April 13, 2020

Year 1 – Tuesday 14th April

Good Morning Year 1

Dear parents and children,

We hope you enjoyed the Easter weekend and are safe and well. It is so lovely seeing everything you are doing over email. We have really enjoyed seeing all of your fantastic Easter activities so far. As this is the second week of the Easter holidays, we will not be sending out school work to do this week, however you may wish to continue the optional ongoing activities listed below. We have some more exciting Easter activities for you this week. You do not have to complete any of these activities – they are just ideas to keep you busy should you wish to use them.

You can still send your silly reader photos to us over email. The ones we have received so far are super silly!

Miss Hall would like to read you another 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.

Happy Easter!

Year 1 Team

Share your work!

We’d love to share a piece of artwork your child has done. It can be of anything – a rainbow for the NHS, a piece of home learning, a poster, a drawing, a painting, a design, anything! Just make sure you only send in a photo of the work, not the child or anything on the photo that may identify them (e.g. full name). Simply email it to posters@stmarksce.org.uk and we’ll do the rest! We’ll make a video montage of it, and share it on our website. We would love to have as many entries as possible. Closing date is Sunday 19th April!

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

Easter Activities

Here is a list of fun Easter/spring related activities you may wish to have a go at this week. You do not have to complete any of these activities – they are just ideas to keep you busy should you wish to use them.

Art/Craft Activities

Make a minibeast pebble. You will need: a pebble, paint, paintbrushes, glue (PVA), felt tips. You may wish to use: googly eyes, pipe cleaners. Find the instructions here: Minibeast Pebble Instructions
Create a painting using fingerprint flowers. You will need: paint, coloured paper, lolly stick/paintbrush, fingers! Find the instructions here: Fingerprint Flowers Instructions
Make some bunny ears to wear. Find the instructions here: Bunny Ears
Use toilet rolls to create a bunny picture. Find the instructions here: Bunny Painting Instructions
Make a shadow drawing. If you have some toy animals at home you can use their shadows to help you draw. See the image below to see how to set it up. Then use a pencil to draw around the shadow edge. See if you can challenge yourself to draw a spring animal (rabbit, lamb, chick etc).

English Activities

Look at this spring picture. Can you write a description of this picture. What can you see/hear/smell/feel/taste? Be as creative as possible! Can you challenge yourself to use ‘and’?You can use these slides to help you: Descriptive Writing Slides. Miss Hall has also made a video to help you plan and write your description that you can find in the video resources section. Find resources for this activity here:

Read these spring poems with someone at home. Choose one of these poems to learn – can you make up some actions to help you remember it? Are there any rhyming words in your poem? Are any words repeated? Find the poems here: Easter/Spring Poems

Active Activities

Go on a flower hunt around your garden. How many different types of flower can you spot? Can you use sketching skills to draw any you see?
See if you can spot any new signs of spring outside. Has anything changed since you last looked?
Have a go at our Easter themed PE circuit! Find it here: Year 1 PE Circuit B (Easter)