break we will be starting our Phonics Screening, so obviously we would encourage you all to keep reading daily or as often as you can. Have a wonderful break and we shall see you all soon for a very exciting Summer 2 term.
Thanks again,
Mr. Law, Mrs Mears and the Year 1 staff.
Weekly Update- Monday 16th -Friday 20th May
English
This week we have continued to watch our visual literacy clip, ‘Catch it’. The children have loved investigating this and discussing what the characters are thinking and feeling. We have looked at some examples of diary entries and can now understand that these must be written in the first person and also in the past tense. The children have worked extremely hard and completed a superb finished piece which reflected the success criteria for their writing.
Maths
This week we have been learning about directional language; left right, above, below, forwards and backwards. We found finding our left from our right was most tricky! We learnt that if you can create an L shape using your fingers and thumb then this is your left hand and the other must be right. The children had lots of fun directing each other around the classroom using all their new maths vocabulary.
Geography
This week we have been looking at different modes of transport that we might see in Blackpool. It was really good fun to watch a video of Blackpool from a webcam and see all the different types of transport go by. We even saw some trams and horses which was super exciting! We used a Tally chart to record our information and then discussed which was the most and least popular.
Outdoor Classroom Day
We were especially lucky to have had a beautiful day for our outdoor classroom day! We took part in lots of different activities including; weaving baskets, doubling and halving numbers using practical materials, reading and Jubilee art. We are so lucky to have such beautiful surroundings to facilitate our outdoor learning! Take a look at our pictures…
Weekly Update: 9th - 13th May
English
This week in English, we have started a new visual literacy unit, using the clip 'Catch It', which can be found on YouTube. The clip sees the evil vulture steal the dragon fruit from the onlooking meerkats; a chase ensues before vulture loses possession of the fruit, dropping it after hurtling into the cliff face before the meerkats make off with the fruit (all very rugby-esque). Using this clip, we have completed two different grammar tasks and looked at using adverbs correctly. The children have blown us away with some of their word choices, including: ferociously, brutally and viciously.
Maths
In Maths this week, we have been looking at 'Finding a quarter'. We started the week by looking at finding the quarter of a given shape before moving on to find a quarter of a given total. We practiced sharing counters amongst 4 people and this helped the children to understand that when we divide an amount into four parts, we can then find a quarter. The children were reminded that, just like when we were working with halves last week, all parts should be equal. Some children also began to recognise quite quickly that to find a quarter, we simply need to half it (number or shape) and then half this again.
Topic
In RE this week we have been looking at the story of Ganesha and how he came to have an elephant's head. The children have really enjoyed learning about the Hindu Gods so far. In Music we have been listening to different music clips and have discussed the tempo; how a change in tempo can affect how we feel and how certain musical pieces can make us feel happy, scared, excited, etc. The children listened to a very famous piece of music, full of drama, and we imagined that we were under water and the children had to imagine what might be lurking under the water - it was all very exciting (albeit a little bit scary!).
PE Kits Year 1
With upcoming changes in regards to school PE kits, can we just remind you all that Year 1 PE lessons are on Wednesdays and Thursdays; this is for both 1L and 1M classes. Your child will require a PE kit to join in with both lessons during the week.
For any afterschool clubs or additional activities in school, information about kit requirements will be mentioned on the letter.
Thanks again,
Year 1 Team
Weekly Update: 3rd May - 6th May
English
This week the children have been writing their own version of a story from another culture, using many of the ideas from the story they learnt last week. Changing the protagonist, from an Elephant who had no nose/trunk, to a Tiger who had no stripes. The children thought of creative ways that the Tiger could get his stripes; we discussed how the Tiger may be feeling, without his stripes and then when he finally got them. We had many lovely ideas and we settled for the Tiger getting a cuddle from the Zebra when he was feeling down and, as if like magic, the Tiger's stripes reappeared.
Maths
This week in Maths we have been looking at making equal groups and specifically, towards the end of the week, making half. We have shown the children shapes and cut them in half, or shaded them, to represent that two EQUAL parts. Later on in the week, we shared counters equally and then made the link to halving numbers. This will lead on to odd and even numbers.
Bring Yer Wellies
Both classes this week went on their PE Enhancement Trip to Bring Yer Wellies in Hoghton. Both days were a real success and the children and staff absolutely loved their trips. The focus of the trip was predominantly Outdoor and Adventurous Activity with Orienteering, den building, assault course and treasure hunt, but we also managed to get some pond-dipping done to look for mini-beasts and bugs, we explored the worms' habitat (linking with our English last term, when we complied fact files about worms) and we even finished the day with toasting marshmallows on the campfire, using the wood that the children collected, and racing cork boats down the stream. It was brilliant to see the children enjoying themselves and throwing themselves into new activities but most importantly, both classes were so well behaved and well-mannered; this was commented on throughout the day, at different intervals, by all of the Bring Yer Wellies staff, all of the teachers could not have been any prouder of our children. Well done Year 1!
Weekly Update- Monday 25th- Friday 29th April
English
This week in English we have been looking at a new story from the Tinga, Tinga Tales called ‘Why Elephant has a Trunk’. To start the week, the children read up to the part where the Elephant had been tricked by the naughty monkeys and in class the children acted this scene out as drama / role play activity. As the week went on, we read more and more of the story and explored the characters and used different adjectives to describe all of the wonderfully diverse different creatures. Starting on Thursday, the children began to rewrite the story in their own words and this took two days; we were all blown away with their independent writing and it was brilliant to see all the different adjectives that the children managed to include in their work.
Maths
This week in maths we have started to look at multiplication and division. We have introduced the children to sharing different amounts and doing so equally:
Using 12 counters, the children divided these equally into 4 different groups, with each group having 3 counters etc.
As the week went on, we began to represent this, and other equations, differently and started to create arrays consisting of columns and rows. Using these arrays, we began to explore the relationship between the rows and the columns and how this created equal ‘lots’ or ‘groups’ and ultimately how these could be represented as a multiplication equation. We will spend more time on division and multiplication as the term goes on.
Topic
In RE this week we have been looking at Hinduism. Following on from our start last week, the children were reminded of the main symbol of Hinduism before we began to look closely at some of the Hindu gods. The children enjoyed looking at the different gods and were fascinated to learn about what each different god could do. We spent time looking specifically at Brahma, the god of god, and the children learnt about his significant importance, whilst also touching upon the ‘Trimurti’. If you have forgotten what the Trimurti is in Hinduism, feel free to do some home research this weekend.
Bring Yer Wellies
Next week we will be going on our PE Enhancement trip to Bring Yer Wellies in Hoghton. Thank you so much for all the parents who have already signed the reply slip and brought this back into school; for those who haven’t, please endeavour to return these to school on Tuesday 3rd May.
Enjoy your Bank Holiday and keep up the excellent home reading!
Weekly Update: Tuesday 19th April- Friday 22nd April 2022
English
This week we have been completing our non- fiction reports all about worms. The children had to ensure their report had a title, sub heading, a labelled diagram and a ‘did you know’ fact.
We researched some really interesting information to help us with this and this was one of our most interesting facts! Did you know that worms do not have a skeleton like a snake, instead they use their strong muscles to move around in the soil?
Maths
This week we have been adding together groups of numbers by counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. This has progressed onto learning about arrays for multiplication. This was very tricky but using practical resources helped us to develop a greater understanding.
Art
The children have really enjoyed learning about the artist Eric Carle! We loved looking at his illustrations in the stories, ‘The Bad Tempered Ladybird’ and ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.
We created our very own Eric Carle inspired mini-beasts using clay. We had to pinch and mould the clay for it to take the shape of our chosen creature. Once the clay had dried we painted our mini-beasts using acrylic paint and choosing an appropriate brush that helped us create the detail we needed.
Geography
Using I-Pads we conduced some research about Scotland and its capital city Edinburgh. We learned all about the national flower- the thistle. We were really surprised to see that that the animal of Scotland was a unicorn, but even more astonished to find that sausages in Scotland are actually square!
Weekly Update: Monday 25th March – Friday 1st April
On behalf of all the Year 1 Team, we would just like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support this half term. We have been tremendously busy this term and the children have worked so hard, not only in class but also at home; we are so grateful for the reading that is being done at home on a daily basis and also for the wonderful homework that has been sent in this week.
Thank you once again and please have a wonderful relaxing half term!
English
This week in English we have started to look at non-chronological reports. Linking to the story of Superworm that we have been reading his term, the children have been finding out lots of information about worms. The children have used their research to begin to plan their fact-files that will eventually for the basis of their non-chronological reports. Did you know that worms have tiny hairs that help them move? And did you know that worms love the rain, as they use these days to transport themselves to a new home? Neither did we!
Maths
This week in maths we have been recapping on some of the topics we have looked covered already this year. We revisited shape, looked at some word problems and spent a few days revisiting addition and subtraction. It is nice to see so many children now beginning to work so confidently within 100. If you would like to practice your maths at home this half term, an excellent challenge is to provide your child with a set of maths equations and a 100 square and see if they can show you some of the strategies that they know to help them work out these equations. Also, test your child to see if they can count forwards (and backwards) confidently in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Phonics
This week in Phonics we have been revisiting some old test papers and it was great to see so my children improve their score from previous attempts. Attached in the documents are a couple of previous test papers and the sound mats attached to each phase. Feel free to print these off and see what your child knows. The pass score for resent phonics screening assessments has been 32/40.
Weekly Update: 21st – 25th March 2022
English
This week in English the children have been exploring another one of Julia Donaldson’s wonderful stories, ‘Superworm’. The children are only halfway through the story and Superworm is currently in a world of trouble; the evil Wizard Lizard has cast a spell and he is currently in need of help to escape the Lizard and the terrifying black Crow. Our children have written letters to other forest creatures of their choice and asked them for help; writing in first person, as Superworm. Fingers crossed that the children’s letters of persuasion will result in some much needed help against the two evil sorcerers. Again, we reminded the children of the importance of using capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and adding adjectives to enhance our work.
Maths
A week of recapping and end of unit assessments. A lot of recapping on measure: length and height, capacity and volume, weight and mass. The children have used practical resources including weighing scales and different water containers to carry out their own maths ‘experiments’ in order to ascertain which contain has a greater volume, less volume etc. which item is the longest, using a ruler or deciding which item has the greatest mass, using balance scales. Next week we will revisit place value (within 50), revisit subtraction and also revisit shape (both 2D and 3D).
Topic
This week in Science we managed to take our learning outside the classroom, thanks to a pleasant turn the weather has taken, and we took the opportunity to plant some bulbs. The children used gardening tools to separate the compost, spread it evenly in containers before eventually creating small holes using their fingers to position the bulbs in. Once the bulbs had been planted, the children put more compost on top and softly patted it down before a select group of children used the hosepipe to water the newly planted bulbs. In the coming weeks, all children will have a chance to water the pots and as the weeks progress we will hopefully see the process of germination take place. The children also discussed some of the key things that plants need to grow, including: water, sun, nutrients (from the soil/compost) and some space.
Weekly Update: Monday 14th - Friday 18th March
English
This week in English we have been looking at some poetry; specifically associated to mini-beasts. The children had an opportunity to bring their poems to life through performance and they were able to create actions for their minibeasts, including: wriggling, crawling, creeping and stomping. Later in the week, the children created their own version of 'Ladybird, Ladybird, what can you see?' by picking their own minibeasts and using adjectives and verbs to include in their poem.
Maths
This week in Maths we have been looking at measure again. During the unit of measure we have looked at length (including: measuring height and comparing lengths), we have discussed mass and comparing weights (using balance scales) and this wee we have looked specifically at Volume and Capacity. The children have used practical resources to measure capacity and they have used appropriate language to describe capacity and varying volumes.
Diversity Week
To celebrate 'Diversity Week' in school, children across all year groups have had special visitors, seminars and workshops focusing upon, and celebrating all things, diversity. Year 1 had a wonderful talk from Megan from SCARF Education who taught us all about celebrating ourselves and our bodies and what we can do to help our bodies (by staying healthy); there was also a surprise visit from Harold the Giraffe, which the children loved.
RE
This week in RE we have been looking again at Judaism and specifically the festival of 'Hanukkah'. The story of Hanukkah celebrates the tale of the Maccabees, who defeated the Greek King Antiochus' troops after a three year war. After the war, there was a shortage of oil to keep the candles burning; the Jewish people believed the candle would only burn for one night but instead it remained alight for 8 days; hence the duration of the Hanukkah festival. In addition to learning about Hanukkah, the children also had a go at making their own version of Jewish bread - Challah. Take a look at the pictures below:
Our weekly update- Monday 28th February - Friday 4th March
English
This week we continued our story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been focussing on re-telling the story and creating some story maps to help us with our writing. We have re-told the story using lots of descriptive vocabulary whilst remembering our capital letters, full stops and exclamation marks!
Maths
This week we have been continuing our learning of length and height. Moving on from non-standard methods for measuring, we used a ruler and investigated how long an object was in cm. The children have really enjoyed this, especially when problem solving where they had to either add two lengths together or find the difference.
Geography
Our current topic is ‘Countries of the United Kingdom and their capital cities’. This week we plotted Lostock Hall and London on the map. The children especially enjoyed accessing Google Earth and finding out some of the features of this. We then compared Lostock Hall and London and talked about their features, including their similarities and differences.
World Book Day 2022
We would like to say a huge well done to all the children and parents for their amazing efforts on World Book Day! We had some amazing costumes and all the children were excited to talk about the story character they had come as. As well as enjoying an extended story time with friends, we had the opportunity to watch an interactive story time, delivered by Burnley Theatre Group. See pictures below that show the great fun we all had!
Yoga
This week we have been extremely lucky to have Coach Charlotte from Mini-Mantra to teach us some Yoga techniques. The children learned lots of new stretches and different ways to position their bodies whilst practicing some relaxing breathing techniques.
We hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
Weekly Update: Monday 21st – Friday 25th February
Maths
This week in Maths, we have been looking at ‘Measure’. The children have been learning about length and height and they have compared various different things, using vocabulary including: tall, taller, tallest; long, longer, longest; high, highest, higher; short, shorter, shortest.
We will continue measure again next week, when we will start to use a ruler and look at measuring ‘accurately’ using metric systems of measure. This week we have exposed the children to ‘non-standard’ units of measure. An example being: The pencil was 6 cubes long.
Within measure, we will also be looking at capacity and time in coming weeks.
English
Our new text in English is Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have absolutely loved the story, with many having never heard the story of Jack before, and for those who did know the story, they still felt the surprise of their teacher bellowing, “Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!”
Across the week, we have written about Jack’s feelings at different parts of the story; we have pretended to be Jack (hot seating, drama) and asked him questions; written a character description and even edited sentences about the story that had missing capital letters and full stops.
Not to mention we also had a very surprising, and very unwelcome, visitor on Wednesday morning ….
Topic
This week in topic, we have been looking at the United Kingdom in Geography. The children have learnt about the UK and which 4 countries make up the United Kingdom. The children, many of them knowing about London, then learnt the names of the capital cities belonging to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Using a map of the UK, the children then used string to create their own ‘outline’ of the UK and then used name cards to label the countries and positioned counters to show where the capital cities are in each country.
In coming weeks, we will be looking more at the UK and its surrounding seas and we will also compare our very own Lostock Hall to the geography and demographic of our capital city - London.
Weekly Update: Monday 7th – Friday 11th
This week in school we have been looking at ‘Children’s Mental Health’ and the week started with a wonderful poetry performance by Year 4 who highlighted some of the issues that young children face and explored some of the strategies that young people, and adults, can use to improve all aspects of our mental health. In class we talked about some of our worries and fears and as a class, we discussed how we can deal with the issues that came up.
In addition to this PSHE focus we have worked our socks off to complete all loose ends and ensure we have ticked every last remaining box for Spring 1; the children have worked so hard this term and it was wonderful to see the amount of effort that had gone into the homework this term – thank you for all of you who competed this and brought it in on time!
Maths
This week in Maths, we have been looking at place value within 50; we have compared amounts and objects, ordered numbers and used different representations to show place value. In addition, we have also introduced counting up in 2’s and 5’s (most of us are pretty confident at counting in 10’s already!); counting in 2’s and 5’s will allow us to count accurately, place things into groups (which will lead to division) and consolidate our understanding of odd and even numbers. Next term, we will be focusing on measure, so if you would like to do any Math’s work over the half term holidays, feel free to get the meter ruler, measuring jug and weighing scales out.
English
In English we have still been working through ‘Toys in Space’ by Mini Grey. The children have been using this text to create a Lost and Found poster to help Hoctopize find his favourite toy ‘Cuddles’. In addition to the work we have been doing in our English writing books, we also used the iPad’s this week to create a ‘Moving Pictures’ with sentences attached underneath; combining our English and ICT skills saw the children create some excellent animations using Purple Mash, as they retold parts of the Traction Man escape in the deep, dark, depths of the kitchen sink.
Thank You!
Again, as we reach the end of another half term, may we again take the opportunity to thank you all for your ongoing support? As mentioned above, the homework has been fantastic this term and we are certainly seeing more contributions being made in our Reading Diaries. The children have worked so hard this term, whilst having lots of fun along the way and we will certainly have more fun to come next term, so please take this opportunity to have a wonderfully relaxing (and thoroughly well-earned) half term break.
Thanks once again,
The Year 1 Team.
Home Learning
Wednesday 9th February
English- Watch the story of Toys in Space by Mini Grey here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivex8zdOBMs
Watch up to the part where the Hoctopize is upset because he has lost his Cuddles. Today we would like you to plan a party for him. Think about the theme of the party, the type pf cake, which party games will you play and what treats will you have. Remember you need to think of things that are going to cheer the Hoctopize up. Use the sheet provided to plan the party. Draw a small picture and write some key words around it.
Maths – Complete the worksheet where you are asked to compare numbers to 50. Use a number line or a hundred square to help you if needed. You could also use practical things around the house to help you visualise the numbers.
Phonics- Today practice our new learning ‘wh’ using the attached ‘Roll and Read’ activity. Can you think of any more words that include this sound?
Topic – As part of our History topic we have been learning about old toys. See the attached worksheet where you are asked to sort old and new toys. See if your child can remember any old toys we have been looking at in class.
Thursday 10th February
English- Using your party planning sheet from yesterday you are going to write a letter to the Hoctopize to tell him all about the party you have organised. Remember to write in your best handwriting and use conjunctions to extend your sentences.
Maths- Use this worksheet of ‘ordering numbers to 50’, over the next two days. There are quite a few questions that might require a lot of thought so take your time. Start you Maths session with counting forwards and backwards to and from 50.
Phonics- Today practice reading and spotting words with the ph sound. Complete the ‘ph’ word search attached.
Topic – As this week is Mental Health Week, we are thinking about ways in which we can celebrate ourselves. What is amazing about you? Complete the worksheet and explain why you are so marvellous!
Friday 11th February
English- Complete the story of ‘Toys in Space’. What did you like about the story? Today you are going to be completing a book review. See the attached resource.
Maths – See Yesterday.
Phonics- Complete the ‘wh’ and ‘ph’ worksheet attached. Have a go at completing your spelling test at home. Good luck!
Topic – As this week is Mental Health week, we would like you to spend this afternoon doing something which you love to do. It might be reading a book, playing with your favourite toys or it could even be having a nice relaxing bath. If you would like to, you can write about what you did this afternoon and explain how doing your favourite thing made you feel!
Weekly Update: 31st January – 4th February
English
This week in English we have started a new text: Toys in Space by Mini Grey (same author as Traction Man). The children have loved the book so far and it links in well with ‘Toys’, as this is also our theme in Topic this term. The children have read up to certain points in the story and made predictions along the way. In addition to making predictions, the children have also discussed and written about each character’s thoughts and feelings as the story develops.
Maths
This week in Maths we are revisiting place value but extending the working area to numbers within 50. The children have again been looking at partitioning numbers and exploring the relationship between tens and ones (formerly referred to as “units”). The children have used dienes to see this in a more abstract / concrete manner and this method also helps the children to visually see the number broken down into parts. Using tens and ones in this way helps the children to see that the number 47, for example, is made up of 4 tens (longer dienes comprising 10 single cubes stuck together) and 7 ones (seven individual cubes that the children can count out individually).
Topic
History & Art
This week in both History and Art we have again been looking at our topic theme of ‘Toys’. In History, the children used a timeline to put toys in order from oldest to newest, thus placing them chronologically; we explained to the children that we can order things in many different ways but using the timeline of toys we could clearly see which toy came first (oldest) and which was last on the line (newest). The children are still convinced that the toys of their generation are considerably better than those used by children many years ago. In Art, the children have begun to sketch pictures of their favourite toys. Placing different toys in the middle of the table (or scene), we discussed how the placement of different toys (composition) will affect their drawing and final art piece.
Home Learning Tasks (Tuesday 1st February - Friday 4th February)
Tuesday 1st February
English
We have now come to the end of the Traction Man story by ‘Mini Grey’.
Even though we have come to end of the story it seems like the adventure doesn’t end for Traction Man! The children have been coming up with ideas for what might happen next and what Traction Man’s next adventure will be. Last week we created a story board (attached underneath) to break the story into 4 parts. Your child will have done this is class.
Today we would like you to complete the story board again and begin to add key vocabulary including pictures. This will help remind you of what your ideas were and you could even change your plan and include something different.
Maths
Tens and Ones
Today we will again be looking at ‘tens and ones’, which is something that your child has looked at before and should be able to recognise. Please use the resources available in the weekly resources section and work your way systematically through the week’s math resources in order.
Phonics
Orange Group- Read some words with the ‘aw’ sound- .claw, paw, straw, crawl.
Complete the ‘aw’ worksheet in the resources section.
Red Group- Read the u-e spilt diagraph words on the word search sheet and put sound buttons on them. See if you can spot the difference between the words which make the ‘you’ and ‘oo’ sound.
Topic- Today is Chinese New Year! Watch the story of ‘The Great Race’ here on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVClAj8q_lY
Once you have listened to and understood the story can you complete some research on Chinese New Year and find out what animal year you were born in? See if you can re-tell the story of the Great Race to an adult.
Wednesday 2nd February
English
Using the story board from yesterday recap on the first 2 boxes from your storyboard (The beginning and the problem). Talk through these parts of the story with an adult using good sentence structures including a conjunction, for example; and, so, but, because.
Write up the first part of the story in a notebook or on lined paper. Ensure you check your sentences for Capital letters (especially for names of characters), full stops, and finger spaces.
Maths
Represent Numbers to 50
Please complete the work sheet on ‘Representing numbers to 50’ and find the accompanying PowerPoint that will supplement this worksheet.
Phonics
Orange Group- Have a go at the ‘aw’ snakes and ladders game in the resources section.
Red Group- Following on from our learning on ‘u-e’ split diagraph words yesterday, use sound buttons on u-‘e words in the phoneme spotter activity in the resources section.
Topic- In science we have been learning about materials and their properties. Watch this YouTube clip all about materials to familiarise yourself with our previous learning -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2td5mfgf1OI
Attached, you will find a materials hunt activity in which we would like you to search around the house for things that are made of each material. Make a list of all the things you can find. Along the way talk about their properties which might include, what they look like, feel like and whether they are absorbent or not.
Thursday 3rd February
English
Continuing our story from yesterday we would like you to now finish the story. Don’t forget to use lots of exciting adjectives to make your sentences really interesting and check your writing for mistakes.
Maths
One More, One less (Part 1)
Today’s maths worksheet is to be completed in two parts across both today and tomorrow (so don’t complete it all in one go); again, there is a PowerPoint with excellent example questions to supplement the worksheet. These are certainly worth observing before embarking on the worksheet. Please only complete Questions 1 & 2.
Phonics
Orange group- Today we are learning the ‘ue’ sound. Look at the words in the resources section and sound them out. Can you make a list of real and nonsense words? Use 3 of the real words and include them in sentences.
Red Group- Today we are reading words with the e-e split diagraph. Complete the ‘Read and Match’ worksheet in the resources section.
Topic
n PSHE we have been thinking about feelings and emotions and learning ways of dealing with feelings that we cannot control. Today read the story attached and think about how Harold the giraffe felt when he lost his favourite toy. On the sheet are key questions that you can ask at each part of the story. Think about a time that you have lost something. Split a piece of A4 paper in half and on one side draw a time when you lost something and jot down the emotions you felt and similarly on the other side for when you found it again.
Friday 4th February
English
On Tuesday, you should have done some research about Chinese New Year and found out lots of interesting facts about this special time of year. Today we would like you to write some sentences about the pictures on the worksheet attached. Make sure to use lots of exciting vocabulary and extend your sentences using conjunctions where possible.
Maths
One More, One less (Part 2)
Please complete the second part of the work sheet (Q3 onwards). An accompanying PPT has been attached in the resources section to help you teach through the task with your child. As an extra task, as a mental maths challenge throughout the day, call out random numbers to your child (within 100) and ask to give you the number that is either one more or one less:
“Give me one more than 34” “What is one less than 76?” “What comes after 88?”
Try and use slightly different wording to keep your child on their toes.
Phonics- Both groups to complete the spelling test using words that you have in your blue spelling books.
Topic:
In Music we have been learning how to use different sounds to enhance story telling.
Last week we used different voices and tones to represent the characters in the 3 Little Pigs story.
We are now moving onto using instruments to represent what is happening in the story. Find some items around the house that will make sounds to reflect and enhance different parts of the story.
For example, when the Big Bad Wolf is knocking at the door you might use a pan and wooden spoon to bang. You might like to use a lighter more delicate sound for the pig who builds his house from sticks, like banging cutlery lightly together. Take some pictures of the different instruments you have created.
Weekly Update: 24th – 28th January
This week across school, we have been completing assessments in Reading, Writing, Maths and Phonics. The children have undertaken different test papers and completed an independent piece of writing all without adult support. Assessment week is very helpful in establishing if there are any gaps in learning, to ascertain where each child is in regards to their year group expectations and from this data suitable intervention support can be put in place going forward.
Maths
The children have completed two Maths papers (Numeracy & Problem Solving) and the tests included topics that the children have covered thus far: 2D / 3D shape, part whole-models, place value, number lines, addition and subtraction. The children were reminded to always use their strategies to complete the questions (even if they were able to work the answer out mentally straight away); we discussed using suitable jottings / drawings to show their working out.
