Year 1
Friday 2nd May 2025
Phonics/English
This week the children will need to complete pages 26, 40, and 43. These are the sounds/words they have been learning this week. For children working on the Phase 3 Workbook, please see individual post-its on relevant pages.
Maths
This week the children have been learning to tell the time to half past the hour using an analogue clock and have been sequencing events in time order. Can you sequence activities that you do over the weekend at o'clock and half past? Eg. At 7 o'clock I woke up. At half past 7 I ate breakfast etc.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 25th April 2025
Phonics/English
This week the children will need to complete pages 24, and 41. This week the children have ben reviewing the Phase 5 alternative graphemes for the sounds they already know. For children working on the Phase 3 Workbook, please see individual post-its on relevant pages.
Maths
This week the children have been learning to tell the time to the hour, using an analogue clock. They have been trying to remember that when the long hand (the minute hand) points to 12 that means o'clock and the shorter hand is the hour hand. Can you look at the clock at different points over the weekend and try to work out what hour it is? Perhaps you could discuss with an adult what time you woke up, had breakfast, went to the shops etc.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 4th April 2025
Phonics/English
This week the children will need to complete pages 21, 22 and 23. This week the children have ben reviewing the Phase 5 alternative graphemes for the sounds they already know. For children working on the Phase 3 Workbook, please see individual post-its on relevant pages.
Maths
This week the children have been re-capping learning of doubles, Follow the link below to watch a clip reminding you about what doubles are. Can you practise doubling numbers up to 10? You could roll a die and double the number you are shown, use objects at home to represent 'double', or draw the same value again and add them together to work out the total.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 28th March 2025
Phonics/English
This week the children will need to complete pages 18, 19 and 20. This week the children have ben reviewing the Phase 5 alternative graphemes for the sounds they already know. For children working on the Phase 3 Workbook, please see individual post-its on relevant pages.
Maths
This week the children have been learning about 2-digit numbers and noticing how numbers can be understood as having tens and ones. They've been counting from 1 to 100 and getting used to writing and working with numbers to 100. Can your child count to 100 whilst balancing on one leg? How many steps can they count when asked to walk to different places in your house or garden? Can your child tell you how many tens are in various 2-digit numbers? E.g. How many tens are in 23 (so 2 tens) and how many ones are in 23 (so 3 ones)?
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 21st March 2025
Phonics/English
This week the children will need to complete pages 14, 16 and 17. This week the children have continued to learn about Phase 5 alternative graphemes for the sounds they already know (for example, 'eer' or 'ere' for the /ear/sound). For children working on the Phase 3 Workbook, please see individual post-its on relevant pages.
Maths
This week the children have been learning about making quarters, before moving on to make the connection between fractions and division. Ask your child to use their knowledge of sharing equally to create equal pieces of paper by folding or cutting a square of paper into quarters. Can they cut food into quarters or share small objects out into four equal groups.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 14th March 2025
Phonics/English
This week the children will need to complete pages 7, 12 and 13. This week the children have continued to learn about Phase 5 alternative graphemes for the sounds they already know (for example, 'kn' or 'gn' for the /n/sound). For children working on the Phase 3 Workbook, please see individual post-its on relevant pages.
Maths
This week the children have started learning about making halves. They will also learn about making quarters before moving on to make the connection between fractions and division. Ask your child to use their knowledge of sharing equally to create equal pieces of paper by folding or cutting a sheet of A4 paper.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 7th March 2025
Phonics/English
This week the children will need to complete pages 25, 33, and 37. These are the skills they have been learning this week. For children working on the Phase 3 Workbook, please see individual post-its on relevant pages.
Maths
This week the children have continued looking at solving word problems, this time using multiples. Can you practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s? Watch the clips below to help, follow the links to Bitesize activities or collect objects from around your home to group and count.
Multiples Clip 1
Multiples Clip 2
Multiples Clip 3
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
World Book Day 2025
Put 6 March 2025 in your diary for World Book Day 2025!
