Good morning everyone and welcome to Week 7 of Home Learning. I hope that you have a lovely half-term break and enjoyed your week off at home with your families. Here is your work for the week ahead….
Maths - This week we are going to continue working on addition and subtraction of numbers with 20, with a greater focus on subtraction by the middle of the week. This includes learning our number bonds to 20. The most important part of this unit is counting on from a number starting point other than 0, for example 12 + 5 = we would start counting on from 12 on a number line and then add 5 AND NOT start from 0 to add 12 and then add 5. Also, it is important for the children to see patterns and recognise what is the same and what is different. Look at this question 7 + 2 = 9 17 + 2 = 19 - what is the same/what is different? Notice that 17 is 10 more than 7 so the answer must be 10 more as the 2 remains the same. Talking about these numbers and asking the children to explain what they can see is very important to their mathematical learning. It will also be important this week to use ten frames and two separate colours of counters/crayons to show how a number can be made in many different ways. For example 12 + 6 = 18 and 10 + 8 = 18. The two different colour crayons will show the two numbers within the calculation. In the activities they usually use red and yellow - but it doesn’t matter but the visual aid helps the children to SEE how the number is made.
It is important that the children refer to the parts of the number as tens and ones (not tens and units) and that they see that numbers above ten are made up of TWO PARTS - TENS and ONES so that the number 17 is made up of 1 ten and 7 ones NOT a 1 and a 7 — these are the digits that mean we can write the number down and not the VALUE of the numbers. We have worked on finding one more and one less than a number above 10 for some time in Mental Maths and our daily starters, so hopefully the children will be used to this.
This week the children will need to use a Ten Frame - I have added on here for the children to us. TEN FRAME
The videos will support the children in their new learning and I have added a Power Point of number bonds to 20 and an activity to practice these number bonds. See what you notice with these number bonds - what is the same, what is different to the number bonds to 10? I have also added a couple of extra activities to support Number Bonds to 20, as well as a Flash Card activity.
Number Bonds to 20 Power Point
Number Bonds to 20 activity Activity 2 Flash Cards - Number Bonds to 20
In terms of Mental Maths please keep up with adding and subtracting numbers to 10 and 20 to make number bonds, ask your child what do I need to make 10 if I start at 6? What do I need to make 20 if I start at 16? You may find this website useful - it has some lovely Maths games for KS1 https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
I have also added a Daily Power Point with a mixture of questions - these are from 2019 and are for KS1 so some may be a bit tricky - but I know a lot of the children enjoy a challenge!! There are loads of these, so could try a couple each day!
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/spring-week-3/
I have added my own activity for Monday - the video does ask the children to complete an activity, which they can just do on a piece of paper, on with the support of the TEN FRAMES (which are added above) however, this activity comes with a few parent notes. It is important for the children to recognise how numbers can be separated to make addition easier - the use of the ten frame and different coloured crayons really helps the children with this concept. So when adding 8 + 6 = we need to notice that 8 just needs 2 more added to make 10, and then we just have 4 left to add as 6 can be separated into 2 + 4 in this question. This may seem like a long winded way to work, BUT it is an ESSENTIAL Mental Maths step for the children to SEE how numbers can be manipulated. We do this automatically in our heads when adding mental BUT this only happens IF you have been taught to do it. This focus is all about mental manipulation of numbers - that’s why we work on numbers under 20 for so long, to cement these concepts. Any questions - just let me know. Many thanks. (please encourage the children to use a TEN FRAME or NUMBER LINE and NOT their fingers!!) Number line to 20
Maths - Monday Adding by making 10
I have added a Number Bonds to 20 game to support this unit. Hopefully the children will recognise what is the same and what is different about the numbers as they compare these number bonds with the number bonds to 20. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go/resource/T-GO-02-number-bonds-1-to-20
SumDog Maths - I have also set all the children up with a SumDog login - an online learning platform. I have texted the children’s individual login details - I thought it would just be another activity to keep the children’s Mental Maths skills going! The school login code is ola We do have limited free access - but I thought it may appeal to some of the children. https://www.sumdog.com/en/
For English - We are going to move onto a unit on Explanation Texts - examining How Beans Grow -following on from our story unit on Jack and the Beanstalk before half term.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/explanation-how-beans-grow-980b
During this unit we will examine the structure of explanation texts, their purpose and the information they contain. This unit will also involve the retrieval of information to answer questions and has a focus on the spelling of common exception words, using letter names as well as sounds and using full stops correctly in independent writing.
