YEAR 1

Home learning for week 10 beginning 8th June 2020

Dear parents/carers,

We hope that this week finds you all healthy and happy. Last week was a very

different week for us all as we welcomed back some of the children from Year 1. As

we did last week, we will continue to send out home learning for Key Stage 1

children – those in Year 2, who are not due to return yet, and those Year 1 children

who have decided not to return at this present time. We know it can be hard to keep

your children motivated, especially when the sun is shining, but try to do as much

as you can. The learning taking place in school is based on the same work we send

home so the more you can get your child to complete the better.

As always stay safe and if you have any problems we are here to help,

The Key Stage 1 team

English

This week’s English will be based on the brilliant book ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Drew

Daywalt. If you have the book already then that is great. However, if you do not

Monday:

Look at the front cover of the book. Discuss the picture on the front – what can you see? What

does your child think the story is going to be about? Discuss and share ideas. Why would crayons

quit? Do they look very happy? What could be the problem? Read the story together or watch the

story being read aloud using the link above. Ask your child questions about the story, pausing at

certain points, to check their understanding. Enjoy!

Tuesday:

Ask your child to choose a colour crayon and write their own letter to Duncan.

Encourage them to think about how the letter should start, what they are used for when Duncan is

colouring and what they are particularly upset about. Encourage them to perhaps choose a colour

that is not in the story i.e. gold or silver.

Use this frame to help guide their ideas:

Dear ...,

I am your ... I am writing because I feel ... You have been ... and I am ... I don’t

like it when you ... In future, please could you ...

Yours truly,

...

Wednesday:

Ask your child to pretend they are a different item that might be found in Duncan’s pencil case.

They could be a rubber, a pencil sharpener, a pair of scissors, and so on. They are going to write to

Duncan to talk about what is wrong with the way they are being treated, and how they would like

to be treated in the future. Use the frame from yesterday to guide their writing if needed.

Thursday:

Today your child will be writing a letter, as if they are Duncan, replying to the crayons. What do

you think he might write to them to make them feel better? Think about the end of the story and

why Duncan’s teacher gave him a “Good work” sticker for his colouring. What did he do with all

the crayons in his picture? How would this have helped all the crayons? Think about some of the

specific things the crayons complained about i.e how the black crayon felt he was only ever used

for the outlines. Did Duncan do anything about this to make the black crayon feel better? (Look at

the picture below that he drew at the end of the story!)

Friday:

Imagine finding a magic crayon! A crayon SO magical that whatever you drew with it came to life.

Discuss with your child what they might draw – a unicorn, a puppy or a mountain of sweets and

chocolate!! What be might be little risky to draw? A dinosaur perhaps? Why?

Ask your child to draw what they would choose if whatever it was became real and write some

sentences underneath to explain their choice.

Maths

As before the maths will have a daily link Monday – Thursday and a revision challenge on Friday.

Monday: Video here

Tuesday: Video here

Wednesday: Video here

Thursday: Video here

Friday: No video today. Today’s work will focus on tens and ones.

Topic

Lesson 1 – Colours all around us!

Draw a grid like the one below or simply write your own

colours on a piece of paper. How many things can your child

draw or list that are completely that colour or that are mostly

that colour?

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple Brown Black

Lesson 2 – The ‘right’ colour?

In the story, Duncan normally uses his colours to colour things the

‘right’ colour. Talk with your child about what using the ‘right’ colour

means. Does your child always colour their drawings in the ‘correct’

colour? If not, why do they sometimes choose to use a different

colour?

Both yellow and orange crayon think they are the colour of the sun –

which one do they think is correct? Do they have any alternative

solutions to saying one crayon is ‘right’ and another is ‘wrong’?

Duncan has not used the pink crayon all year. Why do the they think

this is? Ask them whether pink crayon is right to say that Duncan

thinks pink is a ‘girl’s colour’ can create some interesting debate.

Where else have they seen pink being associated with girls?

Why does Duncan’s teacher say he is more ‘creative’ when he decides

to use the colours in unusual ways?

Look at the final two-page spread picture in the book (image below).

Which objects has Duncan coloured in the ‘wrong’ colours and why

does your child think he chose these particular colours to use? How

has Duncan responded to the crayons’ complaints in this picture? Can

your child spot all the places in this picture where Duncan has taken

account of a particular crayon’s complaint?

