Year 1

Team SWAN

Welcome to Year One!

Mrs Chiasson    Miss Dery     Miss Harding

Please send me your child's work each day so I can see how they are getting on. We will be sticking to the planned curriculum so we don't miss out on any learning. I will try to provide videos to support learning wherever possible. We understand everyone is under lots of pressure but would appreciate it if you could encourage your child to do as much as they can. Contact me at least once a week to let me know how you are.

Please do not feel the need to print out any sheets. We are now using Microsoft TEAMS, as our online platform, and all work can be completed on there or in your child's home learning books.

Please message me at schiasson@loverslane.notts.sch.uk if I can support you in any way.

 https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/login?active-tab=students 

Useful website- Phonicsplay.co.uk has been made free during lockdown. It is a very useful way of practising phonics and the children love it.

Username: Jan21

Password: home

Possible half term activities:

Phonics

You have been sent texts with a link to your child's phonics lesson today. This lesson is also available on TEAMS.

Geography

If you are able to access TEAMS, I would recommend completing this lesson on there.

Computing

Look at a recipe, do you think it would matter if the pictures got all muddled up. Would the recipe still work? In computing,  it is important that the algorithm is in the correct order. If it isn't, we need to debug it! 

Science

Phonics

Please follow the link on the link I sent you or log in to TEAMS.

Art:   Pablo Picasso- Abstract Portraits

Watch the video then have a go at creating your own abstract portrait.

Can you draw pictures of facial features, cut them out and stick them in unusual places? Or you could cut up a picture of a face and move the parts in to unusual places.

Remember an abstract picture doesn't have to look like anything real, it could be very unusual!

Super Swans!

Look what we have been up to this week:

Maths - Num Tang Junior

As we finished our maths topic yesterday, I thought we'd practice a bit subitizing (quickly recognising how many objects are in a group) in this game.

Start on level 3, unless you want to practice on smaller numbers first. Look at the 4 cards find two pictures or numbers that match. Click on both pictures so they have a black outline. If they are right, they will dissappear and you will earn a point, see if you can collect ten points before the timer runs out to move on to the next level.

Afternoon Reading!

Teach you grown ups this song! 

Afterwards, can you remember how to write the words?

Phonics

Please follow the links I sent to you this morning.

Phonics

Please follow the links to the Read, write, inc videos you were sent this morning.

Computing

Last week in computing, hopefully you tried the lego building activity and found out that we need to give clear instuctions for something to work exactly as we'd like. In computing, we call this an algorithm.

Reading:

Read in 10 - try to relax and read for pleasure for at least 10 minutes.

You could read to yourself, to an adult, to a sibling or even to your pet or a teddy! 

You could read your school book, a book from home or a book on Oxford Owl.

Remember to record your read in your Reading Record. 

Computing....... without a computer!

• Get a set of construction toys or toys you can join together.
• Sit back to back with someone.
• Without looking, tell the other person how to build a model. eg ‘Take a red rectangular (cuboid) block and place a green square block on top, in the middle of the red block. Place a yellow square block on the top.’
• When you have finished, does the other persons model look like you wanted it to?
• Why do you think it might be different?
• If you made a model too, can you take a photo of both and send the pictures to me please.

Can you solve these problems and write them in your book?

Double 2 is

Double 4 is

Double 5 is

Double 6 is

Double 8 is

Practice singing the alphabet song then practice writing the alphabet in lower case letters. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Can you challenge yourself and find out how to write the alphabet in capital letters?

Reading

Please read your Read Write Inc book to someone at home.

Year One Christmas Homelearning ideas:

- Spend time with your family.

- Share books with your family.

- Go for a walk in your favourite place.

- Make someone laugh or smile.

- Play a board game.

- Write a message to someone to tell them why they are special.

- Count Christmas decorations on a walk. Have you seen more stars or more Santas?

- Write a diary about what your elf is doing.

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)