In class, we will also plant some bean seeds to see if our explanation texts are correct - it would be great if you could do the same at home! The practical experience of doing always supports our written work. I would love to see your bean seeds being planted if you are able to do this at home.
I have added a few support materials to use alongside this unit IF you wish to use them - these are just added extra’s not a must. Bean word mat Power Point Bean Diary Time Lapse Video Bean Life Cycle Power Point Cut and Stick Activity
I hope you enjoy this Explanation unit - I have loved seeing all your English work so far! Keep up the hard work with your writing at home Year 1 - practice your handwriting, always remember to start your letters on the line, work on your Common Exception words and keep practicing your phonics every day.
Please take a look at Education City - password in the front of the children’s reading records - I will ensure that your child has work that they can access on this site. If your child hasn’t got their password because it was in the old reading record - just get in touch on dojo and I will send it to you.
https://www.educationcity.com/
Also, use homework page on class blog for Phase 3 phonics, handwriting and Oxford Owl site. http://www.ourladyassumption-sch.co.uk/yr1-homework
Phonics Focus for this week, we are having a bit of a re-cap over previously taught sounds - ‘ee’ what can you see? and ‘oo’ look at a book - BBC Bitesize is super for Phonics support and KS1 activities in general. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2p Also see https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk for phonics support. I have also added an image of the RWI phonics and rhymes that we use in class. Please try and practice these each day.
ee spelling activity ee phoneme spotter ee reading mat - roll the dice and read the line! ee Quick Read Power Point
oo read and write oo phoneme spotter oo reading mat oo booklet
Phonics Phase 3 Game https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/tg-ga-157-level-3-phonics-game-show
Phonics Phase 4 Games https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go/resource/tg-ga-158-level-4-phonics-game-show
Phonics Video Link - Set 2 and 3 sounds - the children may find listening to the little video helpful and they can join in too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR0BV1zaFDM
READING - Please use the Oxford Owl site for a wealth of free ebooks appropriate for Year 1. Please continue to read each day - books from this site and your child’s own books from home. You can continue to keep a record of daily reading in your child’s reading record. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/
It is really important that even if your child is in school they read to an adult at home each day, as due to reduced staff members in school we are not having daily Guided Reading lessons.
You may find these resources helpful to support reading at home - one of the posters added ahs lots of reading sites that you may find useful to support home reading. The sites are all free - you may just need to register. Reading Home Links Tips for supporting reading at home
Please DO NOT bring in the children’s work to school - but do post pictures into the PORTFOLIO section of Class Dojo. It is now a Government expectation that parents send in their child’s work so that their teacher can see what they are doing at home - many, many thanks for the time you are taking to send me your child’s work.
Try to do 3 hours of school work - 30 minutes of Phonics and Reading, 45 minutes of English and handwriting practice, 45 minutes of Maths including Mental Maths (we are working on doubling and halving within 10, adding one more or one less to a number under 30 in class) and an hour of Topic based work in the afternoon. Just try your best - that is all I ask - I know it is very hard when you are working at home too.
The handwriting format, the common exception words for Year 1 and the Phase Three phonics chart are on the Homework page of this site. Please see the following page. https://www.ourladyassumption-sch.co.uk/yr1-homework/2020/11/13/autumn-term-expectations
Monday - RE Families and Celebrations.
This topic is designed to develop the children’s knowledge and understanding of what it means to belong to the family called the Church. There are opportunities at this point to explore the celebration of Baptism. It introduces the topic by exploring what it means to belong to a family and the school community. The topic also gives opportunities for the children to know that God is our Father in heaven and about special celebrations that take place in Church. The children will learn about the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and that the title ‘Jesus, light of the world’ comes from this story.