Phonics
The children completed two assessments in Phonics; firstly, the children completed a previous statutory assessment test paper issued in 2018 (previous Phonics Screening papers can also be found online on the Government Website) where the pass score was 32/40. In addition to the Phonics Screening test, the children also identified different phonemes spanning Phases 2 to 6. Whilst not all children met 32/40 on the Phonics Screening Test at this juncture, it is worth reminding that we are roughly only half way through the year and we still have new phonics learning to come. The statutory assessment for this academic year will commence in June 2022.
English
The children were tasked to write an independent non chronological report about ‘Toys’. The children were given a brief about what they were expected to include within their writing and the classes then shared a few ideas before they then embarked on their writing in a wholly independent capacity; no support was given to spelling, grammar or punctuation. Whilst writing independently can initially seem daunting, it is reassuring to see the writing produced during this assessment evidences significant progress from the writing assessments completed in Autumn.
Reading
The progress of reading is predominantly informed by the daily / weekly guided reading sessions with your child’s teacher or classroom support assistant; in addition to this ongoing weekly formative assessment, this week the children attempted the Salford Sentence Reading Test. The Salford Sentence Reading Test helps to test ‘reading ability’ by testing both reading accuracy and comprehension; by totaling these scores, the test is able to determine both a standardised reading age and also a comprehension reading age for each child. Alongside the Salford Sentence Reading Test, the children also read through the collection of Year 1 Key Words, with each word they recognized being marked off; these words can still be found in the front of your child's Reading Diary should you ever wish to practice these at home.
Throughout the week, as a year one staff, we have championed the message that these tests are nothing to be worried or anxious about and that they are simply a tool to help us, as teachers, find the areas where we can help the children improve the most. Our mantra across both classes has firmly been to “try your best and give it a go” throughout the week. It has been wonderful to see the children work so well throughout the week and show a real maturity to the task in hand.
Weekly Update- Friday 21st January
Weekly Update – 17th – 21st January
Maths
This week in Maths we have been revisiting place value and working with numbers within 20 using number lines to complete either subtraction or addition equations. The children have also started to work with some bar models and these have helped us understand doubles and halves within 20. Many children could see the similarity between bar models and part-whole models but could see that a bar model represents the value of each part more accurately.
English
This week in English we have been looking at the next adventure of Traction Man. As Traction Man has now ended up wearing a ridiculous suit that is not befitting of his superhero stature, the children read on as he held dialogue with Grandma about getting it fixed. The children created their own dialogue / conversation between the characters and wrote this up in their books. Later on in the week, the children worked in groups to create a drama sequence of what Traction Man’s next mission may look like; many predicted this would be underwater and sharks would be involved.
Topic
In History we have been looking at and comparing New and Old Toys and on Tuesday afternoon, the children had the opportunity to bring in toys from home that belong to both their parents (and grandparents) and some of their own. The children compared the materials of the new and old toys and collectively we discussed how toys have evolved over time. The end result was unanimous – new toys are way more fun than those of yesteryear. Take a look at some of the photos below:
Weekly Update - 10th - 14th January
Another really busy week once again, with lots of new learning and extracurricular activities going on. Please have a read below at some of the things that we have been getting up to this week.
Maths
This week in maths we have been revisiting subtraction and have introduced some new strategies to help us with our counting back or 'taking away'. One of the subtraction strategies that we have been exploring, has seen us revisit our 'number bonds to 10', which can help us work out the answer:
20 - 14 =
Knowing that 20 is made up of 2 tens - we can observe the 4 ones in 14 and see that if we take these 4 ones from a full 10s frame (with ten ones) then we will have 6 remaining.
When looking at 4 (as the 4 ones within 14) in this equation: 20-14= see if your child can begin to recall their number bonds to 10; 0 + 0, 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5, etc. can any of these help them with that take away?
Feel free to have a go at the following equations, as an extra mental maths challenge this week at home:
20 - 5 =
20 - 9 =
30 - 22 =
50 - 46 =
English
This week the children have been writing their own version of a rescue mission from Traction Man. The children designed their own evil characters and then produced their own independent story, which included their own 'baddy'. The children were again encouraged to use adjectives to help the reader imagine the evil character that they created / designed earlier in the week.
History
This week in History, we revisited some of the 'new' and 'old' toys that we have been looking at and we tried to categorise them as such; unfortunately, what made our job really tricky, was the fact that many 'old' toys are still as relevant today and 'new' versions are coming out all the time, examples include: dolls, building bricks, teddy bears and marbles. The children remain aghast that iPads did not exist when Mr. Law and Mrs Mears where at school.
Year 1 Indoor Athletics Club
Everybody who returned a slip to school has been allocated a place in the club.
The club will finish at 4.15 pm and children will leave via the school's the front doors.
Kindest regards,
Mr. Law
Weekly Update - Welcome Back and Happy New Year
First of all, we would just like to take this opportunity, to wish you all a very Happy New Year and having spoken to all of the children, it seems like you all had a wonderful Christmas break!
Although we only returned to school on Tuesday, it has been another action-packed week with lots going on and the children are already being exposed to lots of new learning this term. In Science, are looking at 'Everyday Materials' and the children this week explored many different household objects and had to decide what material each object was made from. In the coming weeks, we will be looking at different properties of materials and why we use certain materials to make certain things and next week, we will be looking specifically at 'absorbency'.
In English this week, we sequenced our Christmas Day into the four major parts of the day: seeing if Santa had been to visit; opening the presents; eating Christmas dinner; playing with our new toys. First of all, the children drew their special day onto a story board and then used this story board to help them with their writing. Our writing included adverbials of time (first, next, then, after that, finally) and we challenged the children to think of engaging adjectives to describe both their new toys and also their Christmas dinner; some of the excellent adjectives included: scrumptious, delicious, wonderful, incredible and fabulous.
In Maths, we are revisiting addition and we have been looking more closely at using our number bonds, which most of us now know very confidently, to help calculate addition equations to 20.
Example:
If we know that 8 + 2 = 10
Then we should know that:
8 + 2 = 10
so
18 + 2 = 20
as we have added an additional TEN to the 8 units, now representing 18, when we add them together (18+2) we now have two TENs; therefore our answer is 20 (TEN + TEN; 10 + 10).
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST & PYJAMA DAY
On Thursday morning we were very fortunate to have a wonderful pantomime production company come into our school and deliver a fantastic performance in the comfort of our own school hall, whilst we sat and watched wearing our own PJ's and dressing gowns. The children watched a brilliant production of 'Beauty and the Beast' and whilst a few children were initially a little unsure about the scary-looking Beast, they were soon cheering him on as he fought the arrogant Gaston for Belle's hand in marriage. There was a lot of "he's behind you" and "oh no he isn't" chanting going on and the children absolutely revelled in the constant interaction. Take a look at some of the pictures below:
Home Learning Spring 1: Week 1
Maths
Please use the videos in the links below to help you with each day’s Maths worksheet; this week we will be looking specifically at ‘Addition within 20’ and different strategies we can use to do this.
Tuesday 4th January:
Complete ‘Add by Counting On’ worksheet.
Wednesday 5th January:
Complete ‘Add Ones Using Number Bonds’ worksheet.
Thursday 6th January:
Complete ’Find and Make Number Bonds’ worksheet.
Friday 7th January:
Complete ‘Add by Making 10’ worksheet.
English
Tuesday 4th: Create a story board of your Christmas Day. Using a piece of A4 paper, split this into 4 sections. Using adverbials of time, (first, next, then, after, finally etc.) think about four sentences that sequences your Christmas Day. Today you will draw the four pictures, these could be: checking if Santa came, opening your presents, eating your Christmas Dinner, seeing family, playing with toys etc.…. you decide. This story board will help your writing on Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th: Using your story board drawings, on the template provided in the resources section, you will write a couple of sentences for your first couple of boxes. Think about the sentence starters (First, Next, Then etc.). On Thursday, complete the sentences that would accompany the pictures on the story board (After that, Finally etc.). Check through your sentences and ensure your handwriting is neat, you have used finger spaces, capital letters and full stops; also, try and add some adjectives into your sentences to make them more exciting and informative.
Friday 7th: The picture below has been taken from our new story. The title will be revealed tomorrow, but today we would like you to have a close look at the picture and make some predictions.
Talk to an adult and answer the following questions:
Put your predictions, the answers from above, into full sentences.
Phonics
Please work through the worksheet provided and also check your Reading Eggspress, as you have been assigned a task to complete.
Topic
History
This term we will be looking at new and old toys and comparing them. It is always a fun topic, as parents and grandparents can also share their favourite toys, which they played with as children, and we can see if the toys of today are any better (or much different) than those of yesteryear. Please see the worksheet in the resources section.
R.E
Watch the following video on YouTube ‘What a wonderful world’ by Louis Armstrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21LGv8Cf0us
Today we will think about our wonderful world and why it is so fascinating. Can your child draw something that may be special to them or something that they find wonderful (rainbows, weather, lightning, beaches, trees, flowers, mountains, volcanoes etc.)
Sentence example:
Our world is wonderful because we sometimes have warm sunny days and sometimes we can have cold and snowy days.
PSHE
In PSHE we will be thinking about being ‘Healthy’. There is a cut and stick activity in the resources section for you to work through and you can discuss why it is so important to ensure you remain healthy.
Reading
Please try and aim for at least 20 minutes of reading every day and supplement this with Reading Eggs. There is still a host of reading materials available on the Oxford Owl website and there are other reading comprehension activities on Reading Eggspress too.
Merry Christmas
On behalf of all the staff in school, we would like to take the opportunity to say an enormous 'Thank You!' once again for your unwavering support throughout 2021. As a Year 1 staff, we have been overwhelmed by your generosity this Christmas and between us all, we should have enough chocolate to satisfy breakfast, lunch and tea until at least March 2022.
May we once again wish you a very, very Merry Christmas and here's to a prosperous New Year.
Thank you all and we look forward to seeing you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on the 4th January 2022; we also can't wait to hear what the big bloke with the red coat and white beard left under your tree....
Be Merry and Be Safe,
Mr. Law , Mrs Mears and the Year 1 Team
Thursday 16th December
English
This week in English we have re-told the Buster the Boxer story, our second visual literacy unit of the term. It is remarkable to see how the children’s writing has progressed across the autumn terms and they should be very proud of all their hard work in English this term. Our writing is now much neater, having had another push with handwriting and a focus on forming all letters correctly using our pre-cursive style; children are being reminded much less often to include capital letters ad put full stops at the end of their sentences. Once our stories were finished, we had a day spare to write our letters to Santa, which will be delivered by our trusty classroom Elves. The Elves brought an envelope full of letter templates that the children used to get their Christmas requests in; let’s keep everything crossed that these letters have successfully made their way to the North Pole and reached Santa directly.
Maths
A week of consolidation on place value and subtraction / addition has been interspersed with some Christmas themed challenges; we have cut and stuck Christmas puddings in order from smallest number to largest and we have calculated different addition and subtraction problems and used the corresponding answer to colour the correct section to make a special Christmas picture; those who made little mistakes ended up with blue Santa hats, as opposed to red. Again, as with English, the children have worked extremely hard this term in maths and they should have no problem counting all of the Brussel sprouts on Christmas day and ordering who ate the most roast potatoes to who ate the least.
Art
In art this week we used different tools and methods to create our own space rockets. The children added a little water to make their clay more supple, before using rolling pins and their own hands to kneed the clay to make it more workable. Once the clay was workable, the children used cutting tools, clay knives and cutting rollers to make different shapes. Once the children had a collection of different shapes, they used a ‘pinching’ technique to put their shapes together to make their own space rockets. The children really enjoyed working with clay and we will be using clay again later on this year for another exciting project.
Christmas Party
On Tuesday 14th December, the Year 1 classes had their very own Christmas Party. A full afternoon of music, games and lots of sweets resulted in 60 very happy and excited (and sweaty and tired) children who are totally in full Christmas mode. The children played pass the parcel, music statues, the corners game and even had a dance off before returning to the infant hall to welcome a very special visitor…..Santa Claus! Santa was pleased to confirm that NO CHILDREN were on his naughty list, though Mr. Law was still on the ‘Naughty List’ for fourth consecutive year, and all children could expect a visit from him on Christmas Eve night. Before departing with Rudolph, who was parked up outside, Santa kindly brought an early Christmas present for each child in Key Stage 1 and he told everybody, including Miss Duce, that his Classroom Elves had been really impressed with all of the children in the lead up to Christmas.
On behalf of all the KS1 team we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We look forward to welcoming the children back to school on Tuesday 4th January and hearing all their lovely Christmas stories!
Friday 10th December
English
This week in English we have continued our second visual literacy unit of Buster the Dog and we began to add our own dialogue to accompany the video. The children used the thought bubbles of Buster, the little girl and the girl’s parents to inform what they all might be thinking and therefore say to each other. The children then had a drama lesson where they acted out the different roles of the characters in the film. It was certainly a sight to behold to see so many different children /animals jumping on the children with others (mum, dad and the girl) looking on in amazement.
Maths
This week we have been consolidating on some of our tens and ones work and also looking at comparing numbers and ordering them from greatest to smallest – and smallest to greatest – whilst continuing to work predominantly within 20. The children have also been recapping some of their adding and subtracting skills as part of their independent morning tasks. Next week will see us consolidating some of the new skills that we have been learning this term.
Design Technology
This term in DT we have been looking at healthy eating and making better choices with the foods that we eat and the drinks that we consume. We have talked about the importance of eating at LEAST 5 portions of fruit and vegetables per day, as part of a healthy and balanced diet. The first part of the project saw the children label as many different fruits as they could recognise before choosing 6 different fruits that they would like on their own ‘fruit kebab’. Using their own plans, the children then made their own kebabs this week by cutting their own fruit using a child safe cutting knife (a key kitchen skill) and then placing them on to their own skewer. Once the children had made their fruit kebab, they were allowed to eat them; children were encouraged to try different fruits and once we had eaten our kebabs, we conducted an evaluation of our fruit kebabs, explaining what we liked and what we didn’t and also what we may do differently next time.
Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas Lunch
On Wednesday 8th December, all of the children came to school in their wonderful Christmas Jumpers and were treated to a wonderful Christmas dinner, with turkey, sausage, potatoes, gravy and other trimmings. Once the children had demolished their plates of festive food, the afternoon started by our ‘Santa Dash’ for St Catherine’s Hospice. Unfortunately the inclement weather meant that we could not go outside, as originally planned, and dash around the playground, so we had to make do with a big Christmas dance off inside in our Santa hats. The children got very active, had lots of fun and ultimately, much needed money for St Catherine’s Hospice was raised so it was a success all round despite the weather!
Drinking Water and Water Bottles
Just a quick reminder about water bottles and hydration in school:
* Children are only to fill their bottles with WATER; this is not flavoured water, juice, fizzy drinks or 'pop'.
* Children in Year 1 have a choice of Milk or Water with their school dinner, the children don't take their water bottles into the hall at lunchtimes, as drinks are made available by the welfare and catering staff; cups are also refilled.
* Should your child forget to bring their water bottle in to school, we have spare cups in class which will be filled for your child so they will always have access to water throughout the day.
* Children are encouraged to drink water at regular intervals throughout the day (two break times - both before and after, during lunchtimes, after P.E or any other physical activity); please see the school's 'Food Policy' which further states:
Water for All Water is freely available throughout the school day to all members of the school community. Every child has been encouraged to bring in a water bottle to store their water in. Children may drink their water at any time except during assembly and direct teaching times. All children are also reminded to drink water at their break time.
* As a staff, we actively encourage our children to drink plenty of water but sometimes children may also need additional prompting at home.
* If you child has a known medical condition that requires additional consideration to the Food Policy above, please speak with your class teacher or the school office.
English
This week we have written up the full version of our visual literacy unit ‘Man on the Moon’ the John Lewis advert from 2015. Working across three days, the children dissected the clip into three significant parts – the beginning, the middle and the ending – and used ‘still shot’ pictures from the clip to write their longest piece of independent writing to date. Whilst focussing predominantly on our current writing objectives, including handwriting, capital letters and the use of full stops, it was nice to see the children begin to include adjectives into their work without support. The finished pieces have been a joy for Mr. Law and Mrs Mears to mark.
Maths
This week in maths we have been looking at numbers between 10-20 and paying attention to numbers that are ‘one more’ and ‘one less’ than a given amount. During our fluency sessions, the children have been using Dienes to represent tens and ones, when partitioning numbers.
E.g. the number 27 can be represented as 27 ones (using lots of ones) or with our Dienes we can clearly show that 27 is made up of 2 tens and 7 ones, which when we complete a part-whole diagram will read as two parts: 20 and 7 with 27 being the whole number (or total).
RE
In RE this week we have looked at the Christian Nativity Story. The children watched a short clip showing Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem and how there was no room for them, except for a lowly stable. The children had a go at retelling the story before sequencing the events by completing a cut-and-stick activity. The Nativity Story got us feeling very ‘Christmassy’ and this feeling continued as we learnt some Christmas carols/songs during our singing assembly.
Elf Visits
We have been joined in 1L and 1M this week by a pair of Santa’s elves. Lolly in 1L had to nip to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon to get his ears checked (it was a little too loud for his peculiarly shaped / sensitive ears), though he did return and he has kept a watchful eye over the children as they have worked so hard all week. On Thursday, we came in to see he had read 15 different books from our reading shelf and he had treated himself to lots of Mr. Law’s special reading stickers! We are already wondering what he will get up to next week.
Friday 26th November
Maths
This week in Maths our children have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes. We have explored the properties of different shapes and familiarise ourselves with some of the more common shapes we come across in our daily lives. We now know that tins of beans are actually ‘cylinders’ and that our rubbers in class are ‘cuboids’ and the dice we roll are cubes. We also introduced some new vocabulary including: dimensional, vertices, faces, sides, flat, straight and curved. Some of the 2D shapes we looked at included: squares, rectangles, triangles (4 different ones) and circles; the 3D shapes we explored included: spheres, cuboids, cubes and pyramids.
English
Our visual literacy unit this term is ‘Man on the Moon’, the wonderful John Lewis advert from 2015 (which both Mrs Mears and Mr. Law think it is way better than this year’s ‘disappointing’ advert). Rather than reading a story or looking at a specific novel, the children used a video with no spoken dialogue to infer character feelings, make predictions about how the man ended up on the moon and created their own version of the story. Some excellent vocabulary came out in the sessions and the children really enjoyed the heart-warming nature of the Christmas story; it has certainly got us all in the festive spirit.
Christmas Role Play
We have had a special visit from one of Santa’s helpers who has come into our classroom, taken over our role play areas and turned them into Santa’s own working Post Office. The children have taken great pleasure in becoming Santa’s little helpers and making arts, crafts, cards, presents and other Christmas related items that they can send off to the North Pole when the time comes.
Friday 19th November 2021
English
This week in English, we have been looking at a new story, ‘Whatever Next!’ by Jill Murphy. The story sees an imaginative teddy bear who creates a space rocket (out of an old cardboard box) and zooms off with some of his friends to the moon, where he then has a picnic with an owl he befriended on the way. The children inferred the teddy bears feelings, they create quotations for the teddy bear and acted these out and finally the children put pen to paper by re-writing the story before eventually creating their own version, using similar themes but making subtle tweaks along the way.
Maths
This week in Maths, we have been recapping our subtraction work and reintroducing addition to create some comparison problems. These two and three-part problems can be very tricky and the children have been working through them systematically, using many of the counting on and subtraction strategies we have been practicing in the previous weeks. Here is an example question:
7 + 2 < 5 – 2
Is this equation correct? Explain your answer.
'Kiddy Cook' Workshop
We hope you enjoyed your vegan chocolate cake /brownie (dependent on how long it stayed in the oven!). The children had a great time, and made plenty of mess, putting all the ingredients together to create a mixture that they could take home. The cooking workshop was intended for our ‘Life Skills’ week but unfortunately had to be rearranged; it was certainly worth the wait though! We hope you enjoyed it and it got you in the mood for the Great British Bake Off final.
Dancing
This term in PE, we have a specialist dance coach from South Ribble Sports Coaching who has been teaching us new moves and sequences to learn. The sessions are lots of fun, very loud with music the children love and most importantly, the sessions are extremely active. Have a look at some of the pictures below.
English
This week in English we have started to look at a new story – The Darkest Dark, by astronaut Chris Hadfield. The children started their English by simply looking at the front cover of the story and turning to the first page, without looking or reading any of the words! Using only the illustrated pictures, the children had to predict what they thought the story might be about. Looking at the illustrations, we could see that Chris had rockets in his bedroom, a poster of the moon on his wall and space suits were strewn across the front cover, the children correctly predicted that the story will likely be about 'Space'. The children then put their predictions into their English books, using the conjunction ‘because’ to give reasons for their predictions. As we read on through the story, we reached the point where Chris is now struggling to go to sleep; together as a class, we discussed different ways that we can prepare for bedtime to ensure we have a good night’s sleep. The different ideas included having a warm bath, putting on your favourite pj's, reading a story and having a cuddle from mum. The children wrote these ideas up, as a set of instructions in their English books.
Maths
In Maths we have been learning about different strategies to help us ‘take away’ or ‘subtract’. We have used number lines and tracks, tens frames and counters / spots to cross out or take away. Once the children could explain that we have started with an amount, we remove a part and we are left with a new total (which a number that a smaller than what we started with); as the week’s learning progressed, the children became more confident in writing these into equations using the proper symbols and ordering the equations correctly. Revisiting our part whole models, the children were able to use the parts and total to write different subtraction equations and spot number fact families.
Reading
This week we have had a real push on reading at home and it has been excellent to see so many more children reading at home and having this inputted in their Home Reading Diaries. We are also using Reading Eggs more regularly in school, this app is a great way for us to consolidate our phonics learning and support our spelling. The children love to collect eggs and we have seen some excellent progress being made by the children who are using this software regularly. Within the app, there is also 'Reading Eggspress', which has longer texts and accompanying challenges; this is likely to be more challenging than both Fast Phonics and Reading Eggs.
Topic
In topic this week, we have been looking at different fruits and talking about making healthy choices. We identified as many fruits as we knew and then learnt about some that we didn’t know. In the coming weeks, we will be using our designs to create our very own ‘Fruit Kebab’, which we will make, eat and evaluate. It was wonderful to hear that so many children love to eat different fruits and we are hopeful that the children will be willing to try something new when we make our fruit kebabs.
Friday 5th November
Maths
This week in maths we have completed some ‘tests’ and the children have done amazingly well. The tests looked at many of the different objectives we cover in Year 1 and the children even had a go at some of the topics we haven’t looked at yet; it is amazing how much the children know. Some of the questions were arithmetic based and some of the questions were presented as word problems and the children were challenged to solve a series of one and two-part problems. Next week in maths, we will be returning back to place value and looking specifically at subtraction and introducing different strategies that we can use to ‘take away’.
English
As it is Bonfire Night tonight, we have used this opportunity to practice writing instructions with a focus on how to use sparkler safety. The children thought of sensible and safe ideas that they could write into a set of instructions for somebody to enjoy using sparklers safely. The instructions started with wearing sensible clothing and gloves, where to stand, how to light the sparkler (an adult to help), a reminder to not run with sparklers and not throw them and finally how to get rid of a used sparkler – putting it in cold water. We hope anybody who is attending a bonfire this weekend has a great and safe time!
RE
In RE this week, we have been looking at Diwali; known as the festival of lights, Diwali is part of a five-day celebration that pays homage to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and is celebrated by Sikhs, Hindus and some Budhists. People light lamps, set off fireworks and gather with friends and family to exchange gifts and enjoy holiday meals together, they celebrate their community and a new year. Our children watched a short video, they retold the story and then acted this out in Drama – using a host of Diwali resources to help them.
PE
In PE this term we have a specialist coach in from South Ribble who will be teaching us Dance every Tuesday morning. The children had great fun moving to the music, learning routines and being very active in the process. As always, the children were excellently behaved and the coach praised both classes in how well all the children did for their first Dance session.
Friday 22nd October
English
As you may have guessed from last week’s blog post, this week we have had a surprise visitor in class – Fleb. Fleb is a friendly alien who has got lost on his travels and has found himself in Year 1 here at Lostock Hall; after his spaceship set off without him on another search for Underpants we have been making friends with Fleb, by writing him letters and telling him more about ourselves and our planet, and we finished the week by making him a special spaceship that will hopefully be suitable for him to get home to his family (cue the E.T soundtrack). The children used a wonderful array of adjectives in their writing this week and started to look at the basic lay out of a letter. Fleb enjoyed the letters so much that he sent two in return, which were hand delivered by the school office!
Maths
In maths this week we have been looking at addition and different strategies that we can use. Supplemented by a plethora of resources (number lines, 100 squares, tens frames and counters) we have been able to add different ‘parts’ together to create a ‘whole’ or ‘total’ for a given addition equation. The children were able apply their previous understanding of part-whole models and spot some familiar number bonds along the way (1 + 9, 2 + 8 etc. to make 10). We will be spending more time on addition and subtraction after the half term break and it is fundamental that the children are able to recognise all of their number bonds to 10; we practice these regularly during our maths fluency sessions (formerly ‘mental maths’) on Tuesdays and Thursdays. See if your child can tell you all of their number bonds to 10 over this half-term break.
Life Skills Week
This week in school has been slightly different to most weeks, as we have been focussing on ‘life skills’ week. Across the school, we have had visitors from many different sectors of society who have come in and delivered age-appropriate seminars to our children on lots of different topics associated with ‘life skills’. The children in Year 1 have had visits from HSBC Bank and they were able to handle coins, understand the value of money and think about different things they could save up for. The children also discussed what their dream home would be like (not that HSBC can offer mortgages to Year 1 children at the moment) and what their dream job would be when they are older.
The children also attended a mental health and wellbeing seminar, where they learnt about coping strategies and understanding that sometimes that we may not always feel our best and that this is normal and we have people around us who can help with that. Many of the feelings that were discussed were feelings that we have touched upon during our PSHE lessons but it was nice for the children to hear about these strategies from a different voice and to remind the children that there will always be somebody to talk and support them, should they ever need it.
