Year 1

Team SWAN

Welcome to Year One!

Mrs Chiasson    Miss Dery     Mrs Nicholson

When your child has completed their home learning, if you are able, it would be fantastic if you could email pictures of it to me so I can see what they have been up to. Please let me know if you are happy for me to share your child's work on the website so we can celebrate how amazing they are!

Please date your child's work in their book. I will be collecting all of the home learning in on our return to school. I can't wait to see what they have done!

Read, Write Inc phonics

Reading

Please read the free e-books for your child's reading level.

Can you write a rhyming sentence using the words you have thought of?

eg The frog sat on the log.

Remember to use 'Fred fingers'; write a capital letter at the start, leave spaces between words and put a full stop at the end. 

How can you make an ice cube? Put water in a waterproof container. How can you turn it into ice?

PSHE - What's your emergency?

English

Warm up- 

Can you be the teacher? Ask your grown up or someone in your family to 'show me' one more than a number up to 10 or one less than a number up to 10. How can you check if they are right?

Warm up- 

Can you be the teacher? Ask your grown up or someone in your family to 'show me' one more than a number up to 10 or one less than a number up to 10. How can you check if they are right?

Traditionally, at Diwali, everyone in the family helps to tidy the house.

Can you do a helpful job like tidying your bedroom, sorting out your clothes/toys or perhaps dusting the house?

Can you write a fact about Meerkats?

Use your 'Fred fingers' to sound out the words. Remember to use a capital letter, leave finger spaces and put a full stop at the end of your idea.

Science

Today, if you have the ingredients, we are going to observe what happens to an egg when it is heated. Please follow the instructions below:

If you don't have any eggs, can you heat something else, such as chocolate or cheese, and investigate how it changes.

Pretend you are Sonny and you are telling someone where you went.

Draw a picture of a place that you think Sonny would like to visit.

Think of your idea then use your 'Fred fingers and the word bank to write your sentence.

eg 'On Monday, I went to .....',

You could write what it was like eg 'It was hot.' 

Remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

English - Meerkat Mail

Can you use this storymap to help you retell the story of Meerkat Mail? What do story tellers do? Perhaps you could try changing your voice to make it sound even more interesting. You could video your story time or tell your family the story! 

Computing

Log in to www.purplemash.com using the log in details in your reading diary. Please message me if you can't find it. Click on 2do's then have a go at 2explore. Click on the red circle to record your tune, then the green triangle to play it back. Don't forget to press save so I can listen to your masterpiece!

Feel free to have a go at some of the other 2dos.

This term our topic is:

We are going to Africa.

As part of our topic, ‘We are going to Africa‘, we have been learning about the Masai tribes in Tanzania. We learned that they live very traditionally in houses made from sticks, mud and straw. Today, we had a go at building miniature mud houses for some small world people. We used a simple tepee design and used our knotting skills, from our earlier bag making in DT, to join them together. We had lots of fun. We gave it a good go but decided it is very hard to build mud houses!😀

Seesaw Information for parents

Computing/Technology 

Here at Lovers’ Lane we are continually looking at ways to make learning more accessible and engaging for the children and one of the ways in which we would like to do this is through our use of technology in the classroom. When using technology it can be difficult to capture the work the children do so we would like to set up accounts for the children using an app called Seesaw. 

Seesaw (https://web.seesaw.me/), is a secure online journal where students can document and reflect on what they are learning in class. Your child will be able to add the things we work on (including photos, videos, worksheets, drawings and voice recordings) to their Seesaw journal.  

In order for your child to use Seesaw, the app needs your child’s name. This is so that teachers are able to assign work and so that your child is able to associate work like their photos, videos or voice recordings with their account. Seesaw only uses this information to provide the service and doesn’t advertise in Seesaw, create profiles of students, or share or sell your child’s personal information or journal content. It only adds their name to the teachers’ class list. You can read more about their strong privacy promises here: https://web.seesaw.me/privacy. 

Under an EU law called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in order for your child to use Seesaw, we must get your consent. As a school, we are incredibly excited by the opportunities Seesaw will provide. Its use here at Lovers’ Lane will help us to continue to make the curriculum more exciting and engaging for all children. 

You will receive a message by text with a link to a permission form. Please complete this as soon as possible. If you do not have internet access please contact your child’s teacher for a paper permission slip. If you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to email me:

lwilliams@loverslane.notts.sch.uk

Kind regards, 

Mrs L Williams (Computing Lead)