Friday 28th February 2025
Phonics/English
Please complete pages 9, 10, and 11 in 'Phase 5 Workbook 2'.
For children working on the Phase 3 Workbook, please see individual post-its on relevant pages.
Maths
This week the children have started work on multiplication. Over the coming weeks they will learn the foundations of equal groupings, repeated addition, arrays and doubling. This week, draw your child's attention to groups of things around them. Ask if they can see any groups that are equal? For example, 2 socks and another 2 socks, or 3 potatoes on a plate, 3 potatoes on the next plate and 3 potatoes on another plate.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and e-books and record in reading logs.
Friday 14th February 2025
Phonics/English
The children have received 'Phase 5 Workbook 2'. Please complete pages 8, 15 and 36.
Maths
This week the children have been looking at solving word problems. Have a go at working out a couple of word problems from the grids on the word document below. Some are trickier than others! Look out for which words or phrases let you know if the problem is an addition or a subtraction question (for example; take away, how many left, altogether etc).
Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 7th February 2025
Phonics/English
Please complete pages 6 and 7 of Phase 5 - Workbook 2. Your child will be receiving their copy of Workbook 2 today.
Maths
This week in Maths, we have been counting beyond twenty and noticing how many tens and how many ones there are. Challenge your child to count beyond twenty. Can they count how many steps from one room in the house to another? Can they say how many tens and how many ones? For example if it was thirty-two steps, that would be 3 tens and 2 ones.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 31st January 2025
Phonics/English
Please complete all remaining pages of Phase 5 - Workbook 1. Your child will be receiving their copy of Workbook 2 next week!
Maths
This week in Maths, we have been re-capping some of our learning from the autumn term. As a year group, we are finding identifying different operations the most challenging. Click the links below to watch the video clips and complete the task or quiz to go with it.
Link - Bitesize Addition Activity
Link - Bitesize Subtraction Activity
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 24th January 2025
Phonics/English
This week in English, we have been looking at the pre-fix 'un'. Click the link below to watch the video clip and complete the task to go with it.
Maths
This week the children have continued looking at height and length in Maths. In class, they were measuring small objects using a ruler with centimetres as the unit. See if your child can they have a go at measuring things in their house using a ruler. Ask them if they can tell you how many centimetres long each object is.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 17th January 2025
Phonics/English
This week the children will need to complete pages 35, 36, and 37. These are the skills they have been learning this week.
Maths
This week the children have continued looking at height and length in Maths. Can they compare the height and length of different objects using a variety of different units (such as hands, finger spaces, toy cars)? Eg. The armchair is 5 hands wide but the radiator is longer at 8 hands wide.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
St Christopher's (Miss Bailey's) Class Assembly - 14th February
The children have all been given their lines for our class assembly. Please help them to learn these at home, thank-you!
Snow Day Work Friday 10th January 2025
There are no new tasks set for today, which will give the children the opportunity to read for pleasure and to complete any of this week's unfinished tasks.
Snow Day Work Thursday 9th January 2025
Phonics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BwWD2ZlvBY
Watch this ELS clip. Can you pause it between each sound card and say what the rhyme is? If you need a refresher, watch the whole clip first before testing yourself!
Once you have finished, perhaps watch an Alphablocks episode (on BBC iplayer or YouTube) whilst having a snack.
Extension - Phonics Defrost Game. Bury small toys or magnetic letters spelling out words in the snow. Use warm water to defrost and uncover them. When you reveal the object, segment and blend what you can see. E.g. Bury a toy car, or doll and when they are revealed with the warm water say "c-ar, car" and "d-o-ll, doll".
Maths
Let's recap our learning on measuring Length. Play this online game to practise your understanding of 'taller', 'longer' and 'shorter'.
https://www.iknowit.com/lessons/k-measurement-longer-taller-shorter.html
Extension - If you go outside, measure snowdrifts or piles of snow and describe them using some of our Mathematical vocabulary, "tall," "short," "taller," and "shortest." Can you compare snow piles to see which is tallest or shortest. Use the vocabulary to ask/answer questions like, "Can you find a pile taller than this one?"
