Good morning! Today is Friday – this week has flown by! I hope you’ve enjoyed all the home learning tasks. Today in our catch up session I thought we could have a bit of fun – I would like you all to think of a joke to share! See you later x

Next week

Next week live sessions for maths and english will start! We had also planned to include a story time at 12.15 but have now decided to include stories in some of our catch up meetings. So here is the plan for next week – I’ll also pop it on the blog on Monday to remind you. Have a lovely weekend x

Maths

Today we would like you to work in your red book and practice some of the addition and subtraction skills you have been learning this week.

Please work out all of these calculations using counting on or counting back. You could use objects, a number line or your fingers. Some are correct some are not.

Draw this table into your book.

True	False

Now write these calculations into the correct column. Don’t forget to check whether you are adding or taking away. Is the answer true or false?

7+7=20	14-3=11	13+6=19
16+5=21	10+3=14	11+4=15
9-7=2	13-3=8	10+2=12
9+2=13	19+5=21	10-4=3

Phonics

Last term you all did a fantastic job learning to read and spell some of the Year 1 Common Exception words. Here are the ones we would like you to learn this term.

If you can’t join in with our live session at 11 then do please watch Lesson 12 of the Year 1 Spring Term lessons which recaps this weeks learning.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw

Harmony

This week we are going to look at a famous collage created by Matisse. 

Can you spot it in this video clip?

This piece of art is huge, but it was inspired by a very small creature… can you guess what it might be?

It is called ‘The Snail’ (or L’escargot in French). Can you spot the snail’s shell?

If you start on the green shape in the middle of the collage then go up to the black rectangle you can trace the spiral that the shapes make – see if you can tell someone at home the order of the colours in the spiral. Matisse knew that putting some colours together can make them look really vibrant – for example putting red next to green or orange next to blue makes each colour ‘pop’ and look even brighter!

Can you make a snail collage with a spiral shell? You might want to try and copy the shapes and colours that Matisse used, or you could create your own unique version. If you don’t have any coloured paper or card you could draw and colour in your shapes before cutting them out. We can’t wait to see your creations!

You might also like to watch this video clip about a snail that goes searching for his portrait!