Year 1

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Welcome to the Year 1 Page!

Phonics 

The website www.phonicsplay.co.uk is free at the moment 

Username: march20   password: home

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/

Also if you are interested, there are past phonics tests that can be accessed with  a free trial from the

School Run website

https://www.theschoolrun.com/year-1-phonics-screening-check-2012

SUMMER 2^ndNewsletter

Here are the activities for the week beginning 6^thJuly. Please see all resources needed on the school’s website under class pages.

1.Poetry - The Magical Box- Kit Wright

Watch the Video again:Kit Wright recital link   http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/kit-wright-the-magic-box-poem-only/8837.html

Learning objective:  I can create ideas for a word bank.

Recap on the Magic box poem, read and/or watch again. Establish today’s LO. Let children know that they are going to putting together an ideas bank for later poetry writing.

Activity: 

They will be concentrating on their favourite sounds, tastes, thoughts, feelings, beautiful thing, memorable smell. Think of places where you might hear, see, smell, taste these ideas e.g. park, jungle, kitchen, seaside, woods. Brainstorm ideas for these categories and write them down.

Plenary:Feedback their ideas to their adult.

2.Poetry - Writing their own Poem

Learning objective: I can write my own poem. I can use exciting adjectives and rich vocabulary.

Talk/Model:Model writing own poetry taking one idea at a time.

e.g. Place: Jungle          Sound: Roar of a lion

For example;

I would put in my box…

The roar of an angry lion roaming through a leafy jungle. 

The laughter of a child flying a kite.

The sweet smell of freshly baked cakes.

The neighing of a unicorn dancing over a rainbow.

Activity:

To have some sentences already made for the children to enter missing information. 

E.g. I will put the _______ of a __________. 

To use the brainstorm ideas from yesterday to write their own poems. 

Plenary:Children to read their poem to their adult and then choose a selection of children to their poem to the class.

3. Poetry - Magic Box-Presentation.

Learning objective: I can present my poem.

Children to read through their poetry.

Talk:Children to read through their work and ‘perform’ their poem to an audience. 

Main:Write their poem out neatly as a final draft. Children to draw 3 small drawings of different things in their box on a separate piece of paper. Cut these small drawings out and stick them around the poem. Remember to keep the drawings small and colourful.

Plenary: Review their learning over the last week. Are they pleased with their poem?  What do they like about it? Did they enjoy writing a poem? 

4.Spaghetti! Spaghetti! – A poem by Jack Prelutsky

Learning objective: I can discuss and explore a poem. I can perform a poem.

Have a small bowl of cooked spaghetti and ask the children to describe the texture, shape, colour.

Activity: 

(https://www.st-stephens-school.org.uk/docs/Homework_Sheets/Y1_S2_Spaghetti_Spaghetti.pdf)

Read the poem to the children and ask them to close their eyes. The children should listen for their favourite line-discuss it briefly. Display the poem and highlight the particular words and phrases that the children identified when listening.  What do they notice about these words? Discuss which words they would emphasise to make the poem come alive for the listener, if they were to read it aloud.

Performing: Give the children small sections of the poem (4 lines at a time).  Ask them to read it aloud. Can they come up with some actions to help them remember the lines? Adults can help them to rehearse the poem by joining in with actions they’ve made up. Over the next 2 or 3 days, can they recite the first verse or even the whole poem?

Plenary:

Perform their version of the poem for an audience. Encourage others to give feedback on their performance and interpretation. 

Have a look at this year 1 class reciting the Spaghetti Poem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=m1SH6yJW4ps&feature=emb_logo

Mental Maths: Numbots and Times Table Rockstars

Try out our latest Maths online subscription to NumBots. This has the same login detailsfor Times Table Rock stars. You can practice your numberbonds on this website. It starts off very gentle with bonds to lower number then the children progress higher numbers. Visit the websites below and use your times table Rock star login details for both websites. If you don’t remember your login details, please send an email to the class ststephensyear1@ststephensce.lewisham.sch.uk  and I can forward it to you.

https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login/27786 for NumBots and https://play.ttrockstars.com/login/27786 for TT Rock Stars 

Daily Maths- Time

See the presentation for each day and the corresponding daily worksheets on Year 1 Class pages. 

Days of the week song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLdFvCJNtOk&feature=emb_logo 

Months of the year song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enDRrWyXaw

Science : Making butter

We will be having a little fun in this lesson by making our own butter. You will need a small tub with a secure lid, some double cream for pouring (at room temperature, not from straight from fridge)and some crackers or a slice of bread. You can add flavour to your butter with a spoonful of hot chocolate powder.