Today we will be learning about the the time that Jesus got lost in the Temple and Mary and Joseph felt until Jesus was found again. We can link this to a time when the children may have lost something that they love - maybe a favourite toy that they lost - how did they feel, what did they do to find their toys and how did they feel hen they found out? This should help them to think about how Mary and Joseph would have felt about the loss of Jesus.
Please watch the video about the time that Jesus got lost in the Temple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOpssCROYBw Now take a look at the POWER POINT that also re-tells the story and discuss how Mary and Joseph would have felt loosing Jesus in the Temple. Now that you have watched, listen to and discussed the story of Jesus lost in the Temple, I would like the children to sequence the story. Please choose one of the sequencing activities that best suits your child - one is just the pictures, one is pictures with a little writing to do and then one is sequencing the pictures and then writing about what they can see. Sequencing Activity Sheets
Tuesday - Science we have a change of unit this half-term to Seasonal Change - where we will focus on the weather, how it changes, what changes take place, all about the four seasons and the differences between the seasons. Today we will start with Lesson 1 What do we know about the Weather?
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/seasons-and-change-3c8a
In this lesson, we are going to be learning about the four seasons and the weather. We are going to learn what a scientist is and how important they are. We are going to complete an observation of the weather outside of our windows and compare this to the four seasons. Lastly, we will be identifying the different weather in the four seasons. You will need a piece of paper and a pencil for this lesson.
EXTRA ACTIVITIES IF NEEDED Cut and Stick Snowman Cut and Stick clothes Seasons Writing just pick the ones you need for your child, so have a letter clue to support finding the missing word.
Wednesday - History. This half term we have a History focus based on Life in Living Memory and Childhood. In this unit we focus on how life has changed over time - food, clothes, music, travel, houses and toys. We will begin with toys today. It is quite tricky for the children to think about how their live has changed over time as they are only 5 and 6 years old, hence the reason why we will base this unit in toys - as they can see what toys they have and what their life is like at home and talk about that with you to discuss what your childhood toys were like. I have included a BBC Bitesize link to childhood through the ages - I wouldn’t like to hazard a guess at people’s ages - so just pick the decade that applies to you! You could look at the decade that grandparent’s were children too. These are lovely little videos that make it a bit easier for the children to ‘see’ how things have changed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zc9s6g8
I have included a video unit to support this topic - How Have People’s Lives Have Changed In Living Memory? Please follow the link and start from LESSON 3 How Have Toys Changed? Part 1
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/how-have-peoples-lives-changed-in-living-memory-e32c
The video provides the children with a few tasks to do - but I added a couple of extra tasks if you need them - one of them is a little fun activity to make a toy from a cup and a piece of string! Have fun!
Power Point Sorting Activity Cup Toy Instructions
RE - we will continue with our work on Jesus becoming lost in the Temple. I would like the children to really think about how Mary and Jesus would have felt about what happened to Jesus - please recap the video from Monday’s lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOpssCROYBw or the POWER POINT or both if you like! Then I would like the children to fill in the speech bubbles for Mary and Jesus about how they would have been feeling and the thoughts that they would have had. ACTIVITY
If you need an EXTRA ACTIVITY for this lesson, then please use the sheets added here and ask your child if they can re-tell the events in their own words from what they have learnt.
Thursday - Art This half term we are going to focus on how a series of different artists use colour in their work to portray what they see and their feelings towards their study. Our unit is called Colour Chaos. In this unit we will examine the work of Mondrian, Klee, Delaunary, Kandinsky and Pollack and look at how they used colour, space and shape to create their works of art. I he the children have fun with this unit and learn a little about some new artists.
Today’s lesson we focus on how Piet Mondrian used primary colous in blocks, with white spaces and black lines to create his abstract pieces of art work. I would like the children to experiment with this style and colours to create their own ‘block’ work in the style of Mondrian. The children will need some small shetts of yellow, blue, red and black paper - or they could plan out a piece of work on plain paper with a ruler and then colour it in with set colours. There is an activity sheet for this lesson for those children who may find planning on their own picture a bit tricky - I have added it, but I would rather see the children’s own creations. Have fun and Mrs V and I look forward to seeing the results!
