Danescourt Primary School Year 1 - Home Learning Tasks- Fortnight beginning 4th May English Daily Activities Reading: Aim to read up to 5 times per week with your child. Reading every day would be even better. Share books with people at home. Discuss what you liked/disliked. Listen to stories read by a family member. Listen to these lovely online stories linked to our context: The Tiny Seed - Eric Carle (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6wTeT2cKA Cbeebies - Extraordinary Gardener https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000hlrr/cbeebies-bedtime-stories-748-sir-sam-mendes-the-extraordinary- gardener Spelling: Continue to practise weekly spellings using the LSCWC method. (Look at the word. Say the word. Cover the word. Write the word and finally check the word. Ask a family member to test you. Complete at least 6 spellings from the word cards on the following pages. Phonics: Focus on the sounds ‘ow’ and ‘oi’. Practise spelling and writing the words in the phonic word lists. Play phonic splat – write the words onto pieces of paper and lay out on the floor. Adult to say one of the words and child to ‘splat’ the word using a fly swatter, wooden spoon, spatula or the child can jump on the word. Spot ‘ow’ and ‘oi’ words in your reading books. Can you write a list of the words that you find? Complete the oi wordsearch (see sheet at end of document) Phonics Play (select phase 3 and ‘oi’ then ‘ow’. https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/dragons-den Maths Daily Activities Danescourt Primary School Year 1 - Home Learning Tasks- Fortnight beginning 4th May Times Tables: In class we have been learning our 10 x tables. Can you complete bronze and silver level? Bronze: reciting your tables in order. Silver: Random order x table facts e.g. 1 x 10 =, 2 x 10 = Time: Watch this video with your child and use a clock to discuss the numbers around the outside, the big hand and the little hand. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhk82hv/articles/zcmdwxs If possible move the hands to different o’clock and half past times and ask your child to say the time. Ask your child what would be an hour later then e.g. 3 o’clock, etc. Play the time game (located underneath the video) https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhk82hv/articles/zcmdwxs Complete the time worksheets (see end of document) Telling the Time Game - Select read time to the hour and then select the 12 hour clock (Extension - select read time to the hour and half hour) https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling_the_time# Hickory Dickory Clock https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/ Time Tools http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L9643/index.html Context Based Learning Across the Curriculum Our current Context for Learning is: Sowing and Growing Below you will find twelve activities to support our current Context for Learning. Your task is to complete at least 8 of the activities below over the next two weeks. The only rule is that you must do at least one activity from each area of learning to make sure that you are learning across the whole curriculum. Languages, Literacy and Communication Mathematics and Numeracy Complete the defining frame (see end of document) for our new Context for Can you make your own flower head clock out of a paper plate or paper. Learning entitled ‘Sowing and Growing’ - tell us everything you know, or would like to find out about it. Danescourt Primary School Year 1 - Home Learning Tasks- Fortnight beginning 4th May Choose 5 ideas from your defining frame. Write a sentence about each, telling Complete the scavenger hunt activity as part from the health and wellbeing section. us what you would like to find out about the new context, giving reasons why. Create a block graph of what you saw. Which was the most/least popular thing that you Remember to use capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and use your sound saw? Was there anything that you couldn’t find? If so, why do you think that is? fingers to sound out unknown words. Extension: Choose 3 of your ideas and research them online, in books, ask an adult etc and find the answers yourself. Expressive Arts Humanities Own nature art - using items collected on your scavenger hunt, can you create Lots of famous artists have painted flowers over the centuries. This week you will be your own masterpiece, using natural materials? Extension: Use your yellow appraising work by a famous artist - Vincent Van Gogh – Sunflowers. Answer the hat (positive) and black hat (negative) to evaluate your work. following questions: What do you see? What do you think about that? What does it make you wonder? Using the Thinking Hats, write about what you like (yellow hat) and do not like (black hat) about this famous painting. If you could change it, how would you? (using your green hat) How does the picture make you feel? (red hat) Danescourt Primary School Year 1 - Home Learning Tasks- Fortnight beginning 4th May Draw and label your own flower. Decorate it in any way you wish - collage, Green space is very important to us, animals and plants. Can you design your own paint, colouring pencils. Be creative as you want! garden, making sure that you include a variety of plants, flowers as well as things that you enjoy going on outside i.e swing, trampoline etc. Think about what you could include to encourage wildlife to your garden including a pond, bird feeder/box, bug houses etc. Health and Wellbeing Science and Technology Cosmic Kids Yoga - Flower Power Sequencing seed growth - look at the pictures of how to plant a seed. Can you draw your own sequencing frame and put the pictures in the right order? Extension: Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlsG4ZqHVDE write about each stage, remembering to use your time connectives i.e. first, next, then, Follow each step as you transform yourself into a beautiful blossoming afterwards, finally, etc. flower! Scavenger Hunt - What can you see? Watch the video. Using your White Hat (facts) can you write about what each part of the plant does? Extension: look at the plants in your garden, or during your daily walk, can Make a list of natural objects you may see outside e.g. smooth leaf, spiky leaf, you spot the 3 important parts to each plant? soil, rocks, twigs on the ground, bark, trees, red flowers, yellow flowers, insects, etc. Keep a tally of how many you see in your garden or during your https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpxnyrd/articles/z3wpsbk daily walk. Count up your tally marks to work out a total for each. 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