Watch the butter making video (Video may need to be restarted to the beginning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=111&v=3XnXg5RcB-8&feature=emb_logo

Have fun making and tasting your butter ( move your body to this music to help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcTmpvDO0I&feature=emb_logo)  .

Reading :

Please visit www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Click onto ‘My Class login’        The username: stephens1       Password: 1234 

Go to PARENTS then Browse ebooks, scroll down and Browse by Oxford Level. Please use the level written on the back of your child’s home reader as a guide to which books to read. Please try and read2books a week until you have finished that level, then go onto the next level. 

Have a lovely week,

Ms. Akideinde 

Here are the activities for the week beginning 29^thJune. Please see all resources needed on the school’s website under class pages.

1. Dogger by Shirley Hughes

Learning objective :  To think of a different ending to a story. To hot seat Dogger and find out how he ended up on the secondhand stall.

Invite children to role play Dogger. Adults ask questions about how he became lost and what adventures he had. 

Activity: 

Children to think of an alternative ending to the Dogger story. What adventures do they want Dogger to have had? Talk about their plot and draw 3 pictures to tell the beginning, middle and end of Dogger’s adventure. Write under the pictures.

Plenary:

Have a chat about your child’s ideas.

2.Poetry - The Magical Box- Kit Wright

Learning objective: I can talk about a poem and generate ideas of my own.

We are going to read a magical poem filled with things that may not exist or things that we would love to keep. 

Preparation needed: If you can find a trinket box from around the house and fill it with things that, as an adult, you treasure, this will be a good visual stimuli for the children. Talk about the items and why they mean so much. I have put my daughter’s wrist ID label from when she was born. Her first shoes that she took her first steps in. That sort of thing! Show them your box AFTER reading the poem.

Video:Kit Wright recital link   http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/kit-wright-the-magic-box-poem-only/8837.html

Plenary:

Adults: Magically guide the children into your magic box. Talk about any interesting smells, places that you may have inside your box etc-

3. Designing own Magic Box

Learning objective: I can use objects to stimulate rich vocabulary.

Watch the Video again:Kit Wright recital link   http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/kit-wright-the-magic-box-poem-only/8837.html

Look at the ‘designing a box’ document: What material would your box be made of? What colours could it be? What does it smell of? What are the sides of your box made of? What is the lid made (fashioned) of? What are the hinges made of? Be as creative as you wish.

Activity 1

Children design their Magic box. Imagine where these items could have come from. See Poem example below e.g. Feathers from the last bird...Reddest Ruby from the .... Bluest Emerald wrestled from ... Children to record their ideas so they remember for their poetry writing.

Activity 2: Children talk their ideas as they design their box.

Plenary: Share ideas with adult about where they imagined finding things to make their magic box.

I will put in the box- sound section

The calming sound of insects buzzing on a warm summer’s night. 

The roar of the rolling waves and children playing joyfully in the surf. 

Christmas carols and summer tunes that bring back fond memories.

I will put in the box- taste section

The delicious taste of caramel shortbread.

The scrumptious taste of a roast dinner on an empty stomach. 

The refreshing feeling of an ice-cold drink.

I will put in the box- smell section

The comforting smell of my mother’s perfume. 

The sweet aroma of vanilla ice-cream. 

The happy fragrance of sand and sea salt in my shoes from a day at the beach.

I will put in the box- sight and beautiful things section

The warm, golden rising and setting sun. 

The bluest emerald wrestled from the mouth of a rare dragon.

The best hug in the world!

I will put in the box- impossible section

A new moon that glows blue. 

An endless amount of happiness that can be given to anyone.

A fifth season full of fun and laughter where no one goes to work or school.

4.Making own Magic Box

Learning objective: I can design my box and use rich vocabulary and adjectives to describe it.

Model making the box, by looking at the design sheet and using appropriate materials to create the box. E.g. Using shiny blue paper for ‘The bluest Emerald wrestled from a mouth of dragon.’