During the week, both Year 1 classes also attended a Dog Awareness assembly. During the assembly the children learnt about what dogs need in order to be happy and to feel loved. Many children in school have dogs at home and they were able to help answer most questions but it was also an excellent opportunity to raise awareness for those who didn’t; using some of the key themes, we also spoke in class about caring for other pets we may have in a similar manner.
Thank You
Amazingly we have reached the end of our first half term. Whilst the term has almost been 8 weeks long, it feels like only yesterday that the children walked into their new classrooms for the first time. We would just like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you for all the support this half term; we have seen some excellent homework, wonderful spelling scores and reading diaries being filled in daily, which is fantastic!
Please have an excellent week off, recharge the batteries, stay safe and we shall see you all again bright-eyed and bushy-tailed a week on Monday (1st Nov).
Mr. Law and Mrs Mears
Friday 15th October
It has been a very busy couple of weeks in school and it has been great to see a lot more children reading at home with parents writing in Reading Journals following on from the discussions held at Parents’ Evening. Reading Eggs should now be working again and is a great resource to supplement our reading and phonics learning.
Maths
This week in maths we have been looking at part-whole models and looking at partitioning numbers. The children have taken different amounts and have been able to separate the total into different parts; this has then been explored further and we have been able to add these parts together to make the total (addition) or removed one of the parts from our total to make a subtraction equation. The children have enjoyed using counters, ten’s frames and part-whole diagrams to explore these concepts further.
English
In English we have been using the text Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Feedman and Ben Cort. The children have described the aliens, retold the story and even designed their own underpants (which may entice the aliens to visit our classroom next Friday!). Again we have been reminding the children to use their capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and pre-cursive handwriting. The children did an excellent job of retelling the story and using adjectives to really show off their writing!
PSHE
This week in PSHE we have been discussing our feelings and how our behaviours can impact other both positively and negatively. We discussed some of the things that can make us sad and we talked about different strategies we can use when we are feeling sad, such as: talking to friends, telling the teacher, speaking with mums and dads/grandparents. The children also talked about things that make us happy (lots of playing out!) and having fun with friends playing games on the yard.
RE
In RE we have been looking at Christianity and specifically how Christians believe that God created the world. The children were able to draw pictures that documented the creation of the world, from starting with night and day on Day 1 to finishing with a rest on Day 7. When discussing Christianity, lots of the children shared some of their experiences of going to church – for weddings, at Christmas time, christenings etc. – and how many of the children’s parents go to church on Sundays. When teaching RE, we always remind the children that different people have different beliefs and that we should always respect each other’s beliefs and values, whether they are the same as ours or different.
Friday 1st October 2021
Maths
This week in maths, we have been looking at ordering numbers. We started with the smallest number and worked our way along to the greatest number. The children solved problems by ordering random numbers (within 20) and even started to order them from greatest to smallest. After a few days ordering numbers and introducing ordinal numbers, we began to work with number lines and number tracks. Some children used counters to count along 100 squares, working towards the greatest total or counting back towards the smallest amount. We will be using these 100 squares and number lines again next week, as we reintroduce addition and subtraction.
English
This week in English, our children have been designing their own aliens and using adjectives to describe them in their work. Again, we have had a real focus on handwriting, finger spaces and the correct use of capital letters and full stops. Some of the aliens we created were quite scary, some were kind and friendly, and some were simply mind-blowing. The children certainly used their imaginations and used their writing skills to bring these wonderful ideas to life. Once the children had drawn their aliens, they then used adjectives to describe them and then we discussed putting these ideas into accurate sentences. We had so many good ideas that we needed to extend our sentences so we decided to introduce some ‘conjunctions’ to help us do so.
Art
This week we have been painting self-portraits to create our new display board in our Key Stage 1 corridor. The children enjoyed using iPads to take ‘selfies’ and observe themselves. We looked at our hair styles, our eye colour and other distinguishing features (including a few missing teeth) that make us different from our friends. We started our artwork by placing our paper in a portrait position, not landscape, and then we sketched our outline. Once we had drawn our faces we mixed different paints before finally letting loose with our paint brushes. Along with our self portraits, we also made our Christmas cards. That is not a typo, we have made our Christmas cards…in September (blame Miss Franklin!).
Rugby
Both Year One classes had a wonderful Rugby ‘taster session’ on Monday afternoon, provided by specialist sports coaches from South Ribble School Sports Partnership. As is often the case, the weather scuppered plans for going out onto the field but the children still had plenty of fun indoors and there was literally, rugby balls everywhere. The children learnt some basic handling skills, passing the ball without dropping it and even had a go at scoring a touchdown.
Should your child wish to pursue Rugby going forward and you need any information in making this happen, please drop us an email and Mr. Law or Mr. Jardine will happily help guide you in the right direction.
Take a look at some of the action shots from the afternoon:
Friday 24th September
Phonics and Spellings
We had much better scores this week with our spellings and it was excellent to see so many people had practised their spellings by writing words in their blue books. The spellings help to underpin the phonics sounds we have been learning each week. Whilst we are very grateful for all the support with spellings at home, it isn't a replacement for reading at home; reading is still imperative and thank you again for all the reading diary entries this week.
English
This week we have been writing a non-chronological report about the Gruffalo. We have used some excellent adjectives to enhance our work and brought many of our ideas to life by writing extended sentences. When writing, we remind the children about capital letters, finger spaces and full stops but encourage the children to apply their phonics knowledge when writing independently. We have been blown away with some of the work we have read this week.
Maths
In maths this week, we have still been working on numbers within 10 (and 20 for some groups) but focussing more specifically on comparing numbers, objects and groups. We have used mathematical language including: 'more than', 'less than', 'greatest', 'least', 'equal to' and the 'same as'. We used our crocodile symbols to identify more than and less than and the children loved showing their crocodile teeth to eat the greatest amount of pizzas (andnaught school children!).
PE
In Pe we have been working on our fundamental movement skills and also our throwing and catching. Each unit is linked to two novels that we have read in class and the children have brought the stories to life using the characters within the stories. We have dodged balls (evil peas) in Supertato and we have travelled to the South Pole in a variety of different ways (run, jump, skip, crawl etc.) in the novel Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers.
Friday 17th September
Mr Law and Mrs Mears have been so impressed with how brilliantly the children are settling into their new Year 1 classes. Well done to all the children for adapting to the new change in school environment and being superstars!
English
In English we have been reading the Gruffalo and this week, the Gruffalo's Child both by Julia Donaldson. The children have enjoyed creating their own creatures and using adjectives to describe them. Once the children had created their fictional forest creatures, they put them into full sentences and used their best handwriting to put them into their English books.
All the children enjoyed making birthday cards for the Gruffalo and singing Happy Birthday to him for his party this afternoon. We especially enjoyed eating cake and popcorn whilst watching an animated version of the story. What a lovely way to end our week!
Maths
This week in maths, we have been working on numbers within 20. We have consolidated our counting both forwards and backwards, practicing writing our numbers (making sure we don't get any of our numbers the wrong way round, particularly '7s' and '2s').
Reading
Thank you to all the parents and carers who have taken time to read with your child this week. Please can you make sure that you are regularly writing in your child’s green Reading Diary every time you read with them; even if it is a different book / story from the two books that they are provided with each week. For every input in their Reading Diary, your child will get a sticker and a token for their house team.
Geography
This week in Geography we have been using compasses to help us navigate around the classroom. We created ‘messy maps’ of our classrooms and used North / East / South / West to navigate around the classroom. We even hid a little bit of treasure in our classroom and had to use our compasses and maps to help us find it.
An Enormous "Thank You!"
On behalf of all the Year 1 staff, we would like to take this opportunity to say an enormous thank you for all of your support this year.
We have endured lockdowns, school closures, partial openings and the infamous period of 'home learning'.
Whilst different challenges presented themselves along the way, none of the hurdles we have faced throughout this academic year have been insurmountable; the resilience the children have shown throughout has been remarkable and it is a glowing testament of the support that you have afforded these wonderful children.
With a light at the end of the tunnel and a return to 'normality' on the horizon, may we wish you a fantastic summer break and that all the exciting things you have planned can duly go ahead. Stay safe. Read books. Have fun. And relax ahead of Year 2.
You have all been truly wonderful and we are certain you will be just as amazing in Year 2.
Best wishes and thanks again,
Mr. Law, Mrs. Mears and the Year 1 Team
Year 1 Sports Day
This week Year 1 have taken part in a fun-filled sports day. Everyone who took part showed a super attitude and cheered all their friends on! Events included; the obstacle race, hula hoop race, sprint and bat and bean bag race. The children thoroughly enjoyed it! Please see slideshow underneath for some pictures of the afternoon.
Weekly Update- Friday 2nd July
English- Hello Lighthouse
This week we have been reading the story ‘Hello Lighthouse’ by Sophie Blackall. The children have shown some super knowledge about lighthouses and have focussed on using adjectives to make their writing more interesting. Some even rose to the challenge of using double adjectives and
similes!
Maths-Time (to the hour and half past)
This week we have been consolidating our knowledge of time and focussing on ‘half past’ on an analogue clock. We have also been learning about how many minutes there are in an hour and found out that half an hour is the same as 30 minutes! The children applied their knowledge of counting in 5’s to help with this task!
History- Seaside Old and New
The children have loved looking at seaside pictures from the past and comparing historical images to pictures that we would take at the seaside today. We have even dressed up in some 1920’s beach clothes which we thought was really funny!
Class trip
The children were delighted to go on their school trip to Bring ‘Yer’ Wellies this week. As always, the children represented our school incredibly well, with everyone being on their best behaviour. Activities included, den building, pond dipping, educational talks about life cycles, an obstacle course, cork boat racing and toasting marshmallows, which was definitely a favourite amongst the classes! Well done once again to all the children for listening so carefully and being super ambassadors of our school.
End of Term Update- Friday 28th May
A huge well done to all the children this half term for all of their hard work and enthusiasm towards their learning; we are so proud of everyone who has returned to school and given 100% effort!
Learning about Lifecycles
This half term, we welcomed some new additions to our classroom in the form of tiny caterpillars!
The children have extremely enjoyed watching them grow from babies into enormous hairy caterpillars. We have observed while they formed their cocoons and become Pupa/Chrysalides.
Unfortunately, having waited so patiently, the butterflies haven’t yet emerged so Mrs Mears has kindly taken them home and has promised to video the progress, which will be sent via e-mail on Purple Mash- so keep your eyes peeled!
English
We have finished this term by reading MeerKat Mail by Emily Gravett. The children have loved following the Meerkats on their adventures all over the world. In addition, we explored non-fiction fact files and created our very own MeerKat fact files. We loved learning about them and all of their funny habits!
Maths
This term we have been learning lots about positional language, which can be quite a tricky concept but the children have risen to the challenge as always and have been superstar learners. We have also been concentrating on consolidating those number bonds to 10 and 20 and focussed on place value of numbers within 100. We are really enjoying our Maths' role play areas, where we can explore numbers further and show off our own independent learning.
RE
We have been learning about Hinduism and investigating the unique qualities of each of the deities! The children have particularly loved the story of the elephant God Ganesh and how he gained his trunk.
Topic
In Geography this term we have been comparing Blackpool and Lostock Hall. Those of us that have been to Blackpool, enjoyed sharing our experiences. We have used mapping skills and compared modes of transport from each place.
We have also shown off our ICT skills by collating information about our favourite pets; we then used this data to create a pictogram.
In PSHE we have been learning about how to keep our bodies clean and healthy. We particularly enjoyed our ‘germs’ experiment, where we used oil and glitter to investigate how quickly germs can spread. From this, the children made a connection with the importance of hand washing and maintaining personal hygiene.
FA Schools Football Day
On Wednesday 26th May, all children in school took part in the FA organised 'School Football Day'. Children up-and-down the country played games against their classmates with the intention of simultaneously holding the world's biggest football match. The children in Year 1 played three games against their classmates and had loads of fun in the process. It wasn't all about winning, though we did enjoy scoring lots of goals, and the children all played the game in the correct spirit and showed RESPECT for their opponents/game. It was wonderful to see so many different football teams represented, though there was a shortage of Burnley ones!
Weekly Update - Friday 16th April
It was lovely to welcome all the children back to our classrooms on Monday morning and we think you will all agree that those two weeks of half term simply disappeared. As we start a new term, we have lots of new learning to embark upon.
In Maths this week, we have started looking at ‘Multiplication and Division’, using our knowledge of 2’s 5’s and 10’s and applying these to equal groups.
The children have again worked tremendously hard in their phonics groups and we are very proud of the scores that we have seen this week in our spelling tests. Make sure you are practising these for a few minutes daily after you have read at home.
For English, we have been looking at poetry and the children have used the wonderful ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson to introduce rhyming words; the children even had a go at writing their own acrostic poem.
The children learnt about the surrounding seas of the United Kingdom in Geography and labelled these on a map before using Google Earth on the iPads to explore this in more detail. We also used the globe to find the UK and point at the surrounding seas.
In RE our children were introduced to some of the Hindu Gods and they were amazed by the both the appearance of these Gods and what they are believed to do. Using the fascinating images, the children drew their own God, which had special powers that meant something to them.
As the weather has been so lovely this week, we took the opportunity to have a walk around the school field and into our orchid on the look out for the signs of spring that we could remember and also to look for various different types of deciduous and evergreen trees that we have been learning about in science. We found lots more deciduous trees than evergreens and we could spot little buds starting to appear on some of the branches.
In PE the children had a really fun multi-skills lesson with one of our South Ribble sports and in their second PE lesson they went outside and took part in an athletics lesson with lots of running, bouncing and being very active.
In computing this week we have looked at pictograms and the children planned how to collect data to create their own 1L/1M class pictogram about the pets they have at home.
After all of the amazing work the children have produced this week and the effort that they have put in, our children enjoyed a special Zoom call on Friday afternoon with the Year 6 classes. We shared work and celebrated our achievements for the week.
Home Learning- Wednesday 24th March (SCHOOL CLOSURE DUE TO WATER SUPPLY)
Good morning everyone,
As you will know, we have had to make the unfortunate decision to close school today due to having no water supply. Please ensure to complete the home learning tasks for today and return completed work to school tomorrow.
English
We have been watching the story of ‘Zahra’ on Literacy shed and investigating her different character traits.
Watch the story again here: https://vimeo.com/23455377
Today we are going to be using adjectives to add to a ‘Zone of relevance’ chart.
Using the resources provided, you are going to add each adjective to the zone of relevance chart.
The closer the adjective is to the middle section; the more it is relevant to Zahra.
For example, ‘strong’ would be placed more centrally than ‘nervous’.
You may imply reasons for character traits but try and use evidence from the clip to support your reasoning.
Phonics/Reading Eggs
Your child has been allocated a book to read, relevant to the phonics phase they are currently working at. Please login to your Reading Eggs account to access this and select 'Reading Eggspress'.
Maths
Please see the PowerPoint and worksheet attached in the resources section. This week we have been looking at volume and capacity, as a further activity to your worksheet today, have a look in the kitchen and see if there are any pots, pans, bowls, cups or bottles and see if you can compare the volumes of these from largest to smallest.
Topic – Science (Plants)
This term we have been looking at plants and today we shall be looking closely at trees, both deciduous and evergreen. Attached within the resources section is a PowerPoint, which will highlight some of the differences and a worksheet/resources to look through. As it is meant to be sunny this afternoon, why not go on a nice walk and take photographs of the trees that you see and when you get home, try and identify each one and decide if you think it is deciduous or evergreen.
Underneath you will find Mrs Mears explaining your morning tasks and stay tuned to the blog for Mr Law's video on deciduous and evergreen trees.
Virtual Steps Challenge
Friday 26th February to Thursday 4th March
30 Minutes maximum per day.
Take a look at the PowerPoint below to take part in the whole school Virtual Steps Challenge.
Record your daily scores and see how many steps you can climb in a week.
Move on up!
Remote Learning 2021
As we find ourselves in another period of national lockdown, all home-learning will be posted daily onto this Year 1 Blog; it will also be accompanied by any additional resources or support materials. Each day, your child will be expected to complete a Maths, English and phonics activity alongside a designated topic activity, in accordance with the guidance supplied by the DfE.
We kindly request that all completed Maths work sheets are retained, so they can eventually be filed alongside your child’s ‘in-school’ folders when we return back to school. At the request of your class teacher, certain pieces of English work will need to be scanned (or photographed) and sent to the Year Group email; topic work can also be kept either in a workbook or a collection of sheets that are filed and brought back along with other pieces of work. Work undertaken on PurpleMash will not need to be printed out, as we can monitor this remotely, and the same applies with ReadingEggs usage.
Please submit any completed tasks, when requested to do so, to the following year group email address:
Year1@lostockhallcps.co.uk
With your child’s class and name in the subject header as follows:
1L Child A
We fully understand the difficulties that come with home learning and are extremely grateful for all that is being done to support our children during these peculiar times. Should you need any further assistance or support with any home learning tasks, please feel free to email the same address, as emails to this address will be responded to within school hours. For any other enquires or communication, parents should follow normal procedure and email the School Business Manager.
Thank you once again,
Mr. Law & Mrs. Mears
Friday 12th February 2021
English
Write a letter to the Hoctopize to cheer him up. Tell him not to worry and tell him about all the lovely party ideas you have for him- See Mrs. Mears video from yesterday for a good example.
Please send this to: year1@lostockhallcps.co.uk
Once you have written your letter, sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of the story: Toys in space final
Phonics
Today is your spelling test day so have a little practice of writing your words beforehand.
Once completed take some time to recap on any sounds you need extra practice with by accessing
‘Phonics Play’ or an ‘Alphablocks’ episode.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Music
This week as well as thinking about pitch (last week’s learning), we are going to be thinking about tempo. Tempo describes the speed at which the music is playing.
Listen to this piece of music and describe what happens https://video.link/w/vdle
Hopefully the children will notice that the music gets faster and faster!
Today, we are going to be exploring pitch and tempo together today on Purple Mash. You will find the 2DO in your area. Watch the demonstration clip before you use this as it will show you how to record and how to adjust the tempo of your music.
Thursday 11th February 2021
English
Watch Mrs. Mears explain todays lesson here: Toys in space part 4
Phonics
Red group
Today we are learning the soft ‘c’ sound and reading it within words. Watch this teaching video to help you learn, make sure you have a pencil and piece of paper to record your phonics. The soft 'c' sound
Blue and Green groups
Today we are recapping on split diagraph learning. Watch this teaching video to help you learn, make sure you have a pencil and piece of paper to record your phonics.
Yellow and Orange groups
Today we are recapping on phase 4 learning so far. Watch this teaching video to help you learn, make sure you have a pencil and piece of paper to record your phonics. Review of the week
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Foundation - RE
Over the past few weeks we have been learning traditional stories from the Islam religion and understanding more about to Whom Muslims pray. We have thought about Allah and how Muslims believe him to be the one true God.
This week we are going to be learning about ‘prayer’ and how Muslims incorporate prayer into their daily lives.
Watch this clip and answer the questions below: Islamic Prayer
What is the Holy Building called where Muslims go to pray?
Why do Muslims pray?
In what places can Muslims pray as well as at the Mosque?
Watch Mrs. Mears show you some special features of Mosques and learn some traditions that Muslims do before and during prayer: The Mosque
Once you have answered the questions and understood more about prayer in Islam, I would like you to draw a picture of a Mosque. Research some pictures and see if they have anything in common.
Wednesday 10th February 2021
English
Watch Mrs. Mears read the next part of your story and explain your task for today: Toys in Space Part 3
Phonics
Red group
Today we are going to be comparing and reading words with the ‘air, ear, and are’ sounds in them.
Print of or re-create the worksheet in the resources section ‘Graphemes word sort’.
Blue and Green groups
Today we are going to be learning the ‘u-e’ split diagraph sound. Have a look at the video of Mrs Mears teaching the red group this sound a few weeks ago: Mrs Mears Teaching Video
Yellow and Orange groups
Today we are going to be incorporating our phase 3 graphemes into our phase 4 learning. Watch Mrs. Mears teach your lesson here: Yellow and Orange group phonics
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Topic – PE
Please use the following links to access your PE / Physical activity for this week; Lancashire Sport have provided you with resources again to use (I have kept the School Games Challenge up from last week for those who might not have had the chance to complete it yet); there is a dance option link and please try and be extra active this week and have a go at one of the other activities linked below:
Challenges:
https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/spar-lancashire-school-games-stay-at-home-heroes-challenge/
Resources:
https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/spar-lancashire-school-games-2021-year-1-2-resource-area/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L-UWgbjcACzWWvt8rXtPhb3YB7I5z2X7/edit
Once you have had a go at the video above, please feel free to have a go at any of the physical activity options from the list below (make sure to get mums and dads to join in too!):
Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Joe Wicks (Exercise): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Tuesday 9th February 2021
English
Watch the next part of the story here: Toys in space Part 2
Today I would like you to make a prediction as to what you think will happen next in the story.
Use the question hand prompts to help you with your discussions.
Who is in the spaceship? Where are they taking them? Why are they there? What are they going to do with them? When will they bring them back? How are they going to get home?
These are questions that I have created to help you with your predictions using our question words.
Write your predictions in your home learning books or on paper in full sentences remembering our capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Remember to use lots of creativity in your writing and use lots of description.
Phonics
Red group
Today’s we are learning an alternative way to make the ‘air, ear’ sound. This is ‘are’.
In the resources section you will find a phoneme spotter activity to have a go at called ‘Clare at the Farm’. Underline the ‘are’ words as you are reading, when you have finished have a go at putting three of these words into sentences.
Blue and Green groups
Watch Mrs. Mears play ‘Best Bet’ with the o-e and ow diagraphs: Blue and Green Phonics
Yellow and Orange groups
As with yesterday we are continuing on our phase 4 learning. You will find a similar activity for today in the resources section, however this time the adjacent consonant is at the beginning of the word.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Topic - Art
Today you are going to be using the photographs you took of your toys to create an observational drawing. For a tutorial on observation drawing have a look at this lesson from the Oak Academy: Oak Academy observational drawing
Once you have had a practice here then you should be ready to create your very own picture.
If you wanted to include a background to your picture, you might like to take the time to paint/shade your paper first (this is optional). In Nigel Humphries artwork, he uses some lovely combinations of colour to create effective back scenes, so this might be worth a look.
Maths Seeds
We have set all the children up with an account on Maths Seeds. This is a maths learning platform designed to be a fun and engaging way of consolidating maths skills; much like Reading Egg’s is for phonics and reading, Maths Seeds is the same for all things maths and number.
You can find this on your Reading Eggs app- once you have logged in, you will see this tab as an additional selection. Once you have selected ‘Maths Seeds’, click on ‘Lessons’; this will take you to the placement test which, once taken, will determine what level your child will begin at.
If you find the allocated level is either too easy or too hard, please let us know and we can manually adjust this for you. We can’t wait for you to have a play and explore this wonderful app and we are sure the children will absolutely love it!
Monday 8th February 2021
English
This week we are going to be reading the final story of this term. The story is called ‘Toys in Space’ which is written by Mini Grey (the same author as Traction Man!).
Please watch Mrs. Mears read the story and explain your task here: Toys in Space Part 1
Phonics
Red group
Today we are going to be learning the ‘ear’ (air) sound- watch Mrs. Mears introduce this and explain your activity here: Red Group Phonics
Blue and Green groups
Today we are going to be learning the ‘o-e’ split diagraph sound. Watch Mrs. Mears introduce this and explain your task here: Blue and Green phonics group
Yellow and Orange groups
We are moving onto ‘Phase 4’ learning. In this phase we learn to blend words which feature adjacent consonants. Today I would like you to have a go at blending sounds to make words and then drawing a picture. Find your activity in the resources section.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Topic – Science
Continuing with our Science topic of ‘Everyday Materials’, today we return again to Miss Harris for our final virtual lessons provided by the online National Oak Academy website for this topic: ‘Which materials are absorbent?’ and ‘Which material is best for different objects?’
Both lessons feature videos from Miss Harris has another video for you to watch and there is another practical experiment for you to have a go at; we loved hearing the positive feedback last week about how much you loved the ‘will it sink?’ experiment! In the first lesson, you will be investigating ‘absorbency’ in different materials (you will find out what ‘absorbent’ means soon!). In the second lesson you will be learning about which materials are better for certain objects or ‘things’, why are windows made out of glass? Etc.
For the upcoming experiment in the first lesson, you will need: a sponge or cloth, plastic bag or cup, foil, cardboard or paper, cotton wool or tissue. If you do not have these materials, you can watch Miss Harris complete the experiment while observing the outcomes
Please do not feel the need to print off all of the different worksheets, you can simply answer the questions on a piece of paper instead if you prefer. Also, it is not imperative that you complete both lessons today, perhaps you can do the second one later in the week; both lessons can be accessed via the following links:
https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/which-materials-are-absorbent-6tk3er
https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/which-material-is-best-for-different-objects-60vkar
After the half term break, our new topic will be ‘Plants’. Should we be treated to any nice weather during the half-term break, try and get our into the garden or go for a walk to the park and see if you can spot any flowers; maybe take a camera with you and take some pictures of the different plants you might find. Good luck!
Weekly Update
Another great week in school and at home (looking at some of the fantastic work we have received all week)! Well done to everybody who has done so well in completing the tasks that have been uploaded this week and in previous weeks; we really appreciate all of your continued support.
It was lovely to see you all on Zoom and it seems like you are all ready for the weekend. Have a great weekend and we shall see you all again on Monday. The work for next week is already on the blog, should you want to access this early.
Take care and stay safe and thanks again.
The Year 1 Team
Friday 5th February 2021
English
Watch the last instalment of the velveteen rabbit here: Velveteen Rabbit -Final
Today as a treat, watch an animated version of the Velveteen Rabbit: The Velveteen Rabbit animated story
As an optional piece of writing, can you draw a picture of your own fairy and tell me what you would wish for if a fairy came to visit?
Phonics
Today is your spelling test day so have a little practice of writing your words beforehand. Once completed take some time to recap on any sounds you need extra practice with by accessing ‘Phonics Play’ or an ‘Alphablocks’ episode.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Music
This week as part of our music ‘Superheroes’ theme, we are going to be investigating pitch. The pitch of the music describes which notes are high and which notes are low.
