Year 1 Wk9
Friday 12th June
Reading and Phonics
Read your phonics booklet for 5 minutes.
English activity - FOREST
Look at this picture. Using your imagination and the picture to help you, try to answer the following questions:
- What’s on the other side of the door?
- What is the girl holding in her hand? Why?
- How did she get to the forest?
- Where is this?
- Who hung the lanterns in the trees?
- Where does the stream lead?
- Will the girl go back through the door or stay in the forest?
Predict what will happen next.
You can also access this image through the website
https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/the-collections/the-prediction-collection/
(Scroll down to ‘Forest’)
Maths activity
Practise your counting skills by playing this game on Busy Things:
Busy things>year 1>mathematics>multiplication and division>monkey stacks
Nature’s music activity
Not only can we see plants, eat plants and feel them as we walk around, but we can also turn some of them into instruments! Did you know that some dandelion stalks can make a trumpet sound when you blow through them?
Can you make up your own tune using some ideas below?
Thursday 11th June
Reading and Phonics
Read a book on Bug Club.
English activity
This book is all about another seed, a seed who’s a little bit different to all of the rest- he’s a bad seed! Listen to the story here...
What advice would you give to the bad seed to help him to become a happier seed?
Can you write your good advice in your jotter?
Maths activity
This week we are practising our counting skills using the White Rose Maths Lessons.
Click here to watch today’s lesson video: Add equal groups
Then have a go at some of the questions on this worksheet.
You can talk about the answers or write them down in your jotter.
PSHE and citizenship activity:
Watch these children visit an allotment and a farm to find out about how things grow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zpkrkqt
Have you tried to grow any fruit or vegetables this year with your family? Save some seeds from any fruit or veg that you eat- you might be able to grow them in some soil!
Wednesday 10th June
Reading and Phonics
Read your phonics booklet for 5 minutes.
English activity
The tree in our story ‘It starts with a seed’ becomes a habitat for so many creatures over the years.
Which animals can you spot in the illustrations?
Make a list of them in your jotter. How many can you see?
Maths activity
This week we are practising our counting skills using the White Rose Maths Lessons.
Click here to watch today’s lesson video: Count in 10s
Then have a go at some of the questions on this worksheet.
You can talk about the answers or write them down in your jotter.
Art activity
Create your own nature based image online using some ideas from the Tate- this is a large art gallery in London which displays lots of different types of art work.
Will you use colourful caterpillars or thunderous clouds?
Remember to save your finished final image!
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/tate-paint
Tuesday 9th June
Reading and Phonics
Read a book on Bug Club
English activity
Jennie Webber is the illustrator for the story ‘It starts with a seed’.
Watch her talk about how she creates her pictures and why she gets her inspiration from nature here:
Jennie Webber – ‘It starts with a seed’
Use a pencil to draw your own detailed tree- include the tree trunk, branches, twigs, leaves, roots and maybe even a few creatures.
Write all of the adjectives you can think of to describe your tree around it. Is it ‘old, wrinkled, ragged, rough’ or ‘smooth, bouncy, tall and strong’?
Maths activity
This week we are practising our counting skills using the White Rose Maths Lessons.
Click here to watch today’s lesson video: Count in 5s
Then have a go at some of the questions on this worksheet.
You can talk about the answers or write them down in your jotter.
Science activity
Did you know that you can grow some vegetables from scraps that you would normally throw away at home? Not only does this cut down on our food wastage, but it’s also a type of nature recycling! A good experiment to try is to put the top of a carrot in some water and watch what happens over the next week.
Monday 8th June
Reading and Phonics
Play a phonics game on Bug Club
English activity
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Listen to the story ‘It starts with a seed’ It takes a long time for a seed to grow into a tree- it sees many seasons and it changes so much over time. What is your favourite season- spring, summer, autumn or winter?
Write six sentences describing your favourite season using your senses. What can you see, hear, taste, touch and smell? |
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Maths activity
This week we will be practising our counting skills using the White Rose Maths Lessons.
Click here to watch today’s lesson video: Count in 2s
Then have a go at some of the questions on this worksheet.
You can talk about the answers or write them down in your jotter.
PE Activity
If you can, go out for a run with your adult (you could even try and run half a 1k a day!) Alternatively, have a go at some of the activities and games suggested on the NHS change 4 life website.
Let's see what Year 1 got up to last week...
- Autumn
- Autumn
- Eli