Activity: 

Children to make their boxes using their designs as a guide. Assemble the box template below using glue or a stapler. Watch the video from 1min to see details for box with a lid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fcDnBmHQlc

Mental Maths: Numbots and Times Table Rockstars

Try out our latest Maths online subscription to NumBots. This has the same login detailsfor Times Table Rock stars. You can practice your numberbonds on this website. It starts off very gentle with bonds to lower number then the children progress higher numbers. Visit the websites below and use your times table Rock star login details for both websites. If you don’t remember your login details, please send an email to the class ststephensyear1@ststephensce.lewisham.sch.uk  and I can forward it to you.

https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login/27786 for NumBots and https://play.ttrockstars.com/login/27786 for TT Rock Stars 

Daily Maths

See the presentation for each day and the corresponding daily worksheets on Year 1 Class pages. 

RE.

Learning objective: Know the story of the founding of the Khalsa (The Pure ones, Beloved 5).

Discuss the concept of standing up for something whatever the cost. Have you ever stood up for something even though it was scary? Talk about examples e.g. being honest about your own faith and what you believe in, standing up for someone in the playground who is not being treated well, standing up for attending a Church of England school, etc. 

Tell the story of Guru Gobind Singh and the first ‘Baisakhi celebration,’ about the founding of the Khalsa (The 5 important men who stood up for what they believed in).

Activity: Children draw the scene from the story where the Guru emerges from the tent with the 5 men, unharmed. 

Science : What are the seasons?

Activity: Match the photos the season card. You can do this activity by just pointing to the photo and identifying the season. If you want to print off then please print 4 pages onto one to save paper.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkvv4wx/articles/zcx3gk7

Reading : 

Please visit www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Click onto ‘My Class login’        The username: stephens1       Password: 1234 

Go to PARENTS then Browse ebooks, scroll down and Browse by Oxford Level. Please use the level written on the back of your child’s home reader as a guide to which books to read. Please try and read2books a week until you have finished that level, then go onto the next level. 

Have a lovely week,

Ms. Akideinde 

Here are the activities for the week beginning 22^ndJune. Please see all resources needed on the school’s website under class pages.

1. Dogger by Shirley Hughes

Learning objective :  

*To share your opinion by answering one of the questions.

*Know a caption is a sentence written about a picture.

Dogger: Genre: A lost and found tale

We are starting a new book called Dogger. Ask the children why it is important to look at pictures. Discuss their ideas. Clarify that we can gain a lot of information by looking at the pictures before we even read any of the words.

Talk: Discuss : Ask children to look at the front cover of the book Dogger closely (see the power point) while thinking about these questions.

1. What can you see?
2. What do you think the title means?
3. What is happening?
4. What does the character look like? What are they doing?

Activity: 

Look at the different pictures from the Dogger book. Ask questions like I modelled above to find out information. After looking at all pictures, choose 1 picture and write a caption for it.

Plenary:

Share their captions with you. Does your adult have a caption to share with you?

2. Dogger by Shirley Hughes

Learning objective: 

*To know about the features of a book (Title, author, illustrator etc).

*To know predict means guess.

Start the sentence with ‘I think that…’

Read the title and author and discuss who we think the character is on the front cover. Why do you think that? Predict what we think the story may be about briefly. Show children the youtube clip of the book reading.

Video:Dogger by Shirley Hughes - YouTube. Read the first half of the book and stop the video at the part when Dave realises Dogger is lost. Discuss what is happening in the pictures as we read. 

Oh no Dogger is lost! -clarify what that means. What do you think is going to happen now? Give children thinking time and then they share their ideas.-why do you think that?

Activity: 

Predict what you think will happen next using a  picture box. Write some sentence to say what’s happening.

Plenary:

I wonder if your prediction will be correct?

3. Dogger by Shirley Hughes

Learning objective: 

*Know what happened at the beginning of the story, the middle and the end.

*Use time connective words and sentence openers when retelling the story.

*Use expression

Show children the youtube clip of the book reading. Read the whole story from beginning to end.

Video:Dogger by Shirley Hughes - YouTube. 

Shared learning

Brainstorm/recap time sequence words with the children (first, next, then, after that, finally). Introduce sentence openers like:  all of a sudden, after that, suddenly , unfortunately, to my surprise etc.

Modelling:

Look at the pictures from the story in the wrong order (see document order the pictures). Is there anything wrong with this? Can they help me put it in the correct order? Move the pictures around until you can tell the story from left to right, then top to bottom. The start and end pictures have the words ‘This is Dogger and The end’ to help you.

Activity

They are to order the pictures and then take it in turns to retell the story using the pictures as prompts- Also using the time connective /sentence opener words. 

