Year 1
Team SWAN
Welcome to Year One!
Mrs Chiasson Miss Dery Miss Harding
Home learning- Monday, 12th July, 2021
Phonics
Please see the texts I sent this morning for links to today's phonics lesson.
English
Please write a recount about our visit to Newark castle.
Remember to include captial letters, finger spaces and full stops. I would also love to see some adjectives, connectives and some interesting sentence starters eg first, next, finally.
Maths
Watch the video and answer the questions, then play the game on topmarks.
Art
We have been learning Jack and the Beanstalk- Talk for writing
We had an awesome morning learning some cricket skills with Chance to Shine cricket!
We've been enjoying making and playing in our new 'castle' role play area, for our topic about castles. We have added props so we can practice retelling our Talk 4 Writing story, Jack and the Beanstalk.
We are so proud of our Super SWAN Lilly, the author. She has had her fabulous writing published. Well done Lilly!
Easter Fun!
After learning about the houses in London during The Great Fire, we designed and made our own Tudor houses.
We had a special book delivery today; after reading it, we went on an egg hunt and you’ll never guess what, we found an egg! We learned about animals that lay eggs and predicted what might be inside; could it be a crocodile, a chick, a tree frog or maybe a dinosaur? EDIT... We carefully monitored the egg for the week. First it cracked, then the crack grew bigger, until out popped a little chick. We were very excited and some of our class did some fabulous independent writing about chicks during exploring time.
Due to coronavirus restrictions, we were unable to go on our class walk around Newark, but look, our super duper families have been out exploring, finding the buildings that would have been around at the time of the Great Fire of London! !
As part of our celebrations for National Poetry Day, we have learned a poem called “Queue for the zoo” by Clare Bevan
Today, we had a TEAMS video call with Dee, Lilly’s Nan, who owns a Pancake Parlour. We asked her lots of questions about what it is like to run a cafe. The children listened beautifully and quite a few of them confidently asked her questions. We found out about the roles in a cafe, keeping everywhere clean, how to make pancakes and waffles, menus and many other exciting things. The children played beautifully in our cafe role play area afterwards.
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.
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:
What a fabulous poem!
Super reading!
Look who was keen to join in with our phonics this morning!
This week's home learning:
Well done to Lilly and Teddy for completing lots of their learning on TEAMS today!
Super Swans!
Phonics
You have been sent texts with a link to your child's phonics lesson today. This lesson is also available on TEAMS.
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Unfortunately, I can't put our usual RWI mat on here due to copywrite, I hope this helps. Thanks Twinkl!
Practice adding numbers by completing the 10, for example 8+5 is equal to 10+3 when the 10 frame is filled.
Geography
If you are able to access TEAMS, I would recommend completing this lesson on there.
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Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Practise reading!
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!
Thankful-Thursday (1) vid.mp4
Join me at 2.30pm today for our first live storytime on teams!
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igh - How many of these words can you read? (Click on the pictures to enlarge them) Twinkl
or practise reading ea words
Science
Draw a picture of a human body and label the parts or print out the sheet below- choose which sheet you want to print!
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Well done Walter and Teddy for completing your home learning on TEAMS today!
So far, Cat has travelled on a boat, a bus, a bike and a taxi.
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Read the words, then practice a book on Oxford Owl!
PSHE- Thoughtful Tuesday (click on the pictures to enlarge them.)
Phonics
Please follow the link on the link I sent you or log in to TEAMS.
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Practise reading these red words.
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!
Here are some example of other childrens abstract portraits, I can't wait to see yours!
Super Swans!
Look what we have been up to this week:
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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?
Friendly-Friday-1a.mp4
Phonics
Please follow the links I sent to you this morning.
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Thankful-Thursday1.mp4
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.
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Happy Birthday Walter!
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PowerPoint Slide Show - [Thoughtful-Tuesday-1] 2021-01-11 21-37-36.mp4
Can you see these places on the video?
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PowerPoint Slide Show - [Mighty-Monday].mp4
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.
My star of the week this week was Amelia. She has worked really hard to complete all of the learning and has sent it to me. I have been super-impressed by it all, well done Amelia!
Super Swan's Home Learning!
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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.
No cheating!
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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
Pronunciation guide
Reading
Please read the free e-books for your child's reading level.
Can you write some rhyming strings?
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?
Passion fruit
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.
Use these pictures to tell the story to your grown up or watch the video from yesterday.
Word bank
After watching the video, look at this document and talk about the answers together.
Or print out the sheets:
Answers for today’s maths.
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!😀
We went looking for signs of autumn in the playground and forest school area. We saw red, yellow, orange, green and brown leaves. We found pine cones and catkins. We even found some slug or snail eggs.
A beauty on the beast!
Eek, what a frightening place to read! Well done!
Aaah, what a relaxing read! Well done!
Ooh, a secret reading den! Well done!
Diving into reading! Well done!
Branching out in reading! Well done!
Mrs Chiasson has found it hard to put her books down!
Sssshhh, don't tell anyone but I think Year One could be the best class at doing this challenge!!! (There might be a few ideas under the poster!)
What could you do?
After reading 'One plastic bag', we decided to design an environmentally friendly bag for Isatou, the character in the story, to carry her money home from the market. We looked at the useful features of various bags, then designed our own. We made a 'mock' bag with paper and practised tying knots. We then made our own bags with fabric. Great work Year One!
We have been exploring range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. Here we practised mixing our own colours when copying beautiful African scenes.
Thank you for all your Harvest Festival donations. Everyone looks amazing in their rainbow clothes, well done Year One!
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)
Following lock down, we will be covering objectives from both the Year One curriculum and the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum to ensure we meet the needs of all the children in our class.
Year One Letter, September, 2020
