There will be no homework during half term. The children have worked so hard the last 8 weeks and certainly deserve a rest/break. Thank you for all your support during this first half term. We will be having a Big Write on the first week back so I will put some information below about what that will be but please do not feel like you need to look at it until the children start back.
Big Write
For the Big Write on Wednesday 8th November, children will be writing about the signs of autumn. We will be learning about this during science on the Monday and Tuesday. Children will also have a word mat available to them during the write. As part of the science national curriculum, Y1 children need to know what happens to the weather and amount of daylight during each season. Please can you discuss this with your child as well as looking at the other signs of autumn. There is more information about this on the document section below. I have attached a word mat to help support discussion as well as potential adjectives that could be used. COMPLETION DATE: 08.11.23
Please remember we do not expect anything handed in for any of the homework activities.
Assessment Week - I have attached some information in the document section below about what Year 1 will be doing during the assessment week next week. If you have any questions about the assessments, please ask a member of the Year 1 team.
Cursive, tricky words, capital letter and number formation.
Using your homework packs just to check letter formation, please can you recap the following letters in cursive: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h and introduce m and n. Remember that each letter starts with a lead up from the line. The capital letters to recap are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M and N. Please can you make sure each capital letter starts from the top. Some children are now writing in cursive during lessons and we are amazed how well they have taken to it. Keep it up Year 1! Our tricky words this work are: have, with, like and some. NO COMPLETION DATE - ONGOING ACTIVITY.
Big Write
For the Big Write on Wednesday 25th October, children will be retelling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. This will be their first writing assessment of the year. There is more information about this on the document section below. I have attached the PowerPoint of the story below, please can you read with your child and make sure they can sequence the key events. Children will have the pictures available to them during the write. COMPLETION DATE: 25.10.23
Maths
Maths homework this year will be focussed on our basic skills and NumBots. By the end of year 1 children need to be able to:
We have found these skills are best covered little but often. If you could find 5 minutes 3x a week to practise the above it would be greatly appreciated. If your child needs a number line, number square or manipulatives to help with this to begin with then that is absolutely fine. This is best done verbally as the aim is for rapid recall.
NUMBOTS - NumBots will continue this year and I will set challenges as well where appropriate. Please can you carry on completing your story record this week. Certificates will be handed out on Wednesday 25th October for anyone who has completed a level. Any questions about maths, please ask a member of the Year 1 team. COMPLETION DATE: 25.10.23.
Please remember we do not expect anything handed in for any of the homework activities.
Thank you so much for all your help at home with our harvest song. The children performed brilliantly and we are really proud!
Assessment Week - I have attached some information in the document section below about what Year 1 will be doing during the assessment week (23rd-26th October). If you have any questions about the assessments, please ask a member of the Year 1 team.
Cursive, tricky words, capital letter and number formation.
Using your homework packs just to check letter formation, please can you recap the following letters in cursive: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h and introduce k and l. Remember that each letter starts with a lead up from the line. The capital letters to recap are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L. Please can you make sure each capital letter starts from the top. Some children are now writing in cursive during lessons and we are amazed how well they have taken to it. Keep it up Year 1! Our tricky words this work are: then, that, said, are, was, his. NO COMPLETION DATE - ONGOING ACTIVITY.
Big Write
For the Big Write on Wednesday 18th October, children will be retelling the story of the Lost Son which is the story we have been concentrating on during our R.E. lessons. I have attached the PowerPoint of the story below, please can you read with your child and make sure they can sequence the key events. Children will have the pictures available to them during the write.
COMPLETION DATE: 18.10.23
Maths
Maths homework this year will be focussed on our basic skills and NumBots. By the end of year 1 children need to be able to:
We have found these skills are best covered little but often. If you could find 5 minutes 3x a week to practise the above it would be greatly appreciated. If your child needs a number line, number square or manipulatives to help with this to begin with then that is absolutely fine. This is best done verbally as the aim is for rapid recall.
NUMBOTS - NumBots will continue this year and I will set challenges as well where appropriate. Please can you carry on completing your story record this week. Certificates will be handed out on Wednesday 18th October for anyone who has completed a level. Any questions about maths, please ask a member of the Year 1 team. COMPLETION DATE: 18.10.23.
Please remember we do not expect anything handed in for any of the homework activities.
Assessment Week - I have attached some information in the document section below about what Year 1 will be doing during the assessment week (23rd-26th October). If you have any questions about the assessments, please ask a member of the Year 1 team.
*EXTRA HOMEWORK* - If you have time, please could you practise our Harvest Song at home (attached below). Each house group has their own verse to sing and then the whole class sing the chorus and one extra verse. Any support at home would be appreciated with this. There are 'dance' moves involved!