Plenary

At the end, can the children think of the differences from their retelling of the story and the one on the youtube clip?

4. Dogger by Shirley Hughes

Learning objective: 

*I can describe something using adjectives.

Children remember their favourite cuddly toy. Who gave it to you? Do you still have it? Have you lost it? Can you say how you felt? 

Talk:

Tell the children about your own sentimental toy. Talk about where it came from and how old you were when you got it. Talk about its features and what you found so interesting about it. Mention how you felt/ would feel if you lost it and how it happened. Look at My favourite toy from when I was a child.

Activity: 

Children draw their favourite toy and write about what makes it such a favourite toy. How would they feel if it were lost? Talk about it and then write about it.

Plenary:

Share work

Mental Maths: Numbots and Times Table Rockstars

Try out our latest Maths online subscription to NumBots. This has the same login detailsfor Times Table Rock stars. You can practice your numberbonds on this website. It starts off very gentle with bonds to lower number then the children progress higher numbers. Visit the websites below and use your times table Rock star login details for both websites. If you don’t remember your login details, please send an email to the class ststephensyear1@ststephensce.lewisham.sch.uk  and I can forward it to you.

https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login/27786 for NumBots and https://play.ttrockstars.com/login/27786 for TT Rock Stars 

Daily Maths

Base 10 game

https://www.abcya.com/games/base_ten_fun

Geography – What’s in our playground?

Have a look at the powerpoint (What’s in our playground?). Study the aerial view of the school playground. Can you spot where everything is?

Activity: Fill out the worksheet and complete the aerial view of our playground. Remember to put in features like places to sit, eat, play, plant areas etc.

RE.   What is a leader?

What is a leader? Have you met one? Look at the powerpoint and see if you can recognise some popular leaders. We are learning about the leader important to the Sikh religion (Guru Nanak).

Activity: Children think about their favourite leader. They can draw them and think of some adjectives to describe them.

Science   What animal am I?

See the powerpoint on animal groups. Look at the images of the animals and decide which animal group they belong to (birds, amphibian, insects, mammals, reptile, fish). Please don’t feel the needs to be printed off.  To save paper you could print 4 pages onto 1.

Reading : 

Please visit www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Click onto ‘My Class login’        The username: stephens1       Password: 1234 

Go to PARENTS  then Browse ebooks, scroll down and Browse by Oxford Level. Please use the level written on the back of your child’s home reader as a guide to which books to read. Please try and read 2 books a week until you have finished that level, then go onto the next level. 

Have a lovely week,

Ms. Akideinde 

Year 1 Week beginning 15^thJune

Here are the activities for the week beginning 15^th June. Please see all resources needed on the school’s website under class pages.

1.Life in a wealthy Victorian family

Learning objective : To explain the differences between the life of wealthy boys and girls in the past.

Emily is the daughter in a wealthy family. Listen to the audio clip about Emily’s life.

• Life in a wealthy Victorian family: 

Emily’s Lifehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05903dx

• Life in a wealthy Victorian family: 

Emily and the beetle. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05903fd

Discuss: Talk about the differences between the way the wealthy boys and girls were educated. Girls

stayed at home, taught by a governess, learning skills like sewing (a sampler). Boys sent abroad to

study, they saw the world, taught subjects like science, engineering etc. Compare this to nowadays.

Boys and girls treated equally, educated together. Girls have more opportunities than in the past.

There is more opportunity to travel and see the world.

Activity: Using the table below, record the differences in the way wealthy boys and girls were

treated.

Reflection: If you had the chance, where would you like to be educated? Nowadays or in the

Victorian time?

2.Life in a wealthy Victorian family- At the Seaside

Learning objective: To explain the differences in a trip to the seaside now and in the Victorian time.

Holidays: Trips to the seaside were made popular by the recently created railway network. Before that time horse drawn carriages were the best way to travel. They made travel slow, uncomfortable and expensive. 

Here are some Magic Grandad seaside videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlL77ZfXkI

Please watch this clip beforehand and decide if you want to censor the accidental meeting of going into the wrong bathing machine. This is at 11 min: 42s to 11 min: 50 s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWgnpY4L9so&list=TLPQMTQwNjIwMjARSTXrzQUCTA&index=2

Audio clip

Listen to the audio clip of Emily at the seaside.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/history-victorians-life-in-a-wealthy-victorian-family/z4bbscw

In the final episode Emily is granted a rare treat – a visit to the seaside – albeit in the company of her mother and Miss Stevens. They make the journey by train, the new railway network having made such day trips now possible. 