Science
Our new Science topic for this half term is called 'Polar Adventurers'. We will be learning about the North and the South Pole, including the animals that live there, how they are adapted for where they live, and the clothing that explorers have to wear. Discuss the things you know about these places and the things you would like to know more about.
Can you do the explorer packing challenge? Get a backpack and collect all the things you think an explorer would need. For example, winter clothes, toy food, map, torch. Think about why each item is important for staying safe and warm in the polar regions.
Outdoor P.E
On Thursdays we have outdoor P.E. If you would like to go outside, go for a walk or do something physical like sledging.
If you would prefer to stay inside, play the "Penguin Waddle Race". Penguins carry their eggs on their feet, between their legs to keep the chicks warm. Can you be like a penguin and try to balance your 'egg' between your legs? Put a balloons or small object between your knees and waddle like a penguin. Turn it into a fun race or obstacle course.
Snow Day Work Wednesday 8th January 2025
Maths
In Maths today, we would have continued our topic on Length. In this story, you will see the characters trying to measure their little playroom using paperclips:
Measuring of larger objects can be done with your own hands or feet. Now, explore around your house and find different objects. Can you measure the objects using your hands and feet and then compare which are the longest/ tallest/ shortest? These images from your maths books will help show you how.
Extension - If you are outside having fun in the snow, can you measure how long things are using your own feet or hands – a car / garden path / bench / flower bed. You could even try measuring the height of things using your hands – a wall / fence / bush / tree / wheelie bin.
English
English is all about practising your reading and writing skills! Read your phonics reading book that was given to you before Christmas. If you have already read this more than three times now, remember that you can access more phonetically decodable reading books on Oxford Owl
Each child has also been set a huge selection of phonetically decodable ebooks through our Essential Letters and Sounds phonics scheme. Instructions and your login details can be found in your Reading Log (please also see instructions on Tuesday the 7th below).
Phonics
Play 'Snowball Sounds'. Write graphemes or simple words on pieces of paper and crumple them into "snowballs." Take it in turns to pick a snowball, open it, and read the phoneme or word. For extra fun, you could throw the snowball into a "snowbank" (a basket or bowl) after saying the sound or word correctly.
You could have a go at this game to see how many harder to read and spell words you can spot:
https://www.teachyourmonster.org/sightwords
Science
We are about to start our new Science topic – 'Polar Adventurers.'
Please watch these videos and have think about what you already know about the Polar regions. Now, also think about what you would like to find out about the Polar regions.
https://www.youtubekids.com/watch?v=q6CfYqOMhY8&hl=en-GB
https://www.youtubekids.com/watch?v=hlZXf-nqQbU&hl=en-GB
Music
Snow Dance Party
Sing and dance to winter-themed songs such as:
"Frosty the Snowman" https://www.youtubekids.com/watch?v=k6zW225k_O0&hl=en-GB
"Let It Go" from Frozen
https://www.youtubekids.com/watch?v=8XdZ1T1StY0&hl=en-GB
"Walking in a Winter Wonderland"
https://www.youtubekids.com/watch?v=zSUJQFUv4AQ&hl=en-GB
Snow Day Work Tuesday 7th January 2025
Phonics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BwWD2ZlvBY
Watch this ELS clip. Can you pause it between each sound card and say what the rhyme is? If you need a refresher, watch the whole clip first before testing yourself!
Once you have finished, perhaps watch an Alphablocks episode (on BBC iplayer or YouTube) whilst having a snack.
Extension - Snowman phoneme blending game. Cut out lots of circles of paper. Write a consonant ending, that is a single grapheme or two (e.g., "-g," "-ck") on the largest circles. On the middle circles, write a vowel (eg., "-a", "-o"). On the smallest circles, write consonant or consonant blend (e.g., "c," "st," "r"). The aim of the game is to make a snowman by stacking paper circles. Mix and match to make real and alien words then read them out loud using your blending skills.
