Year 1 – Monday 30th March

Good Morning Year 1

Dear parents and children,
We hope you are well and have had a lovely weekend. This week’s English is a Phonics focus. We will focus on one sound each day and explore all the different ways of writing this sound. We are really impressed with all of the fantastic learning you have done so far – well done! If you would like to hear another story from an astronaut, you can listen to Serena Auñón-Chancellor reading ‘Ada Twist Scientist’ here: Ada Twist Scientist – Astronaut Reading

Thank you again for everything you are doing.

Year 1 Team

Helpful Reminders

We are still checking our emails regularly and have loved seeing what you are doing. Feel free to email us if you have a question or just want to say hello at: year1@stmarksce.org.uk

You can access our general resources to support your child at home here: Y1 General Resources

Please do not feel like you have to complete all of the activities provided in one day. We have given a variety so that there are options for you to choose what works best for you at home.

Read Write Inc are kindly doing live daily phonics sessions. They are at certain times depending on which sounds you would like to practise. We suggest either Set 2 or Set 3 sounds. Find the link here: RWI Phonics

You can still access Joe Wicks’ daily PE videos at 9 am each morning: Joe Wicks Daily PE

If you are running out of reading material, you can try Oxford Owl.You need to make a free parent account but it gives to access to some Oxford Reading Tree e-books that we use at school. Make sure you are reading a book that is at your child’s band. If they are finding this band too easy, you could try a songbird book from the band above.

Ongoing Daily Activities

  • Read for at least 20 minutes a day. This can be their school reading book or a book from home.
  • Have stories read to them.
  • Read or spell some key words.
  • Practise naming the letters of the alphabet and sing the alphabet song (capital and lower case).
  • Threading/Play dough/Cutting/Colouring/Painting
  • Read Write Inc speed sound videos (linked in helpful reminders)
  • Phonicsplay Obb and Bob (Click: Phase 5 – Revise all Phase 5): https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html
  • Phonicsbloom – Phase 5 or 6 (Especially useful if phonicsplay is not working for you) https://www.phonicsbloom.com/
  • Practise writing sentences about a story they know. When writing, please remind them to use full stops, capital letters, neat handwriting and finger spaces.
  • Practise counting from 0-100 (forwards and backwards)
  • Practise counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
  • Numbots (login is in the back of the reading log)
  • Name some 2D and 3D shapes
  • One more and one less than a number
  • Sing a number bonds song
  • Hit the button (number bonds to 20): https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Spelling: Their spellings this week are:

he

is

are

says

today

there

You can practise these in a variety of ways:

  • Saying them aloud (you could put them into a song)
  • Writing them down
  • Painting them
  • Put them into a sentence

English – Phonics

As our English activity today, we are focusing on phonics. We will be looking at alternate sounds today (more than one way of writing the same sound). You could watch the Read Write Inc video on Set 2 and 3 sounds live at 10:00 and 10:30 here: RWI Youtube as this would a great start to this activity. Afterwards, the clip is available for 24 hours on the RWI youtube channel.

After practising some speed sounds, have a look at these sounds:blank

What do you notice about them? What is the same? What is different?

They all make the same sound! They use different letters though.

Sound out and blend these green words. Can you be a great detective and work out which word has which ay/ai/a-e sound?

Alternate ay ai a-e Green Words

Here are some activities you could complete if you would like to continue learning about ay, ai and a-e:

  • Monster Words – Sound out and blend the words. Draw a monster next to the words that are not real words (monster words!). Can you tell someone at home which ay/ai/a-e sound is in the word? Click here: Monster Words ai ay a-e

  • Snakes and Ladders – Roll a dice and move that amount of spaces. Sound out and blend the word before moving to the next person’s turn. If your square has a ladders, you can climb it but if it has a snake, you have to slide down. The winner is the first person to reach the finish square. See if you can tell someone at home which ay/ai/a-e sound the words have. Find the game here: Snakes and Ladders ay ai a-e

  • Phonics Play: Dragons Den! Choose ai (Phase 3), ay or a-e (Phase 5) or enter your own words. Find it here: Dragons Den – PhonicsPlay 

  • Write each sound on different pieces of paper and see if you can make a word that has an ay/ai/a-e sound in it. You could choose a word from the table above, or think of your own. For example:

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Maths

Today we are looking at ordering numbers to 50. You might want to remind yourself of what greater, less than and equal to mean. You can put numbers in order from smallest to largest, or largest to smallest. Have a chat with someone at home about the words ‘smallest’ and ‘largest’ and what this might look like. You can use the slides here: Ordering Numbers to 50

On these slides are some practical activities you can do for ordering numbers to 50 – you might need quite a few objects! 

If you would like to, you could print out some digit cards HERE to go alongside your groups so that you can easily remember how many there are in each group. Remember to talk about how you know which number is the biggest/smallest. You could also have a go at printing out and ordering some dienes. Find them here: Ordering Dienes

Topic

RE: This term in RE we are thinking about the concept of Sadness to Happiness. Today we are communicating this idea and thinking about what it means.

  • First use these slides to have a chat with someone at home about what this concept means: Sadness to Happiness.
  • Then have a go at this sheet. Remember to use full stops, capital letters, finger spaces and neat handwriting! RE Communicate