At the seaside Emily discovers there is a new list of the things she mustn’t do – 

no sunbathing, no Punch and Judy puppet shows, no taking her hat off. Finally, Emily is allowed to take off her boots and run down to the sea to paddle...and try to enjoy herself like other children.

Discussion: How is a trip to the seaside today different from a trip in the Victorian era?’

Activity: Record some differences in a trip to the seaside toady and in the Victorian time.

3. Write a postcard from the seaside

Write a postcard from your visit to the seaside in the Victorian Era. Choose who you are writing your postcard to. Tell them about all the things that you can see all around you. Tell them about all the things that you did or didn’t do (sunbathing, swimming, watching the puppet show. Did you get to do something nice in the end? Maybe an ice-cream?  

Draw a picture of you at the seaside on the reverse of your writing.

4.Role play and re-enacting a day in the life of a Victorian school child.

The classroom is prepared with desks in rows/ girls (by the windows) and boys separate.

• Children should be given a new Victorian name. Strong Victorian girl names were Alice, Bessie, Bertha, Gertrude, Agnes. Boys names Harry, Walter, Jack, Bert, Edgar, Albert.
• It will be a morning of no laughter, no talking (unless directly asked a question),raise your hand to speak, very strict day (prepare the children for this)
• Children given slates (or you can use black paper) and chalk to write on. Prep sugar paper  (cut up) for writing and artwork.

Day starts with children entering classroom (girls shunted to the back of the line, boys praised as the ‘future of tomorrow, the engineers, the  bridge builders’ to enter first. Stand behind a chair (girls on one side of room, boys the other). Instructed not to speak and change into suitable attire- raggedy shirt and grey raggedy shorts). Boys change in one place, girls in another.

*morning prayer

* Register children with their Victorian names

*drill (exercise outside to get air into lungs, star jumps, run on the spot, bend touch toes then stretch up) Repeat, repeat for 10 min.

*3 R’s- This was Reading, Writing and arithmetic. Keyword spellings: away, good, want, how, did, going, where. Words written over and over

* Lunch- Bread and water (no butter)

*Handwriting- using fountain pens. Children scolded if work is blotchy

* Art- observational drawing of an apple. Children given a piece of apple in cross section (both horizontal and vertical). Draw with chalk and colour with coloured chalk.

End of day : Interviews the children asking for likes/ dislikes about the day.

I will put Victorian morning resources later in the week.

Maths: 

Mental Maths weblinks.

Top marks- Multiplication and division games- Try any of these games, working on the 2, 5 and 10

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Daily Maths

See the presentation for each day and the corresponding daily worksheets on Year 1 Class pages. 

PLEASE DO NOT PRINT OFF ALL WORKSHEETS, THIS IS UNECESSARY. Your child can write their answers in their workbook. Please only attempt 1 worksheetwith 2 black stars or 3 black stars for a challenge.

Geography - Exploring playgrounds around the world.

Playground resource sheet.

1. Destination 1: Bhutan, What continent? (Asia). These children are in the Dechen Phodrang Monastery in Bhutan. Describe what you can see. (Children are seen roaming with dogs). Does that surprise you? Describe the environment. What physical/human features can you see? (Mountains & temples). What are chn wearing? (traditional robes). What are they doing? (Running, chatting and having fun). 
2. Destination 2: Sierra Leone. What continent is that in? (Africa). Show playground image 2: Kroo Bay Primary, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Find Sierra Leone on your atlases/maps. Describe the image. Share reactions to the waste, buildings and animals. Where is the school? Does that look like your school? Do you think it is a safe place to play? Describe their clothes! (School uniforms). What are chn doing? (Chatting, playing, running). 
3. Destination 3: Norway. What continent? (Europe).Show playground image 3:Utheim Skole in Kårvåg, Norway. Discuss the activities chn are doing! (climbing trees, running and jumping off rocks). 

Describe the playground images from Bhutan, Sierra Leone and Norway; tell me about the environments and how they changed from place to place. Describe the clothes chn wore and activities they were doing.The physical/human features changed in each image but the activities stayed the same. Chn were playing with friends, chatting and having fun – just like you!

Activity: Fill out the worksheet to name some things that are the same as our playground and also different to our playground.

RE.   SIKHISM

What is a symbol?
Why do we have symbols?
Look at some symbols from Christianity and other world religions. Can you name the symbols and explain what they are for? Why are symbols important? Who are they important to? 