Together help your child to draw their own picture and be brave with

the colouring. They could even include a black sun, a green penguin or

a purple frog!

Lesson 3: Different shades of colour

Together find synonyms for different colours (e.g. Red = Crimson, maroon, rose,

cherry). How many different words for ‘blue’ can you find together? Using colour

match strips from DIY stores can be a fun way of doing this. Look at all the shades of

green below! You could either make a simple colour thesaurus or use different shades

of one colour to make a picture or collage using any materials you have available. If

you don’t have any art resources you could go outside and look for objects that are

different shades of the same colour for instance all the different greens in nature.

Lesson 4

ICT

Download the Scratch Jr app on any app store if you haven’t already. There’s a

handy guide here (click here). Then, either ask your child to set a maze or make

one yourself using shapes. Can they use the control arrows to move their sprite

(character) around it in one chain of movements.

The guide for the activity is below;

Maze

Guiding Questions:

• Can I program my character to go through a maze?

• How do I create my own unique background?

Challenge:

Have a grown-up or an older kid create a maze using shapes, then

have the student navigate the maze using motion blocks.

End Goal:

Hints for grown ups:

• Before trying to move through the maze, it is usually a good

idea to shrink the character.

• The main point of this exercise is not to be perfect in avoiding

obstacles, but to use the motion blocks to successfully navigate

the course. This will help students for moving into Scratch.

• This may also be a good time to show students the speed block

- the orange block with three speed options.

Lesson 4

ICT

Download the Scratch Junior app if you haven’t already. There’s a handy guide

here for grownups showing how to use it https://www.scratchjr.org/learn/interface

Phonics Week 9 Phase 4 Phonics

Monday

Phase 4 Flash cards Speed Trials

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/Flashcards.html

First you will need to choose which graphemes to practise. You can select a phase (or

combination of phases) from the menu. Alternatively, you can select any combination of

individual graphemes. Choose a car colour, a car design and a racetrack to play with. The

five red lights will go on one by one. When they all go, out the race begins. For each

flashcard, ask your child to say, in chorus, the phoneme that is represented by that

grapheme. If your child correctly says the phoneme then click on the tick button (or press the

c key on the keyboard). If your child mispronounces it, you will need to help them out. Model

saying the phoneme correctly and ask them to repeat it after you a couple of times. Then

click on the cross button (or press the x key on the keyboard). They will have to get all the

graphemes right to complete the speed trial. The game finishes when all graphemes have

been correctly identified. You will be given feedback showing the time taken and which

graphemes still need more practise. You can choose to print out.

Tuesday

Phase 4 – Dragons Den

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/DragonsDen.html

Choose which phase to work on and then choose the specific sets

of letters you want to practise. Alternatively, you could choose a

general mixture of words from each phase for revision or enter

your own words. Click to get a new egg. Model sound talking

each sound in the word and then blending the sounds together

and saying the final word. Ask your child to repeat this process

and to decide whether the word is real or fake. Drag the egg to

either the green (real) or red (fake) dragon. For subsequent

words, ask your child to sound talk and then say the blended

word.

Wednesday

Phase 4 Rocket Rescue

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/Ph4RocketRescue.html Click on the Start button. A picture representing a word will appear and the word will be spoken. If you want to hear the word again, click on the picture. Sound talking the word. Count out the phonemes on your fingers. Drawing the number of sound buttons on a paper. Type the word into the computer and click on Enter. With subsequent words ask your child to say the word, sound talk it, draw sound buttons and write the word on paper. Encourage your child to tick each letter they got right. This will be a slow process for the first few tries but as your child becomes familiar with the game you should aim to pick the pace up and work through words quickly. Remind them of this during phonics lessons, correcting their own spellings.

Thursday

Sentences 4

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/Sentences4.html

Click Show to reveal a sentence and ask your child to read the sentence. You can click on

Hide to hide the sentence again. Read the sentence in a variety of ways: Modelling - Model

reading the sentence. Pretend to get stuck on a word which relates to the learning objective.

Sound talk this word and blend it to work out what it says. Reread the sentence from the

start again. Model thinking about the sentence and asking yourself if it makes sense. If the

sentence is a question, discuss what the answer could be. Discuss what the sentence means

and answer it if it is a

question. Use these

sentences to help practise

writing sentences, you will

need paper.