Maths
In Maths today, we would have continued our topic on Length. Watch yesterday's clip again and consider how we can measure the length of different objects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wUsdsae0ro&list=PLkB1zS4-Z3ctvN5bNBZANTvbuyxL4bbPS Measuring can be done with standard units of measurement (centimetres and metres) or non-standard units (salamanders!). If you didn't have anything to measure standard units, what could you use? Perhaps paperclips, rubbers, lego bricks or toy cars? Now, explore around your house and find different objects. Can you measure the objects using different non-standard units and then compare which are the longest/ tallest/ shortest? This new clip shows you how to accurately measure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8o7n-A0SC0
Extension - If you are outside having fun in the snow, can you measure how many rocks long a bench or a patch of grass is? How about how many sticks tall your snowman is?
English
English is all about practising your reading and writing skills! Read your phonics reading book that was given to you before Christmas. If you have already read this more than three times over the holidays, remember that you can access more phonetically decodable reading books on Oxford Owl https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/.
Each child has also been set phonetically decodable ebooks through our Essential Letters and Sounds phonics scheme. Instructions and your login details can be found in your Reading Log.
Extension - If you are lucky enough to be able to go outside and play in the snow, take some photographs of things that you have seen or made. Now, have a go at writing some sentences about what you did - what does each photograph show? If you do not go outside, you could have a go at creating a story about a snowman, winter animals, or a snowy adventure. Draw pictures to illustrate your story afterwards
R.E
In R.E this half term, we are going to be doing the topic 'Galilee to Jerusalem'. In this topic, we begin by hearing about the Bible story 'The Presentation in the Temple'. After Jesus had been born, Mary and Joseph took Him to a temple. Simeon and Anna were already at the temple and were very excited to see Jesus. Watch this clip to find out what happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leN-xNrkjbo
Simeon called Jesus a "light to the nations." Think about how Jesus brings light into our lives. What can you do to 'bring light' to the lives of people around you? (Jesus brings light into our lives by showing us love and helping us feel happy and safe. We can bring light to others by being kind, sharing, and helping them when they need it.) Draw pictures or write words explaining what you could do. Extension - With your parents, light a candle and say a simple prayer thanking Jesus for being the light.
Snow Day Work 6th January 2025
Phonics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BwWD2ZlvBY
Watch this ELS clip. Can you pause it between each sound card and say what the rhyme is? If you need a refresher, watch the whole clip first before testing yourself!
Once you have finished, perhaps watch an Alphablocks episode (on BBC iplayer or YouTube) whilst having a snack.
Maths
In Maths today, we would have been starting our topic on Length. Watch this clip, and then explore around your house and find different objects. Can you compare the objects using the Maths vocabulary taller, shorter, longer, tallest, shortest, longest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wUsdsae0ro&list=PLkB1zS4-Z3ctvN5bNBZANTvbuyxL4bbPS
Extension - If you are outside having fun in the snow, could you build different height snow towers, snowmen or snow animals and use our maths vocabulary to describe them?
English
English is all about practising your reading and writing skills! Read your phonics reading book that was given to you before Christmas. If you have already read this more than three times over the holidays, remember that you can access more phonetically decodable reading books on Oxford Owl https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/.
Extension - If you are lucky enough to be able to go outside, have a go at writing some of your phonics sounds in the snow using a stick or your finger. Can you put the sounds together to write words of things that are around you (for example, write 'tree', 'bushes', 'flower' or 'car' in the snow). Perhaps you could build a snowman or make a snow angel and write names for them in the snow too?
Geography
In Geography this half term, we are going to be doing the topic 'Our Local Area'. In this topic, we are going to be thinking about the world immediately outside of our houses and how it relates to the rest of the world. Do you know what town you live in? Do you know what the county is? Or the country that we live in? For todays task, we will start with thinking about the places closes to us. Look out of three windows in your home. Draw a picture of what you can see and write a sentence about each one. Can you see any trees, cars or buildings?
Extension - If you are lucky enough to be able to go for a walk in the snow, think about what places are just beyond what you can see through your window. What things can you see on your walk, that you couldn't see from your house?