Introduce Sikhism as a world religion. Briefly explain where Sikhs tend to live in the world and that it is one of the 6^thmost popular religions in the world.

Look at the PowerPoint to introduce Sikhism. Why might there be a symbol for Sikhism?
Introduce the IK Ongar symbol. What do think this symbol might mean?
Explain that it is a Punjabi symbol which means ‘there is only one God’. This is a very important symbol to Sikhs. The Mool Mantar which, along with the Ik Ongar, symbolises Sikh belief. 

What other symbols or sayings from different faiths do you know? Can you explain what symbols are important to you? 

Activity: Children draw a symbol which is important to them and explain why. Children in the past have drawn religious symbols and also drawings of their home, family, friends. These are all symbols of great importance to the children, giving them a sense of love, safety, strength and so much more.

Phonics

Phase 5c phonics (week 13)

Monday– Revision of alternative igh phoneme (using I, igh, i-e, y

Read each sentence first then try and spell it.

1. The bright light hurts my eyes.
2. A tiny sprite might hide behind my nice sofa. 
3. Did a fine ship, called the Titanic, hit an iceberg a long time ago? 

Tuesday 

Teach or practise spelling /f/ and /m/ words that proved tricky in previous weeks. Some possible words: swimming, dolphin, crumb, feet, mouse, cough, summer, cliff. 

Record any graphemes or words that presented particular problems so that you can return to them later. 

Wednesday

Revision of alternative oa phoneme 

Read each sentence first then try and spell it.

I froze my nose on the cold window. 

I broke a bone in my little toe. 

If you stole my phone, I would turn you into a toad. 

Thursday

Revise /f/or /m/ - focus on whichever showed to be the trickiest. Practise spelling words or sentences. 

Most dolphins like swimming in the foaming surf. 

Can you use a phone with your thumbs? 

A frog must memorise the alphabet. 

Friday

Practise spelling the words: some, come, were, who. 

Revise /igh/ or /oa/ phoneme – focus on whichever  showed to be the trickiest.
Practise spelling words or sentences.
The kite floats high in the sky. 

Cold roast chicken pie is nice. 

Can an old goat ride a bike? 

Reading : 

Please visit www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Click onto ‘My Class login’        The username: stephens1       Password: 1234 

Go to PARENTS then Browse ebooks, scroll down and Browse by Oxford Level. Please use the level written on the back of your child’s home reader as a guide to which books to read. Please try and read2books a week until you have finished that level, then go onto the next level.

Have a lovely week,

Ms. Akideinde 

Year 1 Week beginning 8^thJune

Here are the activities for the week beginning 8^stJune. Please see all resources needed on the school’s website under class pages.

1. Objects from the past

Look at the images of some objects from the past. Can you have a guess what they are used for? Have a chat to your adult. 

Watch the powerpoint on Victorian objects, it will give you lots of information needed for the next task. Please use the forward button to move onto the next page/question.

  Victorian household objects PowerPoint presentation | free to view

How to have a bath in the Victorian times: (please remind children about dangers of playing with fire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D9ZvWiChgE

Activity: Match the image to the sentences. Cut out sentences and stick them under/alongside the correct image. 

2. Up the chimneys

Activity: To recall information about Chimney sweeps. 

Do you know what chimneys were and what they were used for? They became clogged up and dirty and needed cleaning. This was done by children. Can you think of how children got hurt?

Play 2 audio clips called the climbing boys and the Chimney sweeps Grand London house

Climbing boys

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01k4zwl

Listen to the audio clip on climbing boys (N.B start audio from 1 min 30 onwards as story is a little unsettling for younger audience). 

Chimney sweeps- The Grand London House

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059038s

Activity:Question and answer session-What do you think you need to be a good chimney sweep? Write facts/captions around chimney sweep picture about what they have learnt.

e.g Chimney sweeps were little boys who were small enough to crawl up a chimney and clean it.

3. Victorian maids/servants

Activity: To roleplay the day in the life of a Victorian maid/servant. 

Video 1:Look at the video clip of a maid’s busy day in the Victorian times. A Busy Day at Lotherton Hall - A Busy Day

Video 2: Listen to clip of Martha’s duties

Marth’s first day https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05903cj

Marth’s duties https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05903ct

Discussion:Children would leave their homes and live in the big house to work as a servant. Talk about how they would have felt- lonely, tired and scared being away from their families.

