Year 1 – Tuesday 7th April

Good Morning Year 1

Dear parents and children,

We hope you are having a lovely Easter break. It has been lovely to see all of the Easter activities you have emailed in already – keep up the good work!

We have a special treat for you today – Mrs Carter would like to read you a story! You can find this in the video resources section of this post along with other videos read by Year 1 teachers. The password is the same as previously.

Thank you for your support.

Happy Easter!

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, although they may have stopped this over the Easter holidays. 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

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.

Alternatively, you can find free Big Cat ebooks by following the steps linked here: Big Cat ebooks.

Optional Ongoing Activities

As well as the learning tasks we upload each day, there are a few ‘extras’ that you could have a go at, if you get time.

  • Read a book. This can be their school reading book, an e-book or a book from home. 
  • Alternatively, you make like to read an ebook from Oxford Owl or Collins Big Cat.
  • Have stories read to them.
  • Read or spell some key words.
  • Read Write Inc speed sound videos (linked in helpful reminders)
  • Practise naming the letters of the alphabet and sing the alphabet song (capital and lower case).
  • Use phonicsplay or phonicsbloom: Obb and Bob PhonicsPlay /Phonics Bloom link
  • Practise counting from 0-100 (forwards and backwards) or in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
  • One more and one less than a number (pick from 0-50)
  • Numbots (login is in the back of the reading log)
  • Sing a number bonds song or use Hit the Button (number bonds to 10 or 20): Hit the Button link
  • Spelling: there are no new words over the Easter break, however if you are looking for spellings to practise you can use key words. Find our previous post with all 300 key words here: Key Words

Video Resources

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Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Miss Jamieson

The Gruffalo by Miss Jamieson

How to Grow a Dinosaur by Mrs Carter

Giraffes Can’t Dance by Miss Hall

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