Friday 20th December 2024
Over the Christmas Holidays, how many of these activities can you do?
- Write a letter to Santa’s elves, it’s usually Santa that gets all the post!
- Can you design a Christmas card and send it to your favourite person?
- Have a dance party in the living room to your favourite festive songs.
- Talk to your family about your favourite memories of this year and the best things that happened to you.
- Feed the birds - they can get very hungry at this time of year.
- Get cosy and have a festive film night.
- If you’re lucky enough to receive Christmas presents, write thank you notes and send them. Can you include something you loved about the gift?
- And of course, the most essential thing to do is… Have lots of festive FUN!
Merry Christmas! Love from all of the Year 1 Staff
Please Note - We have completed the 'NSPCC - Pants are Private' activities this week, in line with our curriculum. See the video attached below:
Friday 13th December 2024
Writing
In English, we have been learning how to write a set of instructions. We started thinking about what we things might need and listing them. After that, the children wrote a set of instructions with each instruction numbered and starting on a new line with a time connective like this:
1) First,
2) Next,
3) Now,
4) Then,
5) After that,
6) Finally,
If, you are making any food or decorations with your child, ask if they might be able to say what will be needed. Then, together you could try saying what you will do first, next, after that, and finally. This could just be a spoken activity or your child might enjoy writing it down too.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that reading books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs. Lots of new ebooks have been set for your children and can be accessed using the login details stuck into your child’s Reading Log.
Nativity
The children have all been working hard practising for our Christmas Nativity performance. Please continue to help your child practise their lines – they are all doing really well! Thank-you for all the reply slips regarding costumes and for your ongoing support.
Friday 6th December 2024
Maths
This week the children have been learning their 2D shapes (circle, triangle, square, rectangle) and 3D shapes (sphere, pyramid, cube, cuboid). These shapes can be seen everywhere in everyday life! To practice memorising their shapes, they can try to identify the 3D shapes of household objects such as a football, a Rubik's cube or a book. They can also try to identify 2D objects when watching TV, keeping in mind that 2D objects are flat.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Science
The children have completed their Science 'Celebrations' topic in school this week. We have looked at how food can be used in different celebrations for both eating and as symbols for something else. We have learned about the symbolic meaning of a Christingle. Watch this video to remind yourself of the different parts, and perhaps have a go at creating one for yourself!
Nativity
The children have all been given their lines for our Christmas Nativity performance. Please practise these until they are confident saying them off-by-heart. Last week, they were also given a letter about their costumes. Please read this and return it to school asap. Thank-you!
Friday 29th November 2024
Phonics/English
This week we are sending home a phonics workbook. Each week we will list the pages to be completed by the children. This week the children will need to complete pages 32, 33, and 34. These are the skills they have been learning this week.
Maths
This week the children have been doing subtraction sentences using numbers to twenty. To practise this, make two piles of cards, one with the numbers 1–7 and the other with the numbers 17–19. Take a card from each of the piles and write an equation subtracting the smaller number from the greater number. Can you solve the calculation? Make sure your digits are formed correctly and are the right way around (eg. if the answer is 10, it is not written as 01). Shuffle the cards and repeat the activity.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Nativity
The children have all been given their lines for our Christmas Nativity performance. Please practise these until they are confident saying them off-by-heart.
Friday 22nd November 2024
Phonics/English
This week we are sending home a phonics workbook. Each week we will list the pages to be completed by the children. This week the children will need to complete pages 26, 27, 30 and 31. These are the skills they have been learning this week.
Maths
This week the children can practise addition within 20, in particular, adding values to 10. Roll a die to generate a value and add this to 10. Can your child write this calculation as a number sentence? Eg. 10 + 3 = 13
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Nativity
The children have all been given their lines for our Christmas Nativity performance. Please practise these until they are confident saying them off-by-heart.
Friday 15th November 2024
Phonics/English
This week we are sending home a phonics workbook. Each week we will list the pages to be completed by the children. This week the children will need to complete pages 24, 25, 39 and 40. These are the skills they have been learning this week.
