Dear all
Here is our home learning for the week including our weekly family science activity, VE day art challenge and music exploration. Please check that you have seen other blog posts. This week there is a separate history VE day post. We so hope that you enjoy this learning together. Remember that you can send us a piece of the children’s work or an activity that they want to share every week on our new class email addresses:
Turtleclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Pufferfishclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
We would love to see what the children are getting up to at home!
Just a reminder about the letter that Mr Cunningham sent you this week from the DFE. It will have a daily phonics lesson for the children following the letters and sounds programme that we use in school. We hope it is helpful!
Remember also to keep an eye out for the teachers news blog below this entry. This and other blog posts may appear at different times so keep your eye out!
Don’t forget to look at Sumdog for maths, reading and spelling challenges which will be updated each week. See also mymaths for maths challenges.
English reading and writing
The ‘Katie in London’ sequence of lessons is a great learning activity. You will need a pencil and paper before you start the online learning for this story! You will be doing some phonics focusing on the igh, ie and i-e sound as well as committing the story to memory, using capital letters and writing your own stories! If it is a bit tricky or moves too fast for your child just focus on the key phonics being taught, or one version of the sound that your child knows e.g. igh, and on verbally retelling the story and writing some simple sentences rather than retelling the whole story. Do what you feel is right for your child.
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/katie-in-london-year-1-wk2-1
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/to-commit-a-story-to-memory-year-1-wk2-2
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/to-use-capital-letters-for-proper-nouns-year-1-wk2-3
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/to-begin-to-write-our-story-year-1-wk2-4
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/to-continue-to-write-our-story-year-1-wk2-5
Reading
The link below also has a range of ideas of how to develop a love of reading for your child. See page three. We are sure that you are doing many of them already!
Menu of reading response ideas KS1
Also see the Collins connect PDF below for access to lots of books to read online.
ONLINE READING COLLINS CONNECT
Spelling
Choose a set 1 or set 2 and practise spelling.
Set 1: to, she, his, has
Set 2: where, here, school, have
Try writing these in different ways: using paint brushes and water, different writing tools, drawing in flour … what other ideas can you think of?
Maths- measure
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Watch these videos
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/maths/to-compare-lengths-and-heights-of-objects-year-1-wk1-1
Challenge
- What could you use to measure how tall you are? Is it easier to measure someone lying down or standing up?
- What could you use to measure the length of your bedroom?
- Which room in your house is the longest/shortest?
Science
Watch this clip about minibeasts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z44g9j6
Minibeasts use all sorts of different ways to protect themselves from predators. Can you talk to your grown ups and decide what adaptations you think the minibeasts have developed to protect themselves?
Make a model of a minibeast from the junk and other materials you may have in your home. What adaptations and protections can you give your minibeast? Can you write a description of your minibeast explaining how it will protect itself from others including describing how where it lives may offer some protection?
Topic
Knights.
Over the centuries knights have worn very different things to protect themselves in battle. Look at the photographs below. What differences do you notice about the clothes they were wearing over 1000 years ago and in the 17th Century? What is the same about the clothes? What materials are they made from? Which ones do you think would protect you the best? Which do you think would be the easiest to wear and why?
Perhaps you could draw yourself in a set of armour from the period you like best?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ovVbk4hP0
Watch a short video about how to joust like a knight!
Music
Hens and Roosters
Listen carefully to the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHYSx6x1Ttw
Can you hear how the music shows the hens and roosters scratching the ground?
Can you hear them crowing and clucking? Create your own hens and rooster music using everyday objects.
Family science
Family Science Activity – Friday 1st May
Please open the following attachment for family science this week.
Family Science Activity 1.5.20 (1)
Have fun!
Art Challenge Celebrations for VE Day
Portsmouth Naval Base is looking to mark the occasion of VE day and need YOUR HELP! They have asked for you to draw pictures on the subject of WW2 & VE DAY and as an extra challenge try to incorporate a rainbow somewhere in the picture (even in the corner). The pictures will be displayed within the Naval Base and once the day is over they hope to make contact with local nursing homes to distribute the pictures to help cheer our elderly community. If you would like your work sent to the Naval base you will have to email it to me by Monday evening. However, all work sent to me, even after Monday, will still be displayed, as usual, on the Art Blog.
In addition to the drawings for the Naval Base, I would appreciated any art and craft linked to this important historic occasion , such as bunting, chalk drawings, figures of soldiers, planes or medals. I know, as always, you will blow me away with your imaginative ideas and creativity.
Please email your artwork to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Thank you
Keep creating and keep safe!
Mrs Pearson