First of all we are going to be moving around like superheroes; interpreting and expressing this song through our body movements. https://youtu.be/KOqiIX1Z5Fo
Next we are going to learn about pitch in music and look at some examples of high and low notes.
Now have a go at making your lowest and highest notes, if you have instruments at home you might like to try and create different pitches using these or alternatively- pots and pans.
As a final activity, play the ‘Superman’ song again through the link above and see if you can move your body differently this time. It might be flying low for low notes and high for the higher pitch parts.
Thursday 4th February 2021
English
Watch Mrs Mears explain todays lesson here:
Phonics
Red group
Today we are going to be learning another digraph to represent the ‘e’ sound. The diagraph is written this way, ‘ea. Watch the video underneath and make sure you have a pen and paper for the activity parts.
Blue and Green groups
Today we are going to recap on some sounds we should already know. Watch the teaching video below and join in as much as you can. Can you spot any of our recent learning?
Yellow and Orange groups
Watch this teaching video which will help to consolidate most sounds from phase 3.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
PSHE
Today we are going to be thinking about times we might feel nervous, anxious or worried.
Discuss with an adult how you might feel in the following circumstances:
Then talk about, when we feel nervous, worried, anxious or sad, what effect physically that might have on our bodies. For example; we might cry, feel sick, hot, need the toilet or our faces might go red.
Complete the sheet in the resources section to illustrate who might be able to help us when we have these feelings.
Wednesday 3rd February 2021
English
Watch Mrs. Mears explain your lesson for today here: The Velveteen Rabbit Part 2
Please ensure this piece of work is uploaded to the Year 1 email address: year1@lostockhallcps.co.uk
Phonics
Red group
Using these words, play ‘Best Bet and put the words in the correct columns.
You will need to write 3 titles: a-e, ai and ey. Ask an adult to read these words out for you and see if you can put them in the correct columns.
Train, crane, they, rain, make, survey, strain, bake, prey, slave, grey
Can you think of any more words as an extra challenge?
Blue and Green groups
Today you are going to learn the ‘igh’ sound with the new ‘I’ grapheme. Watch this clip to learn more, if you would like to skip the initial 10 minutes, please do so as this is a long teaching video. As long as you start on the introduction of the sound.
Yellow and Orange groups
Watch this clip featuring the ‘er’ diagraph. After watching closely and reading the words get a pen and paper and make your very own game of matching pairs.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Topic – PE
Again, following the success of last week’s PE and with a lot of people saying they have enjoyed the variety of different options, we will again post the same links; please try and complete the lesson uploaded by Lancashire Sport (‘Resources’ link) and please have a look at the PDF that has been saved in the resources section, (linked to Children’s Mental Health week) designed as a brochure with age specific challenges to complete.
Challenges:
https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/spar-lancashire-school-games-stay-at-home-heroes-challenge/
Resources:
https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/spar-lancashire-school-games-2021-year-1-2-resource-area/
Once you have had a go at one of the videos above, please feel free to have a go at any of the physical activity options from the list below (make sure to get mums and dads to join in too!):
Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Joe Wicks (Exercise): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Dance: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rkUsuzOksT0SvGG1vuOb2qVaS7EDvizg?usp=sharing
Tuesday 2nd February 2021
English
Re- read the first part of the story from yesterday. We are going to be thinking about the Skin Horses message to the Rabbit. How did the Skin Horse explain what REAL means? How did he explain to the rabbit how to achieve it?
Complete the worksheet attached to answer some questions about the Skin Horses message.
Phonics
Red group
Today’s new learning is the ‘ow’ sound but this time it is represented with the ‘o’ letter.
Go through these words with the children and put on sound buttons.
No, so, go, old, don’t, gold, cold, told, cold, hold.
Using these words play the matching pairs games from Monday.
Blue and Green groups
Today we are going to be comparing the ‘igh’ and ‘i-e’ graphemes. Play along with Mrs Mears and see if you can place your best bet: Blue and Green Phonics Group
Yellow and Orange groups
Today we are going to be learning the sound ‘ure.’
Watch Mrs. Mears Teach you the sound here: Yellow and Orange Group
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or false?’ daily challenge.
Topic - History
This week we are continuing our learning in ‘History of toys.’ Watch the PowerPoint attached and play the ‘Is it old or new’ game. Today we are going to look at the particular dates certain toys were made and create a time line. You might like to discuss the idea of a timeline before you begin to order the toys. For example; illustrate a simple timeline of your child’s life thus far.
Once this concept has been understood, order the toys, from the document in the resources section, and put them in date order. There are quite a lot of toys here; you might like to choose a selection. If you cannot print- create your own illustrations on paper or in your home learning booklet.
Monday 1st February 2021
English
This week we are going to be reading a children’s classic story book about a toy rabbit. The story is called, ‘The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams.’ This was one of my favourite stories as a little girl, I hope you enjoy it.
Watch Mrs. Mears reading the first part here:
You can find the worksheet in the resources section.
Spellings
This week's spellings can be found in the resources section; please select the correct group of spellings. Your child will know which spelling group they are in. Well done to all those who got full marks last week and for those who didn't, see if you can beat your last score this week!
Phonics
Red group
Watch Mrs. Mears Teach todays lesson and introduce your game: Red Group Phonics
Blue and Green groups
In this video Mr. Thorne teaches the spilt diagraph i-e: Mr Thorne i-e
Once you have done this, play the ‘Matching Pairs’ game using words from the video clip. This game is very simple, all you need to do is write each word down twice on different pieces of paper and turn them over. The aim of the game is to get as many matching pairs as you can.
Yellow and Orange groups
Use these ‘ar’ words to read and once you have done this play ‘Matching Pairs’ game. This game is very simple, all you need to do is write each word down twice on different pieces of paper and turn them over. The aim of the game is to get as many matching pairs as you can.
Dark, bark, smart, car, jar, start, cart.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Topic – Science
Continuing with our Science topic of ‘Everyday Materials’, we return once again to Miss Harris for another virtual lesson provided by the online National Oak Academy website for our fourth lesson: ‘How can I describe an object?’
Miss Harris has another video for you to watch and there is a practical experiment for you to have a go at. In this lesson, you will be investigating different materials and their properties. We will explore which materials float and which materials sink, then we will be making comparisons while looking at their properties. Do all hard materials sink? Do all soft materials float? You will need a piece of paper and a pencil. If you would like to take part in the experiment you will need a coin or small metal object, a cotton ball or pad, stones, a pencil and a bowl of water.
Please do not feel the need to print off the different worksheets, you can simply answer the questions on a piece of paper if you prefer. The link for this fourth lesson can be found below:
https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/which-materials-float-and-sink-cdj66c
Enjoy the experiment!
Weekly Update
Thank you once again for all of your support this week. The children are doing so well and it was fantastic to see the children waving at each other on Zoom. We are hoping to schedule another two meetings again for next week; though we will be changing the days to Tuesday and Friday afternoons. Work is now on the blog and ready for next week.
We really appreciate all of the effort that has been going into all of the home learning again this week and we are thankful for all of the pieces of work that have been submitted. As a school, we understand and appreciate that it is a difficult time for many families and would like to again remind you of the support available from school and please don't ever hesitate to contact us.
Thank you again,
The Year 1 Team.
Friday 29th January 2021
English
Today we are going to re-telling the story of playmate by ordering pictures from the story.
You have a couple of options here; you can either cut them out from the saved document or draw them.
If you choose the cutting out option; place them down on a table in order. Once this has been done, talk through the story and see if you can re-tell it. If you are drawing the pictures- choose 6 key events in the story to re-tell it. You might like to tell the story to a family member who has not seen the story before!
Phonics
Today is your spelling test day so have a little practice of writing your words beforehand.
Once completed take some time to recap on any sounds you need extra practice with by accessing
‘Phonics Play’ or an ‘Alphablocks’ episode.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Art
With the artwork of Nigel Humphries still in our minds, this week we are going to focus on compositions. This basically means, how we arrange our artwork to get the best effect from our pictures. I would like you to choose a selection of toys that will all fit onto a piece of A4 paper. It could be a Lego brick, piece of playdough, a small teddy, small doll etc. Position the toys until you think they look good. You might want to think about: small objects being in front of larger objects or are you going to put them in height order?
Thursday 28th January 2021
English
Today I would like you to watch the dream scene from the story, where the little boy is in danger and the Robot is trying to save him. From this we are going to write about the dream but we are going to imagine that we are the little boy and we are writing a diary entry about the dream.
This means we are going to be writing in the ‘First Person’. For more clarification on this, watch this clip to help you understand. BBC Bitesize- First Person
Your diary entry might begin with:
Dear diary, last night I had a horrible dream…
Phonics
Red group
Following on from yesterday’s learning please complete the worksheet in the resources section to consolidate and compare different ‘igh’ graphemes.
Blue and Green groups
In the resources section today you will find an ‘ey’ word search activity. Before searching for the words, put some sound buttons onto the words and read them, this might help in spotting the letters.
Yellow and Orange groups
Watch this teaching video which will help to consolidate this week’s teaching on the ‘ear and oi’ sounds:
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Computing
Last week we were practising editing our pictures by adding animations to them. Please log back in to Purple Mash and continue with your story. This week, you might like to concentrate on typing up your sentences. This may take a little time until you get used to where the keys are on the keyboard or keypad; however the more you practice the quicker you will become.
Wednesday 27th January 2021
English
Today we are going to be thinking about emotions and how the characters feel in our Playmate story. Watch the clip again and stop regularly to discuss emotions. Emotions you speak about may include; happiness, jealousy, anger, sadness etc.
Your challenge today is to choose 3 parts of the story where you felt the characters were feeling an extreme emotion. Use the worksheet in the resource section (emotions) to draw a picture and then write an emotion with an explanation.
You might write:
The little boy is feeling angry because Robot ruined his game.
Please ensure this piece of work is uploaded to the Year 1 email address: year1@lostockhallcps.co.uk
Phonics
Red group
Watch this clip which is a teaching video to teach you the new sound ‘I’ (igh), make sure you have a pencil and paper at the ready for writing down any words. Teaching Video i
Blue and Green groups
Watch Mrs. Mears teach a lesson on the ‘ey’ sound: Mrs Mears Teaching Video
Yellow and Orange groups
Today we are going to be revising the ear sound. Watch Geraldine getting up to mischief finding things around the house featuring the ‘ear’ sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EneZ1UubxSA&safe=active
After watching, find the ‘ear’ phoneme spotter activity in the resources section and have a go at highlighting all the ear words as you read.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Topic – PE
Following the success of last week’s PE and with a lot of people saying they enjoyed the variety of different options, this week we have left the same options but added additional resource materials provided by Lancashire Sport; follow the links below for KS1 resources and also a link to Virtual ‘At Home’ Challenges:
Challenges:
https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/spar-lancashire-school-games-stay-at-home-heroes-challenge/
Resources:
https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/spar-lancashire-school-games-2021-year-1-2-resource-area/
Once you have had a go at the video above, please feel free to have a go at any of the physical activity options from the list below (make sure to get mums and dads to join in too!):
Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Joe Wicks (Exercise): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Dance: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rkUsuzOksT0SvGG1vuOb2qVaS7EDvizg?usp=sharing
Ball Skills (Catch the Apple challenge):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B70PHrKl77Y&safe=active
You can make this more challenging by moving further away from the catcher; make sure that you use balls that bounce high enough.
School Games - Sports Hall Athletics (VIRTUAL) Pentathlon
Today, in school, we will be taking part in a pentathlon and we would love for you to join in at home. This doesn't have to be done today, feel free to take part at any stage throughout the week. The School Games have created a format where our children working remotely from home can also join in and their recorded scores can be inputted into the overall competition standings. Please find the guidance document attached and a scoresheet too.
Please feel free to take photos and send them in to school along with your child's score. If you are taking part, try your best but most importantly have lots of fun!
Tuesday 26th January 2021
English
Today we are going to be exploring the video clip ‘Playmate’ in a bit more detail. Watch the clip again and remember the main messages from the story. Using the worksheet in the resources section (dialogue), find each clip from the pictures and think about what the characters might be saying at that point in the story. Write in each box what you think the dialogue would be if the characters were speaking.
For example, in Box 1 you might write:
I love playing with you Robot, you are my best friend!
Phonics
Red group
Watch this clip which is a teaching video to revise all those alternative graphemes and will enable you to revisit the u-e sound from yesterday:
Tuesday u-e sound alternative graphemes
Blue and Green groups
Watch this teaching video which will review the ‘a-e’ sound from yesterday and compare this to other corresponding graphemes:
Teaching Video Compare a-e ay ai
Yellow and Orange groups
Watch Mrs. Mears teach the oi sound:
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Topic - RE
Last week, we learned about how Muslims believe that Allah was responsible for all of creation. Today we are going to be watching a story about the Prophet Mohammed; a messenger of Allah (God) and how he taught others to look after animals.
You can find the story here:
The Prophet and the Ants story
Draw a picture and write what the main message was from the Prophet Muhammed.
Monday 25th January 2021
English
This morning we are going to be exploring our History Topic of ‘Toys’ through our English work.
Take a look at this clip called ‘Playmate’ which is a story about a little boy and his toy robot:
Watch the clip a couple of times so you fully understand the concept of what the story is about.
Can the children talk through the clips and explain what is happening in each part?
What do you think the moral of the story is; and what message do you think the creator is trying to send?
Today’s English should be focussed on talking through the story and understanding the key messages within it. There is no need to write down the answers to the questions but you may if you like.
Phonics
Red group
Watch Mrs. Mears teach you a lesson all about our new sound the u-e split diagraph:
Blue and Green groups
Today we are going to be learning the ‘a-e’ split diagraph sound. Watch the clip underneath which will introduce this sound:
Once you have watched this clip see how many words you remember and have a practice at writing them down.
Once you have had a good practice at writing these words down; get an adult to dictate this sentence for you. Ask them to repeat it 3 times. Write down the sentence using capital letters and full stops.
Make a cake and it will bake.
Yellow and Orange groups
Today we are going to be learning the ‘or’ sound. Watch the clip underneath which will introduce this sound:
Once you have watched this clip see how many words you remember and have a practice at writing them down.
Once you have had a good practice at writing these words down; get an adult to dictate this sentence for you. Ask them to repeat it 3 times. Write down the sentence using capital letters and full stops.
The stork had a fork in the storm.
Maths
Please find today’s PowerPoint and worksheet in the resources section. Pease also have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False?’ daily challenge.
Topic – Science
Continuing with our new Science topic of ‘Everyday Materials’, we return once again to Miss Harris from the online National Oak Academy website for our third lesson: ‘How can I describe an object?’
Miss Harris has another video for you to watch and there is another worksheet to complete and an online quiz to attempt. We have also uploaded another set Science Worksheet for you to have a go at, labelled ‘Describing Materials’, try and fill out the missing words/ sentences using appropriate adjectives to describe the different materials; you may even want to find the objects in your home in order to make the lesson more practical.
Please do not feel the need to print off all of the different worksheets, you can simply answer the questions on a piece of paper instead if you prefer. The link for this third lesson can be found below:
https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/how-can-i-describe-an-object-c9h38c
Zoom 'Catch Ups'
Good morning everybody. Just a little update on yesterday's Zoom 'Catch Ups' - they were so much fun and the teachers really enjoyed having them (we hope you all did too!). It was lovely to see so many familiar faces, albeit virtually and in your own habitats, and quite a new experience to have both a scavenger hunt and story time delivered online.
We are going to have another 'catch up' tomorrow (Thursday 21st January) at the same times as yesterday; 1M at 1pm and 1L at 2pm. Again, the details for the zoom meetings will be sent out via PurpleMash and these will be sent out in the morning, so keep your eyes peeled.
Thank you once again for your engagement and continued support with all of the home learning.
The Year 1 Team
Zoom 'Catch Up' Calls
Good afternoon, we hope you've all had a lovely Monday. We have been very busy in school and hope that you have been equally as busy at home with all of your home learning. Tomorrow (Tuesday 19th January 2021) , we will be hosting TWO Zoom 'meetings'; one meeting will be at 1PM for class 1M and one at 2PM for class 1L.
These meetings will be great opportunity for the children to see each other and wave at friends, who they may not have seen for some time. We kindly request that you read the 'Zoom School Rules' (Posted on the Year1 Blog) and adhere to these throughout. The log in details for the meetings have been posted to your child's Purple Mash email address so please check your inbox and let us know if there are any issues.
Mr. Law and Mrs. Mears are both looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and will also read a short story to you all on Zoom. We shall see you very, very soon!
Friday 22nd January 2021
English
As a fun Friday activity, today you are going to create a comic strip of your story using bright colourful pictures, speech marks and speech bubbles. Ensure that you have at least one speech and one thought bubble per picture to show what the characters are thinking and saying.
Phonics
Please complete spelling tests at home. If there is a sound your child has particularly struggled with, take a little time for extra practice on this sound. It might help to search for an ‘Alphablocks’ episode which features this sound to help reinforce blending it into words.
Maths
Please see the resources section for another PowerPoint to work through before giving today’s worksheet a go. Have you got all of this week’s ‘True or False?’ challenges right this week?
Topic – Religious Education
Continuing with our learning on Islam, today we are going to learning about ‘Allah’ and what Muslim’s believe. Muslims believe that Allah is the one true GOD and he created everything. Watch this video to find out more about Islam beliefs Islam
It is very similar to when we learned about Christianity and the creation story.
Split a blank piece of paper into 4/6 or 8 sections. Once you have done this try and draw and label all the things Muslims believe Allah created.
Thursday 21st January 2021
English
Today I would like you to complete the final 2 parts of the story. How will Traction man break free from the Evil Scissors? How will the story end? I will look forward to reading your super stories!
Please share them with us on our year group email.
Phonics
Yellow/Orange groups
Today we are going to recap on our new learning this week, ‘oa’, ‘oo’ and ‘ar’.
Look back on your learning from this week and read and write at least 3 words with these sounds. Put a word featuring each sound into a sentence, so you should have 3 full sentences.
Green/Blue groups
Today you are going to make 3 lists of words (3 columns). Your columns will be titled, ‘y’, ‘ee’ and ‘ea’. Make a list of words which have these sounds. Can you think of a rule for each grapheme?
Once you have made a list, cut up the words and play ‘Beat the Timer’ from Tuesday’s lesson using the words you have generated.
Red group
Today you are going to make 3 lists of words (3 columns). Your columns will be titled, ‘y’, ‘igh’ and ‘i-e’ (split diagraph). Make a list of words which have these sounds. Can you think of a rule for each grapheme?
Once you have made a list, cut up the words and play ‘Beat the Timer’ from Tuesday’s lesson using the words you have generated.
Maths
Please see the resources section and work your way through the worksheet for today’s maths lesson.
Topic – PE
With the limitations that lockdown has presented in terms of PE, Sport and Physical activity, today we have provided links for four different tasks for your child to have a go at (Dance, Yoga, Exercise and Ball Skills). Feel free to do whichever suits you best.
From next week we will have additional resources from Lancashire Sport so we can again take part in some virtual challenges, which children working from home and those in school can all participate in. Please see the links below for this weeks’ home learning activities:
Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Joe Wicks (Exercise): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Dance: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rkUsuzOksT0SvGG1vuOb2qVaS7EDvizg?usp=sharing
For the dance lesson, please follow the link to KS1.
Ball Skills (Throwing and Catching – a different part to last week): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYS9o-__MwI
Wednesday 20th January 2021
English
Today you will begin to write up your story. Complete the first two sections: beginning and problem.
Write super sentences to explain what is happening in your story.
My example for the start of the story is:
Traction Man is relaxing on a stripy book and he is lying next to his loyal friend Scrubbing Brush. He is wearing his dark sunglasses because the sun is shining brightly.
Right now he has not got a care in the world or so it would seem…
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING SPELLINGS- THE YELLOW AND ORANGE GROUP NOW HAVE THE SAME SPELLINGS- EVEN THOUGH THE DOCUMENT FOR SPELLINGS SAYS 'YELLOW' and 'ORANGE, BLUE AND GREEN'; PLEASE IGNORE IF YOU ARE IN THE ORANGE GROUP. TO CALRIFY, THE ORANGE GROUP SHOULD LEARN THE SPELLINGS IN THE DOCUMENT 'YELLOW GROUP SPELLINGS
Phonics
Yellow/Orange groups
Today I would like you to watch the online lesson which features our new sound ‘ar’ Year 1 lesson 'ar'
When the teacher writes, ensure you have a pen and can write at the same time.
Green/Blue groups
Today I would like you to watch the online lesson which features our new sound ‘y’ (ee) Year 1 Lesson 'y'
When the teacher writes, ensure you have a pen and can write at the same time.
Red group
Today I would like you to watch the online lesson which features our new sound ‘y’ (igh)
When the teacher writes, ensure you have a pen and can write at the same time.
Maths
Another day of subtraction challenges. Please see the resources section for a PowerPoint to have a look at before working through today’s worksheet. Make sure to give the 'True or False?' challenge a go!
Topic – ICT/ Computing
This term we are going to be creating an animated story book. The story we are going to be re-telling is ‘The Sink Adventure’ we have been writing from our Traction Man adventures.
For this you have been assigned a ‘2do’ in PurpleMash.
Mrs. Mears has created a video to demonstrate how to create your story. You can find it here Creating an animated story
Tuesday 19th January 2021
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING SPELLINGS- THE YELLOW AND ORANGE GROUP NOW HAVE THE SAME SPELLINGS- EVEN THOUGH THE DOCUMENT FOR SPELLINGS SAYS 'YELLOW' and 'ORANGE, BLUE AND GREEN'; PLEASE IGNORE IF YOU ARE IN THE ORANGE GROUP. TO CALRIFY, THE ORANGE GROUP SHOULD LEARN THE SPELLINGS IN THE DOCUMENT 'YELLOW GROUP SPELLINGS
English
Watch the final instalment of Traction Man here:
Today we are going to be planning Traction Man’s next adventure. I have attached an example copy of a plan to help you break down the story into; beginning, problem, resolution and ending.
Once you have looked at some of my ideas, see if you can think of any creative ideas of your own.
Complete the blank story plan which is a separate document in the resources section.
Phonics
Today we are going to play a game called ‘Beat the timer’. The concept of this game is very simple. Write down the words from your child’s group underneath on post-its or small pieces of paper. Screw them up and put them in front of you. Set a minute timer, see how many words you can unwrap and write in a minute. Have a few goes and see if you can beat your score.
Yellow/Orange groups
Today we will recap on the oo and ee sounds.
Use the words underneath to write on post-its or paper and include also the key words from your spellings for this week.
Moon, spoon, zoom, boot, cool, food, weep, seem, street, creep meet, week
Green/Blue groups
Quickly recap on the ‘oe’ sound which is our new learning and the ‘ow’ sound from last week.
Use the words underneath to write on post-its or paper and include also the key words from your spellings for this week.
Toe, doe, foe, woe, goes, heroes, blow, crow, snow, elbow
Red group
Recap on our new learning, the ‘ey’ sound and last weeks learning on ‘ie’.
Use the words underneath to write on post-its or paper and include also the key words from your spellings for this week.
Money, honey, donkey, valley, trolley, chimney, key, turkey, thief, chief, relief, grief.
Maths
Please find all materials required for today’s maths lesson in the resources section; feel free to have a go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False’ challenge.
Topic- History
This week we are continuing our learning about toys. Please watch this clip from BBC Bitesize about toys during World War 1:
In the ‘2do’ section of Purple Mash you have been set an activity to compare an old and new toys.
Monday 18th January 2021
English
Watch Mrs Mears reading the next part of Traction Man here:
Today I would like you to devise a plan to help save the spoons from the kitchen floor. Traction man and Scrubbing Brush are sitting on the kitchen cliff and need to think fast if they are to save the spoons. Think of resources they have in the kitchen or something they could use, how will they use that item to collect the spoons and pull them to safety?
Draw a picture and write about ‘The Plan.’
Phonics
Yellow/Orange groups
Today we are continuing our learning with the ‘oa’ sound. Watch this short clip to help you blend sounds together to read words featuring the ‘oa’ sound. 'oa' sound
Go to PurpleMash and find your differentiated phonics activity.
Green/Blue groups
Today we are learning the ‘oe’ sound. Watch this short clip which introduces the sound 'oe' sound
Go to PurpleMash and find your differentiated phonics activity.
Red group
Today we are learning the ‘ey’ sound. Watch this short clip which introduces the sound 'ey' sound
Go to PurpleMash and find your differentiated phonics activity.
Spellings
Please see all the spellings for this week in the resources section.
Maths
Another week of maths home learning to start. Each day you will find a PowerPoint to read and work through and an accompanying worksheet; all these materials are in that day’s resources section. Mr. Law has also uploaded another ‘True or False?’ challenge for you to have a go at each day.
Topic – Science
Continuing with our new Science topic of ‘Everyday Materials’, we return to Miss Harris from the online National Oak Academy website for our second lesson: ‘What objects are made from.’
Miss Harris has another video for you to watch (we joked in class last week about Miss Harris pronounces the word “glass” and how it differs slightly from how Mr. Law says the same word) and there is another worksheet to completer and an online quiz to attempt.
Please do not feel the need to print off the worksheet, you can simply answer the questions on a piece of paper instead. The link for this second lesson can be found below:
https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/what-are-objects-made-from-61gp8d
Weekly Review
Good afternoon everybody. We hope you are all safe and well! First if all, 'Thank you!' to everybody who has sent in work this past week. It has been great seeing all of your wonderful work and more importantly, it is so reassuring to see so many people engaging with the materials that have been posted online (all of next week's learning will be going up this afternoon!). Well done to everybody who did well with their spelling tests today and if you didn't do as well as you'd hoped, there is always next week for you to improve your score.
Starting next week, we will be engaging in a couple of 'Zoom meetings' for both classes; this will be a great opportunity for the children in each class to see and wave at each other and for us all to come together, albeit virtually. More details about these Zoom meetings will be posted out in due course, with regards to accessing the meetings and some ground rules for each session etc.; details will be sent out via Purple Mash. Again, the year group email can be used (year1@lostockhallcps.co.uk) should any issues arise. Further details will be sent on Monday 18th January.