Cursive, tricky words, capital letter and number formation.
Using your homework packs just to check letter formation, please can you recap the following letters in cursive: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h and introduce i and j. Remember that each letter starts with a lead up from the line. The capital letters to recap are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J. Please can you make sure each capital letter starts from the top. Please can you ask your child (again) to write the numbers 0-9, if there are any that are reversed please concentrate on these numbers. Just like capital letters, numbers should be formed by starting from the top. Our tricky words this work are: are, was, his, one and you. NO COMPLETION DATE - ONGOING ACTIVITY.
Big Write
There will be no Big Write next week due to the school trip to Abbey House.
COMPLETION DATE: n/a.
Phonics
This week we have been recapping the 'ow', 'oo (zoo)' and 'oo (look)' sounds. Please use your yellow phonics books to recap these sounds.
Maths
Maths homework this year will be focussed on our basic skills and NumBots. By the end of year 1 children need to be able to:
We have found these skills are best covered little but often. If you could find 5 minutes 3x a week to practise the above it would be greatly appreciated. If your child needs a number line, number square or manipulatives to help with this to begin with then that is absolutely fine. This is best done verbally as the aim is for rapid recall.
NUMBOTS - NumBots will continue this year and I will set challenges as well where appropriate. Please can you carry on completing your story record this week. Certificates will be handed out on Wednesday 27th September for anyone who has completed a level. Any questions about maths, please ask a member of the Year 1 team. COMPLETION DATE: 11.10.23.
Please remember we do not expect anything handed in for any of the homework activities.
*EXTRA HOMEWORK* - If you have time, please could you practise our Harvest Song at home (attached below). Each house group has their own verse to sing and then the whole class sing the chorus and one extra verse. Any support at home would be appreciated with this. There are 'dance' moves involved!
Cursive, tricky words, capital letter and number formation.
Using your homework packs just to check letter formation, please can you recap the following letters in cursive: a, b, c, d, e, f and start to introduce g and h. Remember that each letter starts with a lead up from the line. The capital letters to recap are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H. Please can you make sure each capital letter starts from the top. Please can you ask your child (again) to write the numbers 0-9, if there are any that are reversed please concentrate on these numbers. Just like capital letters, numbers should be formed by starting from the top. Our tricky words this work are: very, some, all, then, that, said. NO COMPLETION DATE - ONGOING ACTIVITY.
Big Write
For the Big Write on Wednesday 4th October children will be describing toys from the past and present. We would like children to describe what the toys are made from and why that material would have been used. I have attached a document below to support with this. Toys from the past has been the focus during history lessons so far this half term so hopefully the class will have lots of ideas!
COMPLETION DATE: 27.09.23.
Phonics
This week we have been recapping the 'ay', 'ee' and 'igh' sounds. Please use your yellow phonics books to recap these sounds.
Maths
Maths homework this year will be focussed on our basic skills and NumBots. By the end of year 1 children need to be able to:
We have found these skills are best covered little but often. If you could find 5 minutes 3x a week to practise the above it would be greatly appreciated. If your child needs a number line, number square or manipulatives to help with this to begin with then that is absolutely fine. This is best done verbally as the aim is for rapid recall.
NUMBOTS - NumBots will continue this year and I will set challenges as well where appropriate. Please can you carry on completing your story record this week. Certificates will be handed out on Wednesday 27th September for anyone who has completed a level. Any questions about maths, please ask a member of the Year 1 team. COMPLETION DATE: 04.10.23.
Please remember we do not expect anything handed in for any of the homework activities.
Cursive, tricky words, capital letter and number formation.
Using your homework packs just to check letter formation, please can you practise the following letters in cursive: a, b, c, d, e, f. Remember that each letter starts with a lead up from the line. The capital letters to recap are: A, B, C, D, E, F. Please can you make sure each capital letter starts from the top. Please can you ask your child to write the numbers 0-9, if there are any that are reversed please concentrate on these numbers. Just like capital letters, numbers should be formed by starting from the top. Our tricky words this work are: love, went, and, have, with, like. NO COMPLETION DATE - ONGOING ACTIVITY.
Big Write
For the Big Write on Wednesday 27th September children will be describing pictures using their senses. Please see the document section below for more information.
COMPLETION DATE: 27.09.23.
Phonics
This week we have been recapping the 'ng', 'nk' and 'qu' sounds. Please use your GREEN phonics books from Reception to recap these sounds.
Maths
Maths homework this year will be focussed on our basic skills and NumBots. By the end of year 1 children need to be able to:
We have found these skills are best covered little but often. If you could find 5 minutes 3x a week to practise the above it would be greatly appreciated. If your child needs a number line, number square or manipulatives to help with this to begin with then that is absolutely fine. This is best done verbally as the aim is for rapid recall.