Maths
This week the children have been working on comparing and ordering numbers to 20.
Using post-it notes or pieces of paper, help your child to write out numbers 1 to 20. Gather them into a pile and then ask your child set them out in order from smallest to greatest. Place a counter on one of the numbers. Ask your child to say what is one more than the number the counter is on (e.g. “15 is one more than 14”). Repeat this with one less (e.g. “19 is one less than 20”).
You could try it with A4 sheets of paper with the numbers set out on the floor and your child could act as the counter by physically moving themselves up and down the number line as they say ‘one more’ or ‘one less’ than a given number.,
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Science
Over the next two weeks, the children are being encouraged to make their own musical instrument at home and bring it in for our Science lesson on sound. This could be something as simple as a margarine tub with beads in it (a shaker), or a large chocolate tub decorated to be used as a drum. Use your imagination and feel free to decorate the instruments to make them bright and colourful! Please bring it in before Wednesday 20th November.
Friday 8th November 2024
Phonics/English
This week we are sending home a phonics workbook. Each week we will list the pages to be completed by the children. This week the children will need to complete pages 17, 18, 19 and 20. These are the skills they have been learning this week.
Maths
This week the children have re-capped previous learning of writing addition number sentences and representing them in a part-part-whole model. To do more of this at home, perhaps roll a die to generate two values. Write these as the two parts in a part-part-whole model and then work out what the whole (total value) is. Now write a number sentence to show this information.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Science
Over the next two weeks, the children are being encouraged to make their own musical instrument at home and bring it in for our Science lesson on sound. This could be something as simple as a margarine tub with beads in it (a shaker), or a large chocolate tub decorated to be used as a drum. Use your imagination and feel free to decorate the instruments to make them bright and colourful! Please bring it in before Wednesday 20th November.
Instruments children have made in previous years...
Friday 25th October 2024
Phonics/English
Your child has their own phonics workbook, which is just for home. Each week we will list the pages to be completed by the children. This week the children will need to complete pages 11 and 12. These are the skills they have been learning this week.
Your child might enjoy checking their knowledge of the Harder to Read and Spell Words they have already learned in Phase 2, Phase 3 and Phase 4 here:
https://epicphonics.com/games/play/free-penalty-shootout-tricky-words-game
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Maths
This week the children have been learning about positional language using ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th / first, second, third, fourth, fifth).
On post-it notes or pieces of paper, support your child to write the numerals 1 to 5.
1
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Next, explain that when we talk about a position – for example, children queuing up in a line – we say that the child in position 1 (the front of the line) is 1st; the child in position 2 is 2nd; position 3 is 3rd, and so on. Use the image below when discussing this. Now, help your child to change their numeral into an ordinal number by adding ‘st’ ‘nd’ ‘rd’ ‘th’ (you could also write each as a word too if your child wants).
1st
first | 2nd
second | 3rd
third | 4th
fourth | 5th
fifth |
Finally, ask your child to get 5 of their toys and to line them up in a queue with a clear starting point for first position (e.g. line them up at the door). Can your child use the pieces of paper they made with ordinal numbers to label the position of each toy?
**Challenge – can your child complete the sentences below?
Friday 18th October 2024
Phonics/English
This week we are sending home a phonics workbook. Each week we will list the pages to be completed by the children. This week the children will need to complete pages 9 and 10. These are the skills they have been learning this week.
Maths
This week the children can practise writing subtraction number sentences and representing them in a part-part-whole model. Perhaps roll a die to generate two values. Write these as the two parts in a part-part-whole model and then work out what the whole (total value) is. Now write a number sentence to show this information. For example, if you roll 4 and 3, the number sentence would become 7-4=3 or 7-3=4.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 11th October 2024
Phonics/English
Last week we sent home a phonics workbook. This week the children will need to complete pages 7 and 8 in their phonics workbook.