Thank you once again for all of your kind messages of support, it really is appreciated. We are also so grateful for all of the incredible support that is being provided for our children at home during this peculiar time.
Have a lovely weekend and speak soon,
The Year 1 Team
Home Learning Friday 15th January
English
Watch the clip of Mrs Mears reading on yesterday's link. Traction Man was really excited to receive his present. Do you think that Traction Man liked his present? On the worksheet attached you have to complete speech and thought bubbles for the characters in the scene to show what they are saying and actually thinking.
In Traction Man's speech bubble for example you might write; 'Thank you Granny, I love you my new outfit!'
In his thought bubble it might say; Does she really want me to wear this?
Complete this for all characters on the sheet and then submit your work to the year group e-mail.
Phonics
Today is your spelling test day, ask an adult to help read your spellings and let us know your results.
Login into Phonics Play where you can find lots of nice games to help you read tricky words and practice this weeks sounds.
Login with the following details
username: jan21
password: home
Maths
See if you can solve Mr Law's true or false question of the day.
Check out the teaching video for today's learning and then go through the PowerPoint featuring teaching slides about today's learning. Complete the attached worksheet which corresponds to this.
Topic: Art
This term we are going to be creating a still life drawing inspired by the artist Nigel Humphries.
Research this artist and look at some of his work. Children should choose the artwork they most like and explain why.
Look at how the artist captures the shapes and patterns. You will notice that Nigel Humphries has created lots of still life drawings involving sweets and chocolates.
Today you can either choose an idea from the internet to copy or use a sweet or chocolate of your own. Decide where you will place your object and begin to sketch a rough outline of the shape, ensuring it is an accurate size. Have a go at incorporating any patters you see on your object.
You may wish to add colour but remember this is only a practice lesson to get us ready for a masterpiece sketch in a few weeks’ time.
Thursday 14th January 2021
English
Watch Mrs Mears read some more of the Traction Man story: Traction Man Part 3
Listen up to the part where Traction Man rescues the dolls from the Wicked Professor Spade.
Your task for today is to re-tell this jungle adventure. Attached, you will find pictures from the story and some key words and vocabulary you might like to use. You may have some super exciting vocabulary of your own you would like to use.
Cut out the pictures; alternatively you could draw them if you do not have access to a printer.
Once you have stuck them down in order, write sentences next to or below them to explain what is happening in each one.
Maths
Please have a watch of today’s ‘True or False?’ video and then work your way through the PowerPoint before having a go at the worksheet in today’s resources section.
Phonics
Red group
Watch this clip to recap on blending words with the ‘ie’ sound 'ie' sound
Get an adult to read these words to you and put them in the correct columns- ‘y’ or ‘ie’
Happy, chief, sunny, relief, thief, sadly, field smelly
Can you come up with a rule for the grapheme? Where in the word is the grapheme normally found?
Orange, Green and Blue group
Today we are recapping on the ‘aw’ and ‘or’ graphemes.
Can you put these words into the correct categories, ‘aw’ and ‘or’
Sort, fork, lawn, yawn, worn, raw, torn
Can you come up with a rule for the grapheme? Where in the word is the grapheme normally found?
Yellow group
See if you can read along with the pirates in this fun video Pirate 'ar' video
Play the game attached in the resources section. Role a dice and read the word that corresponds to the number. Once you have read it you can cross it off. Try and cross all the words off on the sheet.
Topic – PE
From next week we will be starting virtual PE lessons, games and activities that are being provided, once again, by Lancashire Sport. As a nice PE challenge for today, reflecting on some of the skills we worked on last term, have a go at some of the ball skills challenges shown in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3kvqbiohC8
If you really want to challenge yourself, try and use a smaller ball; football to tennis ball to maybe even a golf ball sized ball.
To really test yourself, get your parents to time you and see how many catches you can make in a specified time.
As an extra physical activity challenge and to make sure we stay active during this period of lockdown, please feel free to complete one of the following sessions. Rest assured, Mr. Law will be doing some of these at home, as he is trying to burn off all of those Christmas treats. The links below are for Yoga and Joe Wicks, both of which can be done safely at home. The new Yoga video will go live at 2pm.
Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWIt7mVwbD0
Joe Wicks’ Home Workout (here we go again!): https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBodyCoachTV/videos
Wednesday 13th January 2021
English
Today you are going to be writing your very own version of your sink adventure.
If you would like, cut out the pictures from the worksheet from yesterday to help you. You can stick these down into a book or on a lined piece of paper to help you write.
Your writing must include capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Ensure to add conjunctions to make your sentences longer and adjectives to make your sentences exciting and interesting to read.
For example; the start of my story would look like this:
The brave Traction Man is diving down into the murky water of the dirty washing up bowl because he has volunteered for a special mission!
Phonics
Today have a look in your PurpleMash 2do’s to find your differentiated phonics task.
Today you should also take some time to practice your spellings for Friday’s spelling test.
Maths
Again, please find today’s Maths activities and supporting materials in the resources section. There is another episode of ‘True or False’, we wonder if anybody will get all 5 correct this week?
Topic - PSHE
Today we are thinking about why sleep is very important. Answer the questions with an adult.
See the activity sheet attached. All the pictures are taken from Harold the Giraffe’s bedtime routine.
Cut out the pictures and order them according to your bedtime routine.
Tuesday 12th January 2021
English
Take a look back at the video from yesterday. On the worksheet in the resources section; complete the middle picture to show your evil characters part in the story. You might even like to include a speech or thought bubble to make it look like a comic book. Once you have included your character in the story, answer the questions to help you get ready for writing up the sink adventure tomorrow.
Phonics
Watch the video of Mrs. Mears showing you how to play ‘Cross the river’. Cross the river phonics game
Use these words to play the game and then add 2 of these words into a silly sentence.
Red group –First watch Geraldine teaching the ‘ie’ (ee) sound Geraldine 'ie' sound
thief, chief, relief, shield, priest, shriek, belief ( You can add some key words to this for an extra challenge)
Orange, green and blue group
First watch Geraldine teaching the ‘ue’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BOih-iw1u4
Clue, glue, blue, true, issue, tissue (You can add some key words to this for an extra challenge)
Yellow group
Right, fright, sight, night, high (You can add some key words to this for an extra challenge)
Maths
Please see the resources section for today’s maths activities. Have another go at Mr. Law’s ‘True or False’ challenge and see if you can get it right today.
Topic – History
Continuing with our topic of ‘Toys’, watch the PowerPoint of some old/new toys and use time related vocabulary to compare.
Discuss what the toys might be made of and encourage discussion and key vocabulary.
Discuss the fact that some toys may be really old, yet they are still relevant and remain just as popular today e.g. Lego.
Discuss the technological aspect of toys and how they were different in the past; how motorised and computerised toys have replaced the previous ‘wind-up’ and ‘cog’ mechanisms.
Categorise the toys by completing the cut and stick worksheet in the resources section.
Monday 11th January 2021
Reading
For the children of ‘key workers’ who are continuing to attend school, we have continued with our guided reading sessions as normal. With that in mind, we still encourage you to continue reading at home alongside the other aspects of home learning. Reading is of paramount importance in Year 1, and all other years, and your child should be reading daily.
With many children working remotely, unfortunately the two reading books that are sent home on a weekly basis are no longer available. We do, however, have several means for accessing reading material from home:
Reading Eggs – (with Fast Phonics options available) which your child has log in details for.
Purple Mash – there is plenty of reading material to work through; particularly with a topic based focus.
Reading Eggspress – within the ‘Reading Eggs’ software, there is an option for Reading Eggspress; this area of the app is far more text based and will test comprehension skills. A placement test will suitably pitch the correct reading material for your child to access.
Oxford Owls – a free online resource with a plethora of texts to access.
Several parents have asked about what types of books their child should be reading; in response to this, there really is no hard and fast rule, whatever your child wants to read, let them. As long as your child is enjoying their reading and is supported in doing so and is reading regularly they will inevitably make excellent progress.
English
This morning we are going to be continuing on our Traction Man adventures. See Mrs. Mears introduce your task here:
Phonics
Yellow group
Today we are going to be recapping on the ‘ai’ sound. Watch this short Alphablocks clip and read some of the ‘ai’ words.
Afterwards can you write down all the words you can remember using you phoneme fingers to help.
Have a go at the worksheet in the resources section.
Orange, Green and Blue group
Watch Geraldine learn the ‘ew’ sound here.
Have a go at recognising the real and non-real words on today’s worksheet.
Red group
Today we are going to be learning the ‘y’ sound (ee). Have a look at this video, ‘Mary the Fairy’ on YouTube Mary the Fairy
Watch the video and learn the song. After see how many words you can write from the song. Use 3 of these words to put into sentences and as an extra challenge, use a conjunction to extend your sentence. (because, so, but, and)
Spellings for w/c Monday 11th January
You can learn these spellings as you would normally at home. Practice them regularly and complete the spelling test at home on Friday. Please share the results if you wish.
Yellow group
train coat
rain boat
night
fright
Orange, Green and Blue group
stew claw
crew stork
blue fork
glue where
straw they
claw
Red group
happy thief
sadly relief
sunny face
chief tide
heavy nice
Topic – Science
Today we will continue our new science topic, which is ‘Everyday Materials’. Please click on the link below and you will be taken to an online lesson provided by Oak National Academy. There is a video to watch (roughly 20 minutes long) and then there is a worksheet and final quiz to complete. The worksheet is presented over several pages, it is not necessary to print this out; feel free to number the questions and answer them on a piece of paper. The link is below:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-a-material-74u30t
Maths
A PowerPoint presentation and a worksheet are available in today’s resources section and today we will be looking into 'number bonds'. Mr. Law has also recorded a ‘True or False’ video question for you to have a go at, so good luck!
Home Learning- Friday 8th January
English
Have a look at Mrs Mears reading the first part of your story on YouTube. Traction Man Part 1
Your task for today is to create a ‘role on the wall’ of Traction Man.
Basically, this is a roughly drawn outline of Traction Man’s body. Inside his body, you will write what he is like as a character based on what we have read so far. This might include words like; determined, brave, clever, fearless.
On the outside of his body you would write what he looks like, for example; combat boots, styled hair, strong muscles.
Maths
As a mental maths starter; practice some counting whilst exercising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHobZOKY5w
As a continuation of yesterday’s learning; today you will be completing the final part of the worksheet on ‘adding one’s using number bonds’.
Before you do this take a look at the video demonstration and discuss questions within the PowerPoint attached to remind yourself of some key strategies that should help.
Phonics
Blue orange and green groups.
Today you will be practicing blending your sounds together as we recap on some phase 4 phonemes. Please go to https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ and click resources.
From here go to the ‘Buried Treasure’ game and click on phase 4. Select ‘Set 1-7 plus digraphs’. Have a go at sorting the real and nonsense words.
Yellow group
Visit https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Choose a sound in the buried treasure game that your child needs to more secure in recognising. As a challenge you might like to access some phase 4 games to practice some trickier blending.
Red group
Today I would like you to access the Phonics Play site: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Find a game in the resources section and from phase 5; select a sound that your child needs more support with. As an extension choose some real words placed in the treasure chest to write into sentences.
Topic: Music
This term in music we are going to be learning about the pitch and tempo of music.
The link below is a teaching video which is a nice way to begin and understand the concept.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understanding-pulse-cdk38c?activity=video&step=1
Home Learning- Thursday 7th January
English
The picture below has been taken from our new story. The title will be revealed tomorrow, but today we would like you to have a close look at the picture and make some predictions.
Talk to an adult and answer these questions:
Put your predictions into full sentences ensuring you have capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Maths
As a mental maths starter; see how many number bonds you can remember to 10.
If you find this easy; try 20 and then 100.
Today we are going to be learning how to add units to a number by using our number bond knowledge to help us.
Find the resources below, along with a useful video to demonstrate how to help your child with this concept.
Complete the first two pages of the worksheet today and finish the final two tomorrow.
Phonics
In the resources section you will find a copy of the sound mat which shows every sound in each phase. Use this each day before a phonics session as a recap for sounds taught thus far.
Here is a demonstration for parents to help children with finding the number of phonemes in a word. Hopefully this will help in phonics activities and during writing tasks.
Blue orange and green groups.
Today we are going be recapping the ‘oy’ sound. Watch Geraldine finding items around her house featuring the ‘oy’ sound. Geraldine 'oy' sound
Choose 3 oy words from the video and put them into sentences.
Yellow group
Today we are going be recapping the ‘air’ and ‘ure’ sound.
Visit https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Click onto resources and then buried treasure. From here you can select ‘Phase 3’ and then the ‘air’ or ‘ure’ sound. Have a go at sorting the words into real and nonsense words.
Red group
Today we are going be comparing our new split ‘o-e’ sound, ‘oa’ and ‘oe’.
Split your paper into 3 sections with the different sounds at titles.
Ask an adult to read you these words and see if you can choose the correct column they should go into.
home, boat, toe, load, doe, bone, erode, cloak, phone
Topic: PSHE
What sort of things do you think we can all do to stay healthy? [Have a good night’s sleep, eat healthy meals and snacks, do exercise every day, wash hands before eating meals and after going to the toilet; cleaning teeth before leaving for school etc.]
Why is it important to have a good night’s sleep? [Because our bodies rest and grow when we’re asleep]
Why is it important to exercise regularly? [To keep the body as fit as possible and to make us feel good]
Why is it important to eat healthy food? [To give the body all the special things it needs to grow strong and healthy. NB: see 'I can eat a Rainbow' lesson plan for more in-depth work on healthy foods]
Why is it important to have a wash and to brush our teeth? [To keep the body clean and reduce germs, to keep the teeth strong and healthy and help stop them decaying]
Use the worksheet in the resources section to decide; which items do we need to help us stay alive, to stay healthy and those which should be for an occasional treat?
Wednesday 6th January 2021
English
Your English lesson today will be to complete the last two parts of the Christmas recount. We are sure that Santa is extremely keen to read your recounts. Just like Mr. Law and Mrs. Mears, Santa is a huge fan of adjectives and neat handwriting. We are pretty sure that he will remember the really good ones ahead of next year’s visit!
Maths
Start the lesson by recalling what you learnt yesterday; give your child a few easy mental maths starters and then get gradually trickier; you can even ask your child to give you some challenges too. Once your child has 'warmed up' their maths brain, have a go at some of the ‘mastery’ questions. Some of these are a little bit tricky, so please take your time and don’t rush through them as that is when we make mistakes.
Phonics
Before each session, please ensure to recap on all sounds taught so far by referring to your phase sound mat.
Blue orange and green groups.
Today we are going be recapping the ‘ea’ sound. Access your PurpleMash account to find your differentiated learning activity.
Yellow group
Today we are going be learning the ‘ure’ sound and recapping on the ‘air’ sound.
Watch Geraldine find things around the house featuring the ‘ure’ sound. How many things can you remember? Can you write them down?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwCzf71flBA
Access your PurpleMash account to find your differentiated learning activity.
Red group
Today we are going be recapping on some of our split diagraph sounds.
Access your PurpleMash account to find your differentiated learning activity.
Topic: RE
As am introduction to our topic of Islam, we are going to be thinking about the meaning of ‘special’. Whilst out on a nature walk try and observe all the special things around you. Why are our surroundings so special?
Try and think about our amazing planet and what life would be like without all the beauty. When you return from your walk, create a picture with items of all the ‘special’ things you have seen. Ensure you label and colour your picture.
Tuesday 5th January 2021
English
Today we are going to be writing up the first part of our letters to Father Christmas. We really want to impress him so let’s focus on using our neatest handwriting.
We are going to be writing about the first two boxes on our plan from yesterday. Talk through the pictures and include any key words you included. Once you have a good sentence in your head, say it three times.
When you are ready, begin to write your letters remembering your capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Your first sentence might looks like this:
First, I jumped out of bed and rushed downstairs because I was so excited!
See if you can include; a time conjunction, an adjective and a connective (and, so or because).
Write at least 2 sentences for each of the 2 pictures.
Phonics
Please ensure you are using your phoneme mats to recap on all phase sounds.
Blue orange and green groups.
Today we are going to be sorting words into ‘oa’ and ‘ow’ sounds.
Split a piece of paper into 2 sections with the titles ‘oa’ and ‘ow’. Ask an adult to say the words listed underneath. See if you can write them in the correct box.
Words: blow flow boat coat cloak glow snow goat moat
Can you find what the words have in common in each column? Where does the sound feature in each word?
Yellow group
Can you remember how many items Geraldine found which featured the ‘air’ sound?
Write them down and then watch again to see how many you got right. Geraldine air sound
Choose 3 words from Geraldine’s video and write them into your own sentences.
Red group
Can you remember how many items Geraldine found which featured the ‘i-e’ sound?
Write them down and then watch again to see how many you got right. Geraldine split i-e
Split a piece of paper into 3 sections with the titles ‘i-e’, ‘igh’ and ‘ie’. Ask an adult to say the words listed underneath. See if you can write them in the correct box.
Words: nice, flight, tie, time, night, lie, dice, fright, cried.
Can you find what the words have in common in each column? Where does the sound feature in each word?
Maths
Please see the resources attached; today there will be a PowerPoint to work through, a true or false starter activity and also a worksheet to complete.
We will be revisiting addition and subtracting over the next couple of weeks; start the lesson off by asking your child to explain any of their counting on strategies or methods they are comfortable using when adding or subtracting.
Topic: History
In this topic we are going to be exploring toys of past and present and comparing them. Look at this video which illustrates which toys were from each decade. Can the children recognise any toys? Are there some toys which are quite old and you hadn’t realised? What types of toys did your parents play with when they were younger? Toys Past and Present
Use the worksheet provided to complete a fact file about your favourite toy. It might be a toy you have got for Christmas or one which you have had for a long time that has some sentimental value. See if you can find out any more information about the history of your toy.
Monday 4th January 2021
First of all, Happy New Year! As we move forward in 2021, please continue to use this blog to access essential home learning; work will, again, be provided on a daily basis for those who are unable to make it into school.
English
We are so lucky to have been left with a video message from Father Christmas! (See the link attached) He would like us to write to him and to tell him all about our Christmas Day. So today, for our English lesson, we are going to be planning a recount; we will need to show Father Christmas our very best writing using excellent sentences with the correct grammar rules and showing off our excellent vocabulary by using adjectives and conjunctions.
Take some time to talk about your day together using time conjunctions; first, then, next, after that and finally.
Separate an A4 piece of paper into 4 equal sections. Using this break your day up into 4 main events. This will be different for each individual. It might include: getting up, opening presents, Christmas dinner, playing with toys and then bed time.
Draw a picture in each section leaving some space to include a time conjunction or an appropriate sentence starter and some key words. These key words might be how you were feeling or a short description of what you did and including an adjective.
Phonics
Please ensure to use your personal phoneme mats to recap on all phase sounds.
Blue orange and green groups.
Today we are going to be leaning to read words that include the ‘ow’ sound (ow as in blow). Take a look at Geraldine the Giraffe on YouTube trying to find things around her house which feature this sound Geraldine 'ow' sound
After the video see how many of the items you remember and write them down.
As an additional task, find the phoneme spotter task in the resources section. Read the sentences and highlight the ‘ow’ words. Choose 3 words you have highlighted and include them in your own sentences.
Yellow group
Today we are going to be learning to read words that include the ‘air’ sound. Take a look at Geraldine the Giraffe on YouTube trying to find things around her house which feature this sound Geraldine air sound
Have a look at the phoneme spotter activity in the resources section. See if you can read and then highlight all the words which feature the ‘air sound. Can you write your own sentence featuring one of these words?
Red group
Today we are going to be learning to read words that include the split ‘i-e sound. Take a look at Geraldine the Giraffe on YouTube trying to find things around her house which feature this sound Geraldine split i-e
As an additional resource, see if you can find all the split diagraph ‘i-e’ words in the word search. You will find this is in the resources section.
Maths
Please see the PDF ‘Addition by counting on’ attached in the resources section and work your way through the PowerPoint. As a further activity, choose any number within 20 (or 50 through to100, if you are feeling confident) and ask your child to add on using their fingers. Here is an example of how to word the challenge:
“Start with the number 11, using your fingers, add 5 more” (11 + 5 = 16).
Feel free to use any of the following equations, or choose any ten of your own:
12 + 3 = 11 + 6 = 8 + 4 = 33 + 2 = 14 + 6 =
50 + 7 = 88 + 3 = 97+3 = 0 + 10 = 66 + 3 =
Your child does not need to write these answers down, as this is more of a mental maths challenge.
Science
This term in science we will be looking at ‘Everyday Materials’. Attached within the resources section is a PowerPoint to look through and an accompanying worksheet to complete. With support from an adult, try and work out what material(s) your favourite toy is made from.
It’s Christmas!!!!! (*Noddy Holder style*)
And just like that, we have reached the final day of another fantastic term. Christmas Day is drawing ever closer and we are perilously close to finally waving a royal goodbye to 2020 and it is fair to surmise that 2020 has been ‘some year’.
Despite the fact the world has been spinning quite differently for large parts of the year, it has been truly inspiring (as a staff) to see how the children have adapted, grown and flourished during these peculiar and challenging times; social bubbles, hand sanitizing, washing, cleaning, spacing, distancing – you name it – they’ve embraced it all and shown unparalleled resolve in doing so.
We are incredibly proud of the children in Year 1, and all of our children in this wonderful school, who have achieved so much during such difficult times. We are also so grateful for all of the home support our children received during unprecedented periods of lockdown and for the ongoing support that you all continue to provide; we could not do this without you. On behalf of all the staff in Year 1, THANK YOU!
Furthermore, we have been totally overwhelmed by all of your kind gifts and feel extremely spoilt – so thank you once again. Finally, may we take this opportunity to wish you all the happiness in the world this Christmas and wish you all the very best for the New Year! Please stay safe and we can’t wait to see you back in school in 2021 (once we’ve had our ample share of turkey, mince pies, chocolates and possibly even a celebratory drink).
We hope that Santa and his team of reliable reindeers bring you everything you hope for and more!
Best wishes,
Year 1 team.
P.S. If you find yourself all 'Netflixed out' over the Christmas break, head over to the Year 2 Blog and please watch the Year 2 Nativity; it gets 5 stars from us.
Maths
This week in maths, we have been revisiting some of our learning from earlier on in term and the children have once again worked so hard during their maths and mental maths lessons. Within our number work, we have looked specifically at partitioning numbers and using tens and units/ones in more detail (e.g. recognising that 23 can be represented as 2 tens/2x10 and 3 units/3x1). The children have worked so hard with their number this term that they should have no problems counting down the remaining doors on their advent calendars.
English
The children in both classes have been writing up the story of the ‘Man on the Moon’ (John Lewis advert) and have used some wonderful vocabulary along the way; their write ups are even better than the original televised advert and probably better than this year’s actual advert. Children in both classes have been using excellent adjectives to bring their stories to life and many have started using excellent conjunctions to lengthen their sentences and give the reader more information. We have well and truly been blown away. Let’s hope our letters to the North Pole are equally as elaborate next week!
Topic
This week both classes joined a virtual Zoom ‘meeting’, where Mrs Gleeson from the Church and she kindly gave us a wonderful version of the Nativity Story and went on to explain how Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus and how the nativity story still plays a very important part in the life of Christians all over the world today. The children also loved the novelty of seeing themselves and each other class on the big screen and waving at each other.
Spellings
Some fantastic scores again this week and more importantly, it has been great to see so many people practicing at home and consolidating their learning from each week’s phonics lessons. No spellings have been given on this week (call it an early Christmas present)!
Well done Nectaria 1M
Weekly Update
The children have once again had another super busy week! We started the week off in style, literally, by wearing odd socks on Monday to raise awareness for 'Anti-Bullying Week'. Both classes also spent time discussing this and exploring ways that we can be kind, caring and the best of friends to each other.
In Maths this week, both classes have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes and have blown both Mr. Law and Mrs. Mears away with their knowledge of shapes; don't be too shocked this weekend if your child refers to the tins in the kitchen as "cylinders", or starts to refer to their football as a "sphere" instead. We have also looked at making repeating patterns with our shapes.
In English we have continued to read the text, the 'Darkest Dark' by Chris Hadfield, which centers around a small boy who dreams of becoming an astronaut. From using this text as a reference point, we have been able to describe space, the moon, his rocket and even looked at the Moon Landing of 1969. The children have written some fantastic independent sentences using all of their brilliant ideas.
This week for D&T, we have planned, made and evaluated our own Fruit Salad. The children designed their own fruit salads and then plated them up after using child friendly kitchen utensils to chop up their fruit pieces . Lots of children were really adventurous and tried different fruits they haven't tasted before. Lots of children seemed to enjoy mango and kiwi fruit, though the avocado didn't prove to be too popular. They finished their project by writing up an evaluation.
Thank you once again for all your support from home. It is great to see so many children using the Reading Eggs software and ultimately developing their phonics skills. It is always nice to read comments in the children's reading journals about the super reading they are doing at home each night too; we really do appreciate it! Finally, the homework for Autumn 2 has now been sent out, please try your best to complete some of the tasks posted.
Have a lovely weekend and thank you once again from all the Year 1 team.
End of Week 1
The children have been really busy during our first week back; from telling us about their wonderful Halloween outfits from last weekend to the firework displays some saw this week. Some sounded very scary indeed (their outfits, not the fireworks)!
We have spent time this week during our English lessons writing some instructions on how to stay safe using sparklers or fireworks and during our Maths lessons, we have been revisiting subtraction and using different strategies; ask your child to share one of these with you.
During our Topic lessons, we have been looking at our local area, Lostock Hall, and discussed our school address. Now that the children understand a postal address a little better, they should have no problems when it comes to writing their letters to Santa Claus in the coming weeks.
Reading Eggs
It has been fantastic to see so many children using the Reading Eggs program so far (log in details are still in the front of your child's Reading Diary). Class champions have been announced for over the half-term holidays and the new competition is underway for the person who completes the most Reading Eggs lessons this half-term. We have all had a go on Reading Eggs this week and it's fair to say that all the children absolutely love it. Let's see who can get the most eggs ......... Good Luck!