Activity:Read the story of the servant boy whilst the children role play in the house. They awaken at 4.30 am (please pretend its this time) and do the duties that he would have done up until midnight! 

Servant boy diary:

31st January 1874

Dear diary,

I am sat in our overcrowded room, we are supposed to be asleep but I can’t. It is too cold. It is very difficult to see the paper I’m writing on. I am holding this diary up to the window so that I can see the light from the moon’s reflection. Today has been a miserable day.

The master stormed into our room to wake us up at half past 4 this morning. He ordered us outside to wash our face using cold water. It was so cold that the water had turned to ice at the end of the pump. 

Breakfast was water and a small piece of bread left over from last night. I can tell it was old because it was so tough to bite and like rock. 

My next job was to make all the beds. There are 10 bedrooms! All have beds to make and pillows to fluff. I have to hurry up because the fireplaces and the chimneys need to be cleaned out. I don’t like this job because of the soot gets in my eyes and my throat.

Reflection:Reflect on what work your children do at home (chores). Do they earn pocket money?

4. Write a diary entry in the role of a servant boy or girl

Use the picture prompts to sequence your day. Remember to write in the first person using language if I, my, our, we.

Maths: 

Mental Maths weblinks.

Top marks- Multiplication and division games- Try any of these games, working on the 2, 5 and 10

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Daily Maths

See the presentation for each day and the corresponding daily worksheets on Year 1 Class pages. Some have been password protected. Please do not share the password with anyone else as this will breach copyright rules. The password  has been emailed to you.

PLEASE DO NOT PRINT OFF ALL WORKSHEETS, THIS IS UNECESSARY. Your child can write their answers in their workbook. Please only attempt 1 worksheetwith 2 black stars or 3 black stars for a challenge.

Phonics

Practice reading : water, where, who, again, thought, through, work, mouse (see game on phonics play Train your Brain phase 5).

Phase 5c phonics (week 12)

Monday- Alternative spellings foroasound. Read the Menu (see below) and underline the different ways to make the sound oa in a word, e.g. tomato makes an oa sound with an ‘o’ spelling.

Menu

Starters

A bowl of slow roasted vegetable soup

Goats cheese tart

Main course

Roast goose with globe artichokes and rosemary potatoes

Smoked haddock and tomato pasta

Dessert

Toasted waffles with poached pears

Doughnuts coated in chocolate

(answers bowl, slow, roasted, goats, roast, globe, artichokes, rosemary, potatoes, smoked, tomato, toasted, poached, doughnuts, coated). All have oa sound but with ow, oa, o-e, oe, o, ough spelling.

Tuesday (Word sort)

Read these words and sort them into 6 columns. All words have the oasound but alternative spelling. Sort them into words with ow,oe, oa, ough, o-e(split digragh)  and o.

The words are crow, groan, bowl, phone, soak, home, throat, toe, globe, slow, clothes, bloke, although, though, croak, grow, toad, foe, goat, stereo, snow, gloat, spoke, photo.

Wednesday

Have a look at the best fit for spelling the alternate oasound in a word.

Overall the best guess alt. spelling is with o-e

Another good guess is oa

Usually only at the end of words use OW.

Less common spellings sew , hoe (we would expect OW at end here, soul

Read these sentences : 

We had a delightful time driving by my home.

Can tiny mice fly and sky dive? 

Can a tiger be nice and kind? 

Thursday

Play Quickwrite with these words (children try to spell these words): told, hold, gloat, boast, don't, won't, stone, throne, blow, snow. Encourage children to think about the phonemes that they can distinguish easily first. Then think carefully about the tricky part of the word (the /oa/ phoneme).

Reading : 

Please visit www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Click onto ‘My Class login’        The username: stephens1       Password: 1234 

Go to PARENTS then Browse ebooks, scroll down and Browse by Oxford Level. Please use the level written on the back of your child’s home reader as a guide to which books to read. Please try and read2books a week until you have finished that level, then go onto the next level.

Have a lovely week,

Ms. Akideinde 

Year 1 Week beginning 2nd June

Welcome to our new term! This term’s topic is called Then and Now. We will be stepping back in time to the days of the Victorians. Here are the activities for the week beginning 1^stJune. Please see all resources needed are below.

1.Toys in the past.

