Week 2 Home Learning- Year 1

Week 2 home learning- Year One

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Good morning everyone,

Today is the start of week 2 home learning and we hope this finds you all well.

We are missing all the children, but know that our fantastic parents and carers are all doing a great job taking over our role at home.

In order to make things as easy to manage as possible, we have organised the learning into a daily timetable. You can chose to follow it or dip in and out as it suits you. Each day there will be a maths, literacy, PE, topic and wellness session.

Click here for: Week 2 Home Learning Timetable

In order to follow the timetable, you will need your child's log in details for Mathletics and Rockstar maths. Each section has a hyperlink (blue and underlined) that you will need to click and it will take you to the activity. Where there are links to videos via Youtube, we ask that this is accessed with the supervision of an adult, as we cannot ensure the follow on videos will be child appropriate. 

We have already blogged and sent home 200 common exception words that we would like the children to focus on.
Every week, we will be releasing 6 of these words for you to focus on. Every Friday, we will release the spelling test via video. The words for this week are as follows;

• a
• I
• school
• after
• clothes
• last

In Literacy, we have been using the text: The Snail and the Whale, By Julia Donaldson. We will continue to focus on the story for the next two weeks.

If the Literacy which is included in the timetable is too challenging, please focus on a sentence each day using the following link:
Daily sentences

Please use the sound mat below to support your child with sounding out and spellings:
Sound Mat

Some of the science that we are sending out will come from the following website: https://explorify.wellcome.ac.uk/register/your-details?signup_btn=header. To access the links, you will need to sign up. It is completely FREE and will give you access to a range of interesting science resources.




Remember to watch the daily phonics sessions on the Ruth Miskin YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ




Oxford Owl reading website are offering free access to their books online. The children will be familiar with these books as it is already part of our readings scheme. The colours match to their current reading colours. To gain access to these great sresources, sign up for FREE at https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Children can read the stories more than once. The first time they read they will be focusing on decoding, which means sounding out their words and this may take them a while. The second time they read start to encourage the children to sound out the words in their head (some children might need to whisper the sounds). The aim is to increase the speed and fluency so the children can focus on understanding what they are reading. Finally they can focus on using expression when reading the story and answering questions about what is happening.

Children learning to blend and read simple words such as 'cat' or 'went' will be learning Set 1 sounds and reading Ditty or red books.
Children learning Set 2 sounds will start to read Green, Purple and Pink.
Chilldren learning Set 3 sounds will start to read Yellow, Blue then Grey.

If you are unsure of your child's book colour send an email to the shared mailbox and your child's teacher can advise you further. Happy reading!

Other reading resources
Reading to children is still really important. If you are struggling to access books at home Cbeebies have a daily bed time story. Try to watch this with your child and talk about what happened after: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00jdlm2/cbeebies-bedtime-stories.

Also, one of our very talented Teaching Assistance, Mr Maher, has created a reading site for the children to use as part of their home reading. The site is based on animals and has some great photos and facts. There are also some quizzes the children can take part in.
http://y1animals.weebly.com/


David Walliams is releasing a free audio book each day. The daily treat is called Elevenses, and children and grown-ups can tune in every morning at 11am - and it's all free. To tune is click on to: https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/




Mathletics -  https://login.mathletics.com/
You will find children's login details for Mathletics attached to the stay at home learning booklet and they are also stuck into the front of children's red spelling books.
All children have been assigned tasks for this week. Please refer to the 'Mathletics Getting Started Guide' in your stay at home learning packs for support in accessing this.

Rockstar Maths- https://ttrockstars.com/
You will find children's login details for Rockstar Maths attached to the stay at home learning booklet and they are also stuck into the front of children's red spelling books.
Please refer to the 'Timestables Rockstars' guide sheet in your stay at home learning packs for support in accessing this.

Take care,

The Year One Team