End of Term
On behalf of all the Year 1 staff, and the wider staff in school, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all parents and guardians for their unwavering support during this first term back. Following on from such a disrupted academic year previously; the way the children have settled into their new Year 1 classes is remarkable – they certainly deserve a ‘pat on the back’ (social distance permitting!).
We would like to wish you all a wonderful week off and enjoy the hard-earned break.
Don’t get too spooooooooooked by the Halloween activities!
Mr Law & Mrs Mears and the Year 1 Team.
READING EGGS
Your child has now been provided with their own personal log in details for ‘Reading Eggs’; these have been stuck into the front of their Reading Diaries.
Reading Eggs is an online reading program that fundamentally helps children learn to read; it also helps to support the phonics we are teaching in school and is suitably differentiated.
With hundreds of online interactive reading lessons, phonics games and books for all abilities, the children seem to love ‘reading’ on the iPad / computer. As a school, we can monitor each child’s progress and see how they are getting on (and how many eggs they have collected).
If you could take the time to do the initial ‘assessment’ on the game with your child, which takes about 5 minutes, the program will then be set to use at the right level. We have found that children who have used this software regularly have really improved their phonics, spelling and writing results. Furthermore, the children love playing the game too: WIN - WIN!
Home learning Thursday 22nd October
Reading: as yesterday
Phonics: Today we are learning the er sound. Use the phoneme spotter activity in the resources section to highlight any 'er' sounds.
English: See yesterday
Maths
Today we are going to be applying our new subtraction knowledge to the 'Part/Whole' model. Have a go at the worksheet in the resources section to practice this.
Topic: History- 'Curriculum Catch Up'
We would like you to research old forms of transport. Have a look at this clip on YouTube about the history of transportation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25IaUQ_oUyM
Can you draw a picture of an old form of transport and a newer comparison. Can you write some features of each and compare?
Home learning Wednesday 21st October
Reading: Either read one of your home reading books or find an appropriate text on the Oxford Reading Owl website.
Phonics: Today we are recapping on our new sounds air and ear. Complete the worksheet in the resources section to practice these.
English
Today we are writing up the next part of our own stories. You should be up to the part of the story where we introduce the story setting and what your monster loves.
Your sentences may look like this:
The scary monster lives in the enchanted forest. The forest is magical and has lots of beautiful flowers.
The monster loves flowers and likes to steal them from peoples back gardens!
Please bear in mind that your story will sound different based on your story ideas but make sure that you include lots of good description and try and use 'and' to extend your sentences.
Tomorrow will be writing the next part of your story. How does your creature steal the things he loves?
Maths
Can you recap on addition and create some addition number sentences using a dice to generate numbers? Use counters or draw illustrations to help you.
Today we are introduced to the subtraction symbol. Using counters or anything from around the house complete the worksheet in the resources section.
Topic: Geography- 'Curriculum Catch Up'
We are thinking about our journey to school. Can you use Google Maps to map your journey. Try using directional language such as, forwards, turn, straight ahead, right and left. Once you have mapped your journey as an extension task can you draw a rough map of your journey including roads you drive/walk down and adding any buildings you walk past, E.g. a church, shops, houses?
Home learning Tuesday 20th October
Reading- See Monday
Phonics
Today we are learning the 'ear' sound. Can you use the phoneme spotter in the resources section to highlight any ear words? You might also see other sounds previously learned.
English: See Monday
Maths
Using a number line, can you count forwards and backwards from 0-20? Can you choose a number and say one more or one less?
Today we are introducing the idea of subtraction through stories. Complete the worksheet provided to practice this.
Topic: Science 'Curriculum Catch Up'
Today we are going to be investigating shadows. If it is a sunny day you could head into the garden and try and create some shadows of your own. You could place paper onto the floor and draw around shadows you create. If the weather is not permitting then have a look at the experiment in the resources section where you can use a torch to create shadows. How do you think shadows are made? What do we need to create shadows?
Home Learning Monday 19th October
Reading
Choose one of your home reading books to read for at least 10 minutes. Can you spot any of our new phonics sounds in your reading book?
Phonics
You have been set a learning task on PurpleMash all about the 'air' sound. Before you do this task think of some words with the 'air' sound in them and write them down.
English
This week we will be writing our own story using our story alternatives from the Aliens love Underpants story.
Today you will practice writing super sentences about the first part of your story. This should include an introduction to your character. You should look back at your adjectives created last week about your character.
Your sentences might look like this:
Once upon a time there lived a scary Monster. He had a sharp pointy teeth and green slime coming out of his mouth.
Use today's English time to practice your sentence writing and editing any mistakes. Ensure to have a capital letter, full stop and finger spaces. In addition, practice your neatest handwriting and making sure you have included lots of good vocabulary.
Tomorrow you will write your introduction up in your neatest writing.
Maths
As a Maths starter activity, can you write down all your number bonds to 10?
We are now going to use our addition knowledge to apply to number stories. Have a look at the worksheet attached and complete.
Topic: RE
This week we are having a 'Curriculum Catch Up' week where we are learning about some areas of topics which were missed in the last academic year.
Today have a look at the Ramadan PowerPoint attached to learn about Ramadan as part of the Islam faith.
Ramadan is a time of patience and giving.
Can you think of some ideas of how we give to others? You might like to think about the upcoming Harvest and how we give during this time. It could be examples of what we do in our daily lives to give. Draw and write some examples.
Home learning Friday 16th October
Reading
Choose an appropriate text from the Oxford Reading Owl site. Read and explore the text and ask questions about what it happening.
Phonics
Today we are going to practice writing our words from our spelling test list.
Go through your Phase 3 sound mat and make sure you are confident with these.
English
Hopefully you will have created some story alternatives for your version of the story. Today our lesson will focus on building vocabulary about your choices. Split an A4 sheet into 4 sections and number them 1-4. Use the ideas from your story alternatives and draw in the boxes. Leave some space around the pictures to write in exciting vocabulary you will use when you write your own story.
Maths
Practice counting on a number line or hundred square. Can you count backwards from a given number? Can you count in 2's, 5's and 10's?
Today we are using our new knowledge of 'addition' to apply it to number problems. See the worksheet attached.
Topic: PSHE
Today we are thinking about 'rules' and why we have them. Make a list with an adult of what rules you have at home. Why do you have these rules? Then talk to an adult about rules we have in school. Can you make a list of our classroom rules? Use the worksheet provided or create your own rules poster.
Home Learning- Thursday 15th October
Phonics
Today we are learning the 'ear' sound. Write down some words which have the 'ear' sound in them and place sound buttons on them
Complete the worksheet where you will have the opportunity to decide if the 'ear' words are nonsense or real.
English
Now we have re-written our 'Aliens Love Underpants' story we are going to have a go at writing one of our very own. Have a look at the sheet attached and create some story alternative in pictures and words. Today is all about talking our ideas through to get a good idea what will happen in our version of the story.
Maths
We are learning our number bonds to 10. As a starter sing along to 'Farmer Pete' as the children will be familiar with this song from class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poJmS5iWfEs&safe=active
Then as teaching tool, watch the video to help you understand today's task: https://vimeo.com/463894279
Complete worksheet attached in resources section.
Topic: Geography
Refer back to our aerial view maps we created of the classroom during last weeks lesson. Can you say why an aerial map is different to a street view map? Some of you might have created your map in school so you might like to try and make one of your bedroom instead. This week we are going to transform our paper aerial map into a 'Messy Map'. Here are some ideas you might like to use:
Home learning- Wednesday 14th October
English
As with previous days- for at least 10 minutes per day.
Phonics
Yellow group: Continue with activity booklet.
Blue group: Today we are learning the 'oi' sound. Can you spot words with the 'oi' sound in the phoneme spotter activity attached in the resources section?
English
Today we are writing up the final part of our story. Remember the words generated for this picture and orally construct some sentences about it.
Remember to include capital letters, full stops and fingers spaces when you are ready to write your sentence.
Try and include to say a sentence about what Mum is feeling like.
Maths
Today we are learning about number bonds within 10 again but writing them down in a systematic way so we know we have got all the possibilities. Look at this clip to help clarify: https://vimeo.com/463893092
Have a go at the worksheet provided and see if you can also illustrate the questions using objects from around the house to bring numbers to life!
Topic: PE
Try a bit of 'Cosmic Yoga' and go on a journey with Squish the Fish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYtcadR9nw&safe=active
Home Learning- Tuesday 13th October
Reading
Choose a story from the 'Oxford Owl' website appropriate for your child's ability. Ensure to read for at least 10 minutes each day. Are there any tricky words you notice? Can you copy them onto paper as an extension to your reading?
Phonics
Yellow group: In the resources section you will find an activity booklet to be completing throughout this week.
Blue group: Today we are learning the 'ow' sound. (Clown) Find all the words with this phoneme in the activity sheet attached.
English
Today we are continuing to write the build up to our 'Aliens Love Underpants' story.
Look at the pictures and write some sentences to describe what is happening using words generated in our story board.
Ensure you say your sentence 3 times before you write and include capital letters and full stops.
Use these pictures to construct some sentences about.
Maths
Today we are going to be finding number bonds for numbers within 10. Watch this video to help with understanding the main concepts and helpful ways to learn. https://vimeo.com/463891935
See worksheet attached to complete and practice your new skills.
Topic: RE
Today we are going to be reading the Parable of 'The Lost Sheep'. This helps us to understand why Christians believe God cares for everyone. Watch the PowerPoint in the resources section. Can you draw a picture of the sheep and the farmer with thinking bubbles and write how they both might have felt in the story? What moral do you think we can take from this story?
Home learning Monday 12th October
Reading
Please ensure to read for at least 10 minutes either choosing a home reading text or an appropriate story for your ability from the Oxford Owl Website.
Phonics
Watch this episode of ‘Alphablocks’. Can you read and write down some of the words from the episode?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovFXpsWmS0
English
Today we are continuing to re-tell the story of Aliens Love Underpants.
Looking back at our word bank from last week see if you can use some words you generated to re-tell the next part of the story.
Write 2 sentences using your neatest handwriting not forgetting to use capital letters and full stops.
Maths
Today we are revisiting ‘Fact families’ as we continue to explore the part/whole model.
You might see the number sentences are arranged in a different way. Can you can explain why?
Watch this link to see how this may be taught: https://vimeo.com/465032733
Access the worksheet in the resources section for today’s activity.
Topic: Geography
We have been learning about different types of maps in our geography work. Today we are going to be exploring ‘Aerial’ maps (views). Go through the PowerPoint attached in the resources section as a learning tool.
We are going to be thinking about what our classroom might look like as an aerial view. As you are not in class, you might like to create an aerial/ birds eye view of a room in your house. Imagine you are flying above it like a bird and imagine what you might see from that angle.
Home learning Friday 9th October
Reading
Read another one of your home reading books today and see if you can spot any tricky words that we have been learning in school.
Phonics
Complete the attached worksheet the build the CVC words. Can you write any of them in a simple sentence. As an extra challenge you could cut up the letters on card and try to organise the phonemes to create a word.
English
Today we are going to be looking at the storyboard we created yesterday and writing one or sentences about the first part of the story. Use the words you have generated to say a sentence about what is happening. Once you have held the sentence in your head and repeated it three times, try and use your phonics to write your sentence.
Remember, this is just for the first box of your story board.
Maths
Today we are going to use what we learned in addition yesterday to look at some number fact families.
Use this video to help you understand the concept: https://vimeo.com/465032733
Complete the worksheet 'Fact Families' in the resources section below.
Topic:PSHE
We are going to thinking about friendship and consider what it means to be a good friend.
Look at this clip from an old John Lewis Christmas advert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRRTUEQ7qmM How did bear feel and why? Why was the hare a good friend?
What would you have done to cheer bear up if he was your friend?
Complete the recipe for friendship worksheet in the resources section and write some key words to show what a good friend should show. You can also draw some pictures to illustrate your points.
Home learning Thursday 8th October
Reading
Practice reading one of your home reading books today. Can you answer questions about the story and characters?
Phonics
Complete the 'Phase 2' phonics worksheet attached. Match the words to the pictures. Can you write some simple sentences using the words you have read?
English
Today we are going to use the pictures we looked at yesterday to create a story board of the story. Divide an A4 piece of paper into 4 sections. Can you draw a picture in each box to re-tell the story.
Once you have completed this talk through the story using some of the exciting vocabulary and key words you generated yesterday.
Maths
Today we are learning addition through the part/whole model. See this video tutorial on Vimeo for further clarification https://vimeo.com/462716121
Now complete the work sheet attached to practice your skills. We encourage you to use objects from around the house to model each question.
Topic: PE
Today try an 8 minute Spiderman workout with Joe Wicks to get your body moving! Find it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1p0Yd6WAo
Home learning Wednesday 7th October
Reading
Visit the Oxford Owl website and choose a story for your child's ability.
Phonics
Go to purple mash and search 'Phase 2 phonics'. Read the words that are listed. Can you write some words by segmenting them.
English
Today we are looking at some pictures from our 'Aliens Love Underpants' story. See the pictures below in the resource section. Write some key words/vocabulary around each picture to show what is happening in the story.
E.g. Shiny spaceship, zoom, spotty underpants, excited, silly games.
Maths
Today we are going to be completing some part/whole models of numbers. See the worksheet attached. Try and create some part/whole models using items from around your house.
Topic: RE
We are learning about Christianity and the Church. Look at the attached PowerPoint and see some key features that are found in a church. Complete the worksheet attached to plan and position artefacts inside a church.
Home learning Tuesday 6th October
Reading
Choose a story from the Oxford Owl website that is appropriate for your child's ability. Spend some time reading and discussing the story.
Phonics
There is a 2DO task set on the PurpleMash webiste for your child to access. The login details are in the front of your child's homework book.
English
Re-visit the story of 'Aliens Love Underpants'. The link is on yesterdays home learning section.
Today we are going to be using the question hand to think about questions we could ask the aliens.
Write down some questions using the prompts on the question hand.
E.g. Why do you steal underpants? Where do you take them when you go back to your planet? How do you get to earth?
Maths
Today we are going to continue to understand the Part/Whole model of numbers. It is important to understand that we can take a whole number and then divide it into 2 groups. Have a go at the activity attached, you can also use concrete objects around the house to explain it more practically.
Topic: Geography
We are learning about the seasons. Today we are going to be exploring Autumn. As you may not be able to leave the house at the moment, try and look outside of your window to see if you can see any signs of autumn. Make a word bank of all the different things you see/notice.
Use the cutting and sticking activity to make your very own Autumn tree!
Home Learning- Monday 5th October
Reading
Choose a story from the Oxford Reading Owl website that is appropriate for your child’s ability.
Phonics
Today we learning the 'ar' sound. Complete the worksheet attached which has real and nonsense words. Can you write 2 or 3 sentences using some of the real words you have coloured?
English
Today we are going to be reading the story ‘Aliens Love Underpants’. You can find it here Aliens Love Underpants
Today our objective is to sequence a story. See attached sheet and put the pictures from the story in order. Can you re-tell the story using the pictures you have sorted? As an extension, write a few sentences to explain some of the pictures. Remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Topic: ART
We are going to be creating a self- portrait. Using a mirror, look at your face in detail.
Once you have created the correct shape for your face, sketch in your eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows, nose, mouth and ears. Once you have completed the facial details, complete your portrait by adding your hair. Use your pencil in a variety of ways to create different lines and shading.
This week in Year 1!
What a fantastic week we have had in school!
In English we have been looking at a variety of poems and rhymes, planning our very own poetry and sharing it with our class friends.
In Maths we have been learning how to order numbers. We have been trying hard to use the key vocabulary 'greatest' and 'smallest'.
In topic we have been navigating our way around Google Maps and finding local places of interest. We were trying to find our houses, which was lots of fun!
We have also been learning about our senses in our Science topic work and drawing a story map of the Creation Story in RE.
Home Learning Friday 2nd October.
Phonics: Practice reading and writing some of the words using our new sounds this week, 'igh, oa, oo'.
Once you have practiced have a go at the spelling test which has been set for you.
English: A PurpleMash 2DO task has been set for you. You will be able to type up your poem that you created yesterday and add a picture using the paint programme.
Maths: Go to https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering
Here you can practice the number ordering we have been learning this week. If you would like, write down the sequences on paper to record your learning.
Topic: Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRkojdFPjjI
Have a go at some cosmic yoga and have a nice relaxing afternoon of mindfulness and stretching out your body.
Home Learning- Thursday 1st October
Reading: Read for at least 10 minutes. You could also look on the Oxford Owl website for stories that are suited to your child's ability.
Phonics: Today we are comparing the long and short 'oo' sound. Have a go at the worksheet. You will need a dice.
English: It's national Poetry day! Read back through our 'Aliens from Planet Trouble' poem.
Today we are going to analyse a poem about an alien. Have a look at the Poem attached.
What changes about each sentence?
Talk about how the poem develops and an extra bit of information is added on each time.
Create a work bank of all the different things an Alien might do (Verbs). E.g skipping, jumping, bouncing.
Using the words generated can you fill in the plan of your new alien poem(attached). This can be in rough as we will be writing it up in our neatest handwriting tomorrow.
Maths: Count to 20 and backwards. Practice counting in 2,s, 10's and even 5's if you can!
We are learning about number lines today. Complete the worksheet attached. Provide an extra challenge with a number line that goes beyond 10 if needed.
Topic: Today we are going to be learning how to login to our new PurpleMash accounts. If you don't yet have a login, I will e-mail you so your child can access this. Once you have successfully logged in, explore the learning platform and choose an activity.
Home Learning- Wednesday 30th September
Reading: For at least 10 minutes each day.
Phonics: Today we consolidate our sounds 'igh' and 'oa'. Write down as many words as you can with these sounds and see if you can put them in sentences. Write at least 2 sentences for each.
English: We have been learning about Planet Trouble and imagining what it would be like to live on it.
We have been sent some pictures of Aliens from Planet Trouble (See attached sheet) and they don't have names yet.
Use the sounds to give the Aliens a name. Choose your favorite and write a couple of short sentences about him/her.
You might say their name and their age, or something they like to do.
Maths: Today we are learning about ordinal numbers. See attached worksheet. You can also practice this skill by putting toys in a line and ordering them. See if you can write labels:-First, Second and Third.
Topic: PSHE
This term we are learning about relationships with our friends. We are going to be acting out in class kind things that we can do for our friends. We are also going to be discussing what behaviour might not be kind and how this might affect others.
See the attached sheet: Draw and write about a situation where you could be a good friend. In the next box you could draw and discuss might happen if you didn't show kindness to others.
Home Learning for Tuesday 29th September
Reading: Please read your reading book for at least 10 minutes.
Phonics: Today we are learning the 'oa' sound. See attached worksheet to read the real and nonsense words.
English: Today we are going to use our amazing adjectives to describe Planet Trouble.
Use the image below to create some amazing words and sentences.
Can you think of an idea to describe what the Planet is made of?
What is the temperature like on the planet?
Your sentences may look like this, as an example:
Planet Trouble is made of sloppy custard.
It is freezing cold because there is no sunlight.
Maths: Today we are looking at comparing numbers using our Maths vocabulary of 'greater' and 'fewer'.
See worksheet attached to have a go at some activities to practice.
Topic- Science: In class we have learning about our senses. Can you use the worksheet to give some examples of senses on your journey to school.
Home Learning- Monday 28th September
English
Our learning objective for today is to listen to and respond to a familiar poem.
Read the poem 'Aliens from Planet Trouble'.
Listen to the poem and talk about the happenings. Are there any rhyming words? Is there a rhythm to the poem?
Once you have practiced reading and reciting can you think of any actions to add to the poem?
See the link for ideas if you are struggling.
Aliens from planet trouble actions
Once you have practiced, perform your poem along with the actions to a family member!
Phonics
Today we will be learning and reviewing the ‘igh’ sound. See attached worksheet to practice making some ‘igh’ words.
Maths
Today in Maths we are learning about comparing groups; recognising and understanding the concepts of ‘greater’ and ‘fewer’.
Have a go at the attached worksheet.
Topic
RE- Today we are going to be learning the Creation story.
See the link for the full story: The Creation Story
Complete the ‘creation story’ storyboard attached in the resources section underneath.
Draw a picture and write a sentence in each box.
Remote Learning
As some children may be accessing online learning from home, any completed tasks or work can be submitted to their teachers using the year group email address year1@lostockhallcps.co.uk or through your child’s own Purple Mash account. For any other enquiries or communication, parents should follow the normal procedure and email the school business manager.
Many thanks
Mrs Mears and Mr Law
Welcome to Year 1!
A warm welcome to the Year 1 blog. On here, you will see updates of the week and any communications that we need to make with you.
We are so proud of all the Year 1 children so far this term. They are settling into the new school year with great confidence and resilience!
You will have noticed that we are underway with our weekly spellings. Spelling books are to be back in school each Friday ready for new spellings to go in for the following week.
The purpose of our weekly spellings is to consolidate the phonics learning being taught in school that week (and in addition some key words); please don't worry too much about your child's weekly score but rather encourage them to keep practicing their phonics learning through regular reading.
Please ensure your child has their reading pack in school every day so they are ready for guided reading group work.
Tomorrow you will receive information regarding homework tasks for this term and you will provided with log-in details for our online learning platform - PurpleMash.
Monday 13th July
Reading
You have been assigned 2 library books to read on the Reading Eggs App so log on using your unique login details and have a go! You can find these books in the ‘Reading Eggspress’ section.
Please also work through your lessons on the Reading Eggs learning platform.
Phonics
There have been phonics challenges set on Purple Mash. Use your individual log-ins to see your personalised challenge.
Please also make use of the ‘Phonics Play’ website and play some games which match your child’s ability.
English
This week we will be continuing our Traction Man adventures in ‘Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey’ by Mini Grey.
We left the story last week with the little boy wondering where his Traction Man was.
After he has searched for hours he doesn’t think he will ever see his Traction Man again. He sits on the beach with his pen and paper and writes a letter to him.
Imagine you were the boy and writing to Traction Man. What would you include in the letter?
Write a letter to Traction Man. Include:
How much you miss him. Why do you miss him? What will life be like without Traction Man? What adventures will you miss the most?
Maths
For this last week, we will be looking at ‘money’. To support your child’s home-learning this week, let your child look at real coins and explain to your child that money does not grow on trees in the back garden.
Please see the maths work attached in the resources section labelled, ‘Maths 1’ and check out the presentation ‘Recognising coins’.
Topic (PSHE)
As this is your child’s last week in their current class, they may have some worries and be a little apprehensive about changing classes during this time. Whist they may have some caution, which is only normal, it is also very nice to see the children thinking about all the exciting things that will happen next year.
Attached within the resources section is the story of ‘The Cautious Caterpillar’, which highlights beautifully how the caterpillar felt when he had apprehensions of change.
Read this story to your children and talk about the caterpillar’s feelings and emotions during a major time of change. This may reflect your child’s feelings about changes that can, and will, happen in their lives!
Tuesday 14th July
English
Watch the next part of the story here: Traction Man part 5
Today you are going to imagine you are the Author of Traction Man!
The picture below shows what happens in the next scene of the story where the characters are escaping from the sandcastle.
Can you create a Narrator paragraph to describe what is happening and also create speech bubbles to show what the characters are saying?
Maths
The second challenge in maths today can also be found in the resources section, ‘Maths 2’ and the PowerPoint presentation ‘Recognising Notes’ will support your learning.
Topic (PE)
Follow the link below and revisit your favourite week from the last 10 weeks of home-learning challenges brought to us by Lancashire Sport. Pick something that you either enjoyed doing the most or pick a skill that you think you need to practice a bit more.
https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/year-1-2-spar-lancashire-school-games-activity-timetable/
Try and stay as active and healthy during the summer holidays too, as you will need all your fitness and energy to tackle all of the new sporting opportunities presented in Year 2.
In addition to this task, we will also be spending some time this week taking part in some Yoga brought to us by Cosmic Kids on YouTube. Follow the link below and try your best to follow along with the teacher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIfCALKceOs
Wednesday 15th July
English
You can find the next part of the story here: Traction Man part 6
Today you are going to plan your very own version of the ‘Mysterious Cave’ adventure!
Create your plan in 4 boxes.
The first box will show the picture of Traction Man, Scrubbing Brush and the Beach Time Brenda dolls on the inflatable raft. This will include; what is happening, where they are going and how they are feeling.
The second box will show what the mysterious caves are like using good describing words.
In the third, they will encounter a problem! What disaster will strike next?
The fourth box will explain how Traction Man will save the day. Maybe in your version Beach Time Brenda might be the hero or even scrubbing brush. Enjoy getting creative with your stories!
Maths
Please have a go at the worksheet, ‘Maths 3’ in the resources section. Today we will be counting using coins. There is also a PowerPoint to support this lesson.
Topic (RE)
As this is our last week learning about Baptism, we are going to consolidate our learning by completing a fun word search. Over the last few weeks we have been learning lots of new vocabulary which will appear in the word search. Can you discuss the words and explain what they are?
I have also attached a final PowerPoint about a Christening which should hopefully help you to remember some of the key vocabulary and concepts.
Thursday 16th & Friday 17th July
Over the next couple of days you will be writing up and completing the full version of the ‘Mysterious Cave Adventure’.
Use your plan to help with your sentences and you might even like to include some pictures to show what is happening in each scene.
If you’re feeling super creative and ‘author like’ you could include some speech on your illustrations just like Mini Grey does.
If you complete your story and you would like an extra activity; here is another fun idea…
Create an advert for the Beach Time Brenda doll. Look at the example underneath for some good ideas.
Maths
Attached within the resources sections are two challenges for your child to have a go at; labelled, ‘Maths 4’ and ‘Maths 5’, which will recap many different topics that we have covered this year. Upon completion, you can all finally celebrate, as this is officially the last piece of Year 1 maths work.
Do try and keep your maths skills sharp and refined over the summer holidays (where you can), as it will be full throttle in September 2020 as you embark on even more exciting maths work in Year 2!
P.S. Thank you, once again, to all parents and guardians who have supported their children with their maths home-learning during this period of ‘lockdown’, we know teaching maths can be tricky at times.