Maths
The children also have a short Maths activity. This week can the children practise their number bonds to 10 using the number frames: https://mathsbot.com/manipulatives/numberFrames
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Each week, e-books will be added to the children's Oxford Owl accounts. Your child’s login and password details are stuck into your child’s reading log. Feel free to choose books from the list supplied. We encourage the children to read a book at least three times. Once for decoding, a second time to increase fluency and the third time to encourage expression and understanding (this doesn't have to be all in the same night). If you encounter any issues with this system, please let us know so we can resolve it quickly. Remember to record any books read in the log. Thank you and happy reading!
Friday 4th October 2024
Phonics/English
This week we are sending home a phonics workbook. Each week we will list the pages to be completed by the children. This week the children will need to complete pages 5 and 6. These are the skills they have been learning this week.
Maths
The children also have a short Maths activity. This week can the children practise writing numerals to ten correctly with the corresponding words. Play the 'words to 10' game below to practise this skill.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
As of last week, e-books have been added to the children's Oxford Owl accounts. If your child has brought their reading log into school this week, their login and password details are now in there. Feel free to choose books from the list supplied. We encourage the children to read a book at least three times. Once for decoding, a second time to increase fluency and the third time to encourage expression and understanding (this doesn't have to be all in the same night). If you encounter any issues with this system, please let us know so we can resolve it quickly. Remember to record any books read in the log. Thank you and happy reading!
Friday 27th September 2024
Phonics/English
The children have been working hard in Phonics to recall all that they learned in Phase 2, Phase 3 and Phase 4 from Reception. Please look in your child’s Guided Reading log for their Essential Letters and Sounds eBook sign-in card. Follow the instructions to sign-in and see which of the ‘Little Blending Books’ your child would like to practise with. Each Little Blending book supports blending skills using focus sounds. First, your child needs to blend the word on a page, then they can turn over to see the picture and press the sound button to hear if they read it correctly. You can access the eBook library from a phone, tablet, laptop or PC. You could even go large and mirror it on a TV screen.
Maths
The children have continued working on their number knowledge within 10. This week we have been looking at comparing numbers and using the following mathematical language:
- more than
- less than
- 1 more
- 1 less
On 10 pieces of A4 paper, can your child write the digits 1-10? Next, jumble them up and see if they can re-order them correctly on the floor going from the smallest to the greatest number (1 to 10). Ask your child to stand on a particular number (e.g. 4). Next, ask them to move to a number that is 1 more than that number (e.g. 5) or 1 less than that number (e.g. 3). You could take it in turns where you stand on a number and they give the instructions.
You could do a further challenge where you name a number (e.g. 7) and ask your child to pick up all the numbers that are more than that number (e.g. 8, 9 and 10) or less than that number (e.g. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1).
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 20th September 2024
Phonics/English
The children have been working hard to improve their fine motor skills this week, so that they are ready to do neat handwriting in Year One. Can they continue to work on this by drawing around small objects (eg. counters or coins), using the pincer grip to pick up small items (eg. using tweezers to pick up things) or building the strength in their hands by playing with something malleable such as sand and slime.
Maths
The children have continued working on the number to value correspondence within 10. On 10 pieces of paper (or post-it notes) can your child write the digits 1-10? Next, jumble them up and see if they can re-order them correctly. Perhaps get them to close their eyes and remove one of the pieces of paper. Can they work out which value is missing? Now, how many representations of each value can your child find, eg. three toy cars can be placed next to the paper with 3 on it, as could a domino with three dots, or a flower with 3 leaves etc.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.
Friday 13th September 2024
Phonics/English
The children have been working hard to remember their phase three and phase two phonemes. Each child has been given a sound mat to practise these at home each night before reading their book (electronic copy below). Please help your child to build their confidence with the recall of these sounds.
Maths
The children will also have a short Maths activity. This week can the children practise writing numerals to ten correctly. If they find this tricky, for example write in reverse, perhaps they can copy the numerals below an example done by an adult.
Reading
The children will read at least once a week with a teacher and have been given a reading book or an e-book to practise reading at home. Please ensure that these books are returned to their bags after reading at home, so that they can be re-read in school and used with other children. Please encourage your children to read other books and record in reading logs.