Author: Lisa Keys

This week has been really busy at school and I am excited about all the live teaching that will be happening soon, it will feel like we are all back together again! The first Google Meet is this afternoon at 1.45pm. A letter with more information and the link to the meeting should be on the way to your grown up at some point this morning. During this first session I will be helping you learn how to use Google Meet ready for when you start having live lessons next week. Below is a lovely poster that will help you know what is expected from you when we are learning using Google Meet. With a grown up, have a look at it and talk about all the rules. I will teach you all about the mute button when we meet this afternoon. Please make sure that you are ready and have joined the meeting 5 minutes before it starts so we are already. It would also be a good idea to make sure you have been to the toilet before it starts as I don’t want you to miss anything. All you need for this afternoon is yourself, so don’t worry about having any pens or books near you. I am so excited!!!

Phonics

Today is lesson 4  on You Tube. We are learning that ‘oe’ and ‘ou’ can make the oa sound as in toe and shoulder. Please watch and join in.

Now play a dice game rolling the dice and reading an oe word each time.

Maths

Last term we learnt how to use part part whole to help with our maths. Please watch the video below to remind yourself – it will really help your grown up understand too! At the very end of the video the teacher asks you to do two tasks – don’t worry about doing those.

This week you have been working on teen numbers. In your red book please draw a part part whole diagram for all of those numbers. We would like you to partition (split) the number into a ten and ones. So the first part will always have 10 in it. You can use the whole page – do draw them on the blank part of the page and over the top of the lined part. I have started doing mine – here is a photo just in case you are not sure what to do.

You need to try and fit all of them on one page please and remember to write your numbers the right way! In teen numbers the 1 always comes first! Use the number line in your pack to help you get them right. Please use a pencil to write with not pen. We would like you to work as neatly as you would in school please.

I have started doing mine – here is a photo just in case you are not sure what to do.

Grown ups – some children may need you to draw the part part whole circles for them.

Thank you for sharing your wonderful work!

Can’t wait to talk to you!

Tomorrow at 1.45 I will be inviting you all to a Goggle Meet! An invite and instructions for grown ups will be sent from the office later today. In our meeting I will help show you how to use Google Meet to talk to me and also listen to your friends.

Message for the grown ups

Next week we will start using Google Meet for some of our sessions and tomorrow I will share the times with you on this blog. The office will email out the invite link to you, this will be the link you will use for all of the sessions. We will also send out some instructions and top tips! I am pretty sure that this will get slicker as time goes on and apologise in advance for the inevitable technological issues that may arise when we start! I am so excited to be able to have your children back in the classroom albeit virtually and I can’t wait to catch up with them tomorrow.

Phonics

Today is lesson 3  on You Tube. We are learning that ‘ew’ can make the yoo and oo sounds as in new and chew. Please watch and join in. 

Can you write a sentence with ew words to accompany the pictures 

Maths

Please watch the video below and complete the worksheet.  Next week you will be using your Maths no problem books which will be in your home learning packs. Hopefully you will all be able to down load it today!

English

As you discovered yesterday we are going to be learning about traditional tales. These often have lots of things in common. Today we would like you to look at the stories on the slides below and see if you recognise them all. Then you need to see if you can sort them and answer the questions. You could just talk them through with an adult, you could print one question off and cut and stick the stories or you could think of your own way to record your answers. 

Can you think of any other stories which might fit?

Wow look at what some of you have done today at home! Thank you for sending them in to year1@damers.dorset.sch.uk.

Some of you may already had a go at doing the maths this morning. I’m afraid the sheet didn’t upload properly but I have tried again and it should now work!

On Monday this week – which seems like a life time ago now, the children explored different lines and made these beautiful pieces of work! They are up on display in the classroom but I thought you might like to see them.

Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed your tasks yesterday. If you have any photos you want to send in of work you do at home then please do send them to year1@damers.dorset.sch.uk.

Phonics

Today is lesson 2 on You Tube. We are learning that ‘ea’ can make the e sound as in head. Please watch and join in. Next week we are hoping you’ll be able to watch and join in with your real teachers doing phonics! We’ll be letting you know more about that soon.

Maths

Carrying on from yesterday’s work today we are comparing numbers.  Watch the video to find out more and then look at the work sheet.  Again if you want to and have a printer then print it out to complete.  If not then do just talk it through with a grown up.

English

Watch this film and see if you can work out what we’re going to be learning about for the next few weeks?  

Then have a go at filling in this sheet.

If you don’t have a printer or would rather not print it out then please just draw your answers on a piece of paper.

Well it would seem like everything has changed again! For those of you who are at home, I am just putting a few things on the blog that you can do at home today. Have fun and let me know how you get on!

Mrs Keys x

Phonics

Please watch the online phonics lesson.

Emma is teaching us how the letter y at the end of a word can make the ‘ee’ sound as in silly, party, mummy, daddy, etc. Have a watch here

You might like to make up a silly sentence with some words ending in the y sound or start with one word and generate a rhyming list or real and nonsense words eg Silly, billy, chilly…

Maths

Yesterday we started looking at the numbers 11-20.  At home today could you please watch the video below.  There is also a worksheet (in the blue link below the video – click on down load) you could try and complete too.  If you don’t have a printer – don’t worry just talk through with a grown up what your answer would be!  Have fun!

HARMONY

This week we are looking at the work of French artist Henri Matisse. He created bold, bright collages using paper cut-outs.

Matisse was inspired by nature and created cut-outs of birds, animals, sea creatures, leaves, flowers and even fruits and vegetables in his collages. 

Can you create a collage from some paper cut-outs? You could draw or colour in your shapes on paper or card first. Have a look outside to get some inspiration from nature, like Matisse did!

Parent Mail our school communications system is struggling to send you a very important letter from Mrs Smith about school closures. I have popped it on here for you to see just in case you check the blog this evening.

I am really looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow! I hope you have all had a peaceful break. As the weather is getting colder now please do send in some extra layers for the children to wear in our well ventilated classroom!