Suggested Activities for Home Learning – KS1

Year group: Year 1 w/b: Monday 13th July 2020

Further activities and information on useful websites is available on the school website:

https://www.sirjohnheron.newham.sch.uk/learning-at-home/

Reading

Don’t forget to read every day for at least 20 minutes a day. You can read on your own or with an adult at home.

RWI reading activities

Children learning Set 1 sounds should read the book below this week:

Children learning Set 2 sounds should read the book below

this week:

Children learning Set 3 sounds should read the book below

this week:

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These books are available for free on the Oxford Owl website – all you need to do to access them is to sign up to the website. Each book contains a guide for parents/ carers for how to use the RWI books. These are some of activities you can do with your child using each book:

● Before reading the book, do the speed sounds activity. For this, children point to the

sound in each box and say what the sound is. After doing it in order, they can practice

again by mixing up the order.

● On the next page of each book, there are the green words and red words for children to

practice before they begin reading the story. Ask them to look at each green word and

identify if there are any ‘special friends’ in the words (special friends are sounds with 2 or

3 letters). Then they should practice sounding out each green word by saying each of the

sounds in a word then putting them together to say the whole word. Red words cannot

be sounded out and therefore children will need to repeat saying the word several times

to help them remember it.

● Some books also contain an introduction which includes questions you can ask them

before reading the book.

● Now you are ready to read the book! Listen to children read out loud and help them

sound out words they are unsure of. Don’t forget about asking them to identify the

special friends.

● At the end of the text, there are some questions which you can ask your child.

● The final activity is speed words. Children should read these words without sounding out

as they can already practised them.

● Read the book again several times to help children to become more accurate and fluent

with text.

Home reading book this week

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/27298.html

Before reading the book you can ask: Prediction: What do you think the story will be about based on the cover picture and title? Read the back cover blurb. Why might Tom Thumb’s mother want to stay at home? Where do you think the special football match will be played? After reading: Do you think Tom Thumb and the king will stay friends? Why? How do you think Tom Thumb feels now he is allowed to play with the other children? What new problems do you think Tom will face?

Don’t forget to read other books you have at home and there are lots of other books for you to read on the Oxford Owl website

Phonics

Sounds and words to practice: Children learning Set 1 sounds should practice these sounds this week:

Children learning Set 2 sounds should practice these sounds this week:

Children learning Set 3 sounds should practice these sounds this week:

Steps to follow when teaching sounds and words (guide for parents/ carers): ● Show your child the sound first (eg ay) and get them to say it out loud several times.

● Then show them the picture which goes with the sound and say the phrase (eg may I play

for the ay sound). Get your child to repeat the phrase several times after you.

● Move on to reading the words containing the sound you have just practiced. First, ask

them to identify the ‘special friends’ and then sound out the word to read it.

● After a while, ask them to ‘fred in their head’ which means sound out each word in

silence in their head and then say the complete word to you.

● Over time, children will not need to sound out the word and should be able to read it

straight away when shown. Flashing words to them will help with this

Writing

Changing into the past tense

This week’s spelling rule: Adding ing, ly, ness to the root words to make new words.

Handwriting task Practice these words on a piece of paper:

Grammar and punctuation task This week you need to: Rewrite the sentences and fix the mistakes in the sentences.

Here are the answers for you to check your work after you have fixed the mistakes:

Writing and editing task

This week you need to: Write sentences to describe this dragon. Can you use the words “because/and” to extend your sentences?

Mathematics

This week’s learning focus is: Can you find the missing number?

Basic skills task Can you find and name the 2D shapes in these pictures?

Challenge yourself:

Can you use paper and cut your own 2D shape? Can you use these shapes and build you own pictures?

Problem solving task

Topic

Task: Can you remember when we learned about the artist that used fruit, vegetables and flowers in his paintings when he created faces? His name was Guiseppe Arcimboldi.

Create your own fruit and vegetable art picture.

Science

Task: Can you remember what translucent, transparent and opaque means? Watch this video and refresh your learning about what translucent, transparent and opaque means. BBC video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z3mb9qt

After you have watched the video can make a list of all the transparent, translucent and opaque objects in and around your home.

Key vocabulary: transparent translucent opaque reflective classify group

PSHCE

Task: This week we are focussing on your wellbeing. This is a great activity to help you think about positive things.

If you do not have a jar you can use a box or make your own envelope from card or paper:

Remember to do your yoga or meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCjkPlsaes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELOads7rbxE

Don’t forget to send examples of your work to school via email:

info@sirjohnheron.newham.sch.uk

Don’t forget to include your child’s name and class in the email