Week 3 Home Learning- Year 1

Week 3 Home Learning- Year One

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Good morning everyone,

We hope had a lovely 'Easter break' and this finds you all well.

As we shared last week, 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 3 Home Learning Timetable



This week is the last week based on our text, The Snail and the Whale. The literacy is based around poetry.

If you find the literacy which is planned on the timetable too challenging, please use the literacy plan below:
Daily sentences- week 3

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

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 5 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;

• poor
• are
• is
• she
• again

Please practise the 2, 5 and 10 times tables daily. There are videos on youtube that your child can join in with. 

Another very important skill we would like them to continue to practise is their number bond to 10, moving on to their number bonds to 20.

There are lots of songs the children can join in with on Youtube, just google 'number bonds to 10', example:. Number bond song

There are also lots of practical activities you can create yourself using minimal resources:

Make a number bond rainbow connecting the 2 numbers which total 10.


Make your own maths resources with a hanger and pegs. Can you list all the number bods to 10? Use the pegs to show your working out?


Create a 'part, part, whole' model. Can you draw your own for each number bond? Can you find objects to represent each number? e.g- 2 green lego piece and 8 red lego pieces...


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.

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




We cannot stress enough how important reading with your child each day is. We understand that with home learning, trying to fit everything in will be a challenging task in itself. Please can we ask that, if possible, you prioritise reading every day, even if its just for 10 minutes.


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 resources, 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.
Children 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/

Take care,

The Year One Team