NUMBOTS - NumBots will continue this year and I will set challenges as well where appropriate. Please can you carry on completing your story record this week. Certificates will be handed out on Wednesday 27th September for anyone who has completed a level. Any questions about maths, please ask a member of the Year 1 team. COMPLETION DATE: 27.09.23.
Please remember we do not expect anything handed in for any of the homework activities.
Cursive, tricky words, capital letter and number formation.
Please see the document section below. NO COMPLETION DATE - ONGOING ACTIVITY.
Big Write
For the Big Write on Wednesday 20th September children will be writing about the different emotions of the colour monster and why we might feel like that. Children will have the pictures of the colour monster as well as the following sentence stem 'The monster is _____ because _____.' available to them during the write. We will be reading the book next week and discussing why the monster might be feeling that way. If you have the book at home, please can you read and discuss with your child. If you do not have the book, I have attached a link to the story here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6wIEp-M4tg&t=3
I have also attached the pictures below to help discussion. Some ideas might be 'The monster is happy because he saw his friend.' or 'The monster is angry because he lost his favourite toy.'.
COMPLETION DATE: 20.09.23.
Phonics
This week we have been recapping the 'sh', 'ch' and 'th' sounds. I have attached an activity in the document section below to support with the understanding of these sounds.
Maths
Maths homework this year will be focussed on our basic skills and NumBots. By the end of year 1 children need to be able to:
We have found these skills are best covered little but often. If you could find 5 minutes 3x a week to practise the above it would be greatly appreciated. If your child needs a number line, number square or manipulatives to help with this to begin with then that is absolutely fine. This is best done verbally as the aim is for rapid recall.
NUMBOTS - NumBots will continue this year and I will set challenges as well where appropriate. Please can you carry on completing your story record this week. Certificates will be handed out on Wednesday 20th September for anyone who has completed a level. Any questions about maths, please ask a member of the Year 1 team. COMPLETION DATE: 20.09.23.
Homework 7th September
Cursive, tricky word, capital letter and number formation.
Each week in class we will concentrate on 2 cursive letters, 6 tricky words, 2 capital letters and 2 numbers. We want to do this in manageable chunks for the children and give them the opportunity to really concentrate/focus on specific areas. Some of this you may feel your child can do already but it is just ensuring they are forming letters/numbers correctly (especially when starting cursive). It can be difficult to break 'bad habits' with formation if left too long so we are hoping this method will stop this from happening. The consolidation practice at home will then check your child can still form the letters/spell the words independently.
For numbers and capital letters we would like them to always start at the stop. One of this weeks numbers is 1 and we want to ensure this is just done as a straight line rather than anything added to it. Furthermore, the tricky words might seem simple but it is a good opportunity to discuss with your child when you would use it in a sentence. For cursive, all the letters start from the line with a lead up. It is also important to note where the join is on the letter (at the top or bottom) this will be needed when the children start to join. We have been super impressed by their efforts with cursive so far!
I will add a document with what needs to be completed at home that week. Please do not feel the need to print the document off, it can just be completed on a plain piece of paper if you wish. It also does not need to be handed into school. Please see document section below for this weeks activities. NO COMPLETION DATE - ONGOING ACTIVITY.
Big Write
For the Big Write on Wednesday 13th September children will be writing about what they can see in the pictures (please see the document section underneath to access the pictures). Please can you discuss the pictures with your child to see what ideas they come up with. Please can you then help them put these into sentences. They may want to add an adjective (describing word) to make their sentence more interesting. For example, 'I can see a cuddly bear.' COMPLETION DATE: 13.09.22.
Maths
Maths homework this year will be focussed on our basic skills and NumBots. By the end of year 1 children need to be able to:
We have found these skills are best covered little but often. If you could find 5 minutes 3x a week to practise the above it would be greatly appreciated. If your child needs a number line, number square or manipulatives to help with this to begin with then that is absolutely fine. This is best done verbally as the aim is for rapid recall.
NUMBOTS - NumBots will continue this year and I will set challenges as well where appropriate. Please can you carry on completing your story record this week. Certificates will be handed out on Wednesday 13th September for anyone who has completed a level. COMPLETION DATE: 13.09.23.
Any questions about maths, please ask a member of the Year 1 team.
Science
There would normally not be any topic homework but it is appropriate for this week. In science this half term we are looking at materials and what objects are made of. If you get an opportunity please could you have a 'materials hunt' at home/outside. For example, can you go round and find some things made from glass, wood, metal, plastic etc. NO COMPLETION DATE