In the past toys did not look like they do now. Have a go at making a Thaumotrope (a moving toy which needs no batteries to make it move!) See the link on how to make it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPBSeoT_AN4

You will need:

A plastic straw or a pencil

2 Thaumotrope circles

Cellotape

2. Toys in the Victorian Times

Have a look at the powerpoint about toys from the past. How different are they to the toys within

your home? What material are your toys made from? Do they move? Do they need batteries?

Activity: Children sort out toys  into new and toys from the past. Can you think of some adjectives 

to describe these toys? Think about describing the material, shiny, hard, soft, bendy etc.

3. Grammar session (adding s and es)

Look at the powerpoint on plurals. Add plurals to the nouns by choosing the right suffix (s or es).

Complete the worksheet. For an extra challenge, can you write a sentence including the plural? 

Ensure that your sentences are correctly punctuated.

Here’s a naughts and crosses game to play with a partner. Can you guess which plural is correct and

win 3 in a row?

             http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/plural/index_pre.html

4. Who was Queen Victoria?

Can you gleam as much information as you can by watching the clip on Queen Victoria.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkrkscw/articles/zfdkhbk

5. Test your knowledge about Queen Victoria by answering the comprehension questions. 

Maths: 

Mental Maths weblinks.

Top marks- Daily 10- You will be asked 10 questions. You can set your response time for each question. At the end see how well you’ve done.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10   Check out some other games

Daily Maths

See the presentation for each day and the corresponding daily worksheets. 

Phonics

Spellings: very, I’m, by, time

Phase 5c phonics (week 11)

Monday- Alternative spellings for  igh sound. Read the poster and underline the different ways to make the sound igh in a word, e.g. kite makes an igh sound with an i-e spelling (split digraph).

Tuesday.

Read these words and sort them into 6 columns. All words have the igh  sound but alternative spelling. Sort them into words with igh,y, ie, i-e, i, eye.

The words are find, delight, hide, crisis, flying, right, mice, try, eyes, high, replied, spite, denied, fright, strike, fry, dry, line, quite, describe, blind.

Wednesday

Have a look at the best fit for spelling the igh sound in a word.

Overall the alt. spelling it with i-e

If the igh sound is in the middle of the word use igh

If at the end of the word use moslty the igh spelling by.

Less common spellings y, 

Read these sentences : 

We had a delightful time driving by my home.

Can tiny mice fly and sky dive?

Can a tiger be nice and kind?

Thursday

Play Quickwrite with these words (children try to spell these words): might, bright, strike, kite, behind, cried, dry, reply. Encourage children to think about the phonemes that they can distinguish easily first. Then think carefully about the tricky part of the word (the /igh/ phoneme) 

Reading : 

Please visit www.oxfordowl.co.uk

Click onto ‘My Class login’        The username: stephens1       Password: 1234 

Go to PARENTS then Browse ebooks, scroll down and Browse by Oxford Level. Please use the level written on the back of your child’s home reader as a guide to which books to read. Please try and read2books a week until you have finished that level, then go onto the next level.

Have a lovely week!

Ms. Akideinde 

Hair Love short video- A special request from a little girl in Year 1. She's read the book and loves it.

https://youtu.be/kNw8V_Fkw28

Year 1 Work Week beginning 4th May

Maths: 

Mental Maths weblinks.

Hit the Button-Please practice number bonds, Times tables, Doubling and halves.

Mental maths train- Adding(Try up to 10, up to 25) subtracting(up to 10, up to 20)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Daily Maths

See the presentation for each day and the corresponding daily worksheets on Year 1 Class pages. The documents have been password protected. Please do not share the password with anyone else as this will breach copyright rules. The password has been emailed to you.

PLEASE DO NOT PRINT OFF ALL WORKSHEETS, THIS IS UNECESSARY. Your child can write their answers in their workbook. Please only attempt 1 worksheetwith 2 black stars or 3 black stars for a challenge.

Writing: 

1. The Sweetest Song (African American Tale)

What do you think the sweetest song is? What does it make you think of?  What do you think this story is about? What sort of song is a sweet song?

If you could vote for the sweetest song, what would it be? (You can email me your ideas so I can make a list for Class 1).

Listen to the Story ‘The Sweetest Song’ part 1 https://youtu.be/xEwM7hfo4iA (Read by Ms. Akideinde).

I won’t be showing you the pictures so listen and imagine the story in your ‘mind’s eye’.

Afterwards answer these questions:

1. What sort of place did you see in your head? 
2. What do you think’s going to happen next?
3. What sort of story do you think this is?