Friday Phase 4 Reading Robot https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/ReadingRobotTest.html First you will need to choose which words to test. You can choose: 1) Words based on the new Y1 phonics check criteria 2) A random selection of words (real and pseudo) from each of the phases 3) Categories of commonly used classroom words (colours, dates, numbers, maths) Alternatively, you can enter your own words. If your child correctly reads the word, click on the tick button (or press the c key on the keyboard). If your child can't read the word, misread it or don't attempt it. Then click on the cross button (or press the x key on the keyboard). The game finishes when all words have been correctly read. You will be given feedback showing how many words were read correctly and also listing the words that caused problems. You can choose to print out a copy of this feedback for your records or to analyse the types of words that are causing problems and need wore work.

30 Minutes

PE Joe Wicks live PE 9AM

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20 Minutes

Phonics Suggested game –

Flash Cards speed Trials

(Link may open site, not the game)

Phonics Suggested game –

Dragons Den

(Link may open site, not the game)

Phonics Suggested game –

Rocket Rescue

(Link may open site, not the game)

Phonics Suggested game –

Sentences 4

(Link may open site, not the game)

Phonics Suggested game –

Reading Robot

(Link may open site, not the game)

50 Minutes

English Read the story ‘The

Day the Crayons Quit’

English Write a letter as one

of the crayons

English Write a letter as

another item

English Write a response as

Duncan

English Magic crayon story

15 Minutes Bug Club – Reading

and games Bug Club – Reading

and games Bug Club – Reading

and games Bug Club – Reading

and games Bug Club – Reading

and games

50 minutes

Maths Count in 2s Link here

Maths

Count in 5s Link here

Maths

Count in 10s Link here

Maths

Add equal groups Link here

Maths

Tens and ones No video today

40 Minutes

Music Listen to some rainbow songs!

Lesson 1 Colours all around us!

Lesson 2 The ‘right’ colour

Lesson 3 Different shades of

colour

ICT Scratch – Download

Scratch here

10 Minutes Times tables Rock

Stars Times tables Rock

Stars Times tables Rock

Stars Times tables Rock

Stars Times tables Rock

Stars

Active Learn (Bug Club):

Website: Click here

While it will not be possible to change books over the shutdown, we have updated

the selection of books and grammar and spelling games available to your child. As

your child completes the books they are on, the site will automatically move them up

a band with that colour, then on to the next one. We have also updated login details

to ensure they are clear and easy.

Time Table Rockstars:

Website (app is available): Click here

The login details for Time Table Rockstars have remained the same. Your child’s

username will be the first three letters of their first name and the first three letters of

their last name. For example, John Smith would be johsmi.

Other useful websites

These are some of the main websites we will be using to support your child’s home

learning. A longer list, below shows some others that you can use.

• Phonics Play – phonics games for all phonics abilities.

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

o Username: march20

Password: home

• Twinkl – general downloadable teaching resources for all subject areas

o https://www.twinkl.co.uk/offer

o Enter code: UKTWINKLHELPS

• Maths Mastery – free Maths teaching ideas with easy, step by step guides.

o https://www.mathematicsmastery.org/free-resources

o No login required.

o https://www.mathematicsmastery.org/wp-

content/uploads/2020/03/Parent_Maths_Y1_W3-5.pdf

• Joe Wicks YouTube – easy to follow kids workouts ranging

o Joe will be running daily live PE sessions from 9am every weekday.

You can join in here.

Maths

https://www.ttrockstars.co

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https://whiterosemaths.co

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https://topmarks.co.uk/mat

hs-games/hit-the-button

https://www.iseemaths.co

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https://mathsed.com

www.Emile-education.com

https://www.masterthecurr

iculum.co.uk

Early years and Key Stage 1

www.phonicsplay

www.activelearn

www.jollyphonics

www.nrichmaths.org

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

www.teachyourmonstertor

ead.com

English

www.activelearn

www.topmarks

www.spellingshed

www.literacyshed

www.nessy.com

www.twinkl.co.uk

www.mrswordsmith

www.newsround.co.uk

www.classroomsecrets

https://thereadingrealm.co.

uk

Sport:

www.marathonkids

www.thebodycoach.com

www.cosmickidsyoga

Music:

www.charanga.com

Computing:

scratch.mit.edu – Link

found in timetable (app

available)

http://www.icompute-

uk.com/news/

Topic: Google the following!

David Attenborough

documentaries on I-player

BBC Bitesize

Take a virtual trip to the

theatre

Take a virtual trip to a

museum or art gallery