Feeling very proud of you all working so hard at home – well done everyone!

Good Morning everyone!

English

This week we are reading another traditional tale by Bethan Woollvin it is an alternative version of Little Red Riding Hood.  If you are unable to join the live session at 9.15 today then please watch this video where the book is read by the author!

Next, see if you can order this story as last week. Cut them up and order the pictures on the sheet below. Please number them 1-8 and stick them into your red book.  You will need two pages.  Stick the first 4 in the blank space of one page and the second 4 in the blank space of the second page. 

Underneath start to write a sentence to go with each picture.   If you don’t have a printer you could draw the pictures instead. Please don’t worry if your child can only manage a few sentences a few good quality independent sentences are better than lots of perfect ones where they needed loads of prompting and support. 

Keep it neat, cut out carefully, stick in neatly and when you write your sentence remember to leave finger spaces and start each sentence with a capital letter and end with a full stop.  

Here is one that I started.  Don’t forget to email a photo of your finished work.

If your child finds writing a bit tricky you could make the sentences simpler than the one in the photo (see below).

1. Little Red Riding hood walked in the woods.
2. She met a wolf.

Phonics

If you can’t join in with our live session at 11 then please watch Lesson 15 of the Year 1 Spring Term Lessons where we will be looking at se at the end of words like cheese.

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

History

In this lesson, we will be learning about some of the ways in which toys have changed over time. We will be learning about the differences between wooden, plastic and electronic toys and will also look at some examples of each. Please click on the link below to access the lesson.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-have-toys-changed-part-1-71h62c

Once you’ve finished the lesson you could ask your parents or grandparents about the toys they used to play with when they were little!

Some super work from home again today! We used ice cubes to colour mix in school and then made our own colour wheels. We also watched a great little film which you can too if you want.

I hope you had a lovely weekend and managed to get out in the sunshine!

In this afternoon’s catch up session we will be doing a little bit of maths so please have your whiteboard and pen ready!

Just to let you know, for those of you learning at home we have swapped our PE and Science afternoon sessions around. For those of you coming into school please continue to wear your PE kit on a Tuesday and Thursday.

We are no longer running the cuppa and a catch up session for parents on a Tuesday. As always, if you have any questions or wish to discuss things with your child’s teacher then continue to use email, we are always happy to get back in touch with you.

Maths

If you can’t make our live session at 9.15 please look at the activities below.

Counting in Tens and Ones

Look at the picture below.

Talk together about what the digits represent.  The 3 shows us that there are 3 tens. The 2 shows us that there are 2 ones.

ACTIVITY TIME:

Look at the numbers below. Draw the tens and ones that match the number on your whiteboard.

It should look like this…

Finally complete pages 7 – 10 in your Maths No Problem book.

There is also a great game you can play to help you consolidate your learning.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Phonics

If you can’t join in with our live session at 11 then please watch Lesson 16 of the Year 1 Spring Term lessons where we are looking at ve as in the word give.

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

Art

This week in our art and harmony sessions we will be exploring colour-mixing. 

This afternoon is all about exploring what happens when you mix colours.

Try starting with the Primary colours – red, blue and yellow. These were the colours that Mondrian used in the paintings you looked at last week. Choose 2 to mix. What do you notice? 

Repeat this with each different combination of 2 colours.

What happens if you mix all 3 primary colours together?

You can use paint, pastels (oil or chalk) crayons, pencil crayons or even playdough to explore your colour-mixing. In school we might try making ice cubes with food colouring and dropping different coloured cubes into cups of water to see what happens…

If you do not have any resources at home you could try this interactive colour-mixing colouring activity by clicking on the link:

http://d3tt741pwxqwm0.cloudfront.net/KET/evlearnket/Creating-Colors3/index.html

Have fun and do let us know what you discover as you mix!

I have loved seeing your art work today, we also had fun at school!

What a lovely catch up today sharing your pets. I didn’t expect to see so many different types of pets! They are all very lucky to be is such lovely families. Have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you all on Monday!

Here are the details for the website Phonics Play that I talked about this morning.

The website can be found here

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

For free access during lock down use the following

user name: jan21

password: home

All of the games give options to pick levels from different phases – see below for more information.

Phase 3 covers the sounds that the children would have been focusing on in Foundation and links to our Red phonics reader books.

Phase 4 would also have been covered at the end of Foundation. In this phase children learn to blend two or three adjacent consonants at the beginning, middle and end of words. It is a good phase to revisit and links to our Yellow and Blue phonic reader books.

Phase 5 is taught throughout year 1 and into the start of year 2. This is where children learn different ways spell the same sound. This links to our Green, Orange and Turquoise phonic reader.

Good Morning, another week that has flown by!

Don’t forget that today in our catch up session at 1.45 we will be sharing our pets! If you don’t have one why not share a picture of your ideal pet.

Maths

If you can’t make our live session at 9.15 then please see below.

Today we are going to practice some of the maths we have learnt this week. You will need your red exercise books, a pencil and your collection of small objects.

Read the Activity Time instructions below…

Once you have counted the number of cubes draw your number into your red book and write the number of tens and ones. Have a look at my example below.

Phonics

If you can’t join in with our live session at 11 then please watch Lesson 15 of the Year 1 Spring Term lessons where this week’s learning will be reviewed.

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

Harmony

Geometry/Harmony

This week we are going to look at the work of Dutch artist Mondrian. Have a look at some of his paintings below, which he created about 100 years ago:

Talk about what you see to someone at home. Did you notice there are lots of horizontal and vertical black lines that make a sort of grid? What shapes can you see? Which colours did Mondrian use?

Mondrian created lots of paintings in this style, using mainly red, blue and yellow. We call these the primary colours. (We’ll be learning more about these in our art lesson next week!)

Can you create a piece of art using the straight lines, shapes and colours that Mondrian used? You could use felt tips, paint or collage – or even try using Lego! Here are some ideas to get you started:

If you’d like to send a photo of your artwork to year1@damers.dorset.sch.uk we’d love to see it!

Some great posters today everyone!

Looking forward to seeing you at 9.15 for English and 11 am for phonics. In this afternoon’s catch up session I’m going to read you a story today!

I’m renaming our Friday catch up session as “Fun Friday” – I loved the jokes last week…so tomorrow I thought we could share our pets. If you can’t manage to get them in front of the camera then you could just share something about them. If you don’t have a pet then maybe you could draw a picture of your ideal pet and show that!

English

Please join us at 9.15 for the live lesson.  If you are unable to join us see what to do below.

As you know most traditional tales have a baddy in them!  Below are some examples of a wanted poster for the wolf.

On the last page of the Rapunzal story, if you look carefully you might spot some wanted posters!

Today we would like you to make a wanted poster for the witch in Rapunzel!  You can either print out the template below or make your own one in your red book.  Remember to keep your work neat please and colour in with pencil.

Here are some examples of posters made for a fairy tale wolf which might help you work out what to put on your witch wanted poster.

Phonics

If you can’t join in with our live session at 11 then please watch Lesson 14 of the Year 1 Spring Term lessons where you will learn all about soft g in words like giant and George.

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

PE

Have a go at this backyard PE lesson based on fairytales.Trysome of the exercises. Maybe you could even think up some of your own. Do you recognise which story each of the moves have come from?