Topic (History)
Punch and Judy shows have been a seaside tradition dating back to the Victorian times. This week we will having a look at a short clip from the series, ‘Grandpa in my pocket’ and watching how the puppet show is put together.
You can find it here: Punch and Judy
I have also attached a PowerPoint which shows a typical story from a Punch and Judy show.
Can you use some toys from around your house to re-create the story? You could add some new characters and create some new story lines. If you’re feeling extra creative you could make some puppets of your own and tell a story. Sock puppets are a simple idea and work really well.
Topic (Music)
We are fast approaching the end of a school year and soon we will be starting a new one. In class we have been talking about the transitions we are going to be making to our next class and have been getting very excited about September!
This week we are going to be learning a ‘New School Year’ song and learning some Makaton signs to go along with it.
Listen to the song first here: Starting a new school year song
Then learn the Makaton signs here: Makaton signs
Meet the Y2 Teacher Videos
Miss Franklin and Mrs Kendrick will be teaching 2F
Click on the picture to access the video
Mrs Cookson and Mrs Knight will be teaching 2C
Click on the picture to access the video
Monday 6th July
Reading
You have been assigned 2 library books to read on the Reading Eggs App so log on using your unique login details and have a go! You can find these books in the ‘Reading Eggspress’ section.
Please also work through your lessons on the Reading Eggs learning platform.
Phonics
There have been phonics challenges set on Purple Mash. Use your individual log-ins to see your personalised challenge.
English
This week we see the return of the incredible Traction Man in ‘Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey’ by Mini Grey.
Watch the first part of the story here: Traction Man Part 1
Traction Man is going on Holiday and he is completing an equipment check. Can you make a list of all the items Traction Man has for his equipment check and explain to him how he will use them and what he will need them for?
Maths
For the next few days we will be continuing with telling the time. Today please complete the worksheet: Time 1.
Topic (PE)
Please find the Year 1 & 2 Stay at Home Programme in the resources section and join in with the fun activities that have been put together by the Lancashire Sport team. Click on the document and then follow the links; there are activities available to access for the full week.
Tuesday 7th July
English
Watch the next part of the story here: Traction Man Part 2
Traction Man has never seen a rock pool before! He must be very excited to explore the underwater world! Can you find some information about rock pools write to Traction Man to tell him what to expect?
Include some bright colourful pictures and good quality adjectives.
Watch this clip on BBC Bitesize which will help you to explain the conditions of a rock pool and what sorts of creatures he might encounter.
Maths
Continuing again with time, please attempt the worksheet: Time 2.
PSHE
The year has gone by so quickly and soon you’ll be moving into Year 2!
In the next coming weeks you can look forward to a ‘Meeting your new Teacher’ PowerPoint presentation which will be available on the school website.
Your new teacher is very excited to meet you and would love to know more about you!
We would like you to complete a booklet which will help your new Teacher know more about you! Don’t worry about completing this all at once- you can do a little each day.
If you do not have access to a printer then you can present it in your very own leaflet form.
The booklet is attached in resources section, entitled ‘Spreading my wings from Yr1 to Yr2’.
Wednesday 8th July
English
You can find the next part of the story here: Traction Man Part 3
Granny’s puppy Truffles finds it very hard to follow rules! Can we help Granny to train Truffles so he listens and behaves himself?
Watch this clip on BBC Bitesize to help you to create a leaflet on How to Train Truffles.
You might include:
What are the most important things to teach a puppy?
What should you do if your dog is being naughty?
How should you toilet train a puppy?
How should you reward your puppy?
Maths
Please complete the final worksheet on time in the resources section: Time 3.
Music
The Lancashire Sports Development Team have posted an ‘Under the Sea dance we can all learn. This is fantastic as it links really well with our ‘Seaside’ topic.
You can find it here: Under the Sea
Thursday 9th July & Friday 10th July
English
You can find the next part of the story here: Traction Man Part 4
Traction man has been through quite an ordeal! He needs to contact his owner to explain to him what has happened.
Use the pictures to write some descriptive sentences about what has happened.
Take your time with this activity, it might help to make a word bank with super adjectives first which will help with your sentence writing. Don’t forget to say the sentences in your head first to help before you write.
Maths
Attached in the resources section are two worksheet booklets to go through over the next two days, labelled as: ‘Mat 1’ and ‘Mat 2’.
Topic (RE)
We are going to be having another look at Baptism this week to consolidate our learning.
Look at the PowerPoint attached in the resources section and see how much you can remember from last week.
Complete the worksheet attached to identify key features and people in a Baptism. If you would like an extra challenge try and explain why each labelled feature is important in a Baptism.
For Example:
The Godparents role is…
The font is used for…
The Candle represents…
The oil is used to…
Topic (History)
As we have been learning about the seaside past and present, this week I would like you to think about the nearest seaside resort to you and what it is like. It might be Blackpool, Southport, Lytham or Fleetwood.
On Purple Mash there is a 2do task set whereby you will create a bright colourful and interesting leaflet on a seaside town of your choice. Your task is to encourage local tourists to visit using excellent description and persuasive language.
Friday 3rd July
English
Yesterday you created an image of Norman flying with his new bird friends. You should have selected a background image of the setting they were in.
Today, I would like you to write a postcode to your snail friends who are missing you at home. Describe your setting in detail and tell them how you are getting on.
For example:
Dear Snail friends,
I have been having some super flying adventures. I wanted to write to you and tell you about one of my favourite places we have visited…
Make sure to include lots of good description using adjectives and use at least 2 conjunctions in your sentences. These could be; and, so, because or but.
Maths
Our final day on ‘time’ will see us start to write down times.
If you child is still finding certain aspects of telling the time tricky, please revisit any of the days’ learning and go over it again.
The last worksheet of the week is attached in the resources section alongside another PowerPoint.
Topic (ART)
Later on this term we will be making a ‘collage’ of a seaside scene.
Today, have a go at drawing and colouring a seaside scene. To help you out with some ideas you may do an internet image search first.
When you have an idea of some of the things you may want to include (umbrellas, sandcastles, the sea, beach, people swimming, seagulls etc.) you can start to draw them LANDSCAPE onto either an A4 sheet of paper or into your home learning books.
Thursday 2nd July
English
Find part 4 of the story here:
Access the PurpleMash App and go to your ‘2do’ tasks.
Barry is now enjoying his time flying in the sky with the birds using his amazing underpants wings. Can you choose a background and draw a picture of Norman and his bird friends on their next adventure? Write a couple of sentences to explain where Norman is with a little description of the scene.
Maths
Again we will be carrying on with our topic of ‘time’ and today we will be looking more closely at ‘half past the hour’.
Top help support your child’s learning, it may be helpful to show them a clock or an analogue watch to make the learning more real.
Please again use the PowerPoint attached and then have a go at the worksheet in today’s resources section.
Topic (PSHE)
Whilst we have been staying at home, your relationships with people around you have hopefully grown stronger! It is a great time to reflect on who really loves you.
Have a think about all the people around you have stayed in touch and make an effort to speak to you or care for you.
Either use the attached sheet in the resources section or draw your own love heart. Inside the heart draw and write about all the people that love you.
Wednesday 1st July
English
You can find the next part of the story here:
Norman is in Danger! The evil bird has him in sharp claws and he is very high up in the sky. How do you think Norman is feeling?
Can you predict what might happen next in the story? What will Norman do to release himself?
Draw a picture and write 3 sentences to predict what will happen next. Don’t forget to include a sentence about how Norman is feeling using your super adjectives.
Maths
Continuing with the topic of ‘time’, today we will actually look specifically at the clock.
Please work your way through the attached PowerPoint and then have a go at the worksheet attached.
Topic (Music)
As our story this week has been about finding a special shell, have a go at learning the song ‘She sells sea shells’. This is a bit of a tongue twister so you will have really concentrate.
If you are able to visit the seaside, try finding some sea shells and listen to the sound that comes from them. You might be able to hear the sound of the waves!
Tuesday 30th June
English
Watch the next part of the story here:
Norman has an idea of how he could be more like the snail. He realised this when he looked at the reflection of the moon over his back. What ideas do you think Norman has? Think about the shape of the moon and what he thinks might show the same shape.
Draw and label 4 ideas Norman might be thinking of.
Maths
Please see a PowerPoint and worksheet attached in today’s resources section.
Today we will be looking at ‘dates’ and this includes days of the week and months of the year, which is something the children should all be familiar with.
As an additional challenge, check if your son/daughter can recall when their birthday is and when other key events take place in the calendar (Christmas, start of a new school year, friends and family member’s birthdays etc.).
Topic (PE)
In school we are going to hold our ‘Sports Day’ albeit a virtual one.
Of course we want those of you who are still enjoying your learning experience from home to join in (mums and dads too!).
Please see the details attached in the resources section; here you will also find a link with all the information you will need and videos to explain each event.
It should be a fun day and a great chance to stay fit, active and healthy.
Monday 29th June
Reading
You have been assigned 2 library books to read on the Reading Eggs App so log on using your unique login details and have a go! You can find these books in the ‘Reading Eggspress’ section.
Please also work through your lessons on the Reading Eggs learning platform.
Phonics
There have been phonics challenges set on Purple Mash. Use your individual log-ins to see your personalised challenge.
English
This week we are going to be reading ‘Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell’ by Sue Hendra.
Find Mrs Mears reading parts of the story each day!
Watch Mrs Mears read part 1 of the story here:
Norman is feeling sad because he can’t join in with the snails and their balancing acts. Do you think that we could cheer Norman up by convincing him that he has lots of things in common with snails?
Watch this clip to discover some of the similarities snails and slugs have.
Write to Norman and explain to him how he has lots in common with snails. Give Norman at least 3 examples of how he and snails are similar!
Maths
This week we will be looking at telling the time; this can be a complicated topic to grasp initially but much like riding a bike, once the children ‘get it’ they are off and away. We will start the week by working through ‘before and after’ before moving onto 'days of the week'/'months of the year', then onto 'ordering' and then moving specifically onto time, 'to the hour' and then to' half past the hour' before concluding with 'writing the time'
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Today we will be starting with ‘before and after’; please have a look at the PowerPoint attached and then have a go at the worksheet attached.
RE
This week we are going to be learning about the Baptism ceremony. In this video link we will see little Jamie being Baptised. Watch the clip and choose 3 parts of the Baptism to draw and write about.
You might choose: The special prayers that are said, the use of the Font for putting water on Jamie’s head, the lighting of the candle, the role of the Godparents or the final declaration of the Baptism.
You can find part 2 here:
Friday 26th June
English
Find information about your final task of the week here:
Barry the fish with fingers Part 5
Today we would like you to re-tell the story. As explained in the video, split your page up into 6 boxes. One line down the middle and two across will achieve this. Label each box from 1-6.
Choose your favourite parts of the story. Draw a picture and write a super sentence in each box. Make sure your sentences sound interesting and include your amazing adjectives when you can.
Maths
Today we will be continuing with addition and there are challenge cards in the resources section for you to look at.
Please continue to use resources such as number lines, 100 grids and counters if these help with your accuracy.
Feel free to practice your mental maths equations too; we have been doing lots of these in school this week.
Topic (Science)
In science this term we have been looking at animals and how we can sort these into different groups; last week we categorised them by the foods that they eat (carnivores, herbivores and omnivores) but this week we will be sorting them differently.
Rather than looking at what they eat, this week we will be looking at their characteristics and what certain animals share in common. The different categories we will be looking at are: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and birds. Some of these can be a little tricky so it is worth watching the video link below to help you out:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/zp92xnb
Once you have watched the video on mammals, try and work your way through the other ones and spot ‘similarities’ and ‘differences’ between the groups. When you are feeling comfortable, have a go at the sorting activity in today’s resources section.
Thursday 25th June
English
Find part 4 of the story here: Barry the fish with fingers Part 4
Draw a picture of the incredible party the fish had to celebrate. Make your pictures as colourful as you can and include labels to describe what is happening.
Maths
Today we will be moving onto addition; some addition worksheets using number lines have been added to the resources section but feel free to make up any of your own equations as extra. Ask your child to give you an explanation of their working out and ask them specifically where their start point should be for each equation.
Furthermore, in class today, we will be focussing on our mental math calculations. Choosing any number within 100, we will be asking the children to initially add 1 /2 more before moving on to higher units (within 10) such as: 82 + 7 = ? . Children can use their fingers to help them with their calculations or use a number line / hundred square to support them if they are finding it difficult initially (see if they can finish off without using these resources by the end of the session). Also, try to incorporate equations that cross between different tens e.g. 26 + 6 = 32
Topic (History)
As we have been making seaside comparisons of past and present, this week I would like you to have a go at categorising some pictures.
Find the sheet template in the resources section, ‘Seaside comparison’. If you do not have an option to print it out you can simply just draw the pictures in the appropriate boxes.
Topic (PSHE)
Today in class, we will be incorporating some mindfulness into our day and we would like you to do the same.
For about 10 minutes, put some relaxing music on and choose an activity (colouring, drawing, modelling etc.) that will help you feel calm and relaxed.
This can also be a great time to speak with an adult or a brother or sister about how you are feeling at the moment.
Wednesday 24th June
English
You can find the next part of the story here:
Barry the fish with fingers Part 3
Can you write an escape plan to help Puffy get out from under the crate?
The crate is falling quickly so Barry needs to think quickly.
Draw a picture of what you think Barry will do next and write about what his plan will be.
You can either write in sentences or use bullet points to list your ideas.
For a trickier challenge you could write instructions using some of our instructional language, including words like: first, then, next, after, finally.
Maths
Today will be our last day on subtraction before moving onto addition tomorrow; please have a look at the subtraction worksheets attached in the resources section. There is lots to go at, work through as many as you can or give yourself different, more challenging equations if you want to stretch yourself!
There is also a reminder PowerPoint covering some of the subtraction methods we used earlier on this year (part-whole model).
Topic (Music)
Watch this song and video, Slippery Fish.
Can you learn the song and create some actions to go along with it.
This song also teaches us about lifecycles. As an extra challenge can you draw and write about the lifecycle from the song?
Topic (PSHE)
As mentioned earlier in the week on the blog, we are continuing to focus on PSHE as we attempt to transition back into school life or continue to navigate through the difficult times we find ourselves in. Attached in the resources section is a ‘wellbeing’ sheet that provides us with a nice way of looking at ‘connecting with others’ and has some questions for the children to consider and then answer.
Tuesday 23rd June
English
Watch the next part of the story here:
Barry the fish with fingers Part 2
Write a letter your fish friends to explain to them how you feel.
What do you miss about not having your fish friends around anymore?
What could they do to make you feel better?
Remember to use some amazing adjectives to describe Puffy’s feelings. Use your most beautiful handwriting and conjunctions in your sentences.
Conjunctions to include are: and, so, because and but.
Maths
Today two different maths subtraction sheets have been added to the resources section.
Whilst both sheets focus on subtraction, the wording of the different questions will lend itself to the children ‘working it out’ in different ways; discuss with your child what strategies they have used to work out the answer. If they are able to easily calculate the equations presented, challenge them to see if they can do this another way or show you another method that can be used for working it out or how they can prove that their answer is correct.
Examples or discussions may look/sound something like this:
Using 14 – 3 = 11
“If I had 14 counters and gave 3 away I would only have 11 remaining (this may be shown as a crossing out method)”
OR “If I started at 14 on my number line and counted back 3 times, I would be on 11, so 14 take away 3 is 11”.
“I can check my answer by adding my 3 back on; so 11 add 3 equals 14. The three numbers are therefore part of a number family”
14 – 3 = 11 or 14 – 11 = 3 can be shown as 3 + 11 = 14 or 11 + 3 = 14
Topic (PSHE)
This week in school we will be speaking openly with the pupils about Covid19 and how we can try our best to stay safe and well in our transition back to school life.
Today we would like you to look at the cut and stick activity in the resources section and discuss with your child what measures you can safely implement to ensure you are keeping yourself and others as safe as possible during this challenging time.
Whilst some of the pictures on this activity sheet relate to actions in class, feel free to draw/ add any others that you have been doing at home or in your daily lives.
Monday 22nd June
Whilst today we are welcoming some of our wonderful children back in to the school building, we understand that some of our children will be continuing their learning experience from home. With that in mind, we will continue to post home-learning activities to the blog on a daily basis that will run simultaneously with the activities going on in class. As a Year 1/ Key Stage 1 staff, we hope you are all continuing to stay safe and healthy and we very much look forward to seeing you all soon.
Reading
This week I would like you to read ‘Tiger’s fish’.
If this book is not challenging for you then choose a more appropriate level from the Oxford reading tree scheme. Make sure to complete the end of story activities.
We have also assigned you all TWO library books to read on the Reading Eggs App, so log on using your unique login details and give them a go!
Phonics
Again this week, challenges have been set on Purple Mash. Use your individual log-ins to see your personalised phonics challenge this week.
English
This week we are going to be reading ‘Barry the Fish with Fingers’ by Sue Hendra.
Find Mrs Mears reading parts of the story each day!
Go ahead and watch Mrs Mears read part 1 of the story here:
Barry the fish with fingers Part 1
Today you are going to be thinking about what Barry can do with his fingers.
Draw and write about at least 4 talents Barry might have.
Maths
Following on from all the measuring we have done over the last couple of weeks, we will now return to some ‘number work’.
Over the week, we will be checking over our addition and subtraction skills and making sure we are using the correct calculation strategies.
Today we have added two worksheets to the resources section with a mix of both addition and subtraction problems. Ensure you are using the correct strategies (check with an adult if you are unsure).
You can also use a number line / 100 square as a resource to support you as some of the equations are quite challenging. Do the ones you can do and ask an adult to support you with the trickier ones.
RE
Last week we looked at the importance of water in preparation for our lesson this week.
Watch part 1 of the video about infant baptism:
Can you draw a picture of the 3 things the Vicar made?
Next to your pictures write what each creation represented.
Friday 19th June
English
The life of a Lighthouse Keeper is very interesting! Can you research what they do as part of their jobs? There is a '2 Do' set on Purple Mash with a format for your writing. There are key words to help you with any vocabulary you may need and you can also import a picture of your choice.
Maths
Please complete the last set of review worksheets in the resources section on capacity and volume.
Topic (Science)
Today we will be looking to sort animals (and humans) into specific groups, much like last week, but rather by each animal’s characteristics instead of categorising them by what they eat.
Please complete the ‘cut and stick’ worksheet attached and look to sort the animals into the correct category. There is a PowerPoint attached in the resources section to look through first and this should help you sorting the animals into the correct group.
Once you have completed the ‘cut and stick’ sorting worksheet, you write a sentence giving information about the different groups: Mammal, fish, reptile, bird and amphibian.
E.g. Fish live under water and a shark is a type of fish.
Thursday 18th June
English
Today you have been set a '2do' on Purple Mash. You will be looking at a picture of an Angry Sea. Your task is to describe the picture using great sentences. You will be able to watch a video to watch and listen to the angry sea. You can import pictures and make your work look as interesting as you can. In addition to thinking about your super sentences, you will also have to think about typing using a keyboard. Good luck!
Maths
Please see the PowerPoint presentation on capacity in today’s resources section and then complete the three worksheets attached. Please also continue to let your child help you with measuring and 'pouring out' in the kitchen using that key measuring vocabulary.
Topic (History)
We are going to have another look at seaside holidays of the past and present.
See Purple Mash for your ‘2Do’ task.
Wednesday 17th June
English
Re-read the story. Look at the part of the story where it was a foggy night. Each night the Lighhouse Keeper always writes in his log book. Can you write an entry in the logbook as the Lighthouse keeper? Describe what you could see and how it made you feel. Remember to use those amazing adjectives!
Maths
Please see the two worksheets attached in today’s resources section, labelled 'Measuring Capacity' and 'Comparing Capacity'.
As a further practical activity, in addition to today’s worksheets, using a measuring jug, get your child to fill various (about 5 or 6) different containers (cups, mugs, bowls, pans, Tupperware etc.) full with water and put them in order from which has the smallest capacity to the largest.
Topic (PE)
Using the link below, here is this week’s PE home-learning.
Year 1 Timetable:
https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/year-1-2-spar-lancashire-school-games-activity-timetable/
Tuesday 16th June
English
The lighthouse keeper can become very lonely and often shouts, ‘Hello, hello, hello...’
Can you write him a letter to cheer him up? You could tell him about what your typical day looks like and explain what is happening in our country at the moment.
Don’t forget when you are writing a letter you must include who it is to and who it is from:
Dear Lighthouse Keeper,
From Mrs Mears.
Maths
Today we will be continuing with measure and looking once again at capacity; please complete the worksheets attached in today’s resources section.
Topic (RE)
This week we are going to be learning about the importance of water in our lives. Can you create an information leaflet about water to show why we need it and explain some of its uses?
See the PowerPoint in the resources section- ‘Water uses’ for some ideas of how we use water.
Monday 15th June
Reading
This week we will be continuing with our seaside theme and we would like you to read the story, ‘The Seagull’.
As an extra challenge, you could write a diary entry as one of the characters and explain how it felt to be chased by the seagull and explain how you escaped.
Phonics
There have been phonics challenges set on Purple Mash (both 1L & 1M classes are now live online); use your individual log-ins to see your personalised challenge.
English
This week we are going to be reading the story, ‘Hello Lighthouse’ by Sophie Blackall.
Read the story ‘Hello Lighthouse’. You can find it here:
This is a lovely story about the life of a lighthouse Keeper.
Can you draw a picture of the lighthouse and make a list of all the things the man does to make sure it is operating properly? Label your picture to using interesting adjectives and then make your list using bullet points.
Maths
This week in maths we will be continue with the theme of ‘measure’ but we will be looking closely at capacity and volume. For today’s maths lesson, please take a look at the PowerPoint in the resources section before attempting the two worksheets.
As an additional challenge this week, let your child help you in the kitchen (filling up pans, making drinks, weighing out ingredients etc.) and give them clear instructional language that contains some of our key measuring vocabulary. E.g. “Please pour HALF of that water into the bowl with the SMALLEST CAPACITY and check whether there is MORE or LESS water remaining in the cup”.
Music
This week we are going to be learning one of my favourite songs from Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’- Under the Sea. Please click on the link below:
Sing along with the words and make a little dance. Hopefully it will make you feel positive and energised!
Friday 12th June
English
When snail left home for the first time, he must have been very excited!
Imagine that you were leaving home for the first time. What emotions do you think snail must have felt?
Imagine you are snail and you are writing a letter to your parents about how you are feeling about leaving home and going on an adventure.
Maths
Today we will look at recapping the measure of mass / weight, before moving onto capacity next week. Attached within the resources section is an overview PowerPoint to look at first and then today there are three separate worksheets attached; the comparing mass worksheet will likely need some support, as the children will have to firstly work out what weights are making the scales balance and then compare this weight/mass with the balance scales of another weight or item.
Science
This term we will be focussing on animals and today we will look more specifically on what types of foods different animals eat. When we start to learn what animals eat (as a means of survival) we can then begin to label them into specific groups: carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. Please watch the following clip, which will show us more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zwfd2p3
Once you have watched this clip, using the internet, books or maybe your own personal knowledge, and try to make a list of 10 animals explaining what they eat and what group they belong to, like so:
Thursday 11th June
English
Today we are going to be thinking about our senses. ‘See, hear, smell, touch and feel.’
Select one of your favourite places snail visited and imagine what you might see, hear, smell, touch and most importantly how it would make you feel to be there!
It might look like this:
The Cave beneath the waves
[See]
Stripy colourful fish
A Shark with sharp teeth with a terrifying look in his eyes
A green octopus with 8 wiggly arms
[Hear] (I might have to imagine or you could listen to some underwater sounds)
Bubbles rising to the surface
Squeaking of dolphins in the distance
Speedboats roaring above
[Smell] (This is tricky for an underwater scene, but use your imagination)
The smell of a burning shipwreck
Smokey barbeques on the beach
The beautiful coral
[Touch]
The spiky coral
The Smooth shark skin
The bumpy octopus arms
The freezing cold water
[Feel] (This one is about personal preference)
If I were in the caves beneath the waves I would feel petrified of the terrifying shark!
I would feel amazed by all the beautiful sea creatures!
Maths
Today we will be continuing with the weekly theme of ‘measure’ but rather than focussing on length and height, we will be looking at weight/mass. We will compare various items and try to put them in order from lightest to heaviest; there are two worksheets to attempt with one using informal units of measure to compare heights in today’s resources section. Please focus on the correct mathematical terminology once again when comparing mass between two objects. As an additional activity, members of the household can weigh themselves on the scales and compare who is the heaviest, lightest and put yourselves in order.
Topic (History)
Our topic for this term is ‘Changes within Living Memory- The Seaside.’
We are going to be looking at seaside holidays of the past and present.
Look at the PowerPoint, ‘Seaside Holidays’ in the Resources section so you can see how modern seaside holidays compare to those in the Victorian times.
Can you write some similarities and differences between the two?
From the Victorian Times, choose an interesting fact, draw a picture and write a sentence about why you find it interesting.
Wednesday 10th June
English
Re- read the story to remind yourself of all the amazing places the snail visited. Snail went on such an exciting adventure! Can you draw and describe 3 places that he went to?
You could choose from: black rocks, icebergs, fiery mountains and golden sands, the caves beneath the waves, tropical islands and the tourist beach.
Maths
Please have a go at the two extended worksheets provided in today’s resources section. One of the worksheets will require you to measure different leaves and also cut and stick them into order relative to their size; the second worksheet will require you to compare measurements, using some of the skills you learnt last term. As an additional practical activity, give your child a ruler and get them to measure as many household items as they can find under 30cm; for items that are longer than 30cm, have your child ‘estimate’ how long they think the item may be.
Topic (Music)
This week we would like to you learn the song, ‘Hole in the bottom of the sea.’
You can find it here: Hole in the bottom of the sea
Learn the words to the song and create some actions to go along with it!
Tuesday 9th June
English
Re-read the story of ‘The Snail and the Whale.’
What is the snail like? Make an observational drawing of a snail and write adjectives around it to describe what it looks like.
There are also some fantastic pictures on google for you to take a closer look at a snail!