Power point Fact Sheet about Mondrian Activity - supporting making a block picture
Friday - there are no added activities for Friday as we all finish school at 1.15pm today! But if you need some Friday afternoon activities, try some of these…..
Extra Activities/Sites to use - just in case you need activities for the Friday afternoon or have any extra time in the afternoons.
Oddizzi - This week’s focus is the Chinese New Year which begins on 12th February and is the Year of the Ox. This is an added extra - if you fancy a bit of extra Geography work - the units are great for Year 1 and all the activities are there for you to either print out if you an, or do from the screen onto paper if not. Take a look and see what you think - send me some examples of the children’s work if you have ago at the activities. This could be a perfect Friday afternoon activity if you need the children to be working whilst you are! Oddizzi - World Explorers Chinese New Year
Twinkl - to support parents with Home Learning, Twinkl, have produced a range of lessons and activities that you may find useful as added extra’s. Each week they will add new content and it is all free! Check it out and see if you what you think. These are extra’s and not part of my expectations for the week - but sometimes it is good to have a choice of activities and know which sites are worth looking at. These are resources that are used to support learning in school so certainly worth a look. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/home-learning-hub
BBC Bitesize - always worth a look for activities to support all subjects - particularly phonics. This link takes you straight to the KS 1 pages. There are super English, Maths, Science, Geography, History activities here - great place to look as suitable for KS1 children and always in line with what we do in class. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2p
Music - I have sent you all a personal login for your your child to a Music site set up by Miss Benson, our Music teacher, which will have new content added to it each week. Now your child can enjoy their music lessons at home too! New content will be added by Miss Benson each FRIDAY (not Wednesday as she had done previously)
Instructions from Miss Benson - The children have a new song to listen to called "Your Imagination." I'd like them to listen to it and follow the words carefully. There is also a 'flexible games' section where they can move to the pulse in a variety of ways!
PE - it is important for the children to keep active during lockdown - not quite as easy now that it is so cold outside! Children should be getting at least an hour of exercise each day - so with that in mind, don’t forget that Joe Wicks starts his ‘PE with Joe’ sessions again this week— starting Monday, with a new session on a Wednesday and Friday each week. I certainly loved these sessions last time and will be joining in! Hope you enjoy these sessions, and try to get out for a walk each day if you can.
RE - to support the children in their religious education, don’t forget to check out Fr Jim’s website. Fr Jim posts all the Masses here and the Children’s Liturgy activities are lovely. https://www.olablackpool.org/
Health and wellbeing Resources - I know this is a tricky time for us all - the children included - so I though I would add this little pack of activities to help remind them that they are all wonderful an amazing people. I particularly like the balloons activity about the things that the children all really great at and the positivity jar - we made one of these at home during the lockdown and it really focuses the mind on all that is good in the world. Take a look and use what you like and think will work with your child. Resource pack
Support for Parents - this information pack has a few useful links to support reading - I added the ones I thought most relevant to Year 1 under the reading heading - but the video at the bottom and the checklist for the day may be useful if you are finding it difficult to get into a good routine for Home Learning. The video can be accessed through the link and is suitable for KS 1 children. take a look if you think you would find it useful. Support for parents during Cnvid-19 Lockdown
PLEASE SEND ALL OF YOUR CHILD’S WORK THROUGH THE PORTFOLIO SECTION OF CLASS DOJO. Any problems, please just email me.
year1@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk
Have a good week and I look forward to seeing your work. Please make sure you have sent examples of the children’s work to me by 12pm on a Friday so that I can comment on it by the end of the school day (which on Friday is 1.30pm) - or you can post each day if that is easier for you! (That actually really helps me to keep on top of it!) I know many of you are setting our own routines for completing school work which fit around your own work commitments, and that is completely understandable, all I ask is that you are in touch and send me the children’s work AT LEASET ONCE A WEEK. Many, many thanks. I can’t express my grateful thanks for all you are doing - you are all wonderful! Mrs Hollinghurst
Year 1 - be good, work hard and stay safe……Mrs Hollinghurst, Mrs Veasey and Miss Collins