Maths
Today we will be continuing with length and height but will focus more specifically on the ‘measuring’ of items. Please look through the PowerPoint in today’s resources section and then have a go at completing the two worksheets also attached; endeavour to use the correct mathematical terminology throughout (longer, shorter, taller, equal to etc.) when completing the tasks. One of the worksheets will introduce ‘estimation’ and both will explore measure, though one will be measuring ‘formally’ using metric (cm) and the other using ‘informal’ units.
Topic (PE)
For the remaining weeks of term we will be using the fantastic resource provided by Lancashire PE. Please use the link below that will again direct you to a full scheme of work, ensuring your child is still able to access the fundamental components of Year 1 PE (albeit at home).
Year 1 Activity Timetable:
https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/year-1-2-spar-lancashire-school-games-activity-timetable/
This week's skill will focus on ‘overarm throwing’ and the challenge is a game called Turkey Shoot; good luck and enjoy it.
Monday 8th June 2020
Welcome back to the Year 1 blog, where home-learning will continue to be published until circumstances change. We hope that you are all well-rested and raring to go after your two week mini-break (of sorts). Also, thank you to all of those people who sent in such lovely emails, photographs and updates to the class email address [year1@lostockhallcps.co.uk]; it has been lovely to see what so many of you have been up to keeping busy during this time of lockdown.
Reading
I’m sure that whilst we have been ‘staying at home’ we have all been up to some very exciting things! This week we would like you to read the story of ‘Winnie and Wilbur Stay at Home’. This book may have some tricky words but try your best to read what you can.
Have you been doing similar things to Winnie and Wilbur?
As an extra challenge, write a letter to Winnie and Wilbur telling them what you have been doing whilst at home. You could maybe give them some ideas about things they might enjoy doing.
Phonics
There have been phonics challenges set on Purple Mash. Use your individual log-ins to see your personalised challenge.
English
This week we are going to be reading the story, ‘The Snail and the Whale’ by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler.
Firstly, read the story ‘The Snail and the Whale’, which you can find here:
This is another rhyming story! Can you spot some of the rhyming couplets the author uses?
What messages does the Snail write? Can you re-write some of the snail’s messages in your neatest handwriting?
Draw a picture of the rock and the blackboard and write the messages. Then see if you can have a go at writing your own message.
Maths
This week in maths, we will be looking closely at length and height. Earlier on in the year, we used our rulers to measure certain items in class but let your child firstly explain everything they can remember about how to measure things and also see if they can remember some of the key vocabulary we use to compare the lengths and heights of objects; please look at the two ‘Organiser’ sheets in the resources section that include reminders of the key vocabulary we should be using. In addition to looking at the two ‘Organiser’ sheets as a vocabulary prompt, please complete the work sheet labelled, ‘Comparing Length and Height’.
Topic (RE)
Our new topic for this term is, ‘Christianity- the Church.’
For the first part of this topic we need to understand the idea of ‘Community.’
What do you do to show that you belong to a community? Draw some pictures and write some sentences to show this.
Think about your personal life- this could be, eating a meal together at home, celebrating VE Day or clapping for Key workers on a Thursday evening.
Think also about your social life- do you belong to any teams or clubs? Do you wear a special outfit or uniform? Remember you also belong to our school family community!
Friday 22nd May
English
Now you have practised your Makaton signing, it is time to re-tell the story using your new skills!
Look at this video of Julia Donaldson re-telling her story using sign language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4br3vquG1Yc
Try doing it with her and then have a go on your own. You might like to record it and send it to a relative to show them how clever you are!
Maths
Please see the Fractions Activity Booklet attached in today’s resources section, for our final recap of the term. Whilst no home learning will be posted during the half term holiday, if you would like to carry on with some form of maths practice, mental maths challenges tend to keep our children’s maths skills the sharpest; addition, subtraction, ordering numbers and two-part number problems within 100 will always pose to be good challenges.
Topic (Design Technology)
Today’s home learning in Design Technology can carry on for a few days (or longer) as you will attempt to build Blackpool Tower out of recyclable waste found in your homes (empty bottles, cardboard boxes, empty rolls, finished tins, used cans etc.). The children had a chance to look at building a prototype back on Friday 1st May and they can draw on this experience of trial and error to design and build a more robust replica. If possible, attempt to build the Tower to scale (within reason and not 1:1 for obvious reasons) and try and finish your tower in matching colours to that of Blackpool Tower. Please use any online search engine to find more pictures and Blackpool Tower, which will help you build your replica tower. Once you have completed your masterpieces please feel free to send them to: year1@lostockhallcps.co.uk. Enjoy your project!
Thursday 21st May
English
Today we are going to be learning ‘Makaton’ to help re-tell the story ‘Monkey Puzzle’
Familiarise yourself with the story by reading it again.
Look at this video of Julia Donaldson teaching us how to use Makaton sign language to tell the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NqE7phzvxk
Learn how to sign the words from the story.
Maths
For maths today, we will be recapping on some of our number work from earlier on this term. Please work your way through the worksheet provided on the home-learning resources section, labelled ‘Comparing Number Sentences’. If you don’t wish to print the sheet off, please copy the questions and fill the answers out into your home-learning work books.
Science
Today we shall look once again at the parts that make up a flower.
Start by asking your child to tell you everything they know about plants and if possible, go into the garden and get them to point out the specific parts on any flower they might find. Attached within the resources section is a worksheet to complete and also a word search to attempt (there is an answer sheet for this too).
Please have a look at the PowerPoint provided as it will remind you of all the parts.
Wednesday 20th May
English
Find the document ‘Taking Shelter’ in the resources section.
Read through the story starter with your child. Some of the sentences are quite detailed so if you want to simplify it for your child then please do so.
Choose one of the activities to complete:
Maths
Today we will be finishing up ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’. Please feel free to give your child additional mental-maths challenges (similar to those posted yesterday) using random numbers working within 100; please find the worksheet 'Greater Than Less Than 3' for today’s home-learning attached within the resources section.
Geography
Today we are going to be exploring the Physical and Human features of Preston.
To remind you of what they are look back at the ‘Physical and Human features’ document from last week.
Find ‘Preston PowerPoint’ in the resources section.
Look through the activities.
Tuesday 19th May
English
Re-read the story of ‘Monkey Puzzle’.
Can you create a non-fiction report about monkeys? There are lots of different types of monkeys so you can choose which monkey you are going to do your fact file about.
Make sure your fact file has:
A Title
4 Subheadings (Habitat, Diet, Appearance, An interesting fact)
A picture and a caption.
Maths
Today we will be carrying on with ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ means. Please refer back to yesterday’s PowerPoint explaining how we use ‘<’ , ‘>’ and ‘=’ to represent ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’. Again, do not worry too much if your child is still finding this hard to comprehend as they will cover this unit specifically in year 2 but focus more on the language being used and the recognition of place value; example:
36 > 23
36 is more than 23 (you can ask you child to work out how many more)
23 is less than 26. If you added 13 to 23 (13+23) it would equal the same as 36.
36 = (13+23)
There is a new worksheet provided in the resources section. Also, as an extra mental maths challenge today, read the following numbers out to your child and see if they can explain which is more and which is less, for a bonus can they work out the ‘difference’ mentally between the two amounts?
Music
Linking in with our ‘Monkey Puzzle’ story we are going to learn the ‘Monkey Puzzle song’
You can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIn8sjN1pgw
See if you can use your newly learned Makaton skill when singing it!
Monday 18th May
Reading
Read the story ‘Colour Codes’ on Oxford Owl. This book has some very interesting facts about animals. Can you write down 3 of your favourite facts?
Phonics
Use the phonics play website. You can access ALL the resources for free using:
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Username: march 20
Password: home
Choose a game each day to play for 10-15 minutes. Try and encourage your child to access the phase they are working within.
*apologies that this post originally stated 'Phonics Play App' rather than signposting you to the website*
English
This week we are going to be reading the story, ‘Monkey Puzzle’ by Julia Donaldson.
Read the story ‘Monkey Puzzle’. You can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgeKHjLSQUM
Can you create a poster to find Monkeys Mum? You could look at pictures of monkeys to collect adjectives in order to describe what she looks like. Make sure you use the title, ‘Missing!’ Draw a picture of her and write some adjectives around her body so everyone knows exactly how to recognise her. Write some sentences to show how much you miss her and want her to come home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NqE7phzvxk Makaton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4br3vquG1Yc Makaton song
Maths
Again this week we will be splitting the week in two (3:2); during the first few days we will be focussing on ‘comparing numbers’. Today, get your child to remind you what ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’ means. Included in today’s resources section is a PowerPoint explaining how we use ‘<’ , ‘>’ and ‘=’ to represent ‘more than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’. Do not worry too much if your child finds this concept tricky, as they will cover this unit specifically in Year 2 but focus primarily on the language being used and the recognition of place value; example:
36 > 23
36 is more than 23 (you can ask you child to work out how many more)
23 is less than 26. If you added 13 to 23 (13+23) it would equal the same as 36.
36 = (13+23)
RE
One of the key questions in our Hinduism Topic is ‘What different roles to people have and why might people seem different in different situations?’ This links in with the different representations of God.
Can you draw and write some sentences about different roles people have? You might think about uniforms they wear or logos they have on their uniform.
Friday 15th May
English
Create a Fact File all about Crocodiles. This educational video will give you lots of interesting facts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKUUKOdIpOA
Make your Fact File as interesting and as colourful as possible. Include;
Maths
Please continue with the work we have started on ‘patterns’. Today there is another worksheet uploaded into the resources section to work through but rather than patterns containing colours, shapes or objects, today the patterns concern number. Let the children see if they can work the link between the corresponding numbers and explain that it is a repeating pattern because the same equation pertains (example: + 2 to every next number etc.). The last couple are a bit tricky and you will probably need to explain these to your child.
Topic
ICT
For today’s ICT please use either Purple Mash or Education City and use the search bar tool to explore the extensive resources available on plants. Can you add to your knowledge and find at least 2 new things that you didn’t already know or what something that we haven’t already covered about plants. By doing this, you will be undertaking your own ‘research’.
PE
As an extra topic activity to complete today, we would love to see you complete one of Joe Wick’s home-workouts (ideally the ‘Live’ one he will do today or catch up on this later from his channel). We are aware that lots of our pupils started ‘lockdown’ by doing these home-workouts everyday but maybe these have been done less frequently of late. Get yourselves fit, active, hot and sweaty for at least 30 minutes today – it will make you feel great!
Thursday 14th May
English
Imagine that you are the Selfish Crocodile and write a letter to the animals to explain how sorry you are for how you treated them.
Start your letter with, ‘Dear Animals of the Jungle,’
Don’t forget to say a special ‘thank you’ to Mouse who helped with your bad tooth.
What could you do to make the animals happy again? Is there something you could share with them?
Remember to use your beautiful handwriting and use Capital Letters, finger spaces and full stops. You might even use exclamation marks to help make your sentences more exciting or question marks to vary your sentence types.
Maths
Today we shall start to look at patterns and the patterns we look specifically at in Year 1 are ‘repeating’. Explain to your child that ‘repeating’ means that something will recur over and over again without changing. Today there are three worksheets that express repeating patterns in different ways, please see these attached in the resources section.
Science
As we are still covering our extended topic of ‘Plants’ in science, start by asking your child all that they can remember about plants that we have learnt about so far. Can they tell you what plants need to grow? Can they tell you how to plant a seed? Can they remember what they planted to make daffodils (this seems like a long time ago now)? Attached in the resources section is a sheet with different types of flowers you may have in the garden or see in the park. Have a read through it and then when you are next outside for your daily exercise, or lucky enough to be in your garden, which of the plants can you find and recognise?
Wednesday 13th May
English
When the mouse helped the Selfish Crocodile he was very brave! Can you think of a time when you have been super brave? Draw a picture and write some sentences to explain what happened and how you showed courage, just like mouse did. You might like to write about yourself or someone you know who has shown bravery.
Maths
Continuing again with ‘turns and direction’, please complete the worksheet ‘Describe Position 2’ attached in the resources section and see an additional new PowerPoint to supplement their learning.
Geography
Today we are going to be exploring the Physical and Human features of Blackpool.
Find in the resources section, ‘Physical and Human Geography Word Mats’; there is also an excellent PowerPoint available on Twinkl, if you use their search bar (unfortunately the file is too large to upload into today’s resources section).
These resources afford an insight into Physical and Human features and will give children a good understanding of what they are.
Split your page into 2 sections with titles of ‘Physical Features’ and ‘Human Features’. Look back at the ‘Blackpool’ PowerPoint from last week and categorise the attractions into Human or Physical features. You might think of some of your own you might like to add. For the rest of the week, randomly ask your child to tell you if something you point out is either ‘Physical’ or ‘Human’, see how many they get right.
Tuesday 11th May
English
Re-read the story of ‘The Selfish Crocodile’.
Can you draw a picture of the Selfish Crocodile in the river and use a speech bubble to write down something the selfish crocodile is saying and then use a thought bubble to write what you think he is thinking.
You can do this from any part of the story, it might be at the beginning when he wouldn’t share his water hole or it might be when he has tooth ache and needs help.
Maths
Continuing again with ‘turns and direction’, please complete the worksheet attached in the resources section and see the attached PowerPoint. As an additional practice activity, which we try and practice in school, give lots of instructions to your child using the correct terminology; place 6 random objects on a table and get your child to select different ones without using the item’s name, e.g. “choose the item that is furthest right” or “choose the item second in from the left”etc.
Music
This week we are going to be learning a new song. Look at:
We use this resource in school so the children will be familiar with the format.On this site there are free home singing resources to access. Learn the song ‘Together’ which you can find on ‘Week 1’.
There is also an activity sheet with the song which gives you extra ideas!
Monday 11th May
Reading
Read the non-fiction book, ‘Animal Magic’ from Oxford Owl. Activities from this book include: labeling and questioning for understanding.
Phonics
Using the free ‘Phonics Play’ App, play the sentence substitution game. See if you can make some silly sentences. When you have created your silly sentence, write it down using your neatest handwriting.
You can also find other games on this website that will help you reading graphemes. Try and practise using sounds your child needs to learn in order to make it more challenging.
Also, please use the ‘Phonics Screening Practice’ PowerPoint in the resources section to practice reading the graphemes you know in different words.
English
This week we are going to be reading the story, ‘The Selfish Crocodile’ by Faustin Charles.
Read the story ‘The Selfish Crocodile’. You can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-NhjfJ_RZI
Draw a rough outline of the selfish crocodile.
On the outside of the picture write adjectives that describe what the crocodile looks like. E.g. enormous cracked tooth. On the inside write adjectives to describe what his personality is like. E.g. Selfish, rude, nasty.
Maths
This week in maths we are splitting the week in half (well, into three days and two days); for the first three days we will be looking at ‘turns and direction’ and from Thursday we will begin to look at ‘repeating patterns’. The worksheet for today’s home learning can be found in the resources section and is labelled, ‘describing turns’. There is also a PowerPoint document within the resources section that will help explain the turns to you child, so show this to them first before attempting the worksheet.
RE
Look at an image of the three deities of the Trimurti (Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma). Can you identify the similarities and differences between the three? Discuss the symbolism of the objects they carry/wear and how these link to their particular role within the Trimurti. Can you research why each form of God has been given their title? (Creator, Preserver, Destroyer) You can find information here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/beliefs/intro_1.shtml
Thursday 7th May
As tomorrow marks the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, today we have compiled a selection of resources for you to enjoy so you can learn all about VE Day ahead of the celebrations. Tomorrow, Friday 8 May 2020, marks 75 years since Nazi Germany's formal surrender at the end of the Second World War. On VE (Victory in Europe) Day in 1945, millions took to the streets to celebrate peace after years of devastating war. The children will learn even more about WW2 during History when they are in in Key Stage 2 but for now there are a handful of links below to have a look at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/horrible-histories-songs-ve-day-song
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-ve-day
https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/remembrance/remembrance-events/ve-day-75
No Maths or English today but please have a look at the attached VE PowerPoint and VE activities in the resources section. We understand that lots of streets/homes will be having their own celebration parties tomorrow (following the recommended social distancing guidelines), if you are also joining in with these celebrations, please send a photograph in to the email address below and we can share some of them on the blog:
Thanks once again for all of your hard work again this week and enjoy the Bank Holiday Weekend.
*No home learning will be posted on Friday 8th May 2020*
Wednesday 6th May
English
Today will be the final day of our grammar checks; we sincerely hope they have served the purpose of identifying areas any grammar areas that we could practise more on (these rules can be mentioned during Guided Reading with your child, such as highlighting capital letters, or plural nouns etc.). Please find the work sheet, ‘English Grammar Check 3’ attached in the resources section.
On your book review worksheet, you can now start to complete the remaining sections. You can also give a verbal review of your book to your parents or guardian and ask them to review the last book they read.
Phonics
Please look at the sound sheets attached for the following sounds: (wh) and (ph)
Maths
For maths today, we would like the children to recap building number bonds, which in-turn will allow the children to fill out missing parts of addition equations. Please see the worksheet attached in the resources section, ‘Find a part’. There is also a set of addition equations added in the resources section, labelled ‘mental maths addition’, which you can read aloud and see if your child can work out the answers mentally (make sure they can’t see the answers!).
Topic (RE)
This week we are going to be learning about the Hindu God ‘Krishna’; paying particular focus on how the story of ‘Janmashtami’ inspired the Hindu Festival ‘Dahi Handi’. Watch the story here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zp2hyrd
You can either, re-tell the story or draw a picture and write some sentences to highlight the main points and how the story relates to the Dahi Handi Festival.
Tuesday 5th May
English
Today we will be attempting another worksheet that will check our grammar understanding. Again, as with yesterday’s challenge, there are three differentiated challenge sheets; do not push your child too much to attempt questions that they do not really understand. The purpose of the grammar challenges this week is to remind the children of our grammar rules, to consolidate on previous learning and to plug any gaps that there might be. Furthermore, where possible, try to enquire why your child has answered in a certain way and challenge them to explain to you their decision making in more detail; this can be prompted by asking questions such as: Why did you circle the word Jack? What other words can have a capital letter? Should Preston have a capital letter? Would Tuesday and May both have capital letters in today’s date? Etc.
Please find ‘English Grammar Check 2’ in today’s resources section.
In addition to the grammar check, there is also a ‘Book Review Template’ in the resources section, where your child can begin to review their book of choice for this week. Today they can start by filling out the ‘Plot’ section of this sheet. Remind your child to follow all of our writing rules, including: capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and beautiful pre-cursive handwriting. We will also be super impressed if we can sneak in some conjunctions and adjectives, which will provide the reader with more detail.
Phonics
Please find attached within the resource section, two further Phase 5 challenges for: (ea) and (e_e). The children will take great pleasure in telling you exactly what type of digraph the latter is (split digraph!).
Maths
Today we will be recapping ‘Number Related Facts’ and this is also found in the resources section. The questions will be presented in a manner that the children should be familiar with. Remind your child to take their time when calculating the equations and please ask them to explain which strategies they are using as they are doing their working out.
For an additional mental-maths challenge, give your child any number within 100 and get them to call out the number that is either 1, 2 or 3 more than number you give them. The children can use a 100 square to help them if they are finding this difficult. Choose as many random numbers as you please.
Topic (Geography)
This week, we would like you to look at tourist attractions in Blackpool. Have a look at the ‘Blackpool’ PowerPoint in the resources section. From this, create a poster featuring all the ‘fun’ things to do in Blackpool! Remember you are trying to entice potential tourists to come and visit.
You might also find some useful information at:
https://www.visitblackpool.com/plan-your-trip/tourist-information-centre/
As an extra challenge, try and make your poster as bright and colourful as possible!
Monday 4th April
Reading
This week we have no specific book that we will be reading collectively as a class; it is totally up to you which book you would like to read. We will, however, be writing a book review later in the week so make sure it is a book / story that you enjoy reading.
Also, please make sure that you are still using the excellent resources that we have been subscribed to (Reading Eggs, Education City and Purple Mash) to supplement your reading this week.
The Oxford Owl website is still a fantastic resource with a whole array of texts that are easily accessible and pitched at the right age specific level. This website is currently free to access and it really is like having a library in your own home:
During this period of ‘home learning’, as a staff, we cannot place enough emphasis on the importance of continuing to read regularly; please endeavour to read for at least 20 minutes, each day; this can be broken down into smaller chunks (2 x 10 minutes, morning and night etc.) if this suits your child’s learning style / focus better.
Phonics
As above, we hope you are continuing to read daily and continuing to practise sound recognition using the phased sound mats; in the resources section, please see ‘Phase 5 Home Learning Challenges’, which has been uploaded again to continue with from last week; choose activities from this to complete over the week. Also in today’s resources section, there are two phonics worksheets focussing on the following: (au) and (aw).
English
This week in English, we will be recapping our grammar rules and making sure that we can still remember all of the rules we use when we are writing our own independent sentences. The ‘challenge mats’ will be uploaded on to the resources section each day; these challenge mats will be differentiated, so if your child completes the first challenge mat comfortably, then let them attempt the next one (there are three in total, with accompanying answers). If your child finds a certain challenge mat a little bit tricky, do not worry about attempting the more difficult next challenge mat. The purpose of the challenge mats this week is not to see how many we can get correct but rather to identify areas where we are making the same mistakes and highlight areas where we can to improve our understanding.
Please find today’s challenge mats attached in the resources section, labelled ‘English Grammar Check 1’.
Maths
Much like with English, this week in maths we will be doing lots of recapping and consolidating of previous learning. Again, the purpose of these activities is not to rush and just get every question right but to highlight the parts of maths that we find a bit tricky, be this adding, or taking away, or shape or number bonds etc., which we can then focus on specifically and begin to improve on. Today you will find a worksheet labelled, ‘Find and make number bonds’ in the resources section.
In addition to the worksheet provided, to ensure your child is keeping their mental maths skills sharp and ‘up-to-speed’, test them with the following equations at any point randomly throughout the day to keep them on their toes:
Topic (PE)
As the weather is so lovely today, we will be taking our PE lesson outside into the garden (where possible) and begin by following a new weekly timetable of activities that have kindly been provided for us all by Lancashire Sport. Using the following link, please see attached the Week 3 (4th May) brochures for the Spar Lancashire School Games Stay at Home Programme:
Timetable Year 1 & 2: https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/year-1-2-spar-lancashire-school-games-activity-timetable/
The ‘learn and challenge’ for both Year 1 and 2 this week will be based around the fundamental movement skill of Hopping.
Joe Wicks is still “going live” on his YouTube channel and is keeping both himself and us active in our own living rooms (requiring no equipment either!) during this period of 'lockdown'. Please follow the following link that will take you directly to his YouTube channel, where he will be going live with today’s workout from 9 am:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDqBO34ieA
Stay busy and stay active. You will all be chasing each other around the playground very soon!
Friday 1st May
English
Today we are going to focus on making super sentences by adding further information to a boring sentence, to make it sound more interesting for the reader. Example:
Gerald went to the dancefloor.
Gerald crept nervously to the crowded dancefloor because he was worried what the other animals would think of him.
As you can see, I have changed the verb ‘went’ and also added an adverb, ‘nervously’.
I have also added an adjective to describe the dancefloor ‘crowded’, and added some extra information by using the conjunction ‘because’.
Other examples of conjunctions are- and, but, so.
See if you can do the same for these boring sentences:
Maths
Today we will consolidate our learning that has been done throughout the week on fractions. This week you have learnt that you can use fractions to find both a half and quarter of either a shape or a number. The first part of the maths lesson today is a mental maths challenge. Call out the following numbers and get your child to tell you what half of that number is (you can use counters or similar to help you):
As an extra challenge, ask if your child can give you the half of 5. What is the problem with this number? Can we divide it equally into two parts? Is this number odd or even?
For the second part of the maths lesson today, please complete the sheets attached in today’s resources section, labelled, ‘Halves and Quarter Fractions 1’ and ‘Read and Colour Fractions’.
Topic (Design Technology)
As our topic this term is the seaside, with a focus on Blackpool, today we would like you to have a go at designing and making your own beach hut. For this activity you will need to use the internet to look at images of different beach huts and decide upon a design that you could use or replicate. In a couple of weeks, we will be making our final beach huts from recycled items found in and around the house. For today’s challenge, start to think about the materials a beach hut would use (we have spent lots of time on materials, what is strong? Waterproof? What can you see through? Etc.). Once you have had a good think, start to build a prototype out of Lego, building blocks or play dough (or similar). Think about the shapes that are being used in your construction. Have fun and do your building with your favourite music on in the background, Friday afternoon is our ‘Golden Time’ after all!
Thursday 30th April
English
Read the part of the story where the animals are at the Jungle dance. In this part of the story:
The warthogs starting waltzing
The rhinos rock and rolled
The chimps all did a Cha Cha
Here the author has used a style of writing called ‘alliteration’.
Can the children create their own examples using their own ideas for animals doing unusual things?
E.g. The koalas did Karate, Hedgehogs hopped around.
Maths
Today we will be continuing to work on fractions, specifically quarters again, but rather than find a quarter of a shape, we will be looking for a quarter of a specified numerical total; explain to the children that to find a quarter, we will be dividing a given total into four equal parts. Example: 20 would be divided into four equal groups of 5 (5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20 / 4 x 5 = 20); see if your child can begin to spot that a quarter can be found by halving the given total and then halving this amount again, example: halving 20 will leave us with 10, halving this 10 will leave us with 5 (5 being the quarter of 20). Using counters (or similar) as a visual resource will really help the children to understand fractions.Please complete the worksheet, ‘Finding a Quarter (Number)’ in the resources section.
Topic (Music)
Looking back at our activity from last week and the re-write of Old Macdonald, this week we are going to compose some music to go with our lyrics.
Go to Purple Mash, using your individual log in details.
Click ‘Mini Mash’ then from this click on the door to ‘go outside’
Outside click on ‘music’
Select the ‘2Beat’ option.
At the top ensure you select the ’12 beat’ option and this will be enough beats to create your song. You can clap out the song and check that there are 12 beats!
Watch the tutorial guide on the page to find out how to create different musical sounds and tempos.
Once you have created your piece of music save it to your tray and then perform your version of the song using your very own lyrics!